Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1884 — AGRICULTURAL. [ARTICLE]

AGRICULTURAL.

To bemove warts on liors -s, take apiece of concentrated lye as Large sa . walnut, put it into a bottle v.ath r».ia water enough to dissolve it and apply with a feather. An Illinois correspondent states that experience has taught him tliat cattle, will thrive bettor on good, bright flax straw than on oat or wheat straw, and he never knew cattle to be injured from, eating it. In selecting potato seed two things: should be kept in maid; first, plant only such seed as may be expected to produce smooth, fair-sized potatoes; second, plant only when the seed is in full vigor. — A. W. Cheever. Basswood trees arc urged for planting by the roadside, as they serve the double purpose of attractive shade and abundant forage for bees. They also make excellent timber whenever it be- • comes desirable to fell them. One of the best disinfectants, says the Poultry Bulletin, is Condy’s fluid, which is made by putting one ounce of potass, permanganate in a pint of cold water. For use, one ounce of this fluid should be added to half a pint of water. The cause of club-root in cabbage is claimed by a German experimenter, Woronin, to be a parasitic vegetable, which lives and feeds on the healthy tissue of different cruciferous plants. All weeds of that order (producing pods, like turnips, mustard, radish, etc.) should be eradicated while land is being rested preparatory to a renewal of cabbage-growing. f l The Indiana Farmer says the Ben Davis apple is so poorly flavored that even the coddling moth generally passes it by for some better variety, and the consequence is that but few of these apples are wormy, and, being of high color and handsome shape, they are a very popular apple at the city fruit stands, where they outsell other kinds about two to one on the average.

Trefoil is said to be extensivelyused in England for alternate husbands? ry, but it is reported not suitable for permanent pasture mixtures, except in very small quantities. A writer states that this plant is well deserving of cultivation on light, dry and high, elevated inferior soils, and on such will yield a greater bulk of herbage than any of the , cultivated clovers. It is highly nutritious, and eaten with avid'ty by cattle. From the great depths to which ita roots penetrate, it is not liable to be injured by drought,and is thereby enabled 1 to retain its verdure after the grasses and other plants are burnt up, a fact worthy of notice by Western farmers. Farmers who burn green wood arefl probably not aware of the waste of heat. J The sap uses up—that is, carries off in " a latent state —a very large portion of the heat produced by its carbon, or ita j dry material. As much man and team! power is required to haul three or four I cords of green wood as for six or eight I cords of dry wood. The lesson is: cut £ the fuel and split it as finely as it is to be used, in the grove; haul it home! when well dried, and keep it in a dry 1 place for use. It will be worth far more I for heating purposes than if burned green, or wet, or damp even. The only * exception to this advice is, when by reason of easier hauling on snow, and on account of the leisure of men and teams in winter, it may be expedient to haul home the green wood then; but in <i.ll cases let it & well dried before it is used. To stop a colt from pulling back on his halter in the stall, take a sufficiently long piece of half-inch rope. Put the center of it under the tail like a crupper, cross the rope on the back, and tiei the two ends together in front of the breast, snugly, so there is no slack, : otherwise it would drop down on the tail. Put an ordinary halter on (a good i one), and run the halter strap, or rope, through a ring in the manger or front ! of the stall, and tie it fast in the rope ! on the front of the breast; then slap his face and let him fly back. He will ! not choke or need telling to stop pulling i back. Let him wear this nwhile, and twice or thrice daily scare him back as ! suddenly and forcibly as After one or two trials,he cannot be induced j i to pull back.— Chicago Evening Jour- 1 ; nal.

Baked Bbans.—Soak a pint of beans over night; in the morning boil till tender with a half pound of salt pork; 1 season with salt and pepper; remove I to a baking pan and bake until brown. 1 Baud Oxiows.—Waah but do not peel the onions; boil an hour in salt waiter, changing the watartwlce. When tender law in U baking pan and bake an hour and a bw. £tervd with malted | _ __