The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1869-01-08
AGRICt IL URa L.

HOME MADE GuANo.-Collcct barrel
of bones, crush them mix with barrel Of
hickory ashes moisten with soap-suds, ap.
ply quart or two at a time. Use as
special fertilizer on MELONS, squashes,
early corn, and cucumbers allowing gill
to hill.
USES OF Conn HusKs.-In this country
the chief industrial use of cornhusks is to
stuff mattresses. Sometimes for this pur.
pose they are torn into shreds by hand
with hetchel, but for large manufactures
they are prepared by machinery invented
for the purpose. The Germans are far
ahead of the Yankees in utilizing this ma
terial. BY means of processes invented in
Austria some five or six years ago, about
twenty per cent. of the weight of corn
husks may be made into stout paper,
twenty-five per cent. may be brought into
fbrous condition and woven into cloth
aud fifteen per cent. may be separated as a
kind of starchy substance, which has been
made into biscuit for the soldiers in the
Austrian army
COMPARATIVE RICHNESS OF Milk It
is stated that the last half pint of milk
drawn from cows udder has sixteen
times the quantity of cream in it than the
first one. This is one reason why the
COW milking machines are not more oxten,
sively approved. Although they may
milk very fast, they do not " strip" clean,
half pint Of milk from each COW twice a
day.
Observation-Disclosures is the sweet
syrupy substance obtained By suhjecting
lard and tallow to the action OF superhcatcd
steam or, in other words of steam heated
in tight vessel to high temperature.
The steam cause the fatty acids to separate
from the glycersne This last, besides
being used in the manufacture of ntlo
glycerine, which is as poisonous as it is ex
plosive, may be applied to mary valuable
purposes. Some of these are very simple,
and apparently trivial, but still worth
knowing for instance, glycerine is enc Of
the best remedies for chapped hands and
cracked lips. 1t is also, when diluted with
water suitable dressing for the hair, be
ing something like the "bandolDe made
from solution of Iceland moss, and often
used for keeping the hair in place.
Glycerne will also soothc the bites of the
mosquito, and the stiug of bees and wasps.
WuEAT-BRAN FOR Mich Cows
Cows that give milk require feed that
abounds in albumninous matter, in order to
be able TO maintain satisfactory flow of
milk. Duckwhcat bran will produce about
as large a quantity of milk as wheat bran.
But the milk made by feeding buckwheat
bran will be thin and poor, and much in
ferior to the milk which a. COW gives when
her feed is composed largely of wheat bran,
which contains large amount of albumin
GUS matter. But wheat bran undergues a
great improvement by being cooked before
it is fed. Agricultural chemists tell US
that bran contains more than fourteen per
cent OF albumen, which is an excellent feed
for making rich milk. Besides this, wheat
bran contains about three per cent. Of
phosphoric acid, which is an excellent
article in the line Of iertilizing materials
for producing bountiful crops Of any kind
of grain or vegetables. Where a person
has only one or two mich cows, it will
always be profitable TO scald the bran before
feeding to the COWS. Let few quarts be
put in a tub and boiling hot wa'cr turned
in and mingled with it until the mass is as
thin as Cruel then allow it to stand over
uight, or during the day, covered closely.
A good COW, fed with such a mess and
prime hay, will roll out the rich milk
almost as abundant!y as if she were fed on
grass, provided she have comfortable
shed, or stable, in cold weather.