Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-07-28
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

THOSE keeping horses should twice a
week throw into the manger a handful OF
salt and ashes. Horses relish this, and 1t
will tend to keep them in good flesh and
their hair soft and fine.
DIR. DRAPER is of the opinion that the
prevalence of insanity is largely due to
the use of tobacco. Insane asylums were
established in Europe soon after the intro
] duction of tobacco, and when smoking
had become fashionable.
CEMENT FOR SRALINe UP FRUrT-l
Take of rosin and brick dust, a sufficient
quantity /; after melting the one, stir In
the other. Be careful and not put in too
and see that the brick dust Is finely pow
dered.
A CONTRIBUTOR to an exchange finds
that it pays to clip off pasture land with
a scythe at coarse places left by the cattle,
and cart and stack near stables for bed
ding. In this way the weeds, small bushes
and coarse grain is converted into ma
nure.
CORN BEEF.-The Scientific american
informs the ladies that if they would have
corn beef juicy after it is cold, and not as
dry as a chip, they should put it into boil
ing water when they put it on to cook,
and they should not take it out of the pot
when done until cold.
A CHEAP AND Coop PM.-In half a
teacup of vinegar put one tablespoonful
of butter, one teacup of molasses, n
teacup of dried ~currants, one egg and a
little nutmeg. Roll two soda crackers
fine, and add to the above, and you will
have material enough for three pies.
To destroy the red spider on fuschias, it
is recommended to i'll a barrel nearly full
of water and slack in it about a quarter of
a peck of lime, and let it stand until per-
fectly clear. Hold the plants affected in
the water (bottom 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 drain
age from the latter does not affect the
former. Many wells are poisoned in this
way. The water tastes unpleasantly;
which is a proof that it is unhealthy
Seek out the cause-suspect that it is the
sink-hole, and you will be OF the right
track. Many families suffer from the eff
fects of water drawn from wells affected
by sinks.
A~N;exchange says that the best mode of
destroying the woodchuck that it. knows
is to place q Quantity of gunpowder, in
closed in a paper bag, in the burrow, at
tach a fuse or q slow match to it, close the
burrow with earth, which should be
tramped hard, and ignite the fuse ;,the ex-
plosion is fatal to the woodehuck, and the
whole. family is often exterminated.
WHAT CRoPs SHOULD FOLLOW ToBAo
Co.-The Farmers Home Journal, Louis
vile, KY, in discussing this subject says:
Tobacco. leaves the land in admirable con
dition for a crop of wheat, to be followed
by grass, which will do well for several
years. Almost any of our common crops
will do well after tobacco. Potatoes, if
planted on good tobacco land, which has
not been oYer-cropped, even two years in
or1aaaoosan will In iadioafa ~ 1oolx- 0c
this substance.
WHAT Is THICK SowINa.-Alderman
Mechi, the eminent English farmer, and
the advocate of thin seeding, speaking of
his present grain fields says: I could not
find the half acre of wheat drilled with
only two pecks per acre, for it looked as
thick as where the bushel was sown.
Thick sewers should really come and see
my go acres of wheat. I call one bushel
per acre thick sowing. Barley with six
peckss and black oats with two bushels,
seem thick enough.
IT is said that to remove chaf from an
animals eye, all that is needed is to roll q
piece of paper around q little stick any
length or size desired, and put into aquill'
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
SCOUTS and cleanses and heals all at the
same time. I tried it twice in the winter
of 1854, on the same cow, with complete
success. Both times it was from oat chat,
and both times the white film had covered
the eyes. Pulverized loaf. sugar is equal
ly good to remove b film from the hu
man eye.
How TO CURE HAY.-A correspondent
of the ~. Il Farmer says: A process of
curing hay has been adopted and followed
by several farmers Of my acquaintance,
which, as far as / can learn, has proved
very satisfactory for several years. The
hay is all cut in the afternoon, when en-
tirely free from external moisture. Next
day, after the dew is all of, it is turned.
After dinner it is raked and got in with
out delay. There is nc cooking at night
and opening next day. Ansuch labor is
saved. One man who has practiced this
several years is justly considered one of
the best farmers in town. His stock look
well, and produce as much as any. His
farm improves yearly, and he makes an
annual investment every year outside.
He considers his hay to be better than
when cured the o~ld-fashioned way, and it
certainly looks and smells as well as any
l yer saw.
How TO DRY WILD FLowERs.-Drying
wild flowers requires great skill and pa
thence, as these fragile blossoms of the
field perish so quickly. The points to at
tend to are to dry the specimens quickly,
thoroughly, and with a pressure that will
not crush them. A good method is to
place each specimen in a sheet of brown
paper, and i~nterpose several empty sheets
between each sheet that is filed then to
place them in a napkin press, and press
them gently for the first day or two, just
enough to prevent the leaves n flowers
from shriYeling. When the papers are
quite damp, separate them, and spread
them on the floor of a oom where they
can dry a little; then gather them togeth-
CT and place them again in the press,
rather increasing the pressure. This OPP
flowers are quite dry. A quicker and
better, but more troublesome way, is to
shift the flowers daily out of their damp
papers into hot and dry ones, immediate
ly pressing them down.