Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-01

gave as his toast 1.-The Game Of For
tune-Shuffle the cards as you will
spades must wiD."
A certain cure for founder in horse
says "a correspondent of the Rural World
is TO stand him in water to his belly
Il have known this course successfully
practised for fifty years.
A recent writer states that three hun
dred and fifty bushels of potatoes remove
ninety pounds Of potash from the sol
Oh which they are grown; consequent
ly, wood-ashes is one of the most val
liable manures for this crop.
An excellent lac for giving a varnish'
polish to leather and rubber shoes, cau
can be made by dissolving one part o.
black pitch and two parts of native as
phaltum, both powdered, in four part:
of good benZole, and shaking it up and
digesting it at a moderate temperature
The Lancet recommends a French
way of preserving eggs by plunging inte
a cauldron Of boiling water colandel
containing one dozen, and allowing them
to remain for one minute. This INNER
sion coagulates thin layer OF albumen
on the surface, and the admission of all
is thereby prevented. ..--
VEGETABLE STAINs.-The best meth.
od Of removing stains from linen anC
cotton fabrics, produced by spiiing wine
or vegetable juices consists in moisten'
ing the surface affected previously wet.
ted J with solution OF hypo-sulphate
of soda, dissolved in hot water, and then
adding on the point Of a knife little
pulverized tartaric acid, and rubbing
this well in. After the stain has disap-
peared the cloth may be washed out in
lukewarm water, and when dry no trace
of the stain will remain
LUCK IN iFARMING.-Manyf failures
in farming are ascribed to bad luck, and
the true cause, bad management, is ell
tirely overlooked. There is no such
thing as luck or charce about farming
or anything else. When we talk oi
luck we are talking of an unreality.--
All results in agriculture are in obedi.
ence te Natures. alaws-laws that are
forever and everywhere operative, and
whose full and complete sway can never
be turned aside for hairs breath OF
suspended for even one moment. Ii
were well if this thought were more
generally and practically considered
We scatter our seeds sometimes on poor
ly prepared soil, and "trust to luck" fol-
a good crop. We work without science
or system, and blindly hope for some
fortuitous deviation from natures laws
to issue favorable returns. The laws OF
nature, Gods laws, are against the slug
gard. Success comes from knowing the
laws and obeying them. We must place
ourselves in harmony with nature, and
then we will suoceed,-[Weekly Sun.
The most profitable way of raising
hogs is to enclose field, say ten ortwen-
ty acres-in proportion to size of farm
SOW down in red clover; ring, SO As to
prevent roofing and supply water /; and
the result will be a lucrative investment.
This method once adopsed, we will sson
have superior stock, and double our
present quantity Of bacon. Hence, it
follows, that, restrictions once adopted
more advantageous method would soon
be invented by the farmer.-[Colman's s
Rural World. 80 -erst---rzT.4
SiXty-six vessels are now en- route to
Great Britain, from San Francisco, with
cargoes aggregating one million seven
hundred thousand sacks Of wheat. Also
eight vessels for domestic Atlantic ports
with one hundred and sixty-six thou
sand sacks of wheat, and ten vessels for
Rio Janeirs, with fifty-one thousand
barrels OF flour. California wheat and
-four now afoat for China and other
countries aggregates two million three
hundred thousand sacks. The wheat is
valued at four million dollars.
Crop prospects in California are very
encouraging, the yield of wheat and
barley, promising to be in excess Of any
former year. III. b.. a-.a... j..
GRATING GSToNE-FRUITs.-1 be sue
cessful, the grating of stene-fruits must
be done very early. The cherry needs
to be grated earlier than the plum, and
the operation Isust be performed on both
before the buds commence to swell. The
peach is said to succeed by root grating,
if done early enough in the spring, but
in this we have had no experience.