Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1869-01-16
Ten Suggestions for Farmers.

Ten Suggestions for Farmers.
The following short rules in rural econ
omy are worthy Of attention:
/. Paint all tools exposed to the wealth
or. and If with light colored paint, they
will not heat, warp or crack in the sun.
2. Dip well-seasoned shingles in lime
wash, and dry them before laying. and they
will last much longer, and not become COW
cred with moss.
3. In hitching horse to common rail
or worm fence, always select the inside
corner, which will be more secure by its
bracing position, and the halter will notbe-
come entangled among the projecting ends
of rails as when htched on the outside
corner.
4. Always tie halter by making sim
gle loop, and then thrusting the end of the
halter through tho loop. This is quickly
united, and will never become united itself.
s. Dip tho ends of nails into grease, and
they will drive easily into any hard wood.
where otherwise they would double and
break.
6. In scrcwing nuts into any part of ma
chinery in cold weather, be careful not to
heat them first with the hands, or they will
contract after being screwed on tight, and
beoome immovable afterwards.
1.&In blowing or teaming in hot wealth
er; always rest the horse on an eminence,
and where one minute will be worth two,
in warm day.
9. In setting out your orchards, always
register the varieties Immediately in book,
where they may be referred to in few
years, when the trees commence bearing,
and after the labels are lost and the names
forgotten.
9. In laying out garden for fruits and
vegetables, place everything in drills or
rows, SO that they may be cultivated by a
horse, and thus save the expense of hand
labor
10. Remove every stone from the track
in the highway. A single projection,
which might have been removed in one
minute, has battered and injured thou
sand wagons, at damage equal to hun
dred days labor.
REMEDIES For POIsONs--Cases Of
poisoning often occur in which life might be
saved, and hours Of agony avcrted, if we
only knew what to doin season. Ifa poison
burns The throat and acts violently upon
the stomach swallow half pint Of sweet
. oil, or melted butter or lard and within FIVE
minutes, take half pint of warm water in
which has been stirred teaspoonful of
ground mustard and salt. The oil arrests
the action of tho poison, and the mustard
and salt causes vomiting IF the poison
swallowed does not burn the throat and act
with instant violence, but causes sickness,
stupor or faintness, swallow the white of
three eggs; also quantity of the strong
est coffee it is possible to make, and in a
few minutes take the warm water, mustard
and salt, as before mentioned. An emf.
nent physician says that with the prompt
use Of oil, and white of eggs and strong
coffee, and the emetic as above directed,
the fatal result of any poison likely to fall
in the way Of man or child, may be always
averted. These remedies are, in them
selves harmless, and might all be taken
into the stomach at once, in any quantity
without damage to the system; and they
are things that we always have at hand.
But while using these things don't fail to
send for physician. And above all, and
first Of all, don't have any poison around.
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How DOES THE FRosr IMPROVE THE
So1I?-Chieay, we think, by purely
mechanical action. It pulverizcs it, forces
the particles asunder and admits air and
water which bring with them fertillizing
materials All heavy soils may be made
highly productive by thorough pulverixa-
ton to admit the free action Of air and wa
ter on the PARTICLES, aid the roots in appro-
priating the food locked up in the earth.
1fpotato and corn fields could be Fall plowed
and subsoiled twice, after the crops are re-
moved, and previous to the setting in Of
winter it would 60 far to ensure good yields
ofspring grain sown on the fields next year.
q, CHARCOAL DUST OR LAMP.BLAcK AS A
DYsINYEcrANr.-The disagreeable smell
peculiar to india-rubber may be got rid of
BY means Of charcoal and, better still, by
lamp black, which, - is well known, has
the property Of absorbing gaseous substan-
ces. The articles to be disinfected are put
into a close vessel, covered over with char
costdust, and then exposed fora few hours
to Temperature from 60 to 20 degrees Cen
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