Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-05-07

A WRITER In the Rural Nep Yorker
dissents from the theory that many win
dows are desirable in barns He thinks
the money often expended in making
them could be much more judioiously OK
pended.
TO WH1P CREAM. .-Sweeten bowl of
cream with loaf sugar and flavor with any
extract OF fiavoring that suits you best.
Whip the cream with a whisk, and as il
rises in the froth, take off with a skinner,
ana place upon seivo TO drain.
AN exchange says: II horse, afflicted
with the collie, be drenched with a pre-
paratiOn of chlorine and permapganic
acid, cure will be effected. Our author
ity is 80 certain of it, that he would be
willing TO insure the recovery Of any horse
not too long neglected"
A CORRESPONDENT of the Practical
Farmer says that his experience shows
that two quarts Of cooked potatoes would
do rs much toward fatteniDg as four fed
raw, and that the value of corn meal is
very nearly doubled by thorough cooking.
lie considers raw potatoes almost value
less for fattening.
THE agricultural editor of the WCekly
Press reminds boys who have TO split
wood that II snlits much more readily up
from the roots than downwards. The stick
should be turned upside down before
striking it. So too IL is better to split by
slabs than TO strike through the center of
the larger pieces.
In using common SALT SCOT, or guano
for manure, moist weather, should, II posi-
BILE, be selected for applying IL for It is
necessary that these subs tances should be
dissolved before they can be appropriated
by the roots of plants. AS long as they re-
main as dry powder on the surface of
the soil, they can be of no use.
To PREVENT HENS EATING EGGs. "A
correspondent of the Prdtrte FrT7ner says
he has accomplished this by keeping a
setting hen upon the nest, aud removing
the eggs every night. His hens that got
so bad that they would ego for r" nest IN
nock as soon rs they heard a cackle, were
broken of the habit edtirely by this
| means.
THE Scientific american gives the fol-
lowing mode of testing kerosene "Fill
n cup with warm water, the temperature
OF which is to be brought to 100 deg. Fab
renheit, pour the oil on the water apply
flame TO the floating oil by match or other.
wise. If the oil is unsafe it will take
fire, and its use in the lamp is dangerous
for 1t is liable to explode But If the oil
/ 10 oolO Gnu BbOu IL Will uOJ bdkB
WHEN writing by common ink has be-
come faded by age so as to he nearly or
quite illegible, 1t may be restored to its
original hue by moistening it with q
camcls hair pencit or feather dipped in
tncture of gals, or a solution OF ferro-
| cyanide of potassium, slightly acidulated
with hydrocholoric acid. Either of these
washes should be very carefully applied,
so that The ink may not spread.-Scientifc
American
| A CORRESPONDENT of the Country Gen.
uemdn says that he finds leached ashes
and cut grass the best mulch for the grape
vine. The ashes gather moisture and re-
pei heat. Grape vines that were mulched
at the commencement of the dTouth last
summer, stood the heat well When the
! grass rots the roots derive nutriment from
IT, The grass is put on first, and then cov-
cred with ashes This mulch is both pro-
tectlye and enriChing, and the nutriment
Is OF kind that is wanted-vegetable and
carbonaceous.
IHE Country Gentleman, in an article
reviewing some objections to the manage.
ment of Agricultural Societies, suggests
that the best cure is a more general inter
est in and cooperation with the Agricul
tural Societies by the general body of
farmers. 1t will do little good to simply
md fault with existing evils, if we make
no effort to remove them But if all the
farmers in county will take an interest
In the affairs of their Society, its manage
ment may be made what they want it.
THE common practice of using pads or
sheep-skin under horses collar is obiec.
tionable, especially in warm weather, be.
cause 1t accumulates heat and makes the
breast tender. A better way is to take a
piece ol thick and smooth leather, cut it
out just the size of the collar, or a little
wider, and let it lie fiat on the neck and
shoulders. 1t will lie smooth, while the
collar itself moves about, and chatting will
thus be prevented. II is also well to wash
the breast OF working horse every night
with clean water-Hed1M and Home