Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1870-09-17
WORTH KNOWING.

SOME one thinks that he has found a
means Of stopping bleeding at the nose,
so simple as a piece of paper put into the
mouth and chewed rapidly.
A WISCONSIN man gets hay off DOGGY
land by strapping large wooden shoes OF
his horses feet and having tires five
inches wide on his wheels.
FARMERS will soon want to measur-
ing their bins and cribs. Here is a rule :
Multiply the solid feet in the bin by 10
and divide by IS. The quotient will be
the contents in bushels.
THE "IIandy Book of IIusbandry :"
states that fowls that find running water
to drink are not troubled with gapes. A
little camphor in their drinking troughs
is also a preventive.
A GERMAN chemist is said to have dis
covered a method of bleaching the bran
of wheat so that it can be cooked with
the flour, thus adding its nutritiye pow
er without affecting the whiteness of the
bread.
SOME one thinks that the banc of agri-
culture in one half of the republic is the
idea that a man who owns four hundred
acre is probably four times as rich and
prosperous as he who owns and tills one
hundred.
A MICHIGAN farmer says If sweet pOta-
toes are allowed, Immediately after being
dug, to sweat in barrels covered with oil
cloth, three weeks, then kept IN a tenn
peraturc between 40 and 50 deg. they
will be good all the winter.
A CORRESPONDENT of the New York
Farmers Club says he has never been
troubled with rats and mice. He builds
his crib two feet from the ground, tapers
his cight-inCh posts below the floor down
to four inches square, and covers with
tin.
CHEMISTRY will prove that there Is
more nutriment in a quart of corn meal
than in a half bushel Of beets. But in
practice, two quarts OF meal fed with Il
half bushel of roots will make more meat
than four quarts OF meal.
A SKIN of an animal that dies on the
farm may sometimes be put to better use
than to be sent to the tanners. Cut it
into narrow strips; shave off the hair
with a sharp knife. 1t is good for hal
ter straps; to hoop dry casks; for hinges,
for broken thills, If put on wet and nail
ed fast; good to mend q link In a chain.
or even as q substitute for Il chain. Thin
skins make excellent bag strings.
THE following is said to be a certain
remedy for bolts in horses: Fill an Or
binary junk bottle about half full of mo-
lasses; then fill with sweet milk shake
well and drcnch; follow the above in
about ap hour with a bottle of strong
sage tea, made of our ordinary garden
sage; next day give the horse a bait OF
rough rice and the dead bolts will come
ont with the rice.
IT is said the oil of pennvroyal will
keep mosquitoes out of a room. n scat
tered about IN small quantities. The in
nler bark ofwhite ash bark, win ifbrUurht
in contact with a snake, stifen him Iike
a stick In an instant, and a bite of fresh
tobacco, placed on his tongue, will Kill
him dead as If struck by Tightening
while sheep and goats feed on Il pressed
wltlie entire impunity. Reaches arc ex-
IL ~ N
terminated by scattering a handful of
fresh cucumber parings about the housc,
NO fly will light on a window which has
been washed with water in which n little
garlic has been boiled.
CURING DARKNESS IN WALLs.-A Rus-
SIAN preparation for curing moisture IL
tIc Walls OF houses consists In the uso ofI
a mixture made by adding two hounds
OF white resin to a boiling solution oI
tnree ana three fourths pounds of green
Tltrlol IN one hundred pounds of Water
~ Cn's oGIl pounds of slfted red ochre or
o oTIcr i. color eight pounds of rye meal,
ard TO- h "'u ai hlnalt pounds of linsced oil
together until it forms II comnletc honoo
eenous mass. Two coats of this m;w.noo
h,G 10 ne applied successfully, while hot.
Dut only in dry, warm weather.