Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-07-16
farm ono 6onsrbolo.
USEFUL RECIPES, ETC.


BEaENr is of the opinion that where
fowls are fed on corn or barley It pays
well to boil IT, Oats and buckwhest
should be fed raw.
ALWAYS loosen the check.rein before
giving the horse water. Even If the pail
is held SO high that the rein is not drawn
tight, the position is not natural one in
which to drink.
THE Stock Journal says the time to feed
poultry is not in the morning. Let them
do the best they can for themselves in the
early part of the day, but Just before they
go to roost fill their crops with pudding.
Active digestion can go in the crop and
gizzard of the chicken while it is asleep.
LIQUm manure should be made weeks
before applying to plants, rs experiments
here have proved that when applied too
strong II causes the plant to wither, and
stops its growth, and those plants watered
with weak solution of liquid manure
grew finely and made one.fifth more
growth than those that were not thus ga.
tered.-E1perimentaL Farm journal.
IT is said that cup of coffee is a sure
barometer, if you allow the sugar TO drop
to the bottom of cup and watch the bub-
bles arise without disturbing the coffee.
If the bubbles collect in the middle, the
weather will be fine; if they adhere To
the cup, forming a ring, it will be rainy
and if the bubbles separate without as
suming any fixed position, changeable
weather may be expected. Try it.
ONE would think that kind. hearted
man, when he sees how grateful this ope.
ration is TO a COW, would be willing tu
spend few moments carding her. II pays
as well to clean COW as horse. All who
have fairly tried it find great benefit from
the operation. And not one farmer in a
hundred makes it a practice to use the
card or curry-comb in the COW stable. We
know stupid men who laugh at the idea
as mere notion of some fancy farmer
But in point of fact, no cow can give the
bes, results at the pail unless this matter
is attended to, especially in winter. Stool
journal.
FoR the preservation of the luster o
articles of silver or plated ware, when no
needed for actual use for considerabl,
time, coating of collodion Ito be had a
the drug storey may he employed to grea
advantage. The articles are to be heated
and the collodion then carefully applied by
means of brush, so as to cover the sur
face thoroughly and uniformly. 1t is useC
most conveniently when diluted with alco
hol, as FOR Photographic purposes Arti
cles thus prepared exhibit no trace what
ever Of their covering, and have stood fo
more than a year in shop windows and il
| dwellings, retaining their white uster ant
color, while other pieces not thus preparet
become seriously tarnished.- Erctange.
THE Journal Of applied Chemistry con
demns, in strict language, the practice @
putting up articles of diet in envelopes q
tin foil. The tin foil it contends, contain
lead poison, and is very injurious to tn
health of those who eat articles that hav
been inclosed in it. The warning given Il
tobacco chewers against the use of fint
cut put up in this style is worthy of at
tention. BY oxidation the nicotine of tn
tobacco becomes nicOtic acid, which act
on lead, producing salt which is very
poisonous, and not unfrequently show
its deleterious effects among consumer
of "the weed" in the form of paralysis o
the facial nerves. We often see, and per
haps in most cases without realizing thu
cause, persons who are in the habit o
chewing tobacco, afflicted with nervous
twitChing of the muscles of the face, ant
a certain, though almost indescribable
wrinkled expression of the countenance
| anu "hlCll, as IheIes is every reason 10 De
lieve, has its sole origin in the use of to
bacco which has undergone this reaction
with lead. The tobacco alone was neve
known to produce this effect, and although
Its inordir a'e.use is undoubtedly injurious
the symptoms are quite of u ditferen
character. Foreign cheese is brought t,
this market in tin foil ; so are bologna ant
other ssusages, dried fruits, etc All thes
are more or les made poisonous by their &C
tion upon the lead which surrounds them