Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-02-10
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.
A correspondent of the Rural Neao
Yorker pronounces fried pork fat as good
as anything he ever tried for sore teats on
COWS.
The Germantown Telegraph insists
that it has found none ofthe new varieties
OF potatoes equal to its old tavorite-the
White Peach Blow.
1t is stated that by allowing articles
coated with iron rust to remain short
time In kerosene oil, the rust can be read
lily removed by afterwards rubbing for a
few minutes with cork.
The veter AIRY editor of Wilkes SPIRIT
Of tile Times recommends the following for
scratches in horse Take sa!phate of
zinc, one drachm glycerine, two ounces;
apply every morning"
In feeding potatoes and turnips to cat
tie they will sometimes get a potato or
turnip lodged in the passage to the stom-
ach, in which case common flexible
wagon whip, pushed gently down the
throat, will remove the object and give
instant relief.
The most speedy method of making
cider into vinegar is said to be to not fill
the casks more than half full, with the
bung lett out, which will expose the larg-
est surface to the air, and consequently
will become vinegar much sooner than il
the barrel be filed
The Prarte Ftrmaer says that in the
latitude of Alton, ILL.,, and further south it
is right to cultivate orchards up to the
time of frost, but that for points further
north the cultivation should be stopped
at least four or five weeks before early
frosts are to be expected.
-Gapes in Chickens.-When you find
them showing symptoms of this malady,
you will find it most simple and success
full remedy to mix with one quart of corn
meal one tablespoonful of black mustard
seed, and feed them. They will be healthy,
have vigorous and lively growth.
speak from three years experience, and
without the loss OF one chicken.-Fdml
Journal.
Lice and itch often infest cattle when
they are not in good condition. The best
preventive against these consists in giving
them plenty of good food, and warm, well
ventilated shelter. A good remedy is to
feed small quantities of sulphur, say two
tablespoonful week. This keeps the
skin loose and the hair smooth. Vermih
never trouble cattle if they are in good
healthy condition. Poorly-fed, hide
bound stock are always liable to such dis
eases.-Fdrm Journal.
The Country Gentleman thinks no sat
isfactory, efficient and well established
remedy for the codling moth has yet been
devised 1t thinks the moth is probably
more formidable enemy to the apple
than all others put together The rene
dies suggested are allowing swine or sheer
to run in the orchard, and DR.. Trimble'E
method of winding hay ropes two or three
times around the trunk of the tree, under
which the worms crawl and form cocoons
and where they may be destroyed at in
tervals of two weeks.
Sheep require about three per cent
of their live weight of hay or its evuiva
lent per day. That is about three pounds
for a sheep weighing in the neighborhood
of one hundred pounds. BUTT is not good
economy to contine them TO hay alone
They do better on variety Of food, and
roots of some kind may be regarded as
essential to their thrift. If regularly
supplied with turnips or other roots
they will readily consume the stalks and
straw, and do well on them, while without
roots they require good hay.-Erchange.
An Ohio ounce grower has been very
successful for two years past with this
fruit. His treatment of the trees is very
simple: He spades the ground of his or
chard every spring, and scatters peck OF
coal ashes around each tree. de finds
salt the best manure on the ounce, and
APPLIES about one quart to the ground
under each tree after the soil has been
spaded, and another quart when the
ounces are about half grown. Last year
he sold three hundred bushels of ounces
from his orchard of three-quarters OF an
acre.
According to DR.. Dio Lewis, the
habit of chewing tobacco is very easily
got rid of The first day person would
get along 7ery well, and would hardly
miss the stimulant. The second day the
mouth would be dry, the throat parched
the memory confused, and the person
would hardly know what 70 do because Of
restlessness and strong craving for some
thing. Go then and take good sweat
or. what is better, Turkish bath. The
third and fourth day do the same. BY
that time all desire for tobacco would be
gone.
If you wish to bake your bread OF
biscuit without dry, hard crust, you can
do SO very readily. Just before placing
the bread in the oven, rub its surface with
but,, or lard. This will close the pores,
preventing the escape of the gas which is
produced by the yeast, and the escape OF
the steam which is produced by the mois.
ture of the heated loaf. Bread thus baked
will be almost crustless. Indeed, SO long
as the moisture is confined it will be. dill
cult burning the loaf to any grea, depth
The large vacuities in the bread will be
less numerous, though, as the whole, II
will be more porous and therefore lighter
--Erchange
"A physiological journal condemns the