The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1871-07-06
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

An Ohio dairyman has dicovered that
poison in cheese is occasioned by the COWS
eating lobelia.
ALWAYS do as the sun does-look at the
bright side of everything; for while it is
just as cheap, it is three times as good for
digestion.
An experienced sheep feeder is reported
as saying that one pound of grain per dav
for sheep was all he had ever found it
profitable to feed. Last winter he fed 313
sheep, using five bushels of corn daily and
all the hay they wished to est.
AN Iowa correspondent of the Western
Rurdl thinks posts should be set eight
feet apart for wire fence, and that there
should be a good solid post every forty
rods to stretch the wire on. Five wires,
the first one foot from the ground, the
next two at distances of eight inches, and
the next two nine inches apart, is the ar
rangement he recommends.
A PHYSICIAN Of great note has said !:
" Tobacco bss tendency to soften and
weaken the bones of young people; it
greatly Injuries the brain and spinal mar
row, and, IN fact, the whole nervous duid.
a boy who smokes frequently, or IN any
way uses tobacco constantly, is never
known 10 make man OF much energy,
and generally lacks muscular as well as
mental power"
A NOVELTY in domestic arts is the
introduction of starch cOloTed TO any de-
sired tint. By its use q dress may be done
up in different cOlors, as the owner may
wish, thus obviating, at times, the recess
sity for new articles of clothing Crimson
is made by rubbing three parts fuChsine,
dissolved in water, into twenty parts Of
glycerine, and then adding one hundred
and fifty parts of finely pulveriZed starch.
ASHES OF HARD AND SOFT WOoD.-
1t is generally supposed that ashes or pine
wood are not so rich in alkalies as those
of hard wood. DIR. Dana says, in his
1Iuck Manual: "In equal weights, pine
ash affords four times more elkali than the
ash OF hard wood" At the same time, a
bushel OF hard wood ashes yields more
alkali than bushel of pine wood ashes,
the ash of the pine being much the light
est. According to analysis, only about Is
quarts in hundred OF hard wood ashes
are soluble.
Mr.. GARRETsEE is writing 6 series of
articles for the american RurGl Home,
about farms he has visited. lie SAYS he
has found some who has farmed for money
and others who have made no money; re
Gently he has found one who, more wisely
As he thinks, has farmed for home and
a good living, and who, when asked if his
farm had paid, said: Yes, | have lived
here thirty years and lived well" Mr.. G.
thinks this was all that was necessary, as
he says he never saw more desirable
home.
MARKETING MnK.-Milk, properly
cooled as it comes from the cow, will keep
sweet from twenty four to thirty-siX hours
in hot weather. Al least such is the test
meny Of Orange County dairymen, who
have long been engaged in furnishing
milk for the New York market Great
care should be taken to cleans the cans and
keep them perfectly sweet They must
be thoroughly scalded out with boiling
water, and be sure that the water is boiling
hot when applied. Well made cans, pro
perly cared for, will last three or four
years, and perhaps longer. The time a
can will last depends OF course upon its
usage. Bad age may bang it TO pieces in
a year. The milk cans on some roads get
very hard usage -RurGL NeIo Yorker.
SCIENTIFIC FARMING consists altogether
asd solely in deriving the greatest pos
slble profit from the soil. Lessen the
labor and increase the yield, is the sum OF
INC W NUT. ~ uO tlfS, every Thing must
be done at the right time, and IL the best
manner. BY draining, the water must be
got rid of; by cultivation, weeds must be
destroyed; by manure, the soil must be en-
rched; by rotation of crops, the largest
yield must be secured by improved stock
tie food must be economical and made of
more value; and the how TO do ll-this is
tie sum and substance of agricultural
silence. Books on farming relate the eX.
prience on successful men, the expert
nents they have made, and the results
tley have attained. Any and every farm
er, who, by the use of his reasoning
powers, is enabled to raise one bushcI OF
corn per acre more than he has hitherto
doae, by improved methods, IS a scientific
farmer, however much he may disown the
name; and not only has he done good
thing for himself, but the world at large is,
to some extent, better for his efforts and
success; his mission, as man, has been
to that extent fulfilled, and he will leave
the world better than he found :t.-Hedrth
and Home