The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-01-09
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

SALsoDA will bleach very white; one
rood spoonful is enough for Kettle of
clothes
TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED clusters of
grapes We're borne on single vine in Cali
iornla, this year. Their aggregate weight
was over thousand pounds
w. G. FLAee, Secretary of the Illinois
horticultural Society, reports six thousand
five hundred quarts of strawberries Crown
upon half an acre of ground-at the rate
OF four hundred and six bushels to the
acre.
KILLING POULTRY-Them mode followed
by all dealers is to break the neck. This
method has the following advantages !:
Death Is very speedy it is Clearly and
less revolving; and it is certain the bird
eats better than when all the blood is
drained. The manner is thus: The bird
is taken by the legs and wings in the left
hand, while the head is held in the right
the body and neck being stretched to their
extreme length; the head is then bent
backwards and pulled at the same time.
DEDICATION takes place, and the body is
held In the same position two or three
minutes for the blood to run into the neck.
Then, and not before, plucking should
begin.-Poultry Chronicle
How MUcH.-How much better ia
your farm than it was one year ago9 How
much better are your implements How
much more lovely have you made your
home by the planting Of trees and shrubs?
How much have you added to the value of
your property by the planting of orchard
trees and small fruits? How much better
is your stock of horses, of sheep, of cat
tles How much of error have you discov-
cred in your mode of treatment of the diff.
ferent crops you have crowns How
much have you learned from your neigh.
oors, from your agricultural papers, from
your experience in relation to your farm
operations How much have YOU done
TO aid your wife and daughters in their
household duties by furnishing them with
improved household utensils and the better
location and arrangement of wells, cisterns.
walks, wood piles, cellars aud dairy-rooms
how much OF kindness and charity have
you exercised toward the needy and helm.
less How much better husband, father.
brother, man are you than you were one
year ago? Now is the time to reflect upo,
all these things.-Prairie Farmer.
How TO Cur Up Hoes HEAp.-savs
correspondent of the Germantown Tsle
graph: 81 lay it on its side and take off
the jowl, or lower jaw l then saw down
across the face just above the eyes; am
careful to run into the eye-sockets, and on
through, leaving the eye balls with the
snout end, SO that there is no further
trouble with gouging the eyes out of the
face piece; then without further separating
OF the parts, starting between the ears, saw
up and downwards, not caring to extend
further down towards the snout than t. the
sawmark across the face, but clean through
at the other end. Now, having done with
the ears for handles, cut them off, then
take out the brains for picking, skin the
snout, and take off the flesh for scrapple.
and throw the nasal organs away. The
faces are to be corned use a saw. but
never an ak, in cutting up hog; conse-
quently the meat IS clear of splinters and
chips of bones in "chining hog" to
cool, [ saw down The ribs. instead of hack.
ing them with Ratchet. A small-sized
hog hook, flattened, answers very well for
taking off the hoofs and toe nails of porker,
or you may use pair of pincers."