Year: 1877

Farm Notes.


Running spring water is far better for
COWS whose milk is intended for first
class butter or cheese, than pond water
or even than well water, since the quail
ty of the water influences the milk as
much as the character of the food.


Spruce butter tubs are the best
white hemlock makes sweet tub acids
from the oak color the butter and in
jure it's appearance white ash gives
the butter strong flavor if kept long
and increases the liability to mould ;
maple smells and cracks badly. Soak
all tubs four to six days in brine before
using.


Alonzo Crafts has found good use
for sour cider. He had O SOW with a
litter of nine pigs which the SOW would
not own. and towards which she was
very violent, and but for their timely re-
moval the little pigs would all have
been killed. He gave the SOW two
quarts of sour cider and in few min
utes she lay down evidently the worse
for liquor" While she was in this con-
dition the pigs were twice put to her to
suck, and when she recovered from her
"drunk she owned the pigs all right,
and now seems exceedingly fond of her
progeny.


Have Just examined a piece Of ever
green sweet corn which was planted with
seed selected by using only the upper
ear where two grew on stalk last year.
The result is that nearly every stalk has
two ears on; even five stalks in one hill
gave ten good ears, and I think that
there were as many single stalks with
three ears on rs there were with only
one, but the two ears to the stalk were
almost universal. Now, as we are so often
reminded that we can improve our corn
by selecting seed, let us take the more
pains thus to improve this most noble
American product:-Rural Home.


The farm of John Hawley, Brant N. Y,
who has practiced the soiling system Of
feeding for some time, contains fifty
acres, all of which, with the exception Of
piece of timber and rough land, is under
q very high state of cultivation. Upon
the place are about ten head of cattle,
two horses and perhaps few heal of
loose stock at times. There are about
ten acres devoted to small fruits, such as
strawberries, raspberries, blackberries,
etc., leaving but forty acres to furnish
feed for the horses and cattle during
the year. The COWS are many of them
grade Ayrshires, and Mr.. Hawley is
turning his whole herd, to this breed as
fast as possible, rs he thinks it adapted
to this system of feeding better than the
majority of breeds. To adopt this
system, preparations must be begun in
the fall, it appears, as some plant must be
ready to cut early in spring. A piece
of winter rye, large enough to furnish q
months feed or 80, is sown in the fall
which is ready to cut the latter part of
April or beginning of May then follows
millet (two or three varieties), clover,
sowed corn, etc. AS fast as crop is
taken off another should be sown, thus
keeping the land under crop all the
while. Mr.. Hawley claims that his
soil increases in fertility every year !;
in fact, it looks reasonable that lot of
weeds will exhaust the soil Just as much
as some profitable plant. Then the
manure pile is being constantly increas-
ed, and the more crops raised the more
fertilizing material is there returned to
it. Great care should be taken to save
all the liquids. Gautauqua Farmer.


Household Hints.


To PREVENT DECAY IN MEATs.-
Sprinkle on plenty of pulverized borax;
rub it well into the meat. and let it re-
main five or ten minutes on ice, or long,
er, if desired. Just before cooking
wash it we'll in strong solution of borax
water, and do not rinse again. If it is to
be boiled or parboiled, add little borax
to the water in which it is boiled; q
quarter of teaspoonful will answer.


To KEEP LEMONS FREsH.-Place them
in jar with water enough to cover them.
They will keep fresh in this way several
days without changing the water.


To CURE BUN1oNs. q fine linen
band tightly around the foot and over
the bunion, sew it on if necessary, and
wear it day and night; bathe the feet
frequently in strong borax water, using
q teaspoonful of pulyerized borax to a
basin of water.


To RID DOG OF FLEAs.-Wash him
thoroughly with common soft soap, such
as they use on board ships; or place
him on newspaper and rub Persian in
sect powder we'll over him, and the Aeas
will drop out on the paper and die al
most Immediately. This method is also
effective with rats.


To MAKE CALICO TRANSPARENT AND
WATERPROOF six pints of pale
linseed oil, two ounces Of sugar of lead,
and eight ounces of white resin the
sugar of lead must be ground with a
small quantity of it, and added to the
remainder. The resin should be incor-
porated with the oil by means of gentle
heat. The composition may then be
laid on calico, or any other such material,
by means of brush. -


BREAKING GLASS TO ANY REQUIRED
F1GURE.-Make small notch by means
of file on the edge of piece of glass,
then make the end of tobacco pipe, or
q rod of iron of the same size, red-hot
in the fire, apply the hot iron to the
notch, and draw it slowly along the sur
face of the glass in any direction you
please; crack will follow the direction
1 of the iron.


GooD USE FOR SoAp-SUDs.-Save your
washing suds for the garden; if they are
poured over the roots of the. plum trees,
they will kill the curculio; if turned at
the roots of the geraniums, roses, ETC.,
they will enchance their beauty tenfold.


To CLEAN Co1oRED S1K.-Wash in
warm soap-suds, rinse in clear, warm
water, dry quickly, and iron on the
wrong side while yet rather damp. If
ethere are grease spots on the silk, press
with a toleraoly warm iron under brown
paper. -.