Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-29
FARM GLEANlNGS.

Cow PEAsB are much relished by the
cows and no feed makes better returns of
milk and butter.
RYE grown around the borders of gardens
will prevent rabbits from eating any thing
else therein. They eat rye in preference to
pease.
MosT good potato growers agree. that
sprouted seed potatoes are inferior TO those
kept 50 that no large sprouts appear before
planting.
THERE are thousands of city clerks who
would be glad 10 become independent
farmers if they knew how they could OBJ
tain a living.
FEEDING sheep for the meat market, in
well systematized methods, has been more
profitable and much more certain in its re-
suits than feeding cattle
FoR destroying bugs on cucumber vines,
dissolve a tablespoonful of saltpeter in a
pail Of water, and use a pint of this around
each hill. 1t will not only kill tho insects,
but will also fertilize the vines
WELL-BRED cattle not only make the most
beef from gwen amount Of feed, but also
bring the highest price in the market, and
are the only ones that can be handled with
profit.
A FoUNDERED horse can be cured by
wrapping his bridle-bit thickly with the
bark of freshly-dug sassafras root, and re-
newing 1t in twelve hours. This viii effect
cure If applied within twelve hours after
he has been foundered.
MANY farmer needs to sell half his farm
to secure means for properly cultiyating the
other half 1t is not the number of acres
one owns that determines his wealth. but
the productive capacity of each acre is the
true test of real prosperity.
TAKE half-inch or three-eighths rome.
double 1t, pass il around the body of the
COW forward Of the uddor, bringing the
ENDS through the loop, draw tight and make
last with SKIP knot and the cow will not
KICK, because she can't arch her back
IT is admitted by all intelligent investi-
gators that il is the best economy on the
part OF the farmer TO grind and cut stock
feed. Especially Is this true in a season OF
short crops II the farmer has his own min
II costs nothing TO grind or cut feed, save
the interest on the investment and the wear
and tear Of the MILL which is comparative
ly small.
A GOOD recipe for curing meat is this (:
For 100 pounds OF hams, shoulders. or
bacon, mix pounds of good salt, pounds
OF brown sugar, ounces Of saltpeter, and
ounce OF cayenne pepper Rub this into
the meat in large tub, where il Will not be
wasted. Or, If preferred, make the mix
ture INTO a pickle, with boiling water, and.
after II IS cold, pour it over the meat. which
must be packed closely in barrel. Use
water enough, So that the meat win be
covered with the pickle.
To PREVENT the encroachment of vcr.
min IN poultry houses, many excellent
plans have been contrived. The best way
where the building is made of wood issto
line 1t throughout with tarred paper ,.ov-
cred with a thick coat Of white-wash twice
year. The roost poles should be hem
lock, with the bark left on, the nest lincd
] with tobacco, and all small cracks and
crevices around the building filed with a
wash OF kerosene oil and sulphur.
A CLOSE observer OF farm methods is of
the opinion that n horse Will be better
equipped for. his work on three ears of
corn and twenty minuios' currying three
times per day, than fourteen ears and one
minutes work with the brush and comb.
Thus, the man who groogns his horses for
the short space OF twenty minutes at each
| meal, Is enabled 70 ssiTe thirty-seven bush
els Of corn in feeding his horse during the
year, or seventy-fOur bushels OF corn for a
team. Besides, thu team will remain in
good flesh at the hardest work, bur an the
| grain and hay that = horse can be induced
20 eat viii not keep him in flesh whcn he Is
At hard work day after day, IL his attendant
naalscts the comb and brush.