The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-09-14

| A BIT Of soap rubbed on the hinges Of Q
door will prevent their creaking. =
OAr STRAW is best for the filing of beds,
; and it is well to change it as often as once
| in year.
CEDAR CHESTS are the best to keep fan
I neis aud clothes, as moths are never found
in them. Red cedar chips are good to keep
in drawers, closets, wardrobes, trunks, &C.,
| TO keep our moths.
Hops should be picked when they are full
grown and begin to be fragrant; by no
means let them remain longer, as strong
wind or rain will injure them greatly.
Spread them awhile to dry.
SIR JouN sEBRIGur strongly opposes con-
tinuous and close INTERPRETING. He tried
many experiments on different kinds of
animals in all of which injurious results
followed protracted in -andin breeding.
FEED Indian meal to my young chicks
five times day, aud have not had case Of
gapes in the last six years. Impure water
am inclined to think, is the principal cause
Of this disorder. Indian meal is most as
suredly innocent Of the charge. Cor. Coun-
try Gentleman.
SrEUBES county correspondent Of the
Genesee Iarmer says that he cured three
year old heifer of sucking herself by
snearing the teats night and morning with
soft grease, and then busting them thorough
ly with pulverzed cayenne pepper. The
applications were continued about week,
and perfect cure was effected.
A mop G1owER in New York has made ex-
periments with poles seven feet high, con-
nected with Irvine, which showed that this
was better method than to use the long
poles. He finds i; much cheaper, and had
a yield one-third greater. The plan is now
in now in very general and successful use
in Sank county, Wisconsin.
Every farmer should keep on hand sup
ply Of copper wire. and small pieces Of
sheet copper or copper straps. Copper wire
is better than annealed iron wire it is
almost as flexible az Irvine, and may be bent
and twisted as desired; and it will not rust.
copper straps nailed across or around q
fracture or split in any wooden article, will
strengthen it in q thorough manner.
A CORRESPONDENT Of the Americqn Agri-
culturist suggests asa CONVENE Mt holder,
a barrel with both heads knocked out and
few nails driven in one end. The open end
Of the bag is hung over these nails. When
the bag is filled, the barrel may be lifted
off. Many grain bags are too small to be
fastened to opposite sides of barrel.
Hooks extendns some inches from one side
Of the barrel would remedy this trouble.
THE oil of pennyroyal will drive off the
tleas; but cheaper method, where the
herb flourishes, is to throw your dogs and
cats into q decoction Of it once week.
Now the herb and scatter it in the beds of
no MIN anti I houn -
done for many years in succession. Where
the herb cannot be got. the oil may be pro-
cured. In this case, saturate strings with
it and tie them around the necks Of dogs
and cats, pour little on the back and about
the ears of hogs, which you can do while
they are feeding without touching them.
ACTIVE MANURE.-One Of the most active
manures, and readily within the reach Of
most farmers, is mixture of leached ashes,
plaster, and night soil mixed with fine soil.
Let them be thoroughly worked over on
smooth spot, and allowed to stand week
before using, working it over every other
day, and you have a most valuable manure
at q trifing cost of time. A handful of
this mixture in hill is excellent to give
corn start. Potatoes and garden vegeta-
bles generally feel it very quick. Hen ma
nure Is al eAcelient ingredient IN sucn ma
nnras. hut it should be well Stacked with
water before mixing with other substances.
| --Ndine Farmer.
| A HoRsE's HooF SEVERED FROM Hrs
LIMB.-Two weeks ago team belonging 20
Mr.. Eben McGilvra, of Greenfield, took
fright, pulled up the post to which it was
hitched. and ran. One of the horses caught
hind foot on something, supposed to be
the post, as it was dragging, and tore his
hoof entirely off, The hoof, as severed, is
complete and sound, with the shoe still on.
The horse fell down instantly, and the blood
spirited freely from the bare stump. Mr..
NJ. bound it up in tar with cloths, and the
next day the horse was up and feeding in
the pasture We do not remember to have
ever heard Of similar incident. -Baraboo
Wis., Independent.