The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-01-23
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How TO CLEAN TIN.-NeYer use I've to
clean tin, 1t will soon spoil it. Make it
clean with suds, and rub with " hitting, and
it will look well and last longer.
The STRAwBEHBY.-Theo only fruit that
grows in every climate, is the strawberry.
1t is the only fruit which somewhere on
earth is picked every day the year round.
How MUCH BUTTER writer in an
exchange says that two quarts of cream Is
q fair average for one pound of butter,
though many cows will furnish an article
requiring much less to make pound.
AVERAGE QUANTITY OF M1LK.-At the
late meeting OF the milk producers who
supply the Boston market, it was stated by
one of the gentlemen that nine quarts per
day for nihe months in the year, which
was his usual time for milking cows. was
fair average production of milk.
ALL soils upon which clover aud grass
grew must contain lime, either naturally
or by artificial application. II makes
very little essential difference whether
this is added as limestone, shell lime, Or
mari.
RENDERING Doors WATER RooF.-
The Irish Farmers Gazette gives the fol-
lowing recipe for this purpose: Boil one
duuAt VI llASCCQ Oil. VIII lldll q pcuuu
Venice turpentine, with which paint the
leather frequently while warm, but not
hot, till the leather will absorb no more.
POULTRY MANURE.-The productive
power of the droppings of the henery are
very great as compared with ordinary
barn yard manure, yet many farmers, with
score or two OF fowls, take little or no
pains to preserve and apply it to the pur-
poses of vegetable production. 1t is
an excellent dressing tor gardens, and
will repay, hundred fold, the care and
expense of preserving and applying it.
OATS FOR STocK.-An old farmer in
forms us that after an experience of forty
years. he finds no food go good to keep cat
tie in good heart, and especially for COWS
and sheep when coming in, "a scalded oats
He says that the calves and lambs will be
healthy and active, and that the loss of his
lambsis of rare occurrence. This is worthy
of note.-Maine Fdrmer
PEAS FOR SToCK.-A good many intel
ligent farmers in the States of New York
and Vermont are beginning to fall into
the Canadian pea practice-feeding stock
on peas and vines, and fattening pork on
peas-fnding saving of thirty to fifty
per cent. in doing so, besides quick and
easy method of maintaining maximum
COAuitiOu vi LII tuclE lduQ, WlLuOuL
expending half their income for expen-
sive mercantile fertilizers.
RICE CRoQUETTEs.-Take one pound of
rice, and boil it dry, adding salt to taste
while cooking when done add one pint
of milk, quarter of a pound of butter,
quarter of aspound of sugar, the yolks OF
FIVE eggs, and the grated rind of one
lemon; let the mixture simmer over the
Fl 70 h7yf Mt hnjJ f,arf fu
spread it on large platter to cooi; when
cold cut i'll strips; dip In the white of
the eggs well beaten, and then in bread
crumbs, and fry brown in very hot lard
Ploug1anaan.
THE question how much wheat does it
take to make barrel of flour is often
asked, and the answer is of general char
acter, five bushels are allowed" at the
annual fair of the Dubuque county Towa)
Agricultural Society in 1857, premium
of three dollars was offered for the best
barrel Of flour made from winter wheat,
and also made from spring wheat. A firm
entered one barrel each, accompanied
with the statement that sixteen bushels of
winter wheat yielded three barrels and
one hundred and three pounds of flour
at the rate of four bushels and fifteen
pounds of wheat to the barrel. Of spring
wheat, fifty bushels yielded eleven barrels
of flour, being four bushels and thirty-two
pOunGs to the barrel. The wheat was
fair quality and no more.
THE POLL EvIL.-A correspondent of
the Germantown Telegraph says: "Some
persons regard the poll evil as incurable
1t is sometimes called fstuIa No matter
how long the sore has been running, it
can be- cured in brief time, and at cost
not exceeding ten cents One dime spent
in muriatic acid will be sufficient to effect
radical and permanent cure of tho most
stubborn fistula The sore should be first
thoroughly cleansed by some abstergent
fluid, and for this purpose pure water is
perhaps as valuable as anything that can
be used, and drop eight or ten drops of
the acid in twice day till it has the ap-
pearance Of fresh wound; then wash
clean with soap suds made OF CASTLE soap,
and leave it to heal, which it will speedily
do if the acid has been used long enough.
Should Ii, however, heal slowly, apply the
acid g second time, and in the manner
above described, taking care to wash out
the pipe thoroughly, and it will be found
an infaliible remedy in the most inveterate
diseases of this sort: but it must be re-
membered that in order to do SO, the acid
must be applied till the corrupt or dis
eased flesh is all burned out"
"A queer duel recently took place IN
Texas. A gentleman of Houston, who
lost all his family by the late epidemic,
and who was himself uyooru of hio ha