Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-17

sausage factory.
THE United States steamer Brook
Iyn has left Norfolk for the European
squadron.
Cows.-Itpays to make COW COM
Portable In as many respects as posi-
BILE. Every hour she suffers from any
cause, the milk account suffers cor
respondingly-
TIME TO FEED PoULTRY.-Time to
feed poultry is not I'm the morning.
Let them do the best they can for
themselves In the early part of the
day, but just before they go to roost,
fill their crops. Active digestion can
90 on In the crops and gizzard Of a
chicken while 1t Is asleep. This rule
will not apply to winter.
SWINE. Give breeding sows, soon
to farrow-in, good, roomy pens, and
short straw for nests. Keep close
watch upon them, and II one does not
own her young, or treat them moth
erly, put a small dog In the pen for
few minutes, she will soon own the
little ones, and not err again. A sow
will usually be in heat the third day
after farrowing.
TESTING FLoUR.-An exchange
gives the following simple mode as q
proper way to test flour: Place a
thimbleful In the palm of your hand
and rub IT gently with the finger. If
the -four smooths down, feeling
smooth and slippery, It Is of an infe-
rior quality. But If the flour rubs
rough in the palm, feeling like fine
sand, and has an orange tint, pur.
chase confidently. It will not dis
appoint you.
To REJUvINATE OLD GRAPE
VINES.-The editor of the Practical
Farmer says: "Having on our prem
ises, planted by former owners, prob
ably twenty years ago, half dozen
old grape vines, with large weather.
beaten trunks or stems, which made
annually but little wood and yielded
but very poor grapes, two seasons
ago we cut of the branches, covering
with about foot OF earth. Vigorous
and healthy shoots sprung up In great
abundance-the weak ones of which
were broken of, and leading ones al
proper distances trained to the arbor
The new growths are very clean
healthy and strOng--sufIlcien entire
ly to cover the large arbor the pres
ent season; we look for bushels O
fruit from the new bearing wood
We see old grape vines everywhere
doing no good, and which could b,
made young and thrifty by this pro
cess"
FORCING RHUBARB.--One of tn,
hest methods of forcing rhubarb Is t,
take up the plant in autumn ant
place them in q greenhouse or no
beds. Barrels divided crosswise will
make excellent tubs in which {,
place the roots for forcing. Plant
put in a warm room, or light, warn
cellar, will also push into growth IL
winter, and furnish supply of rhu
barb. In fact, rhubarb is one of thos
plants which will withstand almos
any amount of Ill usage and neglect
and yet will repay the grower for tn
very best of culture. Some of tn
crown, these should be removed a
soon as they appear, unless the objeC
Is to raise seed Instead of leaves. 4
little warm, fresh manure from tn
horse-stable thrown over the plant
in early spring will assist very ma
terially In advancing the growth. !
barrel or box, with neither bottom @
top, placed over the plant in spring
will cause kthe leafstalks TO gro,
much longer than they would with
out this appliance, and they will ais
he much more tender and less acit
which some persons think Is an i'm
provement.
Every family should be supplie
with rhubarb in spring, and thos
who own garden have no good res
son for not having this vegetable 1
abundance, for both seed and plant
can be procured for merely nomina
m.-Uedrth and Home.