Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-08-04
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD,
TREATMEsT OF KIcnNa Cows Tie a
rope or strap just in front of the bag, and
she Will make no more attempts at kicking,

she will make no more attempts at kicking,
CEMENT FOR SEALING UP FRUIT. Take of
rosln and brick dust, su cient quantity;
after melting the one, stir in the other. Be
careful and not put in too much rosin, or
the cement will not hold, and see that the
brick dust is finely powdered.
AN exchange says hat the best mode of
destroying the woodchuck that it knows. is
to place a quantity of gunpowder, inclosed
In paper bag, in the burrow, attach fuse
! or slow-mateh to it, close the burrow with
earth, which should be tramped hard, and
ignite the fuse the explosion is fatal to the
woodchuck, and the whole family is often
exterminated.
TO destroy the red spider on fuchias, il
is recommended to fill barrel nearly full
OF water and slack in it about quarter of
peck Of lime, and let it stand until per-
fectly clear. Hold the plants affected in
the water (hottom up) for about five or
ten minutes, then wash them in pure
water.
In digging wells or sink.holes great care
should be exercised that the drainage from
the latter does not affect the former. MANY
wells are poisoned in this way. The water
tastes unpleasantly; which is proof that
il tbs unhealthy. Seek out the cause-sus-
/ pect that it is the sink.hole, and you will
be on the right track. Many families suffer
| from the effects OF water drawn from wells
affected by sinks.
WHAT is THICK SowNG. Alderman Ne
chi, the eminent English farmer, and the
advocate of thin seeding. speaking of his
! present grain fields says. | could not And
the half acre q wheat drilled with only
/ two pecks per acre, for it looked as thick
as where the bushei was sown. Thick SOW
ers should really come and see my 60 acres
Of wheat, call Que bushel per acre thick
sowing Barley with six pecks, and black
oats with two bushels, seem thick enough.
The APPLE IS AN ARTICLE OF DIET SAYS
Liebig on this subject; THE importance
OF apples as food has not, hitherto been
sufficiently estimated or understood. Be
sides contributing large proportion OF
sugar, mucilage, and other nutliuve com.
! pohnds il the form Of food, they contain
such a fine combination Of vegetable acids,
extractive substances and aromatic princi-
pies as to act powerfully in the capacity of
refrgerants, tonics and antisaptics and
when freely used az the season OF ripeness,
by rural laborerS and others, they proba-
bly, maintain and strengthen the power Of
! productive labor"
| WEAVING lambs The Canada Farmer
gives the following suggestions in regard
! to weaving lambs; "When separated from
! the ewes, lambs should be placed in the
field as distant as possible from them, so
as to be out OF reach of their bleatiuo, and
/ they will then soon become contented and
thriving, The pasture to which the lambs
are put ought TO be somewhat better than
that 70 which they have been accustomed,
yet not too luXuriant, and il the ewes and
/ la bs can be turned into it together for
week, ana the ewes then taken away, the
lambs will rot then feet 50 much as would
be the case We're they removed to q field
that is strange to them"
! IT is said chat to remove chaff from an
animals eye, all that is needed is to roll a
Epiece of paper around q little stick any
! length or size desired and put into qJil.
some white cotlee-crushed sugar and ol)w
it into the eye Hold the COW by the
horns and take by surprise. Generally
two applications are sufficient, if the film
| is completely over the eye; the sugar
scours and cleanses and heals all at the
same time. | tried it twice in the winter
OF 1864, Oh the same COW, with complete
success. Both times ii was nom oat chat,
and both times the white film had covered
the eyes. Pulverized loaf sugar is equally
good to remove the film from the human
| eye.
How TO DRY WILD Flowers. Drying
wild flowers requires great skill and patience,
as these fragile blossoms Of the field perish
so quickly. The points to attend to are to
dry the specimens quickly, thoroughly, and
with pressure that will not crush them.
A good method is to place each specimen
in sheet of brown paper, and interpose
several empty sheets between each sheet
that is filed; then to place them in nap
kin press, and press them gently for the
! first day or two, Just enough to prevent the
leaves and flowers from shriveling. When
the papers are quite damp, separate them,
and spread them on the floor of room
where they can dry little; then gather
them together and place them again in the
press, rather increasing the pressure. This
operation should be repeated daily till the
flowers are quite dry. A quicker and bet
ter, but more troublesome way, is to Shift
the flowers daily ont of their damp papers
into hot and dry ooes, Immediately press
ing them down.
MAKING CIDER VINEGAR. A contributor
TO the Country Gentleman writes on the
subject: have had little experience du-
ring the last 10 or 20 years in cider making,
l use a CRATER mill, with steel wire cut
about three fourths Of an inch long. and
driven into the cylinder until they cut the
apples about as fine as want them not
too fine, as the cider will not run so clear.
use steel wire as it is harder than iron,
and will not get dull SO soon. When very
busy we put up three presses day, and do
not in tend to be more than two hours in
putting them up. We then take the cider
out as soon as We possibly can--the sooner
the better. We think, as our cider always
commands good price in New YORK, that
! the hest We ALWAYS shin orr cider as SOM