Orleans Independent Standard

Items for Farmers.

For The Farmer's Boy. - The best inheritance that people can leave their children, is the ability to help themselves. This is better than a hundred thousand dollars apiece. In any trouble or difficulty, they will have two excellent servants ready, in the shape of their two hands. Those who can do nothing, and have to be waited on, are helpless, and easily disheartened at the misfortunes of life. Those who are active and hardy meet troubles with a cheerful face, and soon surmount them. Let young people therefore, learn to do as many different things as possible.

Every farmer's boy should know how sooner or later -

1. To dress himself, black his own shoes, cut his brother's hair, wind up a watch, sew on a button, make a bed, and keep all his clothes in perfect order.

2. To harness a horse, grease a wagon and drive a team.

3. To carve and wait on the dinner table.

4. To milk the cows, shear the sheep, and dress a veal or mutton.

5. To reckon money, and keep accounts accurately, and according to good book-keeping rules.

6. To write a neat, appropriate, briefly expressed business letter, in a good hand, and fold to subscribe it properly.

7. To plow, sow grain and grass seed, drive a mowing machine, swing a scythe, build a stack and a load of hay.

8. To put up a package, build up a fire, whitewash a wall, mend broken tools, and regulate a clock.

There are many other things which would render boys more useful to themselves and others - these are merely a specimen. But the young man who can do all these things well, and who is ready at all times to assist others, will command far more respect and esteem than if he knew merely how to drive fast horses, smoke cigars, play cards, and talk nonsense to foolish young ladies at parties. - Ex.

Every farmer and gardener should make an effort to raise their own seeds. Turnip, cabbage, beet, parsnip, carrot, lettuce, and all the garden seeds can be raised at a very small expense, and then there would be no uncertainty in regard to purity or quality. Now is the time to set them out. From the cabbage, beet and turnip, an occasional "mess of greens" may be obtained that will prove very acceptable.

At the latter part of the season, the cows will need some nice bites at morning and night. These can be supplied in no way so cheap as from the patch of fodder corn. Put in half an acre and try it.

The Editor of the Gardener's Monthly says the ravages of the apple-tree borer may be prevented by simply scraping away the earth from the trunks of the trees till the roots are bare, and keeping them so all the year round.

Here is an item to demonstrate the value of deep plowing. A farmer in Cutchogue, Long Island, plowed up 61 silver spoons, which weighed 183 ounces. He might have plowed shallow and missed the spoons. Go deep, in the right soil, and you will be sure of getting silver by and by. It may be in spoons or gold, just as you choose when you sell the crop.

Well Said. - The "measure worm is stripping the foliage from shade trees in all our principal cities, and substituting its filthy webs. The Philadelphia Ledger rightly says in behalf the birds, which do more than any other agency, if left alone, to exterminate this vermin: "It ought to be the endeavor of the press to urge farmers to preserve birds and prosecute all trespassers who shoot them. A farm should be as sacred in this respect as a private residence in our city."

Baked Beans Without Pork. - Excellent in taste, easily digested, good for dyspeptics, free from swinish flavors. Soak a quart of beans in water over night, draw the water away, boil in clean water until soft, put in a baking dish with a lump of butter the size of an egg, salt and pepper, and bake as usual.

If this recipe, which is from a French paper, be true, it is worth to every man twice the amount of his subscription. - Take the paper if you want to know what is going on.

Rancid Butter. - To make rancid butter sweet, beat two pounds of it in a sufficient quantity of water, in which drop thirty drops of chloride of lime, and after washing it well, let it stand about two hours in water: strain it off, and wash it again in fresh water, and it will be fresh and sweet.

Glanders. - The following paragraph occurs in Dr. Dadd's new book on the horse: -

"Whoever undertakes to attempt the cure of this awful malady must remember he is running a great risk of losing his own life, for the absorption of the least particle of the virus will cause death in one of the most horrible of all forms: and many cases are on record going to slow that whole families have been destroyed by absorbing the glandered virus."