Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1893 — HOME AND THE FARM. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOME AND THE FARM.

People call it backache and do nothin! tor it until the doctor is called and he pro* Bounces it rheumatism. It they had used Salvation Oil in time the doctor’s bill could have been saved. On the shield of Achilles, described by Homer, were represented the earth, the sky, the sea, the sun, the moon, all the constellations, two cities with crowds filling the forums and armies besieging a town, besides battles, single combats, rural scenes, pictures of home life, dances, cattle herding, lion and bull fighting and a vast variety of mythological subjects.

Btate or Ohio. City or Toledo, 1 Lucas Cochtt, f **• Fbane J. Cheney mak.s oath tha t he is tie senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney A Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall'b Catarrh Cube. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1886, , A. W. GLEASON, ■j seal, j- Notary Public.

Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts direotly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY <fc CO., Toledo, O. US-Sold by druggists, 75c. Paprika is a trifle stronger than white pepper, and while it has not the biting quality of cayenne has a more exquisite flavor than either when used in cookings Cure for Colds, Fevers and General Debility, Small Bile Beana 25c. per bottle. In bleaching, linen loses one-third its weight, cotton, one-twentieth. FOB THROAT DISEASES AND COUGHS use Brown’s Bronchial Troches. Like all really good things, they are imitated. The genuine are sold only in boxes.

A DEPARTMENT MADE UP FOR OUR RURAL FRIENDS. An Ideal Farm Wagon—Kerosene Emulsion for Sheep Sealk-Value of Fertilizers In the Orchard—Matters of Interest to the Dairyman. An Improved Farm Wagon. A correspondent of the Rural New Yorker gives an illustrated description of a farm wagon which he considers an ideal. The front wheels are three feet two inches, the rear four feet high. The axles are of 2-inch round steel bent to right ankle cranks at the wheels. The cranks are eight inches and are held in horizontal position by spiral springs adjustably connected with the wagon body, front of the wheels, allowing the body to be lowered eight Inches, the length of the cranks.

The wagon body rests directly on the axle close to the crapks on boxes in which the axle roils in response to tension placed on the springs by the load or draft. The sides of the body are fully strengthened against lateral pressure by the fenders, which also furnish additional width increasing the capacity of the box or body. Truss rods prevent the sagging of the center of the body. The side openings are closed by boards cut to lit and secured in place by springs. To remove the hoards, press the springs and raise them. He says, you will see many advantages at a glance. The spiral springs are very light, carry the load very steadily and act as spring whiffletrees in starting a load. The cranks are perfect equalizers, as when one wheel meets an obstruction the spring at the opposite wheel shares the resistance The wagon, though light (900 pounds) has carried over 200 loads of from 2,000 to 3,000 pounds. No bolster or reach is needed. It may be cheaply built and it is certainly a pleasure to use it, for when loaded it is only eighteen inches from.the ground. It is wholly of my own construction except the wheels. The woodwork I made and put together during leisure hours, and I also made the patterns for the irous, which a blacksmith made and put togetbes under my supervision.

Sheep Scab Cured. Kerosene qmulsion has been found by the South Dakota Experiment Station to be an effective remedy for sheep scab. The scab is caused by a small mite. This insect is very hard to kill as is shown bv the fact that two specimens put in a solution 93 per cent alcohol showed signs of life lor nine and fourteen minutes respectively. The emulsion was made by dissolving ten pounds of hard soap in twenty gallons of soft water heated to the boiling point, after which five gallons of kerosene were added. The mixture was then pumped briskly through a spraying pump into the vessel. The violent agitation caused the materials to emulsify in about five minutes. After standing a few minutes the kerosene about a pint in all, rose to the top of the emulsion and was taken off. The emulsion was diluted by the addition of fortyfive gallons of water, making about 7 per cent, of kerosene in the solution. Care was taken not to dip the sheen while free oil was floating on the surface. Seven sheep was dipped. The animals were in all stages of affection by the scab, some almost naked from its effects and barely able to walk. Although the sheep dried off slowly not the slightest damage was done the wool, in fact the emulsion seemed to have cleansing properties. On examination twenty-four hours after dipping, the sheep showed no live mites. Two days after the first dipping one of the worst infested animals was examined closely with a pocket microscope and only one live mite was found. The cost of the dip is not large. Flowering: Bulbs for the Window. Freesias. Hayacinths, Tulips. Bermuda Lilies, and Callas are the favor-' ite bulbs for window culture, and they will amply repay in beautiful and fragrant bloom all the trouble and expense they make. Some of the other bulbs, not so well known as those named, are iully as desirable and, in some situations do better. The Alliums are of this class. They will grow and blossom under most unfavorable conditions, simply requiring a moderate amount of heat, air, water, and light. Calochortus or Butterfly tulips are not so well known for window culture as some other bulbs, but they are grand flowers for the window, retaining their beauty for a long period. The varieties of Narcissus, especially Polyanthus (Paper white) and Poeticus (Poet’s narcissus) are desirable bulbs for window culture.

A well-known, but often forgotten, point in bulb, culture is that after potting the bulbs should be placed in a cool, dark closet or cellar to root; jvhen the top begins to show through the soil or from out the point of the bulb, it may be brought to the light and gradually he given more heat until it comes into full bloom. The better rooted the bulb before being brought into the light and heat, the better will be its flowers. While most bulbs are planted and potted during September and October, one may pot during Nouember, aud, if proper care be given, feel quite sure of having an abundance of bloom during the late winter months. Of Interest to JDairy >nell *' There are three special lines of dairying, and from these it will generally pay the dairyman to choose some one and follow it steadily, rather than to combine the different branches, says Hoard’s Dairyman. The three divisions are: The retail trade or shipment of milk, the manufacture of butter and the manufacture of cheese. The cow that is the best for one of these is not the best for the other two, and, consequently, the stock should be selected in the first place with particular reference to the branch of business that is to be followed. The man who has a

specially good butter herd cannot afford to furnish' milk to a cheese factory, nor to ship his product to a city to be sold with low grade milk from all sources. Find out what you want to do before you begin to build your herd, and then follow that impose steadily, and you will be apt to come out all right Changes In Sheep Husbandry. It is well to contrast the present status of our sheep industry with what it was a few years ago. and then to consider the causes that led to the changes which have so readily and timely given a relief to the depressed situation. If the signs of the times are properly read, the next few years will witness the most important changes in the financial and social side of the agricultural question in this country. If the small farmers with a few sheep can obtain satisfactory results, as they do now, m competition with the large farmers they will hold on to their land, if perhaps a lew acres, and stop the absorption of small holdings Dy the larger landowners. This competing of small farms of the East with the virgin soils of the West in general farming, in the production of corn and wheat, is impossible. This unequal contest has resulted disastrously, but with the central, controiing markets at the very door of the Eastern farmer he can compete in special products like mutton.

Handy Door Chock. A door check is a blessing in every house, especially where there are small children who so often get their hands and feet bruised by the accidental shutting of a door. This check, as shown in Farm and Home, prevents it. Ais the main piece, which should be made of any kind of iron and must be screwed to the lower corner of the door. Bis the spring that presses down the shank G against the floor and prevents the

door from going shut,. Dis the lifting knob that fits in the shank C and is used to put it in or out us use. E is a stub made of rubber that fits into the lower end of C and presses against the floor. The entire mechanism is covered by the oval piece A. The knob D works through the slot in A and the piece E is pushed out at the lower end. Fertilizers for Orchards. A bulletin issued bv the Agricultural College of Michigan treats the subject of fertilizers for orchards as follows: “As a fertilizer we have made use of unleached wood ashes. On most soils no other fertilizer need be used for a number of years, but on light or exhausted soils the application of perhaps twenty loads of decomposed stable manure, or, if this cannot be obtained, of fifty pounds nitrate of soda and 200 pounds of fine ground bone per acre which, with 100 bushels of ashes, will make a complete fertilizer. In case the fresh ashes cannot be obtained, two or three times the quantity mentioned of leached ashes would nave a marked effect. Wood ashes would have a tendency to solidify and compact the soil, hence they are excellent on light land, but care should be taken not to use them to excess on heavy soils. Sell on Old Stock. The Indiana Farmersays: “Farmers do not retain animals after the period of profitable use is passed from any special affection, but, simply because they do not recognize the fact that they are on the down grade. Go into the barns and fields of men whe are thoroughly successful stock-raisers, and you will find mainly young animals; very rarely any that are much passed their prime. On the other hand, look over the stock of men who think that live stock does not pay, and you will eften see the reason plainly written in the too great age to which animals are kept.

How Clover Dries Soil. Any one who has broken up a clover ley for summer fallow in early June knows that on hard or stony soil the land quickly becomes unplowable except by putting a new point on the plow every day, and often every halfday. The great amount of moisture which exhales from an acre of growing clover is the reason for this. Cut the clover, and at least a ton of water would exhale from it in twenty-four hours. But the wilting which follows cutting is really a Drevetitive of evaporation, as it closes the pores through which moisture escapes from the living plant. Dairy Notes. Develop the dairy hu’l by feeding just as you seek to develop the heifer. The fastest way to make money in the dairy, is to keep always weeding out the poor cows. Three beef animals can be grown and disposed of while one butter animal is being fully developed. White specks in butter may be caused by allowing the cream to stand exposed to the air without stirring it Don’t forget to give the cows access to good shade; if there is none in the field make a shed for them to gc under. A dairy lesson, and often a bitter one, is to see ooe's neighbor making a third more butter in a year and with fewer cows than oneself. Breeding, care, feeding. These things tip ,th< scale.

Poultry Pickings. Never fatten breeding fowls. A cement floor is good for the poul try house. Keep fresh water oefore your fowl! constantly. Sunflower seeds promote lay in; and good health.