The record-union., 1893-08-17

erly fumigate a heuhouse, shut up all
doors and windows, making the house as
tlght as possible. Drive all the fowls out
OF doors. Remove all the eggs, then III Il
small tub, partially filled with water. put
pan containing newspaper saturated
with Kerosene oil, upon which has been
placed couple of pounds OF sulphur. y
Ilttle OIL mixed through the sulphur will
aid in its com mbustion. Touch match to
the paper and leave the house, closing
the door behind you. Let the house re-
man closed for six to eight hours. If
lhere are any lurking germs of disease 1t
| Will De the worse for them. When kero-
sene and lime and fumigation fail to kill
the red mites-the little lice that lurk
about the roosts, try the following. Get a
quantity OF carbolic acid-the refined
salts-and dilute with water. Then spray
the mixture all over the woodwork with
garden pump having a spraying nozzle.
w herever the carbolic acid strikes the
red mite dies. This method has sue
ceeded when others have failed. Kero-
sene emulsion is said to do the work and
is much cheaper than carbolic acid. Blue
vitriol-sulphate of copper-is also rec
ommended. This, of course, should be
| dissolved IN water and the solution
sprinkled about the house. The latest
remedy proposed is strong brine. 1t may
do the work, and ii it does it will be
about as cheap and handy as anything.
Having got rid of the red mites, the
fowls next require attention. One way
10 Tree them from vermln-the large lice
| that live upon their bodies-is to
thoroughly dust them with insect pow
der. Ii this is done few times, it will
| accomplish the work. But it is con-
siderable trouble to do this if there is a
large number of fowls. An easier method
IS to let the fowls get rid of the lice them
selves. 10 do this, provide busting
place by filling good sized box with
sand and dry earth-a box say three by
four feet, filled to the depth of foot.
| Into this earth and sand mix liberal
| quantity of sulphur or some other good
| lnsecticide. The fowls will dust them
selves in the box and the lice will be de-
stroyed. The chicken coOps, as well as
the hen houses, should be thoroughly
cleaned and be kept so. They need clean
Ing through the hot weather, frequently.
| The younger the chickens the greater the
need OF keeping their coops free from
vermln. The large ones can support
few lice and live, but with young chick
ems 1t is choice between them and lice.
B. Butler in American Agriculturist.
CROPS IN THE ORCHARD.
The Massachusetts PIOaghBl0n gives an
account OF the orchard of Edwin Satterth-
waite of Pennsylvania. He plants his
pear trees in rows thirtyfiv feet apart
and twenty feet in the rows, rather shall
low, and in the same rows he plants
peaches, raspberries and black berries,
and between the rows straw berries or
vegetables. He applies manure annually
and IN great abundance, and the blowing
is annual or oftener, plowing ten inches
deep. He raises from 1000 to 1000 BUSH
els of pears annually, and sells them and
his other fruits IN stall of one of the
great city markets at rental OF 5000. His
trees bear every year. The excellence of
his fruits is indicated by the fine spe-
clmens seen at public exhibitions.
On the other hand, one of our ex-
changes gives adverse opinions from cor
respondents who evidently do not en-
ploy fertilizers. One OF them says that
any other crop in the orchard is nothing
more than crop of weeds. Another says
plant nothing but an abundance Of tertil-
iZer and grow each crop by itself. An
other states: 1--WE plant trees to grow
fruit; just as we plant corn to produce
corn, or wheat TO get wheat, and there is
no more use IN attempting to grow two or
three crops of orchard lands and at the
same time get good, healthy, profitable
trees than to try to grow your corn and
weeds on the same land.'
HOW TO WATER HORSES.
How many farmers ever think of water
ing their horses before feeding them in
the morning, or how much they lose by
not doing ltY The horse comes from work
at night, gets drink, then is fed mostly
dry grain, eats hay part OF the night. and
in the morning another dry feed, and by
this time is very dry himself so when he
reaches the water he fills his stomach so
full that undigested food is forced out Of
the stomach and is damage rather than
a benefit to the horse. Now, friends, try
watering one horse before feeding in the
morning, thus shaking his thirst and at
the same time washing the stomach ready
to receive the morning feed, when being
properly moistened with saliva it will re-
main until thoroughly digested. Your
horse can do more work ON less feed and
will live healthy much longer, besides
humanity demands this thoughtful care.
QUIETNEss FOR COWS.
Never allow your COWS to be hurried to
and from the pasture, and never allow
dog to worry them. In fact, a dog is a
worthless thing around cows. He in
variably barks, or in other ways annoys
them. Cows should always be kept as
quiet as possible, that the milk may be
normally secreted.