The Osceola times., 1885-08-08
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

MONEY economically spent in drain
ing wet places may lift mortgage from
farm.
Owners of large farms in Oregon
are selling off tracts and declare them
selves believers in "a little farm well
titled"
"A writer in Tjcks Maganns says .
dozen sets of perennial larkspur plants,
in row alongside of his potato field,
will actually kill off the potato beetles.
A rooster in Chester County. Penn
sylvania. has Matched out fourteen
chickens from fifteen eggs, and has
since been taking the best OF care Of
them as if he was their natural mother.
AT least two-thirds of the orchards
that are reported dying from old age
are actually starving 10 death, and
might be brought back to fair state
of health aud vigor by generous sys-
tenn of feeding the soil.
Fried Salt Pork.-Cut in thin slices
and freshen, roll in flour and crisp,
drain off most of the grease from the
frying-pan, stir In while hot one or two
tablespoonfuls of flour, one-half pint Of
milk and little pepper; let it boil, then
pour over the pork and serve.
The reply of breeder to a shftless
intending purchaser, don't buy. for pow
erty and bad care will disgrace any
breed, is worthy of record. The stand
ard of practical value and profit in any
animal is the feeding and common
sense care use.
Cleveland Leader: II there Is any
one luxury the farmers family should
enjoy, it is a comfortable carriage. A
pleasant ride is dispeller of weari-
ness from hard labor. Don't go truud-
ling around in a lumber wagon, scrimp-
ing to add more acres TO your already
too large farm.
1t is said that the flavor of beets,
turnips or cabbages in milk can be over
come by dissolving half a teaspoonful of
salpetre in teacup of water, and pour.
ing it into the churn with the cream at
churning time. Cabbages may be fed
at night after milking without flavoring
milk
1t Is said that Paris green applied
to rosebushes and grapevines infested
with rose-bugs, will kill the insects as
surely as it does the potato-bug. when
used on potato plants. The applica-
ton can be dry. mixed with flour
or land plaster, or in liquid form, mixed
with water, and sprinkled on, in the
same manner as for the potato-bug.
The potato and tomato, being both
members of the same family, may be
grated into each other with success, so
far rs growth is concerned. Agardener
who tried grating the tomato on a po-
tato plant had crop Of tomatoes above
ground, and one of potatoes underneath.
The latter, however, were not good, as
potato leaves were needed to give char.
acter and maturity to the crop.
In greenhouses the plants are
sometimes infested with red spider dur
ing summer. Its presence may be de-
tected by the brownish appearance Of
the leaves. These insects cannot exist
in moisture, and the best method of
checking their progress is to syringe the
plants about sunset, or later, so that
they will be wet all night. This is more
effective than Swinging during the day.
when the moisture soon dries up.
The dust from moldy hair and grain
causes unpleasant sensations and some
times blind staggers and death in ami
mails and men. Rust and black mold on
wheat affect threshers disagreeably al
ways, and sometimes injuriously. An
exchange mentions that California
vine-dresser had been badly poisoned by
grating vines when the cuttings were
diseased with black fungus. Care
should be exercised in these respects.