Farm Items

M. P. O. asks for a recipe for "whitewa -h for out-of-door purposes to 6taixl the weather." For one barrel oí wosh, tuke half a bushei of white linie, three peeks hydraulic cement, ten pounda oclive, onepound venetian red, oae-fourth pound lampblack. ■ Slake the lime, cut the lampblack with vinegat'; mix well together; add the cement and fill the barrel with water. Let it stand twelve hoursbefqro using, iuid stir frequent! y white putting it on. I believe that many farmers are detened irom making an asparagus bed because oí the direction so often giveu "to trench two spades deep" und to goto other needless labor. Spade or I plow as you would for any ordinary garden erop. Mako the soit rich with fine manure, and after the first year a surface dressing will suflice. The plant food will and the roots or the root3 will íind the food. Do not plant down in the cold subsoil as directed, butset tho crowns of one-ytarold roots three or four inches below ïlie burface. Two feet by three in beda and three by four for field culture is close enough for plants. Keep out the weeds, and the second year will furnish good cutting. - R., Esslx Co., N. J. Limo is most effective when applied to land in the Fall, as it is more soluble in cold water than in warm. lts efïects are to furnish .plant food for the crops, to decompose organic matter that muy exist in the soil, to act as a sol vent of mineral plant food in the soil, to neutralizo mjnrious and noxiou.s acida and compounds that may exist in the land, to loosen heavy clay land, and to niake looso sandy soil.s more compact. As lime serves all these pui-poses it is one of the i most valuable fertilizini iiients the farmer can use. The quantity used is ! trom 30 to "0 bushels per acre. The prevalence of thedisease known as distemper seems to indicate that it ' is cpizootic and due to some prevaili ing cause, perhapa the severity of the weather, followed by unusual mildI ness. The disorder is not serious. t The amnialsshould bekent warm and ; the atables clean and well ventilated. . Warm bran ninshes, wifch half an : ounce of pro jnd cinger and a dram ol ■ c.hlorate of potasn, daily given in thf mash, will be all the treatment that : is required. It tho cough is trouble. soine and thethroat is tender on pres' uure apply warm mustard paste to the skin f rom the jaws downward.