Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1880 — HOME, FARM AND GARDEN. [ARTICLE]

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

v CT noGjte, i I b£2£&. If timto 96 with f*t MttleJ J ta>An mot Sa milk, whose bones mwamhimm the »urf*oe? mltterSwnyoOTdweSSg? T Treatment for Stifle Lameness xv Horses.— Take one or two tablespoonfuls of raw (t. & before it is boiled) linseed-oil and rob it over the stifle-joint thoroughly; then bathe or heat it in with a hot shovel or iron; if it does not get well in three or four days repeat it., ~ > Canker-worms often change the bearing year of whole orchards, greatly to tie owner’s benefit; they are easily destroyed with Paris green when no longer wanted. Cultivation, manuring ana proper pruning will insure a crop from many varieties of apples nearly every yenr. ■,> Warms often advocate a change of food for cows, because human beings get tired of one kind of food. Our experience says Land and Home, is that the only ohange oows like is from poor to rioh food, as from hay to oorn-meal, or fresh grass. ♦? Changes in any other way always require several days to get the oows to eating freely. A German gardener has found by experience that black or green flies, caterpillars', etc., are at once destroyed by syringing the plants affected by them with water in which the stems of the tomato plant have been well boiled. The liquor is applied when cold, and net onlv kills the insects, but leaves an odor which prevents others from coming. German chemists claim to have proven that a change of the quality of a cow's food does not change th 9 quality of her milk. This seems good philosophy. as it would 'greatly Burt the calf if toe quality of the milk changed every time the oow got hold pf a new kind of food. Tet many of our best dairymen say the amount of cream is ereatly affected by a change of food from poor to rich. Horn - afl is quite oommon among cattle in the spring, and is at first, by a dry nose and loss of appetite.. A simple remedy, yet one which is very often effective, is to grasp the hide on the back firmly, and, by pulling it up, loosen it the whole length of the Dackbone. Sometimes there will be a cracking, but no harm will be done, and the animal will show signs of improvement surprisingly soon after the operation. Cure fob Roup. —An agricultural writer says: Last fall I had two cocks affected; the first one was almost choked to death when I found him, a hard, cheesy substance having formed in the windpipe. I had saved the lives of others by taking it out with the point of a scissors. In this case I took a piece of writing paper, made a funnel the size of a child’s finger, opened the cock’s bleak and another person blew a half teaspoonful of sulphur down his throat. We put him out, I supposed, to die, but he did not, and after the third dose he could crow as loudly as ever. Carrot Plum Pudding.— Quarter pound flour and aq much of suet. For carrotp, do not take the long ones, seleot the more tender short ones; grate fine the same quantity of raw carrot; use a quarter of a pound of white pulverized sugar, same of currants and of raisins; grate in a third of a nntmeg, and add a very little cloves; nflx all these ingredients well up together; if it be too stiff, add a very little milk, but generally there is water enough in the carrots to hold the mixture together; tie up in a light cloth and boil for six hours. If properly managed, this pudding makes a very handsome appearance at table. Eat with a hard sauce. If spermaceti is dropped on any garment, or furniture, first carefully scrape off all that can be removed without Injury .to the material; then lay brown paper over the spot, or a piece of blotting paper, and pat a warm iron on the paper until the oil shows through. Continue to renew the paper and apply the warm iron until the paper Snows no mote oiL Oils, grease, wax, tar, vegetable or animal Juices, resinous matter, such as pitch or tar, iron and ink spots, ai*e difficult* to remove completely, but ink and iron-mold the most so of all. Whenever much writing is done In a house, and children have free access to the writing desk, books, papers and the carpet are most likely to hear the marks of misrule, but the injury is not irreparable. In regard to the nse of hen manure and the health of poultry, D. N. Kern, in the Practical Farmer , gives his management, which is well worth copying: ** I clean my poultry houses every Saturday morning. In one house I have eleven head, ,in another twentynine head and in the third house fortyeight head—in all, eighty head, and the droppings from them weigh forty-four pounds every week. During the months of July, August and September, I had 100 head. As soon as I nave my poultry houses cleaned, I take the manure and spread it over my wheat field, or on a poor spot in mv meadow, and you can take my word that a man with one eye can see where I put it. To put manure in a box or barrel and keep it pne year before it is put to a crop, I think is a wrong way. What would you think of a man who had SIOO ready to put out at interest, but would .keep it a year before he put It outs My opinion .is, the sooner you give your hen manure to the needy soil, the sooner yon get the profit from it Hot long ago I visited a certain man and to my astonishment 1 saw about two tons of hen manure lying in his large poultry house. Ho wonder the chicken cholera comes around.”