HINTS FOR FARMERS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2111, 29 November 1880, Page 4

HINTS FOR FARMERS.

•Sows Fabbowihg. that sows about to farrow should have plenty .of sulphur for several days previously. They . should also have sulphur administered to them ■ occasionally afterwards. Woßna IK Hobsbs.—" Half a cup of pure hard wood ashes finely sifted and mixed with the mash,” is recommended by a correspondent of “ The Rural New Yorker,” as a sure cure for worms in horses—repeating the dose after a day or two if-necessary. ■Lies ok Akimaia.—Colonel F. D. Curtis, a well-known American stockholder, recommends the following mixture to kill lice on animals.:—“Melt hog’s lard, or any hot .grease, and in it dissolve salt one-third the balk of the grease.; take as much grease as will berequired to smear the animal all over, and into the mixture pour kerosene oil and .stir it up. Two gills of the kerosene would be sufficient fer a oow of ordinary size. One application completely cures the most stubborn ease of Hue on an old -hog. It leaves the •kin smooth and.clean, removing the scurf and healing the irritation caused by the parasites. It is also excellent for galls and sores. ” Do not allow your milk pans to be used for «11 sorts of household uses. Yon cannot make sweet, fine butter if the milk is put into vasty old tins. There is no way (says the "American Dairyman”) that watecr can be more profitably fed to a cow than to mix it with her food. What is called “ slopping” a oow is of prime value in milk production. Nothing about the dairy pays better than the labour required for mixing up a cow’s food for her, and tho more •water you get into her this way the better.