The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-12-02

| SSS, III Anu you nave the NUMBER OF
bushels In the ear; for shelled corn
take one-halE. To be strictly correct.
add a half bushel to every one hun.
dred, Persons who are fond of cipher
ing can Test the correctness of this rule
by taking 1S72s solid inches for q foot
and 2. 150 inches In bushel, and see
mat the latter Is nearly one-fifth large
than the former"
THE BEST GRAIN FOR BUTTER.
II you aim at great flow of milk,
iced young timothy and white clover |;
II at the best results, both In quantity
and quality of butter, feed on fresh
pasture Of white clover and Timothy in
summer, and early cut timothy and
wheat bran in winter. The grass must
be cut when heading out; or, better,
young Aftermath we'll cured. Avoid
roots and garden stuff in general, II
you wish a good quality of butter,
though Il is now held that those fed
while milking or Immediately before,
will remedy the evil.-Vatley Fdrner.
In the care OF cattle nothing keeps
them in better order than the light of
the eye OF the owner several times a
day. The eyes of boys and hired men
are covered with film.
WHEN the cattle are fed on straw, the
boys on SKINNED milk, the old man on
fat pork, and the hens are obliged to
scratch gravel, the breath of the beaux
OF the girls will smell of whisky.
ON many farms 1t costs as much TO
keep the rats as to keep COW. he who
can clear farms of rats will get rich
without advertising.
dark, unoccupied room or large closet,
and TO fill the honey boxes with cobs,
to absorb the moisture.
PAINTING BUILDINGS AND FARM IAIPLR-
MENTs.
Farmers should learn how to paint
their buildings, tools and farm imple-
ments in a neat and workmanlike man
ner; and they may just as we'll do all
their own painting and vanishing as to
pay some painter twice as much as It Is
actually worth to perform a given Job.
In the spring and during warm days In
winter, and at any other season Of the
year, II farmer has only a little in.
struction in preparing paint and putting
1t on, he, and those in his employ, may
do all the painting when they could do
nothing else which could be of much
account.
Farmers are quite apt to think that it
requires a vast amount OF wisdom and
skill to prepare paint and put it on,
and some painters like to make them
think that 1t is far better to pay a very
eXhorbitant price to a painter to have
an implement painted, than to do IL
themselves, and then fail, But there Ia
no danger of falling In ordinary paint
ing. Suppose the first, or even the
second coat OF paint be little too thick
or too thin when 1t is put on, after 1t is
put on it will preserve the timber lust
as well-which iB the chief object in
painting-and do one will care to know
as far as "lookso are concerned, afler
the implement has been used twice,
whether novice or an Experienced
workman painted 1t.
Common paint brushes are made OIL
the bristles and coarse bair OF swine. |
The long bristles are assorted with care |
and judgment, and placed by them
selves, and those OF a corresponding |
length are put in another place. They |
are then combed out, Strengthened and |
fastened to the handles. For ordinary |
painting those having the longest hair |
are preferable, and those brushes that |
are of an oval form are preferable to |
rouhd ones. When the handles are
SO that the brush in painting will wear
on two sides only. A painter can usu-
ally paint better with a brush of an |
oval form than with round one.
When selecting brushes see that the
are not loose, and that the
hair does not come out. Brushes are |
liable to burst loose from the binding
when they are bound with cord unless
the cord is we'll painted. Therefore,
whether they are bound with cord or
wire, they should have two good coats /
OF paint applied to the binding before |
they are used.
Before using paint brushes or white
wash brushes, they should be placed
with the hair end up and some good
Yarnish poured down against the butt |
end of the handle, which will spread |
among the hair, and become SO hard in |
a few days, that the hair and handle |
will be SO firmly united, as to prevent
the bursting of the brush or shedding
of hair. By turning few spoonsful OF
good varnish into whitewash brush.
and by giving the leather band a good
oiling, its durability will be INCREASED
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