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Agricultural And Domestic

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Parent Issue
Day
13
Month
September
Year
1878
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Poultry World says, separate the sexes in oíd chickens this montb, while the moulting season lasts. Look for grubs among your peanh trees right away ; at the surface of the ground, or just below it, yon know. Cut up and mixed with soalded meal, "pusley," the Poultry World says, is one of the best of green feeds, especially for young chickens. Fowls may be eaaily caught in daytime by enticing them to the poultry - tiouee and making it dark by hanging a blanket over the window. A pouiiTET keeper who lately applied "grease f rom the frying-pan and sulphur" to the heads of lousy youngr jhickens, soon found the lice gone - and the chickens dead. A Nebbaska f armer reports OOOpounds of bright sugar and 153 gallons of nice sirup from two acres of early sorghum. Se got the sugar by hanging the thick sirup in coffee sacks after it began to granúlate. The farmer who wishes to avoid. an excess of labor, with unprofitablo result, will not spread a small quantity of nanure over a large surface of poor and, but will only plow as much as he can highly manure, when his income will be as large and his labor nearlyoneïalf saved. Cultívate thoroughly if you wish to reap abundantly. Do not waste your means and fritter away your time by raising a erop of noxious weeds with rour cane or cotton or corn. Keep a watchful eye upon the farm and its surroundings. But it does not follow that vou should imbibe " eye-openers" at )ublic houses, beer shops, or corner jroceries. If the farmer improves his farm he mproves his flnancial condition. The more valuable he makes it the more his apital stock is increased, the largerwiil e his returns, and when he dies the arger will be the patrimony he leaves lis family. Fix up the old home, then. 31ean out the fence corners. Destroy ;he noxious weeds. Grub out the hazel nd sassafras. Burn out the stumps. Clean off the logs and stones. Make a )aradise on earth of your farm, for are you not to live on ït wmle you remam on earth, and will not your family live on it when you lie in yonder graveyard ? Plant out good orchards, so that your family may enjoy the good fruit that you had the foresight and energytoprovide for theia. As a flesh-producer, one pound of egg8 is equal to one pound of beef. A hen may be calculated to consume one bushei of corn yearly, and to lay twelve dozen or eighteen pounds of egg3. This is equivalent to saying that three and one-tenth pounds of coin will produce, when fed to a hen, one pound of eggs. A pound of pork, on the contrary, requíres about ñve and one-tenth pounds of corn for its production. When eggs are 24 cents a dozen and pork 10 cents a pound, we have a bushei of corn fed, producing $2 88 worth of eggs and $1.05 of pork. Judging from these facts, eggs must be econoniieal in their production and in their eating, and especislly fit for the liboring man in replacing meat. As a rule, pure-bred sneep are quite too dear to raise for mutton. The fine wools are small ; the long wools furnish too much fat in proportion to lean to be profitable to the consumer. The Southdowns supply fine-grained lean meat, but they have the drawback of being a trifle small. A cross between Southdown rams and merino ewes produces a favorite cl-iss of rams for the Easteru markets. They are hatdy, mature early and strongly display the excellent Southdown points. If these grades or Southdown ewes are crossed with a Cotswold or Lsicester ram the progeny will be large, and the growth rapio, while the flesh will have a choice flavor. To supply early lambs for the butaher this ia probably as good a cross as ccin be made, as there is always a demrjiij for suoh limbs in New "Vork andoftef Eaatern cities at profitable price" About the aon9e To Pbeserve tf HAiB.-Wash it ir cold sage tea. LraiMEr-, __A good iiniment for cutS( bruise e can ma(j6 y goaking corjmon May weed leaves in alcohol. Powdeked borax or alum is jtéoottt mended as an insecticide. A pound oi alum, dissolved in two quarte of boiiing water, and appüed with a brush when quite warm, will drive away nearly al] kinds of vermin. Ivt.- Ivy in this climate will need the proteotion of straw in exposed situations. It requires rich soil - the best your garden affords - with leaf mold and welldecayed manure, and occasionally a little iiquid guano. Mixed Coffees. - Experienee proves that two kinds of coffee mixed make a better beverage than any one quality alone. Thus Java one-half and Mocha one-half mixed make a superior coffee to either singly.- Exchange. Okba and Tomatoes. -Peel and slice Bix ripe tomatoes; take the same aiaonnt of tender-sliced okra and one sliced green pepper; ctew in porcelain f jr twenty or thirty minutes. Seasori with butter and salt and serve. To Keep Cut Roses Fresh.- Roses, camelhas, and all hard-wooded flowers,. Buch as are Uied for head-dresses, button-hole bouquets, etc, may be kept tresh and their beauty preserved by the following plan: Out sterns off at right angles, and apply hoc eealing-wax to the end of the stalk immediately; this prevents the sap from flowing downward, thereby preserving the flower. Pbacu-stains. - I believe the only thinp that wül remove peach-stainsfrom whVce goods is Java water. Get, say, 10 cents worth, lay your garment on a crockery plate or dish anti pour the Java water on it. You must watch it, for it only takes a few minutes to draw the stain out. Wash out immediately in clean water, for if it stands too long it will injure the goods. It is abad planto "make up" the beds immediately alter breakfast. The slceping apartments in a house should be thoroughly aired every day. Beds should be opened every raorning to the snn and to the atmosphere. Do not be in too much hapte to get the chambers iu order. Several hours ahould bc de votedto their ventila tion af ter thenight, Let the sheets and blankets be spread over separate chnirs, the raattresses lift? ed apart, and the pure moruiug ür bo illowed to get into every nook and cr.'.n ay o{ the room before the bods üvímadfi. Better endure a litt+e untidiriesg klan lesa of health,

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Old News
Michigan Argus