Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-09-18
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Hints that VIII be Found Useful TO tn.
Farmer and His Family.


Farmer and His Family.
There is no intelligent man or woman
who viii dispute the fact that g COW with
a record OF from fourteen Ia sixteen
pounds Of butter per week is cheaper at
S65 than a i've or six-pOund brute would
be as gift, yet there is once in awhile
one so stupid that he viii Fay from $25
to $50 for thing and thi.. k he has bar
gain.
As a general thing T wers will droop
and fade in day and night; yet there
are kinds, Ike the clmellias and eupa-
forums, which can J e kept longer if the
| water Is changed -. Orning and night
and few drops of camphOr spirits
added to IT. Flowers viii keep longer
IN dishes Of wet sand than in vessels of
water.
Crude carboIie acid viii disinfect
drains. 1t is better largely diluted, for
/ thus it reaches further. 1t is a poison.
There is a carbOlic soap prepared for kill
ing insects on animals. We lost a Valu-
able dog which got some Of the soap
suds in his mouth. There is a finer car
bolic soap used for toilet purposes. 1t is
healing.
A correspondent Of the Prairie Farmer
says that in cutting up some dead and
/ decaying apple trees he dislOdged scores
of bores which had found Judgment in
the trunks and roots, and is now con-
! WINGED that such trees ought not to be
left in the orchard to serve as breeding
places for insects, but Immediately con-
signed to the fire.
The right time to cut hay or any crop
intended for feeding is Just when the
seeds are forming. Much of the nutri-
ton is stored in the seeds, and as the
ripe seeds are often lost by being shaken
OF, the cutting Of the crop when they
are in the milky stage not only preserves
them, but the quality of the other parts
OF the crop also.
A lamb months old in the province
of Victoria, Australia, weighed 100
pounds, and at that early age sheared
six ponds of very fine wool. This lamb
was from a flock that had descended
from French impOrtatiOns many years
ago, and it shows that the breed does
not detriOrate under the strange skies of
the Southern hemisphere.
The Farner and Fruit GrOwer, speak
ing of blackbeTries, says the Early Har-
vest is much harder than. the Kittatinny
and very much earlier. Taylor's Prolific
is very much like the Kittatinny, except
it is much harder and not so much sub
ject to rust. The Early Harvest is the
best berry for you, unless the Snyder
does well there.
The idea that sorrel denotes a sour
condition of the soil, because the sorrel
leafs itself acid, is an old notion long
since exploded. Lime and ashes have
been recommended to correct this sup
? posed acidity. They will often prevent
the sOrrel, but they do it by encouraging
the growth Of clover, which, with a good
catch, viii usually keep down all annual
weeds.
All manures deposited by nature are
left on or near the surface. The whole
tendency of manure is to 60 down into
the soil rather than to rise from it. There
is probably very little if any loss of nj
trOgen from evaporation of manure, I'M
less it is put in piles so as to ferment.
Rains and deWs return to the soil as
much amOnia in year as is carried of
in the atmosphere.
To trim tastefuIly the ends of a felt
table-scarf or a square cover, cut bands
of velvet two or even three inches wide;
have them about five inches long; point
each end put these on lengthWise, and
allow only space enough between for the
fancy stitches around each piece Of vel
vet. On the pointed ends Of the bottom
put tassels. The velvet bands may be
all Of one color or of different colOrs. but
arrangement. The bands should be
lined with some stiff material, so that
they will not wrinkle; sometimes there
is a tendency to wrinkle when they are
seWed directly upon the cover.
Let impatient little boys, who are Just
now compelled to begin to take care OF
their shoes, use a very little milk instead
of water to mOisten the backing; they
will polish with less time and effort
The reason why grains, are obiectiona-
bic crops for orchards is that they do not
receive sufficient cultivation to give the
soil the amount of stirring during the
growing season which is necessary to
give the trees the greatest benefit. In
5 many localities potatoes are the favOrite
crop for young orchards, but it is prCba-
! bic that corn is generally better. since
l all the stirring which the soil receives IN
growing this crop comes at time when
/ 1t Is most desirable to encourage growth
in the trees, and gives them plenty 0.
time to ripen their wood before Winter
A correspondent of the Pacific Rslra
Press gives the following chill of fare
for poultry: Feed soft feed in the morn
! ing, corn meal and bran half and half
{ now and then boil up some potatoes
mixing bran and meal with them, ant
feed before cold stale bread is also cooC
! for little chicks. At noon more soft fec
! with little soaked wheat or other grain
t. At night, feed grain. A mixture that
like for grown fowls is one-fourth wheat
, one fourth oats and One-fourth barley
for the other One-fOurth mix buckWhe-a.
. and corn equally. Feed but little corn
By the frequent use of the harrow
2 much labor can be saved. On MANY soil
3 the young grass and weeds spring Ut
2 very quickly, and if allowed to grow to
= moderate height require the c1ltivator
: but if the harrow be passed over sucl
q fields as soon as the grass begins to ap
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