The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-11-05
agricultural.
FARM. GARpEN and HouSEnoLp.

ing n considerable development of circular
tissue, are very commonly subject TO drop
steal enlargement Of the extremities, usual
ly denominated as swelled leg. The nature
of this swelling may be readily detected
and distinguished from that of the phleg
mon, by pressing it with the fingers, wher
it pits that is, the impression of the fingerI
are left for a short time. It is, in fact, 6
deposition of the water portion of tn,
blood in the cells of the membran the alb
sorbents or Emphatic vessels are unable &c
take up or carry into the circulation of the
serum so fast as it is deposit d. IL may
arise from the weak state of the Emphatic,
from cold applied to the legs, from the
phletoric state of the system, or from the
redundancy of serum in the blood. II
exists in various degrees; sometimes the
legs are merely filed as it is termed, pro.
duoing no lameness, andbut l~ittleapparenI
inconvenience; at other times the limbs are
immensely gorged, and attended with con.
siderable pain and stiffness. Between
these two extremes the disease may
exist in every intermediate degree.
IL may thus appear in on
acute or subacuie form, and may DO pro.
duced either suddenly or gradually; when,
however, IL exists in a severe form, it usu.
ally appears suddenly. The horse perhapf
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one of his legs Is amazingly swelled, and
on handling IL the horse often catches II
mp suddenly, and so violently that he
nearly falls. IL the disease be not very
soon relieved, large abscesses either form
in different parts of the limb, or the skin
giyes way, the heels are affected with
grease, or the vessels become enlarged and
the swelling organized, and the horse has
for life a big leg. We often see an animal
with one of the hind legs twice as large as
1t ought 10 be; the poor brute, in addition
to his accustomed labor, condemned TO
drag for life this weary load. which, in
nine cases out OF ten, X to DO ascribed
either to the negligence or ignorance Of his
owner. These b~ig-legged horses usually
belong either to poor men or 10 farmers;
the former neglecting them from poverty.
and the latter because they prefer treading
in the footsteps Of their forefathors, and
employing ignorant empires in preference
to skillful practitioners.
PIE CRUsT.-No matter how delicious
and nice ones materials, If the result is
heavy, tough, greasy crust, material is
worse than wasted.
Perhaps no form of food in common use
is more indigestible than the ordinary
method Of making pie crust. If we will
have il, great care should be taken to
make it as nicely and delicately as posi-
bic.
A few things should be carefully obsery-
ed in its preparation. The lard or butter
used for shortening should be of the very
best quality. Salt should be freely used
with lard; neither should ever be in the
least degree melted. A cool room Gf hot
weather. cool moulding board, cool hands
aud cold water are indispensable. A bowl
of ice-water to dip the hands into, MS well
as to mix with, is n great help. A marble
board is best, and n cellar or cool milk
room to prepare paste, if hot weather.
When the water is added, mix first with
a spoon or knife, just sufficient to make all
adhere together; touch not with the hands
until ready to roll, then cut with n knife a
piece large enough for the size of the plate;
knead none ut all, but touch lightly, aud
roll but one WY, never back and forth. Ex-
perience will teach about the size necessa-
~ for one crust, and thus one will not be
necessitated TO work over again many bits,
which would form n tough, disagreeable
crust. Pieces, however, that are left should
always be used, either for an under-crust OF
baked, without rehanding, for lunch
crumbs.
A pint OF flour rightly managed, will
make two crusts, and n piece of shortening
as large as an egg "a goose egg will be suf-
hcient. IL you desire il more flaky, with
the trouble Of puif-paste, spread soft but
ter or lard upon the upper crust before
sending to the oycn.-Cr. Country Gentle
man.
CULTIVATE YOUR APPLE TREEs.- cor
respondent in Montgomery county, Pa.
informs us that he can succeed with his
apple orchard in obtaining q crop as we'll
as any other field product upon his farm.
He commences his orchard by selecting
his trees himself In the nursery, AZ a farm.
err selects his seed before sowing; helps 10
take them up, as farmer secures his seed,
hauls them home late in the afternoon or
evening; puts them in where they are TO be
planted until next day; has the ground
prepared beforehand and the holes dug,
removes and sets the trees as he needsthem
in the most careful manner, applying two
buckets of water to each tree-one when
the hole is half filled up, the other when
entirely filled, leaving the ground around
the tree bowl-like. Stakes firmly; mulch.
es; waters occasionally; keeps all cattle
and hogs ont; and when the trees are a
few years planted, twice a year, spring and
fall, scrapes the trunk, scrubs il severely
with cow-urine gathered in a tank from the
stable. using about half n bucket to each
tree, and gives them q thorough examina.
ton to ferret ont any worms, &c. He says
1t il not nearly MS much labor as any other
crop ON the farm, while IL ia Just as sure
and more profitable.
Farmers, do you hear that 2-Germqn.
tolon Telegraph.
ORIGIN on THE PoTAro. There are sew
eral species Of potato described as growing
wild in Mexico, and one of these, the sOld.
mum UerTucosIm, Is said to produce very
palatable but small tubers. Our civilized
species probably came from Chill.
The word potato ome to us from the
Spanish Jdttdtd, and the Spanish got il from
the Indian papas.
The date Of the introduction of the po-
tato into England is rendered uncertain,
probably by ~eonfounding the sweet potato
with the common potato. There is no
doubt that tho potato was cultivated in
South America by the Indians, before the
discovery Of Chill by the Europeans. The
cultivated plant found it's way 10 the Caro-
liuas and Virginia, and Sir Walter Raleigh
took II TO England in 1886.
The tuber Of the native potato never ex-
coed two inches in length, and is insipid TO
the taste, but not bitter. II has been sup
posed TO be naturally a sea shore plant,
peculiar to billy aud rocky soils. The
first particular cannot be true of all escu-
lent native potatoes. The potato loves
such cool, uniform, moist and long season
as may be found in some parts and ali-
tudes OF the tropics. But its wonderful
constitutional vigor has enabled it to be
trausplanted in all parts of the earth, until
it is now considered "the most important
OF all esculent, roots, and next in value TO
cereals as an article of human subsistence u
UEDPEEGSATED EGGs. There seems 10
be sufficient evidence that eggs from hens
that do not have the cock, keep much
longer IN a fresh condition than impregna-
ted eggs. Geyelin, in Fliuts edition OF
Poultry Breeding, says
''phe shell OF the epG bsinp porus. 10 ad.