Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-07-08
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

MoULTINe fowls should have q few
nails placed in the water furnished for
their use. The rust occasioned by the
nails renders them less liable to disease.
A New ENGLAND farmer gives the fol-
lowing as remedy for film on an ami.
mails eye: Pound and rub alum into a
powder, making it as fine as flower. Fill
a common goose-quill partly full with it,
and from that blow it into the eye. But
if the eve is bruised by blow, that is an
other matter, and the alum would proba-
bly, do no good.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Oneida Dis.
patch says: "To destroy the currant
worms, go out at eight or nine O'Clock in
the evening and jar the bushes so as to
throw the worms on the ground. Do this
three successive evenings when the worms
make their appearance. This will finish
them for the present season, and il every
body will do 1t for three successive years,
it will destroy the race"
CURIOUS HANGING BAsKET.-Procure q
large sized turnip and scrape the inside,
leaving thick wall all round fill the
cavity with earth, and plant in it some
clinging vine or morning glory. Suspend
the turnip with cords, and in little time
the vines will twine around the strings,
and the turnip sprouting from below
will put forth leaves and stems that will
turn upward and curl gracefully around
the base.
JOSEPH HARRIS, ESQ.,, in his "Walks
and Talks ON the Farm" in the american
AgrtcuIturist, says "No matter what
branch of farming we discuss, either the.
oretically or practically, we are brought
back to the old, old story that, as basis
of successful operation, we must have dry,
clean land. Everything must be directed
10 this one point We can do nothing
without it; we can do everything with it.
TIE Massachusetts, POughnan, IN reply
to an inquiry as to whether ashes will de-
compose bones, says: "The bones should
be pounded as finely as possible; then put
into tight tank and the ashes put upon
them from time to time, and kept moist
by drawing out the lye from the Bottom
of the tank, and pouring it upon the
ashes" 1t thinks that this process will
result very satisfactorily in decomposing
bones.
A CORRESPONDENT of IiLt0n's Journal
Of Horticulture says that in all cases where
grating wax is generally used, 1t is better
to apply instead clay paste, tempered
with fresh COW dung, to make 1t more ad.
hesive. The least excess of tallow or oil
in the composition of the grating wax is
very deleterious-it kills the wood as deep
as il strikes in besides it is thus a worse
than useless expense, and is very tedious
in application.
THE Canada Farmer says that the at
tacks of the apple'tree borer may be pre-
vented by washing the whole trunk o.
the tree up to and including the forks oI
the main branches, with soft soap, or {
solution OF potash. The alkali kills thu
eggs or young grubs as soon as hatched
Insects are endowed with wonderful in
stincts, and it is very doubtful whethel
the parent beetle ever deposits eggs on
tree that is covered with strong alkali.
To CURE GAPEs-Put one teaspoon
full of wheat into vial and pour ON spir
its of turpentine sufficient to cover tn,
wheat, and keep the vial well corked
Whenever you find symptoms of gape
in chick, open its mouth and compel /
to swallow one or two grains of the satu
rated wheat. Repeat the operation morn
i..e and evening as long as may be need
ed, and if commenced in time, 1t will cur
nine times out of ten.-OOr. Oinctnnat
GdzettN.
w. d. GENTRY, of Nashville, says: "a
telegraph operator and a type-setter,
would say to the public that, If in making
the letter (capitaD writers would pu
under it the telegraph character repre-
senting that letter, which is two dotl
thus, :. operators and many type. setter
would be enabled to distinguish from j
and avoid many annoying errors; and
the public generally, and especially schoO
teachers, would adopt the suggestion, thu
English language would be removed"
IL any poison is swallowed, drink in
stantlv half glass of cool water, with
heaping teaspoonful each of common sal
and ground mustard stirred into it. Thi
vomils as soon as It reaches the stomach
But for fear some of the poison may II
main. aWalloW the white OF one or tN