Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1884 — AGRICULTUKAL. [ARTICLE]

AGRICULTUKAL.

Neveb turn cattie vo pas*nr* nut the fences are thoroughly ) eg'aired, fc> if cattle once get accustomed to goifi over a broken-down f- nee. it is oft *n di: ficult to prevent them from going uve the game after it has been repaired. - Chicago Journal. An enterprising farmer near Beac , ing, Pa., lias a room fifty feet square : entirely surrounded with ice, in wkic, he stores fruit. In this rc fx-igerator h j is able to keep apples and pears unt they will bring twice or thrice the sam fruit marketed w hen first picked. Clovebsekd will germinate whe 3 or 4 years old, if kept in a even temperature and dry. It is sut ject to attacks from insects, find coi frequently deteriorates in quality froi that and other causes. It is best to us I new seed, but that remaining over ti i the second year may be used with saf< j tv. Everything depends on the car j of keeping. A Western farmer wdio tried whea bran as a manure for wheat report that the effect of an application of on ton of bran to the acre was equal t that obtained from the usual applies tion of a mixture of bone dust, guano lime and wood ashes, and the differ ence in yield of the crops that receive! bran as compared with those not s treated was very great. L. H. Bailey, of South Haven Mich., and of the oldest frhit-grower of this State, once received a lot of ap pie trees that in appearance were dead They had been delayed two months' h reaching him. It was in the pionee times, and new trees could not be pro cured readily. He therefore set out ri the seemingly dead trees, first letting them lie under the water for two days Nearly all lived to have their product take the first premium at the fairs.— Lansing Republican. According to New York dealers olec margarine is now as much of a regula market product as butter or cheese. Fo years it was regarded by the butte merchants as an illegitimate product and the Mercantile Exchange sub Bcribed many thousand of dollars towart driving the stuff out of the market Agents were employed to make sur t at the law regarding the stamping o oleomargarine as such was compliec with, every effort was made to inflnenct legislation unfavorable to the oleomai garme makers and dealers. All sue tailed, and Mercantile Exchangt now numbers oleomargarine among tat staple articles of trade.— Chicago Jour nvi.

The Avierican Agricultural says There are five methods in which Per sian insect powder may be applied t< destroy insects: As dry powder; as i fume; as an alcoholic extract diluted by simple stirring of the powder h water; as a tea or decoction. The po# der may be diluted with ten times ifi bulk of flour, or any finely-pulverizdi material, as wood ashes. It is reconi' mended to mix the powder and othej material twenty-four hours before usii In a closed room the fumes from a sma quantity will kill or render inactiVi common flies and mosquitoes. For ap plication to insects on plants the pow der mixed with water, and the tea made from the herb dried, are more oou Venient, and quite as effectual. In a conversation with an experieneei chicken raiser he informed us that he had been very successful in conquering that precarious disease in his young fowls by the application of air-slackee lime. As soon as a manifestation o gapes in his fowls appear, he confines his chickens in a box, one at a time, sufficiently large to contain the bird, and places a coarse piece of cotton oi linen cloth over the top. Upon this he places the pulverized lime, and taps th< screen sufficiently to cause the lime to fall through. This lime dust the fowl inhales and is made to sneeze, and in a short time the cause of the gapes is thrown out in the form of a slimy mass or masses of worms, which had accumulated in the windpipe and smaller vessels. This remedy he considers superior to any remedy he qver tried, ran he seldom fails to effect a perfect cude. He has adjured all those mechanical means by which it is .attempted to dislodge the entozoa with instruments made of whalebone, hog’s bristles, horse hair of fine wire alleging that people are quite as certain to push the gape worms farther down the throat of the fowls as to draw them up. —Poultry Nation.

A correspondent of the Michigan Farmer has the following neat piece of 3atire on “wash-day:” Were I a statistician I would try to amuse myself and the public by estimating the number *of people who live for the different days in the week; assuming that teachers live for Saturday, and the country girl, who has a regular beau, for Sunday. The latter is quite apt to develop into one of a class, greater than all the rest, and soon become a woman who lives for Monday. Before the wedding ring is dimmed, she has made her housework the ultima thule of her existence ; each week a circle of triumphs of which the family wash is the grand commencement. This must be large, snowy white, and hung up at an early hour, in some conspicuous place, to proclaim to all who see that she still lives and leads. The pantry may be empty, the house in confusion from the Sunday relaxation, and aching head or back may plead for an easy day, but the claims of ambition and a patriotic loje of the old New England custom, brings out the tubs and suds to triumph over all. What if this does include the gathering together and putting to soak of the clothes on tbe previous day. What if she hears an undertone in the sermon, a chorus to the hymns, ol robes that are not like the angels, and finds a thought of the morrow’s work intruding upon her Sunday’s rest! Her devotion to her wash becomes well understood, and no friend dares to call while it is in progress; while nothing comes so near to breaking her heart as to have a relative display the abominably bad taste of being buried on Monday. Physical aches and mental depression may come upon her; winds and rain descend upon the earth; winter’s cold stand at an appalling degree, but the woman who lives for Monday will wash on that day though the heavens fall.