FACTS FOB FARMERS.

Southland Times, Issue 1291, 9 August 1870, Page 3

FACTS FOB FARMERS.

Look to your fences. Defence of the crops is often staked on a single^post. Castor oil is recommended for chicken cholera. Dose— a dessert spoonful to a table spoonful twice a day. Grass around a young fruit tree does as much harm as a tight choker on a boy's neck. A farmer named Earl, of Benton County, lad, had a corn patch of 7000 acres. Cau anybody say his was bigger ? The grain is now fattening 4030 head of cattle. - - Gas tar mingled with whitewash, applied to the interior of a hen-house, ' at the rate of one gill to a pailful, it is said will disperse the lice. Onions are capital food for cattle infected with lice. They give tone to the stomach, and are capital in hot weather: Half a peck given at noon, once a day, will very Boon rid the animals of them. There is a Buckeye mowing-machine belonging to a New Jersey farmer, that within the year has cut 4000 acres of grass and grain with an expense for repairs of 20 dollars. The wisest farmer is he who has the most experience to light his way. The experience of others well noted and applied with discretion may make the young farmer as competent as the old. It is not commonly understood that sheep are the best stock for grain farms. They eat more of the refuse of a grainfarm, and their droppings make* the best manure for the wheat-field. ' [ In England ten thousand men at the present time working at agriculture are producing as much food as twenty thousand men twenty years ago.' $o much" have new applianceaand improved methods accomplished. : ' ' ; The Clinton (Louisiana) Demoerat-zkj* that a resident of that place gathers' a sufficient quantity of teaJeaT.es from, the Chinese tea-plant grown in his garden to more rthan suffice for the requirements of his household. -\. '"' : : "\ A farmer in Ohio had a thrifty orchard .which blossomed freely but bore no fruit. He washed twelve of the trees once, a-week with strong soap suds, and was I gratified by a fair harvest the subsequent season. A housekeeper having sour stone jars in which lard had been kept, made them perfectly sweet by packing them full of fresh soil and letting it remain two or three weeks. It would be equally effective in any case of foul earthen or stoneware.