Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-06-01
HRm AID HOUSEHOLD.


che Sigh test degree of injury should be
avoided. Smut can easily be carried
from one year to the other by the
seed.
To enrich land that IS poor We must
have manure or its equivalent in veg
etable matter, or apply plant food in
some shape to induce growth of vege-
tatiOn.
EeVery person VINO Ownes piece Of
land, large or small, should have a
space set apart for the cultivation of
small fruits and vegetables The farm
produces the substantial or chief ar
tlcies Of food, but thegarden is depend
ed upon largely for our common lux
Iries-
A terrible outbreak of contagious
pleuro-pneumonia has Just broken out
almost within sight of the Federal
Capital where Congress is sitting, and
a large force of dead-beat cow-dOctors
has been set at work by CoIman, Sal
mon & Co., TO quarantine, tag or
slaughter, or do anything that will
make the most racket, and with the
game being played at Chicago, help to
work Congress up to the right temper
for voting a million Of dollars for the
suppression of contagious pleuro-
pneumonia so-called-boodleism ar
rant knRVery. cOnsummate scoundrel-
ism.-DOvers' Journal.
The theory which favors the ''easy-
kept" COW because the feed bills are
less is thus treated by THE Jersey
Bulletin" ga dairy cow that is not
q hearty eater won't pay for what
she does eat. In this the COW may be
compared with the steam engine. To
/ produced the required pressure OF
/ steam a certain amount Of fuel Is
necessary, and without this the whole
is wasted. The COW Is a machine for
converting food into milk, and the
profits from her work are in pcOpOr-
tion to her digestive and assimil ating
powers"
A prominent market gardener and
milkman of South Hadley. Mass, feeds
his peddIing horses by clock power.
The cracked corn and oats are put
into a hopper over night, and the
alarm clock is set for a morning feed.
/ The continuance works to a charm,
the horses thrive by it, it saves labor
in the busiest part OF the day and the
machine costs about $6.-BOstOn
Budget.
A farmer handy with tools will find
a trowel a most useful implement.
Cement costs little, and, aside from
repairing walls and stopping leaks in
cisterns, it can be put to many other
important uses. One Of these is to
line wooden boxes, making them wat
sr-tight. If manger and feed boxes
are overland with cement horses will
be much less liable to contract the
vice of cribbing. In stopping holes in
granaries, cement is better than
merely covering up the hole with tin,
as is usually done. Rats and mice
make short work with tin covering,
but cement effectually turns them If
well made and well laid.
In setting out young plants in re-
aiOns infested with cut worms, wrap
paper about the plants roots before
they 60 into the ground and the
worms will not destroy them. A lit
tie earth can be wrapped IN the paper.
Press the soil firm about the roots.
The COW which gives the largest
quantity of milk is not always the
most profitable. The quality of the
milk is quite as important. For this
reason the milk of every COW In a
dairy should be weighed separately,
and tested separately to ascertain
the PERCENTAGE OF cream. for a suffi-
Gent number OF days to fix her value
as milk and butter producer.
Is it uot q little singular that while
carp fish have been doomed in this
country for the last dozen years, dur
ing which time the Government,
through its fish commissioner, has
distributed millions of young fry,
which have been used to stock thou
/ sands of ponds which have been con.
/ structed, and though carp culture has
been pronounced a wonderful success,
no one has yet, so far as we know,
| ever seen a carp fish offered for sale IN
any market in this country
! ers' Review.
/ The National Stockman advises
that every bull should have a ring
/ placed in his nose as he approaches
/ the age OF one year, and always be led
with q staff. It also suggests that
/ bulls may be better breeders, and gen.
/ tier and more safe to handle, if they
/ had regular exercise at a treadmill or
/ some other form of labor, besides
Welding some return by their labor
/ for their feed the year round.
The state department at Washington
/ regards the statement Of France that
/ the hog is excluded for health rea-
sons, as a mere pretext, as hog rails
ers in the rural districts Of France are
/ sufficiently powerful to overflow any
I ministry who should, granting the re-
quest Of American and French cities,
! admit the American hog as q comma