Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-09-16

VeSg dir your Capital ~. ldAu "I1" AuAA
in debt for more. ss,.ss .se tA
I'd. Hire money to stock your farm. G
Sd. Have no faith in your own bus
mess and be always ready to sell out
4th. Buy mean COWS, spawned
horses, poor oxen, and cheap tools.
9Th. Feed bog hay and mouldy corn
to stock exclusively, in order to keep
your stock tame. Fiery cattle are
terrible hard on old, rickety wagons
and plows.
9th. Use the oil Of walnut freely
whenever your oxen need strength. 1t
is cheaper than hay or meal, keeps the
hair lively and pounds out all the
grubs.
7th. Select such calves for stock as
the butcher shuns; beauties Of runts,
thin in the hams, and -bellied, but
be sure and keep their blood thin with
scanty herbagc. Animals are safest
to breed from, that haven't strength to
breed. .s53g.E3
9Th. Be cautious in the manufacture
Of manures. It makes the fields look
black and mournful about planting
time, besides it is great deal Of work
to haul it.
9th. Never waste time in setting out
fruit and shade trees. Fruit and
leaves rotting around place make it
unhealthy. aR
10th. Never pay a debt except at
the end of an execution.
The road to poor farming, though
large, y Travelled, is not we'll understood,
and these landmarks are thrown up for
the common benefit. j H.
!. PRESERVING SWEET PoTAToEs.-A
c correspondent Of the Gennesee Farmer
tells how he preserves sweet potatoes,
t thus In the fall collect from the road
t the dust that has been formed of a mix
ture Of sand and clay, and dry it thor
oughly, by either placing it on a plat
' form in the sun or in kiln. Now
! take an old barrel, put in thin layer
e of potatoes deep only-then an
, other of sand, SO as to completely COW
4 err them, &C., until your barrel is filled,
if you happen to have enough to do it.
Keep the barrels, after being filled, in
dry place until frosty weather, then
: remove them to your kitchen loft, where
n they can have the benefit of the fire
e below to keep them from freezing, and
e also from becoming damp, either of
t which causes them to rot Immediately.
Now, if you can keep ''Bridget'' from
digging them all out and roasting them,
you will have them sound and lively the
: first of May. Indeed, we have kept
: them whole year in this manner, and
t have practiced it with uniform success
t for number of years. s ~
DIARRnGA is a very common disease
G in summer time. Cholera is nothing
t more than exag gerated diarrhea when
q man dies Of diarrhea, he has died of
cholera, in reality. 1t may be well
f for travellers to know the first, the II ost
: important, and the most indispensable
item in the arrest and cure Of looseness
Of the bowels is absolute quietude, on
bed. Natute herself always prompts
this, by indisciplining us to locomotion.
t he next thing is to eat nothing but
common rice parched like coffee, and
] then boiled, and taken with little salt
and butter. Drink little or no liquid
: Of any kind. Bits Of ice may be ca.
ten and swallowed at will. Every step
in diarrhea, every spoonful of liquid,
only aggravates the disease. If loco
motion is compulsory, the misfortune
: of the necessity may be lessenel by
having a stout piece Of wooden flannel
bound tightly around the abdomen, so
e as to be doubled in front and kept we'll
in its place. In the practice of many
. years, we have never failed to notice a
gratifying result to follow these obser-
r yations.-Dr. wv. Hall. 81 IA
THE HONEY BEE IN CALIFORNIA.
There is something peculiarly strange
!, in the honey bee in Californla--some.
thing worthy Of note by the naturalist.
, In other States a single swarm from a
single hive is considered satisfactory !;
but here, after a swarm has sent out
one, two, or three swarms, the children
in the first hive send forth other broods
,, again, thus giving in a single season,
grand saUarnss !; this, now, is almost
a universal theory, and is wonderful.
We know Of some cases almost too
remarkable TO be received with cred
ence: yet we can show the collection.
, We know one party, who commenced
the present year, with seventeen
swarms, who now has twenty. eight.
We know anethor person who COM
menced with twenty one, that now has
one hundred and sixteen swarms.-
California Farmer.
! THE ULTnIATUM OF 1NrEMpERANcE.
NO man and no woman is safe, who
has once formed the fatal habit Of look
ing to drink for solace, or cheerfulness,
Or comfort. While the world goes we'll
they will likely be temperate /; but the
habit is built; the railroad to destruc-
ton is cut ready for use, the rails are
laid down, the station houses erected,
and the train is on the line waiting on
ly for the locomotive it comes to us.
it grapples US, and away we go in mo-
ment, down the line we have been years
constructing, like fash of lightning,
to tho deuce. Charles Reade.
The GROUP. The Journal Of Health
says:-- - H- 90
sWhan a child Is taken with the