Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-08-10
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.

J she VIII make no more attempts at kicking
CEMENT FOR SEALING UP FRUIT Take OF
rosln and brick dust, SUI cient quantity
alter melting the one, stir in the other, Be
careful and not put in too much rosin, OF
the cement will not hold. and see that the
brick dust is finely powdered.
q AN exchange says that the best mode OF
destroying the woodchuck that it knows, is
to place 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, if
is recommended to fill barrel nearly full
OF water and slack in it about 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 drainage from
the latter does not affect the former Many
wells are poisoned in this way. The water
| tastes unpleasantly; which is proof that
1t is 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 rs THICK SowNG. Me-
| chi, 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 onlv
two pecks per acre, for it looked as thick
as whore the bushel was sown. Thick SOW
ers should really come and see my so acres
of wheat. l call one bushel per acre thick
sowing. Barley with six pecks, and black
oats with two bushels, seem thick enough
The APPLE AS AN ARTICLE OF DIET.-Says
Llebig on this subject: THE importance
of apples as food has not, hitherto been
sufficiently estimated or understood. Be-
sides contributing large proportion of
sugar, mucllage, and other nutrie1ve COM
pounds in the form of food, they contain
such a tine combination Of vegetable acids
extractlve substances and aromatic princi- |
pies as to act powerfully in the capacity of
retr1gerants, tonics and antiseptics and
when freely used at the season Of ripeness |
by rural laborers and others, they proba-
bly, maintain and strengthen the power of |
productive labor"
gives the following suggestions in regard
to weaving lambs: "When separated from
the ewes, lambs should be placedin the |
field as distant as possible from them. so
as to be out of reach of their bleatino, and |
they will then soon become contented and |
thriving. The pasture to which the lambs |
are put ought to be somewhat better than |
that to which they have been accustomed, |
yet not too luxuriant, and if the ewes and
la bs can be turned into it together for
week, and the ewes then taken away, the
lambs will nc lea ct so much as would |
be the case were they removed field
that is strange to them"
IT is said that to remove chaff from an
animals eye, all that is needed is to roll |
piece OF paper around little stick anv |
length or size desired, and put into Quill |
some white coffee-crushed sugar and blow
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. I tried it twice in the winter
OF 1864, on the same COW, with complete |
success. Both times it was from oat chaff |
and both times the white film had covered |
the eyes. Puverized loaf sugar is equally
good to remove the film from the human |
eye
How To DRY WILD FLOWERS. s.-Dryinp |
Wild howers 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 a pressure that will not crush them
good method is to place each specimen
III 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 a 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 out of their damp papers
into hot and dry ones, Immediately press
ing them down
MAKING CIDER VINEGAR-A contributor |
to the Country Gentleman writes On the |
subject: l have had little experience du- |
ring the last Is or 20 years in cider making. |
I use 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 a day, and do |
not intend 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 best We always ship our cider as soon
as made, so as to have it delivered before
| fermentation commences.
The last run of the press is put into the
cellar and left there until it becomes vine-
gar, which requires from one to two years:
then you have good article.
| AS We are some times overstocked with
apples, we have rotten ones; we Gull them
over, throwing out the rotten ones, which
we run through the crater, and put on the
press the same as sound apples; it makes
just as good vinegar as sound apples; per-
haps takes little longer. AS to manu-
featuring vinegar we can give no advice,
as we have never done it, and do not
wish to.
| A TELEGRAM announces that Queen Vic
| tOrla has granted amnesty to the Red River