Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1886-11-11
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"A frst-class salt should be pure
white in color, clean, comparatively
dry, uniform in grain and quito soluble
In water.
Successful New Jersey gardeners
apply annually about ten tons of we'll
rottcd barn-yard manure per acre to
their strawberry fields, putting 1t on
late in the fall Just before a hard
freeze.
Grass Is the natural food Of horses
| and they should be provided with II rs
often as possible II they arc kept In
the stable during the summer liberal
meal Of grass should be cut for them fire.
quently.-M T. Telegram.
Small fruit culture will always bo
most successful on the intensive plan.
Plant only small area at time. and
give that the best culture possible.
Better raise three hundred bushels on
one acre than that amount on five or
six. The South.
-Beef-steak Omelcttei Three
pounds raw beef (vcal is bettcr)
chopped fine, six crackers, rolled fine,
four eggs, two tcaspoonfuls melted
butter; mix with the hand. Make In n
loaf and put in buttcrod tin, basting
! often. Exchange
To kill bcd-bugs take ten cents
worth Of corrosive sublimate, put In
one pint of alcohol; shake and apply
with n brush or feather IL Is poison,
and as soon as through using it, better
bury the bottle IN some out-Of-thc-way
place. Chicago Journal.
No thrifty farmer will permit
coarse weeds, thistles, brars or bushes
of any kind to grow by the roadside
adjoining his fields. One or two days
work each year for two or three years
with stout brush scytho will cause
these Improbable varieties of vogcta-
ton to give place TO valuable grasses.
-CmcinRdh Times.
Ants in the garden may often be
destroyed In their nests by attacking
them with hot water. Kerosene oil Is
sometimes used to drive them ont Of
their runways, but it is Intellectual in
routing them. They can be trapped
but it requires perseverance, to accom-
phsh it. Pieces Of sponge can be
! sprinklcd with sugar and laid in their
way. They will enter in numbers into
the sponges, which can be quickly
picked up and dropped into hot water.
~ J.. Herdid
We find that even some of our
prominent horticulturists are afraid Of
planting nut trees on account Of the
alleged difficulty met with in trans
planting. We can hardly state emphat-
ically enough that this is bugbcar.
When the trees are properly grown at
the nursery, and transplantcd whcn
one year from the nut-as they should
be-thoy can be handled rs safely rs
any of our common fruit trccs. Thou
sands we'e, ,rahspiantcd at the nurse
ry here last spring with hardly q loss
worth mentioning. .-O orchard and Cur
den.
No one who has home of his own
need ever be idle. There is always
something to bo done to promote the
convenience or tho comfort Of the
home, and, in the absence of work Civ
ing money remuneration, making the
home more pleasant and comfortable
is the best-paYing job which any man
can undertake. II is sign Of shift
lessness. il not worse, to see man
idle when n days work might be well
expended in battening doors and win
dOws against winters rude blasts, or
in providing some simple conycnicnccs
long needed by the good housewife to
tighten her work. Industry always
finds work to do Western Rural.