Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-01-19
A HOME MADE FERTILIZER.-Mr.

A HOME MADE FERTILlzER.-Mr.
Earle: | notice an article in the Stan
dard, taken from the Journal of Chem
istry, headed aAn Excellent Fertili-
zer," and I will give recipe for one
that costs comparatively nothing, and
is within reach of every one. 1t may
be made ia the following manner
Take one barrel of hen manure, one
barrel we'll rotted muck, one bushel
of good wood ashes, one peck line
salt, five pounds nitre, mix thoroughly
and let it stand three days covered
up and it will then be fit for use
You will then have two barrels OF it,
aud each barrel will be worth more
than barrel of Goes, Bradley's, or
any other phosphate now in use
One gill in a hill of corn will work
wonders. 1t is good for all garden
vegetables and root crops.
o. V. PERCIvAL.
West Glover.
The BEST GRAIN FOR BUTTER.-H
you aim at a great flow OF milk, feed
young timothy and white clover; if
you aim at the best results both in
quantity aud quality of butter, feed
on fresh pastures of white clover and
timothy in summer, and early cut tim
othy and wheat bran in winter. The
grass must be cut when heading out;
or, better, young aftermath well cured.
Avoid roots and garden stuff in gen.
era, if you wish good quality of but
ter, though it is now held that those
fed while milking or Immediately be-
fore, will remedy the evil-TatIey
Farmer.
How TO CURE A CoLD.-Do three
things: First, eat nothing; second, go
to bed, cover up in a warm room
third, drink as much cold water as you
can, or as you want, or as much herb
tea as you can; and in three cases out
of four, you will be well in thirty six
hours. To neglect a cold for forty
eight hours after the cough common
ces, is TO place yourself beyond cure,
until the cold has run its course, Of
about a fortnight. Warmth and alb
stinence are safe and certain cures,
when applied early. Warmth keeps
the pores of the skin open, and re-
lieves it of the surplus which oppreS-
ses it, while abstinence cuts off the
supply Of material for ,phlegm which
would otherwise be coughed up. This
is a simple but effectual remedy
Drink no intoxicating liquor.
To REMOVE GREAsE.-Grease may
be removed from a coat collar by
washing it with sponge mOlstened
with hartshorn and water.
How TO KEEP SWEET CIDER.-A
correspondent Of the Northwestern
Farmer says: Cider, if taken when
first made, brought to a boiling heat,
and canned precisely as fruit is can.
ned, will keep from year to year with
out any change of taste. Canned ny
in this way III the fall, it may be kept
half dozen years or longer, as good
as when first made. 1t is better that
the cider be settled and poured off
from the dregs, and when brought to
boiling heat the scum that gathers on
the surface taken off; but the only
precautiOn necessary to the preserva
ton of the cider is the sealing Of il
up air tight when boiling hot.
A NICE SAUCE.-rare and quarter
nicely half a bushel of sweet apples
, also one dozen ounces, or less if yOr
choose; steam them until you cal
pierce them with a straw; then take
8 pounds of loaf sugar, and add to i
the water over which your apples ar,
steamed; let it Scald up, chen add tn,
fruit and let it remain until it looks
: transparent. Skim out and put il
jars and cans, then boil the syrup un
} til only enough remains to fill up you
cans; pour it over them hot; let then
stand and settle, fill up again, thel
: seal. They are not preserves, bu
, nicer.
GLASS IN BOILING WATER.-It i
sometimes desired to put bottles ALI
, other glass ware into boiling water
This can be safely done by holdinI
an iron spoon, or strip of metal. lon!
, enough to reach from the bottom t.
the top OF the vessel firmly by its side
, BY similar contrivance hot waite
! may be poured into tumblers withou
! breaking them, as is sometimes see
: in making that highly reprehensibl
= compound known as punch. The reaS
on of this is that the metal, being
, better conductor of heat than the glas
distributes the heat through it NOR
equally. Glass breaks, not from hea
but from the inequality of tempera
: ture which results from one part be-
. coming hot while another is still cole
5 The "Bee Cholera" is an epidemi
t in Clinton County, Ohio. One bet
t raiser has lost 80 out of 80 hives
s He has discovered that the bees ar
attacked with violent purging, tn
9 matter evacuated being of glutinou
y quality, cIings to the bees in such
manner as to retard their notion
:, Their wings become glued up, and
!. attempting to fly they drop down
s short distance from their hive an
It perish.
!, The number of children of scho,
y age in the State of New York is