The Port Gibson reveille., 1894-06-15


difficult to heal the wounds while the
cow is giving milk, as al every milking
the cracks are broken open and thus
the trouble is made worse. The best
remedy is to apply vaseline to the teats
and soften the skin and the wounds,and
milk with great care. After the mllk-
ing the vaseline is again applied, and If
needed surgical rubber plaster should be
wrapped around the teats. BY gentle
handling the wounds may be healed in
few days.
Green ManurIna.
Green manuring, or blowing under
green crops was advocated by Roman
writers more than two thousand years
ago, aud from that time until now IL
has formed most important resource
OF The iarmer,c ,cspC eialiy where the sup
ply OF barnyard manure Is insufficient. =.
II furnishes the surface soil with feri-
ilinag materials, increases the humus.
aud improves tho physical qualities Of
the soil. As hnmus-formcr green
manuring stands next TO barnyard man
ure.
BY means Of green manuring, land
which is practically barren may be
brought up TO a state of fertility where
it will produce profitable crops. Again,
green manuring may be used in the
place of more expensive fertilizers aud
manures on soils already under cultiv-
alton. II is in this use that il finds lis
widest application.
There has been much speculation as
TO the manncr in which the crops COM
monly used for green manuring could
gather such large quantities OF fer
iilizing materials. 1t has been said
that plants With long roots,likc cloyers,
feed deep down on materials beyond
The reach of the snrface-feeding plants;
and that when the tops of these plants
die down and are mixed with the sur
face soil they enrich il much as an ap-
plication Of barnyard manure. This is
true, but il fails TO explain how such
large quantities Of materials can be OBJ
tanned especially when clover is grown
continuously for years. The question
has finally been solved by the inter est
and important discovery that certain
plants can feed upon the nitrogen in
the atmosphere aud store IL up in their
tissues as they grow. They take phos-
phoric acid aud potash from the soil,
but obtain nitrogen very largely from
the air. Hence they draw from the air
material which in the form of CONF
mercial fertilizers, as nitrate Of soda,
ammonium sulphate, dried blood ,ctc.,is
paid for al the rate of from fifteen
to twenty cents pound.-Ex.
Life on Small Farms.
/. The owners of ten 10 twenty acres
of land within convenient distance of
the city or town is very fortunate.
The Philadelphia Ledger of a recent
date says: "The demand tor small
farms has been greater than ever be-
fore. Properties OF from thirty 10 fif-
ty acres and less are wanted-the
farmers holding them say they eau
make more money and live better up
on few acres than upon large
farm"
A friend who two years ago bought
a small place in tho country, says: II
write this under my own Concord
vine aud apple tree and from beneath
a roof of my own. / am landed pro-
prielor, taxpayer, the owner Of bit
of ground and a horse and stable.
We have paid out hundreds of dol
lars in rent, aud have lived in some
sort of fashion. but now we are fixed.
My interest and taxes are not much
more than one-third the amount /
have been paying in rents. Ihave one
COW (this gives us two gallons of de-
licions milk every day. one dozen
hens which supply us with eggs, half
dozen apple and pear trees, and a
few currant aud raspberry bushes.
The past year our garden gave us all
the vegetables we needed, and some
TO spare for our city friends; and
such vegetables Just fresh from the
garden, not like the stale stuff you see
on The market stalls.
"My wife looks healthier, is much
more contented, and the children arc
the picture of health. They have
home-a place that they can love and
remember MS home throughout all
their afIer-lives. II is positive pleas
urc for me to walk up once a year aud
pay my taxes. ] am happy man aud
don't mind the extra work am called
upon to do when sec the happy re-
suits of country life. My only wish is
that the hundreds Of clerks that are
living in the city in rented homes
could be induced TO follow my exam
pie and come out into fhe country,
where pure air, plenty Of sunshine,
grceu fields, conlcntment and happi-
ness await every one that desires 10
come."-Baltimore American.