Around The Farm

The wool clip in the States for 1875 amounte to nearly 200,000,000 pounds. In 1869 the wool clip amouuted to 160,000,000, anincreaseof 40,000,000 pounds in seven years. To remove warts from the udder of a cow, use the ordinary pyroligneoua acid (wood vinegar). Let the warts be well coated with it three times a day, when they will gradually disappear and leave no discoloration of the skin. If near the teats, sponge them with warm water before milking, and apply the acid af ter. The best time for feiling timber is when the tree contains the least sap, and that is the case in midsummer, and midwiiíter. In genera], all soft woods, such as elm, linie, poplar, and willow, should be felled during winter. Oak, alder, beech, and pine are better cut in summer. It is a well-known fact that clover has the peculiar property of being able to extract from the atmosphere, without the aid of manure or stimulants, nitrogen sufficient for its own proper growth and management. The straw and roots of the clover contain a large amount of nitrogen, and these, wheii plowed down, are therefore as valuable to the next erop sown as a copious supply of guano. A.CCOBDING toTïochard, a French veterinary surgeon, a simple method of preventiug flies from annoying horses consista in paiiiting the iuside of the ears, or any other part especially troublert, with a few drops of empyreumatic oil of jtiniper. It is said the odor of this substance is unendurabie to nies, and that they will keep at a distance from the part so anointed. Bule to Measure Wheat, Shelled Corn, etc. - Take four-flfths of the cubic feet of grain for bushels. Example : Take a box that is flve feet in the clear every -way : = 100 bushels. This rule" gives 2,150 cubie inches to the bushei, instead of 2,1504-10, i. e., 9 6-10 too much, or nearly half a liusheltoo much in one hundred bushels. If the grain has been shaken down in the bin or box a due addition to the measurement must be made for the same, as it will consolídate by being shaken. The wolves and cayotes are becoming so numerous and bold in some parts of Colorado as to attack and kill full grown cattle, such attentions having heretofore heen. reserved for young or sick stock, and hunters aie tronhled bv fiavofpR breaking into their campa and stealing everything. they can lay hold of, in one instauce pulling a shoe from under a sleeper's head and devouring it. Oxbn should be well fed, and well carded every day, to bring them into good condition for spriug work. A weak animal will soon give out under the flrst hot suns of spring. A bull may be made to at least earn his íeed. He will be more tractable and more trustworthy for it. A buil had better do much of the hauling and odd jobs'of the farm, than to be tied up to fret and become savage. The dairy interest is an immense one in the United States. The annual butter erop amounts to in the neighborhood of $500,000,000. Add to this the priee paid for milk and the snm realized from the cheese, and we have an aggregate which is startling. An interest so vast should not be neglected. The consumption of butter ulereases with the improvement of the dairy cow. The finer the quality of the butter the better it is relished and the more of it is eaten. The ma.n who labors to improve the dairy animal deserves the warmest gratitude. Water for Cows. - Dr. Crafts, of Binghampton, N. Y. , said to the Vermont Dairymen's Association that cows prefer warm water to cold, and therefore often pass by a stream of pure water and drink in pools of snvface water. Mr, H&wley referred to the ability of cows to sift out bad matter from their food, so that the same food affeets the inilk of different cows differently, but there is no safety in feeding bad food or water. Rotten potatoes are bad for cows, the putrefactivo germs in them often remaining uudeveloped until they come in contact with the air in the milk. Dr. Crafts said that water which is covSïéd wit.li groen slime, frog spittle, is not staguant, and that, as a general rule, it was safe to drink water iu which frogs live. Dukinö the leisure hours at this season of the year it is a good plan to make boxo3 say twelve inches square and eight inches high, without bottom or top ; these placed over the cueumber or melon hills and covered with grasa gives an impetus to the plants early in the season that nothing short of a hot bed will effect. If very early, place a little fresh manure around thesd boxes to keep the concentn warm. It is astonishing what an effect this simple contrivanee will produce ; and not ouly is it valuable for protection from the colt weather, but it i? equally valuable as a irotection from melon bugs and bth'ór pwdatory insects that seetn to watch for our ciioicest esculents. - New York Tribune.