The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-05-19

WASHES FOR OUTBUnDINasAA writer
in the Rural Advertiser, communicates the
following three recipes for mixing colors'in
the washes for barns, ontbuildings, fences,
etc. He says: noh '9i .2eat e
would here also takethe opportunity to
protest against the too common fashion In
the country, of simply using whitewash
without any coloring ingredients. For the
sake of good taste, have it q cream color,
pink color, or anything but plain. unwaver1
ing, glistening white which is only a little
better than the garing red of the German
settlements in Pennsylvania. 1t adds great
ly to the beauty, no less than the real value
of country residence, to have walls, as well
as the outbuildings and adjoining fences,
well coloIed. In either of the following re-
cipes, if mixed according to directions one
good application will last from two to four
years: ~ sli y I
No. 1.-Of skinned milk take two quarts;
fresh-slacked lime eight ounces linseed oil,
six ounces; white Burgundy pitch, two
ounces; Spanish white, three pounds The
lime to be Stacked in water exposed to air,
mixed in about one pint of milk; the oil in
which the pitch is:previohsly dissolved, to
I've added little at time; then the rest OF
of the milk, and afterwards the Spanish
white. This is sufficient for two coats, TWEEN
ty-seven yards; the expense one cent per
ward. Color 10 suit taste-yellow, oclire,
Venetian red or Prussian blue. s
No. 2.-Bushel of lime, one pound glue,
half gallon lnseed oil. Color to suit.
No. 3.-Slack one bushel of lime in
IL
much Spanish brown as will shade it to
your liking.
WHY DO ANIMALS NEED SALT 2-Prof.
Jas. E. johnson, of Scotland says: up
wards of half the saline matter of blood (57
per cent? consists of common salt; and as
this is partly discharged every day through
the skin and kidneys the necessity of con-
tinucd supplies of it to the healthy body
becomes sufficiently obvious. The bile also
contains soda Zone of the ingredients of salD
rs special and Indispensable constituent,
and so do all the cartilages of the body.
Stint the supply of salt, therefore, and nei
Their will the bile lie able prope rly to assist
digestion, nor the cartilages be built up
again as fast AS they naturally waste" 1t is
better to place salt where stock can have
free access to it, than to give it occasionally
in large quantities They will help them
selves to whatthey need if allowed to do so
at pleasure; otherwise, when they become
salt hungry" they may take more than is
wholesome.
FooT-RoT IN SHEET have had some
experience with this disease, and the follow
ing remedy cured it with little labor: Take
one-half pound muriatic acid-2 ounces blue
vitrol-one- half ounce verdigris-2 ounces
spirits turpentine-mix Put this in bot
tie with quill or hnle in the cork. Take
each sheep and pare its hoofs down to the
quick, taking care not to draw the blood.
When you come to case of foot-rot, pour
into the cleft of the hoof few drops of the
above liquid, and let the sheep 90 on a clean
barn floor, dry straw yard, or some other
place where it ccnnot step in the mud
Watch the flock carefully, and whenever one
cleaning off carefully any dirt that may
adhere to the hoof After the hoofs are once
pared down close. the hardest part of the
work is DONE Keep the sheep on dry up
land pasture. and by all means out of any
swampy land.
GAPEs IN CHICKENs-A farmers wife.
living in Armenia Union, n Y, sends us the
following remedy for gripes in chickens,
which she has not found to fail in any in
stance during the ten years she hrs used it:
Take sixpence worth of Coculus Indicus
(Which can be bought at any drug STOREY,
crack the berries, and put them into bot
tie. Pour a half pint of alcohol over them,
and let it stand few days, or until needed
for use. When the hen is ready to be taken
from the nest with her chickens, put them
in a basket, take small dish and pour a
little of the liquor from the berries, and wet
the head and neck of each chicken. The
best way is to take small piece of cloth
and not have it too wet. Rab little under
the old hens wings, and then let her hover
them until they are dry, and your chickens
will he free from danger of gapes-the lice,
of which there are always more or less, being
all dead"
AN EASY METHOD To HAVE HEALTHY
FRUIT REEs-An experienced fruit-grcw-
er who possesses beautiful orchard near
the Niagara River, Western New York, has
used one simple method with success. He
takes ly re from Leached ashes, mixes little
grease with it, heats 1t quite warm, and with
iutO All pdiiS VI tuC
trees. branches and trunk 1t will effectual-
ly kill all caterpillars, all kinds of worms
that are either infesting the tree in nests or
running over the bark. Trees treated in
this manner were exceedingly healty, beau
tilul, vigorous in appearance, possessed a
smooth, glossy bark, and bore the best ap-
Piles of the country. The remedy is easy
and cheap.
s. M. Farr, of McIIenry county, gives the
following as his method of raising calves
Ivy hand: Take the calves off as soon as
the cows bag is caked, in which case let
them suck till the bag is in good conoli-
ton. Feed them on new milk till they are
from two to three weeks old; after that,
feed handful, each, of linseed meal and
shorts, with sufficient SKINNED milk while
making butter, and whey, after cheese
making begins. Scald these at first to pre-
vent souring-eggs are also good for the
same purpose. Five calves of mine used
$40 worth of linsecd meal and about two or
three hundred pounds OF shorts, last sum-
mer, and they were worth $15 each in the
fall. I
A writer il the New England Homestead
gives the following method of propagatilig
various kinds of fruit trees Strip ring OF
bark, about an inch in width, from bearing
branch; surround the place with rich earth
or loan, two inches in depth band fast to
1 the branch with piece of mating; over
this suspend tin vessel with water, having
I small hole in the bottom just sufficient to
let the water drop in order to keep the earth
constantly moist the branch throws new
! roots into the earth just above the place