Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-11-29
THE FARM.
MACHINE GREASE.

THE FARM.
MACHINE GREASE.
This can be removed by cold water
and CASTLE soap.
TURPENTINE.
A tablespoonful of this added to a
boilerful of clothes will whiten them
greatly.
TEA STAINS.
Pour clean boiling water through the
fabric and it will remove tea and cof-
fee stains.
FATTENING SHEEP.
The English feed for fattening sheep
consists of cotton seed and turnips.
They claim that it will put on the most
fat, is the safest feed, makes the mutton
at less cost and produces the best and
strongest manure.
BEDDING CATTLE.
Pass the material to be used for bed
ding through the cutter. This not only
aids to the comfort of the animal, but
on account of its greater power of abb
sorbtion aids greatly in the matter OF
cleanliness. 1t also mixes more readily
with the manure and thus increases its
value.
SKIM MILK.
How much is skinned milk worth
for feeding purposes? This is an i'm
portant question in butter-making dis
tricts, and quite often the possible use
of skinned milk determines the profit
or loss of the dairy. With young, grow
ing pigs, an addition of the SKINNED
milk from cow in full flow of milk fol
each pig will keep them growing will
very little corn. 1t is quite as well
however, to have two or three pigs t.
every cow and supplement the feet
with a greater proportion ofgrain. Fo
the amount that they will eat, no kint
of stock will make so profitable use o
milk as laying ghens.-Southem Planter
SAND FOR KEEPING POTATOES.
| Dry sand is recommended for keep
ing apples and potatoes in a sound con
dition. Into barrel filled with then
sand is poured until all the interstice
are filled with it. Parties who hav
tried this method say the contents 9
the barrels are preserved until spring i
better condition than by any othe
means they have tried.
GAPEs IN CHICK EMS.
Il A correspondent of an English e1
change says:-"On the first appearant
of gapes make quart of oatmeal pol
ridge, stir in it tallow candle, and az
minister it warm to the chicks; repe'
in about two hours. Sometimes use
1 two or three tablespoonfuls of dripping
when I had no tallow candle in tt
house, and with equal success. The e.
e treme simplicity Of this remedy rende
: : it at least worth a trial. I have new
a lost chick from gapes after admin
tering this remedy"
t POULTRY SHED.
;, One of the best things many farme
e could do would be to build long OPP
0, shed adjacent to their poultry hous
where the fowls could scratch and 81
themselves on cold stormy days.
need not be expensive, but should
substantially built. Such shed is
most indispensable to those who IA
early chickens.
NICE IN ORCHARDS.
Young orchards are often ruined
the mice in winter. Thousands of fl
young trees are thus girdled every W
ter, often in orchards kept too clean
the safety of the trees in trying wintc
A safe and sure remedy is to pile a NJ
mound around each tree. TO prOpe
mound an orchard of say two hundl
tree would be light days work. 7
mice in trailing under the snow seem
have no idea ofclimbing small mou
to get.at the tree.
To start the nut on bolt that has
rusty on plOw or wagon, pour kerost
oil on and allow it to remain a
hours, then give the nut a smart bic
and put on little more oil. In SO
cases it can be done by putting on I
r kerosene and setting it on fire, tt
4 heating the nut and swelling it, as v
J as burning out the rust. Where thi
not practicable from fear of injury fr
too much burning, a pair ofblacksmit
tongs, heated red hot and allowed
grasp the nut firmly until the tongs
nearly cool, will warm up small ]
t. enough to loosen it.
OUTBUILDINGS.
'rk On this subject Pennsylvania fal
ers who are thinking of painting
s outbuildings will find that the appli
ton of coat of crude petroleum
in sens the amount of paint required 6
will cause the wood to last longer
. wash which l have found very satisf
uis tory for outside work is made by sla