Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1859 — Farmer’s Department. [ARTICLE]

Farmer’s Department.

CONDUCTED BY AN AGRICULTURIST.

Hint* to Farmers, Toads are the best protection of cabbage against lice. Sulphur is valuable in preserving grapes etc,, from insects. Of feeding corn, sixty pounds ground go as far as one hundred in the kernel. Corn-meal should never be ground very ■ fine, as it injures the richness of it. Turnips of small size contain more nutritious matter in proportion, than large ones. Rats and other vermin are kept away from grain by the sprnkling of garlic when packing the sheaves. Money expended in drying land, or otherwise, will be returned with ample interest. To cure scratches on" horses, wash their legs with warm soap-suds, and then with beef brine—two applications will cure the worst cases. j Tim er, when cut in the spring, aniTex-| posed to the weather with the bark on, decays much sooner than if cut in the fall.