The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-02-24
USEFUL RECIPES, ETC,

THE Mdine Farmer recommends giving
pigs good rock salt twice week.
If the combs and legs of hens are rough,
they are old; if smooth and timber, they
are young
A SOUND discretion is not so much indi-
Gated by never making mistake, as by
never repeating it.
BE always at leisure to do a good
action; never make business an excuse
for neglecting offices of humanity.
LAND is often injured for years by plow-
ing while wet. Better miss one crop than
hurt the land, but better still prepare it in
the fall, when, if well underdrained, there
will be but little trouble in the spring,
even in wet seasons.-Erchdn9e.
INTENDING KETTLEs.-If an iron kettle
has hole in the bottom of it drive in
plug of lead and hammer it down on both
sides. If kept covered with water it will
not melt. Or make a cement with six
parts of dry clay and one of iron-filings,
made into paste with boiled linseed oil.
CHAs. V. RILEY, entomologist, cautions
those who would use carbOlic acid to de-
stroy insects, against using the crude
(cresylic) acid, the latter being the pure
acid. However much diluted, he says, it
kills plants as well as insects. "Carbolic
acid mixes well with alkalies, but not with
water, and it can only be used as a sapo-
naceous compound"
ASSOCIATED dairles originated in Swift
zerland, where the poor peasants were
obliged to combine the milk of their sim
gle COWS to make cheese to compete with
their rich neighbors American dairymen
combine to perfect their productions, by
securing the best conveniences and appli-
ances for converting milk into cheese and
butter, fit for transportation, and of a style
that shall suit the taste of consumers
Four correspondents of the Country
Gentleman unite in the statement that an
application of coal tar to seed corn is the
best preparation to prevent birds pulling
up the seed. The tar should be heated be-
fore being applied, or else placed on top of
the seed, and boiling water poured on
They give from tour tablespoonful to a
half pint of the tar as enough for a bushel
of the corn.
In lecture before the Connecticut
State Board of Agriculture, on parasites,
Prof Verrin said that the bed bug is
nocturnal and gregarious in its habits, and
hence easy to get rid Of 1t loves home
| and returns when possible every night to
the same haunts. They lay eggs with q
lid on the top, about 100 each, and so a
few dozens in a season will stock a house.
They are allied to the louse Six parts of
| petroleum to a hundred parts of water is a
simple remedy.
THERE is great deal of intemperance
| besides that of tobacco, opium or brandy.
Men are dissipated, to OvertaX their system
all day and undersleep every night Some
men are dissipated by physical stimulants,
and some by social, and some by profess
sional and commercial. But man who
| dies of delirium tremens is no more a
| drunkard and a suicide than the lawyer,
minister or the merchant that works ex-
cessively all day and sleeps but little at
night-Beeclttr.
"F. G." writes the Country Gentleman
that sod is preferable for corn; that he has
| found little difference in the crops on
| ground plowed in fall or spring, but pre-
fen blowing in the fall on clay land; that
it is much the best plan to draw out and
| spread the manure as soon as the ground
is plowed; that snow will not hurt the
manure in the least If the land is to be
plowed in the spring he still thinks it
better to draw out and spread the manure
in the winter-drawing it as made.
| POPULAR ERRoRs.-To think that the
more man eats the fatter and stronger he
will become. To believe that the more
hours children study the faster they learn.
To conclude that, if exercise is good, the
more violent it is the more good is done.
To imagine that every hour taken from
sleep is an hour gained. To act on the
presumption that the smallest room in
the house is large enough to sleep in. To
argue that whatever remedy causes one to
feel Immediately better is good for the
| system, without regard to more Interior
effects. To eat without an appetite; or to
continue to eat after il has been satisfied,
merely to crafty the taste To eat a
hearty supper for the pleasure expert
enced during the brief time it is passing
| down the throat, at the expense of whole
night of disturbed sleep and a weary wax
ing in the morning.
| BEETs.-The culture Of the beet is said
10 be worth more to country as fertil-
izer than the product directly derived from
the treatment Of the root, the waste pulp
proving more valuable than the sugar. 1t
is led to barned cattle in large quantities.
1t Is stated that in France, where the bust
| ness has grown to enormous dimensions.
the increase in cattle on account of beet
pulp is wonderful. In the district of
country surrounding the city of Valen-
ciennes, where, before the production of
beet sugar, seven hundred oxen are the
total amount, eleven thousand five hun
dred are the total amount raised last wear
But this is not all This enormous in
crease of stock has so much advanced the
fertility of the land that one hundred and