Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-06-15

Rod giving milk skinned after
twelve hours, once a day; in one week omit
the new milk, and give only skinned milk.
Ashley advance in age, the milk may be al.
lowed to stand q longer time before skim
ming. Instead Of giving meal and turning
out to pasture, as is usually practicedl pre-
fer keeping them in q large stable, allowing
them TO run, and feeding all the fine rowen,
or nice clover hay they will eat, with
skinned milk, OF whey, for drink, until
they are Eve months old. If the stock is
good, my word for il, you will have calves
worth showing.
MoDE OF CHECKING THE RAvAGEs OF THE
Army WoRM.-A mar having had some ex-
p~erienee With these pests, gives the following
plan for checking their Roadway and killing
them:
As they commonly 90 in abreast-say they
attack your fields on the West run two or
three burrows with the pillow, North and
South, making the ditch nearly p~erpendicu-
lar on the east side, let the dust dry on the,
sides, SO after the worm gets in and attempts
TO crawl out, the dust will GIVE, way and
they will fall back-then scatter straw in
the ditch, and in the heat of the day set the
straw on FIRE, and If you find that some get
across the ditch, start a roller on the east
side and keep it running all day. You can,
also, ltt IN your CulChtusy lulht1S hhu nOBo
upon such crops as they will not injure and
lift is necessary, fll your ditch with straw
again, and turn all your attention to the
worms till you get them stopped.
VALUABLE HINTS on SmNeLING Roors.-
Edward Emerson, of Mass, thus gives
in the Ne,C England Fdrmer, some hints
upon shingling roofs, A correspondent asks,
"What will make shingles last longer2'
T-rn,4,- 4Iroa 40 re -. Il fo,,pI I bo1 nr,ffn
a lot Of refuse shingles on hand, both sap
by and shakey, and l laid them on the back
kitchen and ~wood-shed. l have just ex-
amined them, and think they will last at
least seven years longer. The building
has not leaked, to my knowledge, L
soaked these shingles in a very thin white
wash, made with brine instead of clear
water. There has been nothing done to
them since, although l have no doubt that
to have whitewashed, or served a coat of
dry-slaked lime or fine salt once in two or
three years on them, would have been of
| great advantage to them.
As | shiDgle differently from almost
every one else, l will give you my method,
and my reasons for it. However wide the
shingles may be, i do not allow the nails to
be put more than two inches apart. Red-
Son-If your shingles are wet or green, aud
the wide ones are nailed at the edges, the
shingles must split, or one of the nails must
draw when the shingle shrinks. If the
single is dry, it must huff or crowd the
nail out when it swells. Thus your nails
are kept in constant motion by every
shrink or swell of the single, till they are
broken, pulled out, or the single is split. 1
do not want the nails drove quite in, or so
as to sink the head. RedsoR-The heads of
the nails hold up the butts of the next row
of shingles, and give the air a free circu-
lation.
1 lay all my shingles in w~hitewash, 1
prefer brine for making it. l line with
red chalk. l then whitewash the last
course laid down, to the line, and after the
building is shingled l whitewash the
whole Of the roof. Reqson-To make the
shingles last twice as long as they would
without the whitewash, and | consider it
much better than just whitewashing the
roof after ~shingling.
Carpenters often object to Singing in
this way, as it is rather dirty work, and
declare they know it does not do any
good-that it is just as good to whitewash
after shingling, &c.
WATERING PLANTs.-As a rule, water
should never be given until the further
Withholding of it would be detrimental to
the plants. Habitual watering does, in the
majority of cases, more harm than good.
Plants left TO battle with drouth, send their
roots deep down in search of moisture, and
when rain does come they benefit more by
it than those that have had regular water
ings all along. If the ground is dug
deeply and kept in good heart, plants that
have once got established will bear drouth
for any length of time, but things lately
planted, and that have not had time to "get
hold must be kept supplied, or their
beauty may vanish for half the season.
Succulent vegetables, too, which ought to
be kept growing quick, must have abund-
ance, and, Of course, plants in pots must,
of necessity, have sufficient. There are
two important points to be attended to in
giving water one is to expose the water to
the sun before using it, to render it soft and
warm, and the other is to give it a thorough
soaking at once, sufficient to keep the
ground moist a week. Surprising the sup
ply to be limited, but regular, the best way
of econimizing both water and time is t.
take the garden piece by piece, watering
each piece thoroughly every evening, and
then beginning again as at first.
MODE OF CONSTRUCTING IcE-HoUsEs.-
"Common Sense" writing to the Rural Re
gister, on this topic says: IL frequently
notice in the public papers, inquiries ant
answers as to show an ice-house should b,
built'-many of the replies are no doub
very good and quite scientific, but do not,
think, meet the wishes of q majority o
those who seek the information. 'Doubl
walls y fIlad in with chareoal saw-dust n
confined air, &c, are well enough for tn
rich, but are too costly for those in moder-
ate circumstances. Now it seems to mi
that if we put our common sense to work
a plan may be devised, that would com
within the reach of all, "a consummatiol
deyoutly to be wished Suppose we alte
the question and ask, "What it is the bes
plan to preserve ice q for this is all tina
we need to effect; the answer would b
plain, viz protect it from the heat. How
in what manner2 Why in the same man
ner that you would keep a heated bricl
warm when sleigh-riding, or preserve
lump of ice when you have no r~efrigerato
wrap it up flannel, or any other non-con
Quoting surrounding for the ice almOs
any house or place will answer, and so ia
as the preservation of the ice is concerned
it will make no difference whether tn
house be in or out of the ground, but tn
ice should be kept dry and well surrounde
with dry saw-dust, spent tan-bark, pin
shayings, leaves, straw, or any other mate
rial that is a bad conductor any of thes
would TO a great extent keep the cold il
and the heat out" f
ADVANCE IN THE PRICE OF SHIP-TiNBRI