The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-09-16
Worth KNOWING.

SOME one thinks that he has found a
means of stopping bleeding at the nose,
so simple as piece Of paper put into the
mouth, and chewed rapidly.
A WISCONSIN man gets hay off Doggy
land by strapping large wooden shoes on
his horses fee. and having tires five
inches wide on his wheels. 1is
FARMERS will soon want to mcasur-
ing their bins and cribs. Here Is rule
Multiply the solid feet i'm the bin by 45
and divide by Sc. The quotient will be
the contents in bushels.
THE "Handy Book of Husbandry"
states that fowls that find running water
to drink are not troubled with gapes. A
little camphor i'm their drinking trotighs
is also a preventive.
A GERMAN chemist is said to have dis
covered method of bleaching the bran
of wheat so that it can be cooked with
the flour, thus adding its nutritive pow
er without affecting the whiteness Of the
bread.
SOME one thinks that the bane of agri-
culture in one halt of the republic is the
idea that a man who owns four hundred
acre Is probably four times as rich and
hundred.
A MICHIGAN farmer saws if sweet pota-
toes are allowed, Immediately after being
| dug, to sweat in barrels covered with oil
cloth, three weeks, then kept In tenn
perature between 40 and 80 deg. they
| will be good all the winter.
| A CORRESPONDENT of the New York
Farmers Club says he has never been
/ phlo<l NTH <r
his crib two feet from the ground, tapers
his eight-incll posts below the floor down
to four inches square, and covers with
| tin. - l3 70
CHEMISTRY will prove that there is
more nutriment in quart of corn meal
than in a half bushel Of beets. But in
practice, two quarts of meal fed with a
half bushel of roots will mske 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 il
into narrow strips; shave off the hair
with 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 link in chain,
or even as substitute for a chain. Thin
skins make excellent bag strings.
THE following is said to be 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 drench; follow the above In
about an 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
out with the rice. $50
| IT is said the oil of pennyroyal will
keep mosquitoes out of room, il scat
tered about in small quantities. The in.
ner bark ofwhite ash bark, will ifbroughi
in contact with snake, stiffen him like
a stick in an instant, and bite of fresh
tobacco, placed OH his tongue, will kill
him dead as if struck by tightening
while sheep and goats feed on 1t pressed
withe entire impunity. Reaches are ex-
terminated by scattering a handful OF
fresh cucumber pariIgs about the house
No fly will light ON window which has
been washed with water i'm which little
garlic has been boiled.
CURING DAMPNEss IN WALLs.-A Rus
sian preparation for curing moisture i'm
the walls of houses consists in the use OF
a mixture made by adding two pounds
of white resin to a boiling solution OF
three and three-fOurths pounds of green
vitriOl in one hundred pounds of water.
To this ten pounds of sifted red ochre or
other color, eight pounds of rye meal,
and six and a-half pounds of linseed oil
ard to be added, and the whole stirred
together until it forms a complete homo
genous mass. Two coats of this mixture
! are to be applied successfully, while hot,
but only in dry, warm weather.