Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-10-12
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

If YOU want to rase "stuntS" keep
the calves in the patch with the pigs
San Francisco Chronicle.
Let us grow more clover. Even II
It is not four-leaved, it will bring good
luck. B. d. HaISted,
Frozen milk is q good substitute
for icc-cream and other foods for fever
patients. 1t will often be tolerated when
no other article can be retained.-Cht-
cGg0 Times.
The man who takes up farming Just
because he has failed at every thing else,
has not pleasant prospect before him.
He is likely to add another failure to his
list.-Erchange.
Fowls that must be fed in summer
should be fed regularly If fed only
twice day, feed lightly in the morning
and give full feed ut night. If fed but
once day, feed at night.-Boston Post.
Excessive labor is the next worst
next thing to ill-directed work on the
farm, but in haying and harvesting la
Dor may be carried to the point of en-
DURANGO in fine weather without being
, ill-dirccted. = Western Rural.
The roof is the most important
part of the pig-styc, as, indeed, it is OF
all buildings for sheltcrng stock. The
floor of a pig-pen may be earth with a
| little straw. In fact, many farmers OBJ
: iect to board or blank floors, which
form harbors for rats and other vcrmn.
But the roof must be waterproof. los
9 ton Herald.
L Cup Cake: Three teacupfuls OF SD,
4 gar and half pound of butter well
mixed; three eggs dropped in separate
" and beaten, one teacupful and hal
y of milk, six tcacupfuls of flour, one salt
: spoonful of salt. Flavor with one wine
e glassful of wine, or with two teaspoon
:. fuls essence of lemon, and one grated
10 nutmeg-Cdlercr.
-Turpentine has so strong an odo
d that it will prevent depredations of mos
insects, and on small scale is one o
the best applications that can be made
A corn-cob dipped in turpentlne will
keep cucumber and squash bugs iron
the hill to which it is applied. If hum
l. in plum trees it will prevent attacks G
=, the curculio.-Prairic Former.
- The Iowa Agricultural Society ha
~ a standing offer Of two thousand dollar
T. for the first invention of a Succcsstu
n corn-husker. The requirements ar
a. that the machine must husk lively
acres of corn per day, and do it in
IL clean and workman-lke way; also
lie require no more than one team an
i three men to run it.
he Charcoal is very absorptive of an
~ monia, and if applied to crops it wi
- form store-hOuse Of this valuable stln
nc ulant, which it will release when th
n roots reach it. The dark color of cha
r. coal adds to its value by making II
ground warmer as the rays of heat al
absorbed from the sunshine. There
also some potash in charcoal, which
many soils increases its value.-N.
Farmer.
If oats are crushed, or just coarse
ground, before they are given to horse
they will prove more nourishing.
ay England they are pressed between no
IT. ers. But if horses teeth are good
ed will generally grind its oats pretty we
w. There is a great difference in horse
however, in this respect, just as there
,se in men. Some bolt their food mu
os more rapidly and less mast,catcd th'
others. But whatever grain you fee
ar- do not let the horse drink immediate
after. If you do, much of the grain W
IT be washed out of the stomach. witho
IL being digcstcd. Troy Times.