FACTS FOR FARMERS.

Waikato Times, Volume 355, Issue VII, 22 August 1874, Page 2

FACTS FOR FARMERS.

A pint of iron filings placed around an apple tiee on "which are dead spots, make an excellent remedy Apple trees require iron in about the same proportion as the human system, the effect is much the same. When the soil becomes exhausted of iron the trees begin to decay. Give the poultry plenty of maize and clean water, make it a rule always to have some lying about, so that the fowls may see there is plenty. No other plan yields so may eggs or so many fat chickens when they are wanted. Soft messes make the birds sleepy and slovenly in their habits, and engender more than half the diseabe which ravaged the poultry houses before maize was plentiful. Place them in a large kettle, filled with ashes and about one peck of lime to a barrel of bones. Cover with water and boil. In twenty-four hours all the bones, with the exception, perhaps of hard shin bones, will become so much softened as to be easily pulverised by hand. They will not be in pai*ticles of bone, but in a pasty condition, and in excellent form to mix with muck, loam, or ashes. By boiling the shin bones ten or twelve hours longer, they will also become soft. This is an easy and cheap method of reducing bones. If the farmer will set aside a cask for the reception of bones in some convenient place, and throw all that are found on the farm into it, especially if one or two dead horses came into his posession, he will be likely to find a -large collection at the end of the year, which would prove a valuable adjunct to the manure heap. A correspondent of the New Yotk Tribune writes : I transcribe and send you a recipe for the cure of fistula, or pole evil, in hprses. I have used it in two instances, with great success ; 40 grains iodine, 20 drops oil of cedar, 30 drops oil of sassafras, 50 drops spirits turpentine, one ounce gum euphorbium, onehalf ounce Spanish flies ; cut the iodine with alcohol ; mix altogether, then stir in hog's lard to the desired thickness. Then cut away the hair over the swelling with a sharp sci.ssorsfor some inches around, even if it haa gone into a running ulcov, and spread the

aalvc with a small mop. Every st&ond or third day wash off clean with strong soap suds, and repeat the application. A permanent cure may be expected in a hhort time, unless the treatment has been too long deferred.