The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-08-10
THE BULLETIN.
Publication once, bulletin building
Washington Avenue.
AGRICULTURAL,
a BIO DAIRY.


1t is said that the second largest dairy
IN America (the first being that Of Chas
webb Howard, Of California; is located
about four miles from st. Louis. There
are eoO cows in the stable. They are atten.
ded by Swiss mixers. The chief food
used is ground corn, mixed with malt and
oil meal, cooked by steam. The average
amount OF material consumed per day il
about 4oO bushels of malt, GOO pounds
cut nay, NIFTY bushels Of corn meal, fifteen
SACKS OF bran and oil meal; cut hay and
oran mixed together are also furnished.
me summer pasturage Of this mammoth
DAIRY embraces an area Of over 1000 acres
OF hne rolling land, with numerous springs
OF cold water. The average daily Yield Of
MIX MIX az ihe present timcis 300 gallons,
with eighty gallons of cream.
soME HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
III your lat-irons are rough and smok v.
laya little fine salt on q fat surface. and
rub them well; II will prevent them from
sticking to anything starchcd, and makes
them smooth.
Rub your griddle with fine salt before
you grease it, and your cake will not
stick
When walnuts have been kept until the
meat Is too much dried 10 DO good, lot them
stand in milk and water eight hours and
dry them, and they will 10 as fresh rs
when new.
II is good plan to keep your different
kinds OF pieces Of tape, thread, &c, in
separate bage, and there is no time lost in
looking TOR them.
DAT straw is the best iot flling of beds,
and 1t is well to change itas often MS once
u year.
Cedar chests are best to keep asunels,
Tor cloth moths are never found 10 them.
Red cedar chips are good to keep in
drawers, wardrobes, closets, trunks, etc,
10 Keep out moths. 2
When clothes have acquired an unplcns-
ant ordor By being kept from the air,
charcoal, laid in the folds, will soon re-
move il. ...''i7 -
II black dresses have been stained, boil
. handful OF bg leaves, in aquart of 3ster,
in ibis fluid and rubbed upon them. viii
entirely remove stains from carpets, bonn
bazines, etc. y 20
In laying up furs for summer, Law tai
low candle in or near them, aud danger
from worms will DO obviated.
To prevent metals from rusting, melt
together three parts Of lard, and one Of
r,sin, and apply very thin coating. II
will preserve Russia iron stoves and CRATES
from rusting during summer, even 10
damp situations The effect 10 equally
good on brass, copper, steel, etc.
SETTING FENCES BY MACHINERY.
A novel application Of the pile-driver
has been adopted where the labor Of ''rnak-
ing fence is heavy and continuous The
impliment employed for setting the post.
Is none other than the ordinary pile-driv-
er, made, OF course, on smaller scale, and
with about twelve feet drop for the ram.
The materials are light scantling, 2 by 6
and BY inches, with heavier hard wood
sills 70 facilitate moving, and the ram OF
the but Of an oak log 6 feet long banded
with iron at top and bottom 10 prevent
splitting, and about l6 inches ia diameter.
Grooves are plowed in each side 10 admit
OF the ram travelling readily In the guides
The power is yoke Of cattle attached 70
the rope raising the ram. This passing
under one wheel at bottom and over an.
other at top Of the machine answers we'll,
raising the ram rapidly to the top, from
whence it falls with an effective blow up
on the cedar post, which Is pointed and
held straight below. The posts are driven
rapidly, and remain firmly fixed, the "
obstacle to the success of tho operation BE-
ing the time necessary TO move the ma
chine. This will suggest TO our manufa-
turers the attachment of small and COM
pact pile-driver attached to portable en-
CINE on wheels, the whole being readily
moved from place 10 place. Such a ma.
chine will doubtless find ready sale for
fence making on Western prairies. Iron
Age.