Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-01-07
Preservation of Lea,her.

Preservation of Lea,her.
The following valuable hints in regard
to the preservation of leather we copy
| from the Shoe and Leather Reporter:
The extreme heat to which most men
and women expose boots and shoes during
! winter deprives leather of its vitality,
| rendering it liable to break and crack.
When leather becomes so warm as to give
| off the smell of leather, it is singed.
Close rubber shoes also destroy the life of
leather. All yarniShes and all backing
containing the properties of varDish should
| be avoided.
Shoe leather is greatly abused. Per
| sons know nothing or care less about the
| kind of material used than they do about
the polishedproduced. NIriol backing is
used until every particle of oil in the
leather is destroyed. To remedy this
| abuse the leather should be washed once
month with warm water; and when
about half dry, coat of oil and tallow
should be applied and the boots set aside
for day or two. This will renew the
elasticity and life in the leather, and when
thus used upper leather will seldom crack
or break
Don wash harness in water and with
soap. No harness is ever So sOiled that
damp sponge will not remove the dirt
W hen harness loses its lustre and turns
brown, which almost any leather will do
after long exposure to the air, the harness
should be given a new coat of grain
black. Before using the grain-black, the
ha
with potash water until all the grease is
killed, and after the application Of the
grain-black, oil and tallOw should be ap-
piled to the surface This will not only
''fasten the color" but make the leather
flexible Harness which is grained can
be cleaned with kerosene or spirits of
turpentine, and no harm will result if the
parts affected are washed and oiled i'm
mediately afterward.
rEow TO Manure Cora Land.
Mr.. II. Clough, of Midlietown, Ohio,
writes TO the Cincinnati Gazette as fol-
lows:
- In the spring of 1868, | plowed a
field of ten acres for corn. marked 4 |
off both ways, with No ! bar share |
pillow. loaded my wagon with well roy
ted manure, htcLel on four horses, aud |
with a good stout man drove to the far |
thest side Of the field, and commenced /
on the first six rows. / staid on the wag- |
on throwing from the fore end, aud the |
man walking behind throwing from the
hind part, either side, one-third |
of a sand shovel on each hill. ! |
ar ,lrl.,T,,4 10 l.,
manure and corn with about two inches 1
of mellow dirt, with hoes. planted half |
the field in this way, using twenty-five |
loads. The other half | planted with ,
out manure. The MANFRED part came up |
three days sooner than the Other, kept
dark green color all the time through a
six weeks drought, and al gathering time |
turned off twice as much as the other"
A correspondent from Otway, Scioto /
county, Ohio, writes that he applies his |.
barnyarl manure by putting = large fork |
full 10 every two bills Of corn
-.iropping the corn close to the |
side OF the manure He says this is
slow way of applying the manure, but /
still the results are very satisfactory, for
his crop is doubled thereby.
An Indiana correspondent communi-
Gates his experience in the matter to the |
GC5~S'r as follows:
- make the ground ready for planting, !
lmarhcd out each way then take my !
team aEd distribute the manure, putting |
half of common shovel full where the |
burrows cross; drop the seed on that and |
cover well If the season is not too dry, |
this plan viii work well; in very dry
season It is best to put the manure on Ell
ther side Cf thecross; dropthe seed in the |
centre, then cover about one and a half |
inches deep. This last plan requires |
more labor