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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1893-8-24, Page 7-4 ' Cherryect r raI xis equal for the prompt relief and:; peedycttreOfCQ•ids, Coughs, Croup, Hoarseness, Loss of Voice, Preacher Sore Throat, Asthma, Bronchitis, La Grippe, and o .der derangements of the throat acid funs. The best known cough -cure in the world, it is recommended by eminent physicians; and is; the favorite preparation with singers, actors, preach rsandteachers. It soothes the inflamed membrane, loosens the phlegm, stops coughing;, and induces repose. AYER'S Berg pectoral .i,iten for consumption, in its early - ages, checks further pro tress of disease, and even in the later iges, it eases the distressing ugh and promotes refreshing ep. It is agreeable to the taste, ,.xis but small doses, and does •t interfere with digestion or any .' the regular organic functions. s an emergency medicine, every .household should be provided with Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. "l aviag used Ayer's Cherry Pec- toral in my family for many years, I can Confidently recommend it for all the conaploints it is claimed to cure, Its sale is increasing yearly with me, and my customers think this prepa- ration has no equal as a cough cure.' -- S. W. Parent, Queensbury, N.B. .> Y R' Cherry Pectoral Prepared by Dr. 3. C. Ayer .0 Co.. Lowell. Mass.gg Sold by all nru,sts, Yriee$r.; six bottles, $g, 'c"ornpt to act, sure to Mare T HEEZITER TI1 ES. IrwubiisnoileveryTliursdaymornn;, e: T! (IESTf 5 AM PRINTING HOUSE Weill-street,ue:ulyopposite Vit tea's Jewelery bun 0,4:se ter, 0ut•,bpJohn Wnitt u 6sus,i'ry urieters. n&1E Qi" envtuvriatx0 First? nsertion,per .t;se .......................10 emits 'Soda tbsoilueatiusertion eier line Scents. 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I enjoyed walking through Ma forty acres of wheat and comparing the ed'ects of fertil- izers, both home -mule and commercial. This This wheat proinises a yield of 2d or 39 bushels per acre. The seer) used was re= cleaned, and the ground put in the best possible shape and sown early (the first few days of September). He thinks one bushel of seed per acre is about right, and the ways this crop stands on the ground it seems to be all that. is reeuirod to produce a maximum yield, Another interesting part of this wheat field was a spot where a barn had formerly stood. • W:'ere the floor and bay had been the wheat was very vigorous, anda dark green color, 1S here the stable floor had been, and also where the manure from the stable had been thrown in heaps, there was not a spear of wbeat growing, not even ti weed. There had been a feed lot conneeted with this barn; in this the droppings, straw and stalks, were allowed to accumulate during the Winter and spring months. After the feeding season was over the manure would be thrown up in long heaps where it remained until fall, when it was headed on the wheat ground, On this spot there were a few weeds making a sickly ef. fort toward getting a start, but no wheat. Around this lot where the fence had steed the wheat was all right, and several inches higher than the wheat next to it. Can guy one give a reason for this varia- tion? Did the stook tramp the life out of the soil in this lot? If this ie the reason why does not the wheat grow where the stable floor was? If it is because there is an excessive amount of fertility in the soil, wily is it that theree is a very luxuriant growth cf wheat in the fence row, where, necessarily a largo amount of ntauure would collect? The real secret (if there is any) of this man's success, isetayingathome and attend- ing strictly to business. When the time comes to plow, sow or reap, he is ready ; does net have to "briggle" around a day or two getting tools repaired and tinting help. While this farmer has done an immeuse ac t ai I nn of hard f • the labor onfarm it is not t all work and no la withhim. Ho works first ; does not stop Ids work in a busy time to attend a public sale or spend all afternoon loafing around the town. He takes time to nee his lawnmower at the proper time, and to keepthings neat and tid about the hero tidy about farm, \'o brier patches or weedy fence earners are to be seen, neither can you see any farm implements standing where they were used last. They are invariably found under shelter when pct in actual use. There is no man of my aognaintanee who enjoys being at a neighborhood gathering, picnic, fair, or taking, a trip through the west, any better than this one, and he in.. dalgea in these pleasures quite often, but does not neglect his business to do so. I don't suppose this friend will thank me for writing this article. It was not written. to praise or benefit him particularly, but for the benefit of a class of farmers who think there is nothing in farming, and have become discouraged, and are not trying to da anything. Even those that have inherit- ed homes are letting them slip right out of their hands. If tide friend 1 visited can make a farm pay for itself, thousands of others can do the same if they will only try. He lied no better chance than others, but made the most out of what he did have. —[E,A. Trout, in Ohio Farmer. Dairy Notes. Do.not hurry the cows to and from the pasture. Few substances will incorporate foreign and deleterious odors more readily than butter. Do not wean calves too early, Milk is a very digestible food and should be grad- ually replaced by grain when the calves are weaned. Give the milk pails, cans and other dairy utensils frequent sun and air bath after, carefully washing and scalding.. The temperature of dairy rooms can be lowered by sprinkl-ing the floor and walls with water. The evaporation of the water takes up heat, leaving the room cooler. If it is necessary to mix two portions of cream which are ripeniug, mix them thor- oughly by an occasional stirring. If this is not done it will likely be lumpy. Breed has less to do with the quality of butter than the dairy equipment and the buttermaker. A skilled man can make first-class butter from any breed. Have a separate room fo • dairy work on the farm. A cellar which contains fruit, vegetables, etc, is a poor place to keep milk, butter or cheese. All dairy products take up foreign odors readily. Parties who put up ice last Winter are having no trouble in controlling the tem- perature of their milk, cream and butter now. It saves much time and one is usu- ally able to produce a. more uniform pro. duct. Make a first-class and uniform product if you with to work up a trade or bold present customers. A neat package with your name or some brand stenciled on it will enable your customers to fano it. It becomes your trade mark. Itis said that a dairyman who was milk ing a large herd of average cows took five of the best and five of the poorest ones, and keeping an accurate account of the. cost of feed and care, found that while the five good ones were paying a fine profit the other five were actually costing him $7 per head :annually over and above the value of the milk they yielded. Individual test is the only means of ascertaining the profit and loss in the dairy. Colic in Horses. Bulletin No. 25 of the Mississippi Experi— ment Station xperi—ment"Station is devoted entirely to colic in horses and mules, the subject being treated very fully. Veterinarians usually 1ecoggnize but two forms of colic, spasmodic (cramp) and flatulent (wind). ` Inflammation of the bowels is closely allied to spasmodic colic in symptoms as is acute indigestion to flatu- lent colic. These four diseases are the most common ones affecting the digestive System of horses and mules, For the prevention of any disease an intimate knowledge of its causes is essential. Nineteen out of every, twenty caaee of colic may properly be charged to some irregularity in food and water. Sudden changes of temperature, unduly severe' exertion, worms, etc., and feeding'on grabs when Met, accustomed•to ib, are frequent causes of colic q An animal mal from which. hard or fast work is expected should never be allowed to eat green grass, at least very little of, it. Spasmodic Coito is a contraction or st amp of portion of the intestinal walls, due to some irritant. Iudiseretions.in watering or Sadden changes in temperature rosy also cameo the troeble.„The first symptom is the Manifestation of pain. It passea off and the animal appears well again, but after an interval the pain returns with increased severity, As the attaok advances the in- tervals are shorter, The pulse sense very high during thepain but is normal at its cessation. This disease may be distinguish. ed 'from flatulent colic by the absence of large quantities of gas in theiatestines, The be animal is not bloated, It is ,most likely to confounded; with inflammation of the bowels but in the hatter the pain is less severe, es- pedally in the earlier stages, and is con- stant. The pulse''beate slowly, increasing in frequency while in spasmodic colic, as has been stated, the pulse remains nearly normal, except 'during the spasms. Then, too, inittfiacnmatioa of the bowels, the attack is lees sudden and the animal less violent in hie manifestations of pain.. Any of the following: preseriptiona will he found of setvice in spasmodic colic : Chloral by drete, 1 oz; sulphate of atropia, gr ; writer, 1 pint. tOr Sulphuric ether 2 oe ; laudsnum, I a oz ; 'raw linseed oil, S oz ; Or : Laudanum, 2 oz ; oil of turpen- time, i{ oz; raw linseed oil, 8 oz. Mix and give any one of these at one dose and re- peat inan hour if relief hasnot been ob- tained, If colic has been produced by por- tions of indigested food or an irritant of any kind, give a purgative --one ounee of $oeotrino aloes dissolved in warm, not boiling, water; or one to three pints of raw linseed oil. Injections into the rectum are beueteial if properly used. Flatulent colic is recognized by the dis- tention of the intestines resulting from indigestion. It sometimes follows spasmodic collo but often occurs without. The causes are similar to those named for colic in gen- eral but feeding grain immediately before or aftereevere exertion, and large quanti- ties of green food, are liable to cavae the trouble. It is less -sudden in its develop. menta Tile pain is continuous and the pulse gradually increases in frequenoy. The belly becomes enlarged with gas in the intestines, and gives a drum like squad when struck with the hand. The treatment 'is entirely different. Opium in any form must be avoided. The objects sought are the relief of pain, checking the formation of gas and its removal from the iu. testfnes. For the firat two purposes use the following < Chloral hydrate, 1 oz ; hyposulphite of soda, 2 o'r. ; atropia sulphate, 1 r, water, r, 8 oz. Give in 1 d se. If relief is not obtained from this dose and the pain is still severe, it may be repeated in half to one hour. 1f bloating only contin- ues, the hynosulpbite of soda along may be �. gi en, For the removal of gas which collects in the intestines several methods are practiced, Injections into the rectum are valuable and may be repeated every half hour until two or three have been given. An in jection of icor or five ounces of pure glycerine is also of benefit in some eases. But there is no method ea effectual and satisfactory as puncturing the intestines with a small instrument known as the trocar and caning which is made specially for this pnrpoie, The average stock raiser can uae it with comparative safety. Corn Fodder For Shoo. Beginning an a river farm not adapted to the cultivation of oats, and with a large range of rough back land, more suitable for sheep than for cattle, I found myself con- fronted with the problem, how to make the sheep consume the fodder. To my surprise the firat Winter's experience satisfied me, not only that sheep will consume fodder to better advantage than other stock, but that it is better for them than clear Timothy hay ; and to -day, If I bac: cattle and 41icep to feed and had only fodder and Timothy, I would give the fodder to the sheep and the Timothy to the cattle, though, of course, an occasional alternation would be advisable for both. Clear Timothy is sometimes too constipating for sheep, also for cattle ; but the latter can with- atarid its effects with less injury than the fernier, especially where there are pregnant ewes. I regard clear Timothy as the poor- est sheep feed in the whole category, straw excepted, of course—and the benefits of a fodder ration are so marked as a cool- ing and laxative feed, that it is well worth while to let the flock go a little hungry for a few days until they learn to relish it. In a short time even yearlings and lambs will come to like bright green fodder, and will browse it perfectly clean ; cleaner than any other stock possibly can. Now, for the floekmasters in the old hay -growing States of New England, where corn is ill adapted and little grown, the above may seem fool- ishness. But whatever the farmers of the East may think, for those on the prairies and rich bottoms of the Weet, where corn seems more appropriate than any other cereal crop, the matter of feeding its foliage is.a practical one, ani the saving of it may mean the difference between raising corn at a profit and raising it at au absolute loss. The great point is to stack the fodder in the Fall and keep it bright, says a writer in Sheep Breeder. To do this, it mnst be cut, shocked, husked and bound in convenient bundles' with tarred twine—this being the hese material for bands to prevent ratsfrom cutting them. About the last of November or first of December, unless the Fall has been unusually wet, fodder can be ricked without danger of moulding A low.wheeled wagon on a still lower truck, like those in cities, can,be used to advantage in hauling. It is best to make the ricks long for windbreaks -100 feet if desired. Throw down poles to keep the fodder off the ground, then begin and lay a course of bundles -clear around, tips inward, and' the bundles lapping about a third of their length. Then lay a shingle course straight through the middle to keep it full; this will give a downward pitch to the out- side .coarses, shedding the rain. When built up high enough, lay bundles length- ways en th-ways along the middle, sharpened up to re. ceivethe roof. The latter will ,consist of bandies set sloping up steep, like the op- posite sides of a.house roof. If the butts are well thrust'down into the rick and the tops laced together, it will take a hard wind to. blow' them off and they will protect the rick, • Poor Pastures. Good pasturage is essential to successful dairy farming in all sections. On a large proportion of farms these pastures are not, and very many of them cannot be cultivated, and as a'consequence those that are stocked with cows are slowly- being depleted of their original` fertility and brush and weeds take the place of nutritious grasses. A; shorn” tine since the writer passed through a hilly town where sheep raising was formerly ttie leading farming industry, but after.the' collapse of the Merino boom the farmers chinged from sheep raising to dairying and for, the past 10 or 12 ,years cheese making has been {,heir specialty. Fora few years this line of farming wee profitable. The pastures furnished an abundance of feed and the cows gave a' good flow of milk with small cost. But things have changed. Manyof the gesture/3 are now overgrown with weeds and bushes and srodilce but little good` feed, Farmers' are obliged to buy large quantities of grain. to keep up the flow of milk through the, summer months, The grain bill absorbs, the profics and keeps the farmers in financial straits all of the time, The only practi cable way out is to try sheep raising again for a few years. Last spring X turned a. flock of ghee Tato a pasture that was so overrun with weeds find daisies as to furnish but little feed for cattle. Today not a weed or a daisy is to be seen, and the sheep and Iambs which are long wooded, Cotswold and Leicester, have done finely. In two or three year3 T. expect the pasture will be entirely free from weeds and daisies and ready for cattle again. A good flock of cheep well cared for should net the owner at least $4,50 per head in wool and lambs and with special care much more may be realized ;'allowing fifty cents per head for grain would give you a return of four dollars per hoed of cash in hand, In the town referred to the annum average receipts for the milk of the cows at the cheese factory is about $30 per cow and from this must be subtracted the grain feed. flints and Suggestions. Do not negleot to weed turnips. If they have been planted in drill rows the weed- ing can h accomplished with a cultivator. Farm labor seems'to be growing general ly more scarce, and wages higher. This will give the working farzner an opportunity to pay himself better. Good land and good stock are pretty nearly thrown away on a man who has not a natural liking for agrieulture, See that your boy has some aptitude in that direction before you insist upon tying him down to the farm, The farmer who is 's good manager will not be idle all winter because there is moth• ing to do. The system of work should be such that there is something to do, . This winter idleness often destroys the profits of the summer's industry. 1i v ery step in advance, inagrieulture, is the result of experience. An agricultural paper makes the experience of one farmer known tiaall others, and so is a mutual helper; If you do not want to keep up with your brother farmers, then don't take an agricul- tural journal. Secs, tanks, vaults ancompost est hes s -or any one of themwill enable us to cou- serve the hill valise of the manure, Yet most farmers prefer to waste ib in an open barnyard. Every product s011 from rom th farm carries away some amount of fertility. If no sys- tematic effort is made to restore this, you are simply selling the farm by bits instead of doingit at a lump. The time as which manure is applied to the land is of much less importance than that the land gets it all. Delay in applying it usually means waste. It is a good advantage to keep ahead of your wont, especially when harvesting late fall crops. To be caught by a storm at this season usually means some loss. Farmers whose tables are well supplied with fruit and vegetables have few doctor's bills to pay. This consideration alone should induce you to have a garden and orchard, if nothing else will do. 'Unless the corn crib is rat proof, it will hardly pay to hold your grainfor higher prices. When you figure on h olding corn and wheat fora better market, take both shrink- age and insurance into con sideration. Jumping from one crop to another in at- tempting to follow the market and grow the one that pays best, usually results in keeping you just a yeat behind, The best time to star t in the cultivation of a new crop is when the price for it is low. Then you won't be disappointed in the market, and will have .a good chance of getting in for a rise. Make changes in your system of farming with due deliberation. Don't get excited if there is a boom in some particular line Those who come in iter the boom is start- ed usually sutler. Field Notes. Ventilate the vegetable cellar at night so it will h cooled by the night air and keep it closed during the day. Cellars need ventilation and should be kept as cool as possible. Dig potatoes as soon a the vines have died and store them in a cool cellar or elsewhere until the air grows cooler outside this Autumn, when they are best taken out and buried. Do not risk having grain stand in the shock too long. There are a number o l; 1 small wastes which constantly go on and which will, in a short time, aggregate more than the dost of stacking. Growth of plants is direat`sy proportionate to the supply of nutriment furnished them. Do not neglect to haul out all of the manure which has accumulated: It will help next year's crops. Many weeds will be destroyed before they have matured seed: if mowed new. Clean them out of all waste places, such as old stack yards, orchards, along road sides,etc. It will save future trouble. Plow as much stubble land as possible in Autumn. It is well to begin it as soon as harvestis past and the ground is wet enough. It will help along the work for next Spring. and will keep many weeds from ripening seed. , Give clover a prominent place in systems of rotation. It adds touch of fertility to the soil and is especially valuable as a food for stock either as hay or pasture. It has the peculiar property of gathering nitrogen from the air. A good cistern with a proper filter is a great convenience on the farm. It furnish- es good soft water for laundry and toilet uses, and is pure and healthful to drink also. Where it is difficult to obtain water for, stock, a large cistern at the barn may help in solving the water problem. Work on, country roads will soon begin. Let us rememifer the good resolutions made. dursng the past Winter, lay .outpractical methods of improving the roads under the, varied conditions, and work them out. Now is the time to ,show you are in earnest about the matter. . If ragweeds are growing in pastures in great profusion as is so common in many sections,, they can be mowed at this: time to good advantage. They wi11not be nearly so plentiful the following year, and if the mowing is repeated a few seasons it will practically exterminate them. A (lase for Sympathy. Witherby--" You haven't seen my new boy, have you? They say he,takes 'after his father." 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Street, late 623, Oxford Street, London. sar Purchasers should look to the Label on the Boxes and Pots.i,, If the address is not 533, Oxford Street, London, they are spurious. I1 LATE FOREIGN NEWS. Signor Eduardo Luchini of Florence, re- cently a member of the Italian Parliament, and a jurist and political economist of some reputation, is about to visit this country. Signor Luchini is a warm admirer of Ameri- ean institutions. Two members of the Italian Chamber of Deputies had a fist fight on the floor of the chamber two weeks ago. The trouble be- gan in an altercation. Then one Deputy threw a roll of papers ae the other striking himin thefacea d fewseconds after n a s s they were clinched on the floor. Their friends had great trouble separating them, and after the sitting was over the combat- ants sent seconds to each other. Hamburg has prohibited the entry of Russian emigrants into the territory of the city, and the police are instructed not to allow any Russian emigrants who may ar- rive at the Hamburg frontier by road, rail or water to enter Hamburg territory, even though they may be provided with tickets for their journey: and means to carry them on their way. 'Travellers from Russia with cabin tickets are not affected by the order. Dr. Haffkine has inoculated over 200 persons at Simla for cholera,including many medical men, high officials, and ladies. Several native Indian States have taken up his system of inoculation, and it is used at Agra, Delhi, and Lucknow, In oue British regiment over 400 men have been inoculat. ed. Among a party of pilgrims who arrived at the Troitzo-Sergievski Monastery in St. Petersburg recently was a hale and hearty man of 113 years of age. He bad tramped. the whole distance from Luga, some eighty- five miles, and showed no weariness, while many of his more youthful companions were much distressed by the journey, His age was properly attested by baptismal papers he carried with him. Home rule for Norway was advanced an important step some two weeks, ago, when. the Oldesthing, the Second Chamber of the Storthing, adopted, by 47 against 36 votes, a bill providing that the flag used by Nor- wegian merchant vessels, revenue cutters, and mail steamers, as well as the flag hoist- ed on public buildings, shall 'henceforth be the plain Norwegian flag, without any em- blem of the union with Sweden. An epidemic of suicide 125.0 prevailed in Buda=Pesch and other Hungarian towns lately. In Buda -Pesch alone seven suicides occurred in one day some two weeks ago. The number of cabesaf insanity is also, in- creasing so rapidly that ' the hodpitals and asylums are crowded. Physicians ascribe' both phenomena to the scarcity of pure wine since the phylloxera, in consequence of. whfbh the people drink a made-upliquid compowed of substances pernioiouss to brain. Baron von Bauer, Austrian Minister of War, said at a sitting of the Budget Com- mittee of the Austrian delegation the other day, that the present condition of society did not permit of the abolition of duelling. He did not approve of duels in principle, but many classes of the population would not, in the event of the abolition of duel- ling, adopt any less forcible method of set- tling their differences, but world have re- course to "rougher means, the fist, the stick or the revolver. In his opinion there was nothing to be said against an officer who might decline to fight a duel, but he recommended those opposed to duelling to avoid the society of those by whom they might be insulted, and to take care not to offend others. Teaching Chivas to Drink. There are jest two things required in teaching the little calf how to drink, the first is a little common sense, tate second is lots of patience. The common senna comes in when you consider that its nature is to look up for its food supply,andif you touch. the top of its head or nose, you must expect its tendency will be to follow up that dir• ection,to find what it is after. Don't think a calf a day or two old could have a great amount of experience, so don't expect it to show very much reasoning power. You must do that for them. When your pati ence begins to waver just ask yourself how much more you knew when you were at the ealf's age, gad it may help you to credit the calf with just a little sense, and you will be able to overlook a good deal that you might otherwise attribute to pure m sse:1ness. During the summer, say from June until September, once or twice each month, ] . spprinkle sulphur on the tattles' backs, Whether it praveuts the depositing of the egg that develops into grub, or whether it destroys it after being deposited, I do not know ; but this I do know, that with 20 headnow in my stable, there are but two that have any grubs,`. and these two are heifers that ran with the sheep last Beeson and did nob get the sulphur treatment, Try it. Aged Prisoners, the Indian alar e proportion In jailsg P Portion of the prisoners are very old nien. In the prison at Moolten there were last year 17 life prisoners whose total ages �vere.found to . amont to more than 1100 years—two of them being patriarchs of upwaads a 80. This fact is attributed partly to the great improvements in the economy' of Indian jails, ,s nee the exposure of their mismanage- ment some yearsago,'but moredirectly to the prevalent practice when it extme lute been committed of .handing ov.ctlte least useful member of the famfl as i>Sort of vivacious offering to ;ustice.