The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-10-27

Cutting q
CO.or1nS stuH,........
Warp. . O.
weaving, ... 5
Yards OF carpet,
Cost per yard,
Carpet worth SIS $50 &
Clear t,.... 3
We put the value of the carpet a
81 80. because it is worth more thar
any that could be bought for tha
price.
Nowsuppose the good woman had
taken the advice of these writer's who
are so disgusted with rag carpets, anC
purchased one at 81 80. She would
have been out of pocket $52 so Instead
of $28 %. and before her rag carpe;
will be entirely gone, and with them
$105 of money, instead of $40 25.
There are not many womed who get
money much more largely than by
making rag carpets. They are better
than any other for kitchen and dining
room.-Ciacinnati Times.
CARE OF HORSES LEGs.-Few men
who handle horses, says the Rasral
World, give proper attention to the
feet and legs, especially is this the
case on farms.-Much time is spent
of morning, rubbing, brushing, and
smoothing the hair on the sides and
hips, but at nc time are the feet ex.
amined and properly cared for. Now
be it known, that in this 5000 year
old wQrld of eura. the feet need ten
times az mueh-for, In one respect,
they are almost the entire horse. All
| the grooming that can be done won t
avail anything. if the horse is forced
to stand where his feet will be filthy.
In this case. the feet will become
disordered, and then the legs will get
badly out of tx, and with bad feet
and bad legs there is not much else
about horse that's CT for anything.
Stable poisons generally are terribly
severe on the feet and legs of horses,
and unless these buildings can afford
dry room. where a horse can walk
around, lie down. or -oll sver, they
are rot bali so healthy and comforta-
bic as the pasture, and should be
avoided by good hostlers iA the eeun-
try.
FEEDING POTATOES TO MICH COWS.
In view Of the fact that potatoes
are so abundant this year that they
are scarcely worth carrying to market
for the price they bring, those who
have COWS In good milk during the
cold season, will find it of great ad-
vantage to give them q few potatoes
daily. They ara the best roots that
can be given to cause COWS to give an
abundant flow of milk of rich quality,
aud free from any disagreeable flavor.
Some years ago, when were potatoes
cheap We knew ofatarmer who fed them
largely to his milch cows along with
good clover hay, and they gave an in
creased quantity of butter of Gns
flavor, and as yellow as as that made
in summer time. The potatoes ought
to Ee sound and free from rot, which
is injurious, though if slightly frozen
the COWS will eat them without injury.
The potatoes should be free from dirt
when fed out.-CdnadG Farmer.
WHY ORCHARDS DECAY.
A correspondent of the Valley Far
nler says, orchards have died or be
come poor from these causes;
l. the exhaustion of the soil from
the constant crops of apples; from the
blowing away by the wind of the
. leaves Of the tree which nature de-
signed to feed the soil on which the
tree stands; by the crops of grass,
grain, or roots constantly taken from
the same ground and little return of
substance 10 it.
2. Another means of their destruc
ton has been in whipping the trees
with poles to remove the apples.
And still another cause was the pas
turage among them.
3. To restore tnem:-If any were
left worth restoring, man must cease
to crop the ground under them, and
must manure them with vegetable
mould, decaying leaves, lime, wood
ashes and salt. A compost formed of
these substances would be excellent
or one formed by soapsuds and refuse
slops. chip-dirt. turf. etc, we'll rotted
Then trim them of all dead limbs,
and those that cross and gall each
other, and of all suckers that feed
upon the trunk or limbs,n not necessary
for a crop.
WOOL AT THE WEST,
The Michigan Farmer is of the
| opinion the rain comes at the East
and the mills that have been standing
still by reason of the drouth start up
there will be great rush for wool. and
that prices will consequently stiffen--
all of which seems quite improbable
as the supply in Eastern mills is very
much larger than usual.
KEEP OUT OF DEBT.
The Kansas Farmer, with its usua
positiveness, urges its readers to keeI
out of debt. It says that In a new
country, where merchants sometimes
give unlimited credit to the settlers
no matter whether their crops are
good or otherwise, they continue theil
careless and sometimes reckless ex
penditures until confronted by store
bill that they know they cannot pay
They grow dispirited. and sometimes
dissipated, and losing heart, lose theil
farms, whereas if they had beer