HINTS FOR FARMERS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2183, 23 February 1881, Page 4

HINTS FOR FARMERS.

Look to the Dairy Utensils.—Do not allow your milk-pans to be used for all sorts of household uses. You cannot make sweet fine butter if the milk is put into rusty old tins.

To Get Rid of Rats.—An inventive American filled a small tarletan sack with a spoonful of cayenne pepper, and tacked it over a rat hole. When the rat bounced out hie eyes were peppered by the sifting from the shaken sack. Ho squealed like a pig and escaped. Tho whole tribe has since migrated. Selection of a Bull.—He should be of a moderate size, coupled with as much fineness of bone and limb as is consistent with vigor and energy, together with fulness of carcass and ripeness of points. In addition to these let him be of as pare blood and of as long ancestry as possible, and for the dairy of the beat milk or butter stock.

An ordinary farm waggon should be greased very well every Monday morning. A springwaggon should be greased after it has run forty or fifty miles, while a light carriage, being driven faster and having less surface or room for tho grease, should be greased when it has run thirty miles or so, always wiping the spindles clean and bright before applying the grease. For carriages only use castoroil, and but a few drops to each spindle, bet for heavy business or farm waggons, use the common axle grease. DivertiSed farming is good for the farmer as well as for the land. It gives him something to do all the year round, and keeps his mind from settling into one groove. Copper is useful to the farmer in many ways : os rivets for repairing harness ; as wire for binding handles of splintered tools, &3., it is invaluable, for it never rusts, and is as flexible as twine ; as copper straps for repairing springs, shafts and spokes, and other things, it will constantly be called for.

When any too], harness, waggon, or anything else breaks do not wait till you need it for use before repairing it, but get it mended at once. If a horse loses a shoe do not wait till he becomes lame, but have it set immediately. Use petroleum as a preservative of all exposed woodwork and tools. It is very cheap, and penetrates the pores. It is good for all wood buildings, good for gates, farm waggons, rakes and forks, and for all rustic work exposed to weather. It will pay its cost back again at least 1000 per cent. On rainy days examine your mowers and reapers, aod all other machinery of a similar character; clear off all the grease on the axles which has been hardened with dost, and put all in good running order. Kerosene applied to such parts will enable you to clean them easily.