The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-09-13
FIELD AND FARM.
Farming Hints.

If pulverized charcoal forms part oj
The ingredients Of poultice Of any kind
for man or beastit proves one of the
most cleansing applications for an old
sore, or fostering and painful wound
that can be used. 1t will etiect,ally pre-
vent the growth Of proud flesh" and
leaves the edges Of the sose as bright
and clean as a new cut. 1t may be used
in connection with fax seed, slippery
elm, bread or cracker poultices; Just add
finely powdered charcoal enough to
cover the poultice after it is spread.
Ifthe farm don't pay, as many farm.
crs assert, it is because it don't owe you
anything. The soil is very prompt in
liquidating all its just obligation, and
throwing in good round sum as usury.
But it is very obstinate in yielding up its
treasures to those who in justice have no
claim upon it. It has not much to give
awaysin support of idleness, anu in this
it is justifable.
A note in the Country Gentlemen says
the Holstein COW Violet 743. has pro.
duced 6,226 lbs. of milk in about ten
months, and at six months made l9 lbs.
8 OF. of butter in seven days. She has
given Sc lbs. IL or. of milk in day. Sup
pose man had fifty such COWS in dali
ry, he would have to rent another farm
to handle tho milk on.-Farmer.
The Omaha Bee says that city is to
have stock yards on the largest scale of
my outside of Chicago, and mammoth
heef packing and refrigerating houses
backed by capital which is practically
unlimited. Stretching along the Union
Pacific track for q distance of over four
miles, and extending southwark to the
Missouri, the Omaha stock yards will
have the advantage OF two through lines
Of railroad to bring in their cattle from
the far west and transport tie nanufac-
tured product to eastern consumers.
Forty thousand cattle will be Jared for
in them the coming winter. This new
project will afford employment to 5000
men.
We know of a rich farmer that had
rather pay loud-m outhed, boastful,
snowy, eye'serving, rascally. ingenious
old farm hand twenty dollars a month,
than a true, steady-going, trustworthy
man twenty-five dollars. Three OF his
men have already been obliged to leave
his place or the state, having been de-
tected in various threats and other mis-
demeanors. We have no patience with
farmers Who are mean enough to econo-
mize in this way, and We believe that
they are no more to be trusted than the
Jail birds they employ. Don't confide
in any one who has no appreciation of
faithful service.-Rural New Yorker.
There is no chemical change in either
salt or ashes when they are given to
sheep as remedy for worms in the in
testines. This mixture is given for a
double reason-the salt for the effect of
tho chlorine in it upon the worms, and
the ashes for their mechanical effect
due to their grittiness. Such gritty mat
ters as fine iron filings, tin filings, very
finely powdered glass, the rough seeds
of cowhage or "cowitch" are all given to
destroy worms in the intestines of ami
mails, and wood ashes or very fine sifted
coal ashes would have a similar effect.
But wood ashes have much the same ef-
feet chemically or incidentally as salt,
on account of the potash they contain,
and which acts as the salt does, to ir-
ritate and destroy the tender skins of
the worms. So that this popular mix
ture has reasonable ground for its use,
and at any rate is better than metal
filings or glass, as it will not be injurious
to the animal.
The Dairy, published in New York
city, thinks the Jersey business is rather
overdone, the big prices inducing peo.
pie to buy anything and everything
called a Jersey. In its last issue it says:
"What is the average yield of the Jersey
COWS? There are doubtless 5000 pure
bred Jerseysin America-one in 1000 OF
the whole number of COWS. OF these
l5,t 100 there are not more than one per
cent. that are at all remarkable for any
thing but their beauty and the richness
of their milk. Perhaps the average pro-.
duct in milk of the Jerseys altogether
may be five quarts of milk q day and
five pounds of butter in a week. We
know of one COW recently bought at a
sale ofimported stock for more than
5000, and which was fresh COW, and
milks three quarts a day and makes
three pounds of butter a week. A herd
of fashionable bred Jerseys known to
us averages about this p. oduct. But in
justice to these Jerseys it must be said
that only about one per cent. of their
owners know how to keep a cow and
get the best product out of her."