The Delaware City news. (Delaware City, Del.) 188?-18??, 1889-04-04
FARM NOTES.


CATTLE Cattle that are necessarily
fed upon coarse food In winter should
b amply provided with salt. A small
quantity OF meal of some kind, but
most especially linseed meal or cotton
seed meal, will be useful and a safe
guard against the prevalent diseases
of the season. Pasturlng in swamp
meadows will produce and aggravae
tie frequent foot ailments caused by
Instant moisture and the presence
OF mud or sand between the claws.
Cleanliness will prevent this evil.
Sore feet should be treated promptly.
An excellent remedy for sore feet and
wounds In animals of all kinds is an
ointment made in this way: melt to-
Cether four ounces OF lard, one ounce |
Burgundy pitch ard one ounce Venice |
turpentne; stir In one ounce OF spirits
OF turpentine, two drains of acetate OF
copper. Stir until cold and keep In an
earthen lar. Sore feet of cows, oxen
or sheep, should be washed and dried
and then dressed with this ointment
daily. IL is good thing to have in
the stable. Keep up the feed of milk.
ing COWS. Shelter them at night. Cold
uses up cream. Give salt regularly
and a few ears Of soft corn and a
mangel or two twice day.
A GOOD WORD FOR WEEDS =
Weeds are plenty In the wrong place.
They all probably have their right
places and their use somewhere In
natures economy, though these are
sometimes hard to appreciate. The
most OF them may serve to keep some
desolate spot from being entirely bare,
and the decay of their repeated gener-
ations, furnish mould to the ground,
and may in time make it ht to bear
something better. They all too, have
elements Of beauty, and these will re-
veal themselves to every one who dill
gently searches for them. Even the
most forbidding are revealed under
microscopic inspection as objects OF
rare beauty. Many of them, If they
were not weeds. would be prised as rare
flowers, and some of them have beer
such.
LINSEED TEA FOR SICK HORSES. =
Linseed tea is not only a valuable re-
storatlve for sick horses, but is exceed
ingly useful in cases of Inflammation o
the membranes peculiar to the organ
of respiration and digestion; it shields
and lubricates the same; tranquilize
the irritable state of the parts, AM
fav0rs healthy action. We have pre-
scribed llnseed tea in large quantitie
during the past month, for horse
laboring under the prevailing influenza
they seemed to derive much good fron
it, and generally drank with avldity
THE hen house should have tigh
roof and walls. If the shingles are oil
and admit the wet, then surely troubl
will ensue. Damp floors will be suret
bring colds, and these neglected 500
develop into roup, the most dlillcu
disease to control known to the poultT
yard. Stop the leaks, patch the roo
seal up the cracks, and so keep III
hens healthy. for surely they Will nc
produce eggs If diseased.
ONE of the worst and most hOpeles
features of the present unproftab
dairying is the fact that SO few of OF
dairymen know just what they al
doing and whether all of their cows {
any of them pay cost. So many farme
fail to keep accurate accounts of the
operations that 1t often takes thel
years to ascertain positively wheth'
they are gaining or losing by their ope
ations and by what ones they gain an
what they lose.
To DESTROY THE CANADA lHIsTL
Henry Ward Beecher, the famo
preacher and fancy farmer, claimed
have solved the problem of getting !
Of the Canada thistle. He said: i
only way to exterminate the weed is
plant it for crop and propose to mia
money out of it. The worms will gni
it, bugs will bite it, beetles will bore
spiders will web it, birds will peck
heat will scorch 1t, cold will freeze
rains will drown it, and mildew p
blight will cover 1t.
AN excellent mixture of hay for
classes OF stock IS one-thlrd clover-h
with timothy and redtop, which
much better than either one alone,
the mixture is more complete in 70
elements. 1t should be fed with an
lOwance OF ground grain also.
rHE best soil for rhubarb is II rio
deep, sandy loan, and the best fert
izer well-rotted manure. The grou
should be deeply plowed, subsoied a
thoroughly cultivated. The plal
should stand about four feet apart ca
way. Good garden cultivation is nee
sary but no plants should be taken
first season. An early crop and &C
market make rhubarb very pr0lital
crop.
In selecting young peach trees
spring transplantiDg examine tn
carefully, as the borer is often found
them. A healthy young tree shol
have very smooth bark, plenty OF roc
and show no signs of puncture.
eases Of trees are easily brought on
farm Ivy not giving proper attention
the source whence the nursery stock
obtained.
THE asparagus bed should be /
pared of The trench system. Use pie
of manure, and over the manure pl
rich dirt to few inches depth. &
the roots plenty of room. AS a !
asparagus roots are placed too clio
together, as they thicken and multi
in the bed every year. Once
taiEed, an asI aragus bed will last m
years.
PLACE your manure heap vi
cover so as to be able to work it {
in winter. Rains should never fall
the manure at any season. 1t il
great advantage to turn over the /