Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-11-03
Agricultural.
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.

farm, UAhDEN AND HUUSEHUIID
SwELLED LEGs.-Coarse horses, possess
/ ing considerable development of circular
tissue, are very commonly subject to drop
sical 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 fingers
are left for short time. 1t is, in fact,
deposition of the water portion of the
blood in the cells of the membran the alb
sorbents or Emphatic vessels are unable te
! take up or carry into the circulelion of the
serum so fast as it is deposit d. 1t may
arise from the weak state of the lymphatics
! 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
I legs are merely filled as it is termed, pro.
ducing no lameness, and but little apparent
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.
1t may thus appear in an
acute or subacu!e form, and NAV be pro.
duced either suddenly or gradually; when,
however, it exists in severe form, it usu-
ally appears suddenly. The horse perhaps
is well over night, but the next morning
one of his legs is amazingly swelled, and
cn handling it the horse often catches il
up suddenly. and so violently that he
nearly falls. III the disease be not very
soon relieved, large assesses either form
In different parts of the limb, or the skin
gives way, the heels are affected with
grease, or the vessels become enlarged and
the swelling organized, and the horse has
for life q big LEG. We Often see an animal
with one OF the hind legs twice as large as
it ought to be; the poor brute, in addition
20 his accustomed labor, condemned to
drag for life this weary load. which, in
nine cases out of ten, is to be ascribed
either to the negligence or ignorance of his
owner These big-legged horses usually
belong either to poor men or to farmers
the former neglecting them from poverty
and the latter because they prefer treading
in the footsteps of their forefathers, 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 it, great care should be taken to
make it as nicely and delicately rs possi-
be.
A few things should be carefully observ-
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 (if hot
weather,) cool moulding board, cool hands
aud cold water are indispensable. A bowl
of ice-water to dip the hands into, as well
as to mix with is great help. A marble
board is best, and cellar or cool milk
room to prepare paste. if hot weather.
When the water is added, mix first with
spoon or knife, Just sufficient to make all
adhere together; touch .ot with the hands
nntil ready to roll, then cut with knife a
piece large enough for the size of the plate !;
knead none at all, but touch lightly, and
roll but one way, never back and forth. Ex-
perience will teach aboist the size necessa-
ry for one crust, and thus one will not be
necessitated to work over again many bits,
which would form a tough, disagreeable
crust. Pieces, however that are left should
always be used, either for an under-crust or
baked, without rehanding, for lunch
crumbs.
A pint OF -four rightly managed, will
make two crusts, and a piece of shortening
as large as an egg "a goose egg will be suf-
ficient If you desire it more Aaky, with
the trouble of puff-paste, spread soft but
ter or lard upon the upper crust before
sending to the oven.-COr. Country Gentle
man.
CULTIVATE YOUR APPLE TREEs.-A cor
respondent in Montgomery county, Pa,
informs us that he can succeed with his
apple orchard in obtaining a crop as well
as any other field product upon his farm.
He commences his orchard by selecting
his trees himself in the nursery, as a farm
er selects his SEED before sowing; helps to
take them up, as a 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 needs them
III 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 out; and when the trees are q
few years planted, twice year, spring and
fall, scrapes the trunk, scrubs it severely
with cow-urins gathered in tank from the
stable using about half bucket to each
tree, and gives them a thorough examina-
ton to ferret out any worms, &c. He says
il is not nearly as much labor as any other
crop on the farm, while it is just as sure
and more profitable.
Farmers, do you hear that p German
to,cn Telegraph.
ORIGIN OF THE PoTATo. are sew
eral species of potato described as growing
wild in Mexico, and one of these, the s0la-
mum rerTuc0sunl, is said to produce very
palatable but small, tubers. Our civilized
species probably came from Chill.
The word potato comes to us from the
Spanish battdtd, and the Spanish got it'from
the Indian pdpas.
The date of the introduction of the po-
tato into England is rendered uncertain,
probably by confounding the sweet potato
with the common potato. There is no
doubt that the potato was cultivated in
South America by the Indians, before the
discovery of Chill by the Europeans. The
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linas and Virginia, and Sir Walter Raleigh
took il TO England in 1856.
The tuber of the native potato never ex-
ceed two inches in length, and is insipid to
the taste, but not bitter. 1t has been sup.
posed TO be naturally a sea shore plant,
peculiar to billy and rocky soils. The
first particular cannot be true of all escu.
lent native potatoes. The pot.o loves
such cool, uniform, moist andlo @ season
as may be found in some parts al alti.
tudes of the tropics. But its onderful
constitutional vigor has enable it to be
transplanted 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
To BLEACH IvoRY.-A new process fol
bleaching ivory when it has assumed 9
dirty yellow color. consists in first soaking
the piece for two days in a solution of one
half pound carbonate OF soda and two
pounds of water; then, after rinsing in colo
water. transferring to solution of three
quarter pounds sulphite of soda in two
pounds of water, and leaving them for fiv,
or six hours. While soaking in this solu
tion, 'one ounce of hydrocaloric acid in foul
ounces of water is added and thoroughly
mixed. the pieces, usually two days alter
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