Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1878 — HOME, FIRM AND GARDEN. [ARTICLE]

HOME, FIRM AND GARDEN.

—Botts, says the Canadian Fanner, cannot be killed in the stomach of a horse —Nearly every farm is now leaking, ft is in the shape of implements lying around the fields rotting in the winos and rains of heaven.— lowa State Register. • —A French chemist asserts that if tea be ground like coffee, immediately before hot water is poured upon It, it wrtt yield neiuly fioublb the amount of •vA earelessly-tejft coffee-pot will impart a rank flavor to the strongest, infusion of the best’Java. Wash the cdffee-pot thoroughly every day, Aid twice a week.boil borax and water in it for fifteen minutes. —A sheep’s front teeth the first year are eight in number, appearing all of a size. Second year tw,o middle ones are shed but and replaced by two muc{| larger than the others. . Third year two very small pries appear—one on either side of the eight. At the end of the fourth year there arc six large teeph. Six years all begin to show wear—dot till then. —W. J. F. tells the Country Gentleman that some of our best farmers Intend to sow only four or five pecks of, wheat per acre. Their idea is to grade< the wheat, selecting all the large grains. This, they think, will give as good a seeding as two bushels sown in the usual way. Using some concentrated manure where the young plants can get it, will cause them to “ stool” and cover the whole ground. —ln speaking of the necessity of land drainage, Mr. Mechi says: “ The want of a hole in the great agricultural plantpot, during the last wet winter, has caused many an agricultural purse to be only half-filled. How strange it is that no farmer would have a plant-pot in his green-house or home without hole In the bottom, while the same individual often does not consider one to be necessary in the big plant-pot outside.” —Corn-stalks are no longer to be considered as a waste product, good for nothing but to be trodden under foot. They are worth fully the cost of putting in the crop, if saved well and cured. When cut at the right time, and well cured, $6 a ton is, by many, considered a reasonable estimate of their value for feed, when hay is worth $lO per ton. Careful experiments place well-cured corn-stalks as worth about three-fifths as much as hay.—American —One of our horses had tender feet forward and was very lame. Mr. Van Guysing, who happened to be at the shop while we were getting him shod, advised having shoes put on without calks. “Get the foot as near the ground as possible, so that a horse can step on to Nature’! calks, the frogs,” said he, “ and the horse will go all right” Old Jim has not been lame since this valuable advice was practically carried out Another horse had been lame a year; one.blacksmith after Another had tried his skill, but all in vain. At last a shrewd fellow suggested that the animal had been shod too much. “ These artists,” he said, “havecut her feet all away.” This was not literally true, but each one had pared and cut until the naturally large feet were reduced almost to the quick. By preventing any more cutting away of the feet this animal was cured.— Rural New Yorker.