Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1879 — AGRICULTURAL [ARTICLE]

AGRICULTURAL

Michigan is shipping the largest crop of peaches since 1875. Give your hogs a rubbing-post in seems to afford them much satisfaction. Greeley was one of the superior class of city agricultural editofa. Once a countryman inquired of him whether fc® put guano on bis potato**!. He replied that he preferred butter or gravy. Just before the Judge of the Police Court passed sentence ne was stopped by the prisoner, who remarked; ‘*You remind me of the crops, Judge.” Why?” asked his Honor, “Yon are looking fine,” was the response. The Court didn’t belie his looks. The Westchester Republican has this : “A plum tree on the property of John J. Parker, in West Goshen township, is joined at the root by a peach tree, which is making good progress, and does not interfere with the other trees’ growth.” T The digestion of a horse is governed by the same laws as that of a man, and, we know that it is not best for a man to go at hard work the moment a hearty meal is eaten, so we should remember that a horse ought to have a little rest after his meal, while the stomach is most active in the process of digestion. Many a good horse has been ruined by injudicious haste in working him with a full stomach. We venture the assertion that the man who takes sufficient care of his stock from their infancy till ready for the market, providing for their proper and necessary feed and shelter m the varying seasons to keep them always growing, healthy and thrifty, that his profits wHI be 25 to 50 per cent greater than those of his neighbor on similar stock which receives the ordinary care given by the average farmer. Carrots seem to have some peculiar effects on the health of horses, render ing the skin, especially glossy aud healthy looking. For milch cows carrots are valuable for the golden tinge and richness which they impart to the butter. They are also more nourishing for cows tbau turnips are. In feeding carrots, care should be taken that the pieces are not cut in such a shape as to choke the animal. Gut large carrots lengthwise, not — - Sheep’s pelts can be tawed and not tanned. Tawing is done by scraping the flesh side of the pelt clean from all flesh or fat, then sprinkling it with a mixture of finely powdered alum ami salt in equal parte. Two skins are then laid with the flesh sides together, or a single one doubled lengthwise and rolled up for a week or ten days; then opened, scraped and washed and rubbed dry with a piece of chalk, and worked and pulled until the skin is soft. A good remedy for lice on cattle is water in which potatoes were boiled. For every one of your cattle take two quarts of water and eight middle-sized potatoes.cut in half. If you have ten cattle you must take eighty potatoes and twenty quarts of water. . When the potatoes are soft take them out. Get a large sponge and bathe them freely on a warm day. .Comb them with & curry-comb, and you will be astonished to see the effects of the potato water. On the subject of keepiug eggs the following has been contributed to a country paper : “I would say that the eggs could be kept the year round. Pack them in a box with oats (ends down), and nail a cover on nicely when full; tnen take another h(M four inches larger each way, put about two inches of plaster in the bottom of this box'and fill all around and on to£ with plaster; then put a cover on this dox and put away in a cool place. 'Turn the box each alternate day.”