The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-12-02
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FAR1. GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD
Premiums for F0ress Trees.
I The Boston Journal says:
: The Massachusetts, Society for Promoting
Agriculture has awarded to Major Ben
a Perley Foore, Of Indian Hill iarm, neal
Newburyport, the premium of 81, ,00C
, which it offered in 1855 for the best plsnta-
ton of forest trees, planted before 1880 and
4 growing in 1870. This premium was offer
ed in compliance with statute ch. AZ, sec.
9. "for the raising and preservation Of
oak and other forest trees best adapted to
perpetuats within the state an adequate
, supply of ship timber" Major Poore has
not only successfully demonstrated that
forest trees can be proftably grown where
the land is not of great value, but he has
shown that our bleak and barren hills can
be reclothed with forests, restoring the
soil, reviving the springs in the valleys,
and ameliorating the climate. The planta-
ton on Indian Hill, which is about twen-
ty-fve acres in extent, is well worth q
! visit by oil interested in arboriculture,
and the report By Major Poore of his
labors during the past ten years will be
valuable contribution to our rural htera-
ture. The first premium for forest trees
offered on this continent was by the Mas
sachusetts Society for Promoting Agricul-
ture, in 1874 gold medal worth $500.
It was awarded TO Col. Robert Dodge, of
Hamilton, who was Major Poore's grand
father, on the mothers side, and this
prompted the Major to compete for the
premium last offered by the same society.
1t is to be hoped that the example thus set
by the present society OF Massachusetts
Will be followed by the county organizs-
tions, and that before many years Massa-
chusetts will again be, as it was wnen the
Puritans came here, ga wellSoOded
country"
| Obstinacy Overcome In a Horse.
A gentleman related IN my presence a
little incident, which give as heard it:
A wagon was passing heavily laden with
states; the horss stopped, refusing to be
urged or cajoled into starting. OF course,
l expected, as usual to see the driver use
his whip, or perhaps his heavy boot, with
an accompaniment of shouts and oaths, TO
remind the animal of his neglect of duty.
he went to the wagon and commenced
fumbling in its depths. Now, thought /,
that poor animal will receive most tre-
mrndous beating; and / waited the
issue with bated breath. But instead
OF the heavy stroke which anticipated,
he drew out an old wooden bucket, the
outside covered with meal, the remains
of former lunches, ran along the road for
some distance before the horse, and set il
down The animal, true to his instincts,
forgetting his former obstinacy and whims,
hurried towards the well remembered re-
ceptacle of former enjoymeDts, and the
battle is won by little quiet management,
saving pain and trouble for both man and
beast.
Now, thought /, as went on my way
rejoicing, here is a lesson for educators.
Don't drive and push and swear and scold,
but accomplish your object, whether it be
with child or dumb animal, by means of
incentive to the performance of duty,
which shall recall pleasures past, or be an
earnest of joys to come.-Cor. sour Dumb
Animdls.9
PRESERVATION OF PorAToEs. The follow
ing is given as method Of preparing an
extract of the alimentary portions Of the
potato:
The potatoes, after being washed, are
dlgested in water not hot enough to rem |
der the starch of q geIatinous consistency, !
but sufficiently so to soften the f5rous
portions of the TUDOR, and allow of the /
solid slimeEisary portion being retracted |
with the water by mechanical pressure. |
This result, it is said, is produced In from |
six to ten hours by digesting in water
heated TO 104 deg. Fahrenheit, the extract /
heat, as we'll as the Duration of the di- 4
gestion, depending upon the state of ma
turity, and the natural softness or hard
ness OF the cellular tissues of the potato. |
In general, eight hours in water heated to
about 120 deg. is said to be sufficient for
the purpose. When the digestion is COM
pleted, the potatoes ere allowed to cool,
or what is better are plunged into cold
water; they are then reduced to such con-
dition that all but the cellular matter may
be squeezed out without difficulty by means
of any kind of press. the pressure being
slight at first and gradually augmented.
This second process occupies three, SIX or
even twelve hours, according to the degree
of hsxibility given to the tissues by the |
previous digestion and refrigeration.
The liquid thus obtained is boiled and
condensed by evaporation until it assumes
the consistency of Liebig's extract of meat, |
10 which it bears considerable resem-
blance; like that preparation, it is almost
incapable of decomposition IN contact with |
air under an average temperature and an /
ordinary amount of moisture, and conse-
quently can be preserved with little Diff /
Guilty.
BEAUTY OF FARIING. is nothing |
can about farm work. There is nothing
ungenerous or ungrateful in the stock.
There are no such sore aud sour things to
deal with as We meet every day among
mean men. Defaulters, liars. and thieves,
have no place on the farm. These misera-
BILE characters are in towns. The farmer
ought to be good man. he has less
temptation to be a bad man than any char
acter we know of. But his work is emo
bling. His contact is with nature. bis
dealing is with the old earth, which is the
mother of us all, and which will take US
all into her kindly arms again, when LIES
fitful fever is over.
Of is delightful to turn the back upon
anxious, quArrelsome, struggling men,
and look upon the green fields, and COM
mune with the honest cattle, and live with
nature and her children The farmers no
BILE work is worthy of a noble consecra-
ton.
WHrrESNa FLASEE.-Itis is said that fan
mel, which has become yellow by age, may |
be restored to its original whiteness by the \
OF white Marseilles soap in fifty pounds OF
soft river water, to which Is added two
thirds of an ounce Of spirit of sal ammonia,
and the whole thoroughly mixed. The |
flannel is to be immersed in this solution
and well stirred around, and afterwards !
washed of in pure water. The same re-
suit may also, it is said, be obtained still
more quickly by immersing the flannel for
an hour in a dilute solution of acid sui |
phste of soda, and then stirring in dilute
hydrochloric acid, in the proportion OF one |
part of acid to fifty Of water. The vesselis |
then to be covered over and allowed to re-
main for quarter of an hour, when the
articles are to be removed and thoroughly
washed.
DEBIIIY.-There is no medicine equal to
Hoofand's German Bitters in csses of debIl-
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