The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-08-31


Harvest hands get 81 day in Ma
rion county, Iowa, and reaping ma
chimes get 81 an acre for cutting.
Less skill is required to make whis-
ky than vinegar. In Germany they
have vinegar school. where the stu
dents graduate in four months.
The term "spare rib" as applied to
the rib of hog, is of English origin.
The custom there of cutting the sides of
a hog lengthwise into "fiitches," close
to the ribs, leaves the ribs very sparely
supplied with meat; hence the term.
Elephants must do we'll on the
Western prairies. for all our parasol
handles, billiard balls, and fine-tooth
combs are made of iUOry that comes
from Illinois.
%. Aylworth, Fabius, n. Y, wrote
to the New York Farmers Club that a
teaspoonfull of turpentine placed in a
barrel of water will kill the wigglers
which hatch into mosquitoes.
In the forks of a large elm tree at
Amherst, Mass, eight or nine feet from
the ground, a currant bush is growing
thriItily, on which are several punches
of ripe currants.
-1nS GJCNCUtUtC american Is dSSuItu
by one OF its subscribers that he has
frequently had his hands and face
poisoned when turning the so called
"California rosewood"
Il. Lindley, of ConuellsYille, Fay
cite county, Pa, says that his father
always kept on hand picked pork as a
preventive of fague, while families which
did not have supply had the disease.
There are now in the State of New
York more than 500 cheese factories,
using the milk of over 100000 cows.
From Herkimer county alone, lS,l72,-
9l3 pounds of cheese were shipped last
yenr.
The Kankekee uI.) Gazette says
there are nine thousand acres of fax in
that county this year. It's growth of
straw is said to be unusually large.
This crop is found TO be remunerative
TO the farmer. The Kankakee fax mill
ex poets TO use up the product of these
nine thousand acres this year.
Near Kalamazoo, Mich, a load OF
hay aud wagon were burned and the
team fatally injured, in II singular man
ner. The hay was being taken from
the farm, aud was fired, either pur-
pOsely or accidentally, by two men who
passed in u buggy, smoking. The hre
spread so rapidly that the horses could
not be released. Tho loss is about 5000.
rus property OelOhSeu " HAi' % -
Balch.
Corn has fallen, in Texas, from two
dollars to seventy-tive cents bushel.
One paper even reports that new corn
can be engaged at twenty-five cents a
bushel.
C. w. Howe, Mt. Vision, New
York, assures the New York Farmers
Club that he has not known the follow
ing prescription to fail of curing botsin
u single case for over thirty years: One
pint of lard II little above milk-warm
and poured down n horse.
"A contributor to the farmers Id
VertiSeT says that by feeding young colts
II considerable amount OF grain, in con-
junction with hay and other light arti-
Cles of food, they thrive better and their
limbs become better knit than when
fed on light food. II proper supply
of food be withheld while an animal Is
young, 1t will be Injured in its consti-
tuition, and consequently In its valne,
to a far greater extent than any saving
can effect in its feed.
"A correspondent of the Maine Far
TteT' says, "many housewife may be
glad to know, when she has piece of
fresh meat she wishes to keep u few
days, that IL can be successfully done
by placing it in a dish and covering 1t
with buttermilk. l have practised the
plan for years."
AT an exhibition of meat recently
held at Nantz, France, butcher ex-
posed a mare, twenty-seveu months
old, weighing 40 kilos., and horse,
thirteen years old, Weighing 520 kilos
these animals had been fattened for the
table, and were covered with garlands.
The members of the Acclimatization
Society awarded the butcher a silver
medal and fifty francs in money.