Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-07-27
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE


Avoid unripe fruits.
LIFE is like bank-note, and your vir-
tues are the figures upon it.
If misfortune comes into your house, be
patient and smile pleasantly, and it will
stalk out again, for it can't bear cheerful
company.
How TO CURE WASP STINGs.-Potash
water is the quickest cure for wasp stings.
A small quantity should be kept in glass
stoppered bottle. Open the sting with
needle, and put on one drop of the potash
water.-Erchan9e.
GLYCRRNE and litharge, stirred to a
paste, harden rapidly, and make suitable
cement for iron upon iron, for two stone
surfaces, and especially for fastening iron
to stone. The cement is insoluble, and is
not attacked by strong acids.
THREE-FoURTHs of the difficulties and
miseries of men come from the fact that
most want wealth without earning it, fame
without deserving it, popularity without
temperance, respect without virtue, and
happiness without holiness.
KILLING GRAssHOPPERs.-An Austria
lian paper states that if common larkspur
be sown in gardens and vineyards, the
flowers will be eaten by the grasshoppers,
which will suddenly die. The writer
states that he has followed this plan with
success for years.
Mr., JOSEPH HARRIS says, in the Anae,7-
can AgrSculturist, that while he believes in
clover and that we cannot grow too much
of it, it should all be fed on the farm, and
he believes that fall-fallowing, on clay
land, is more in accordance with the facts
of scientific farming than is the practice Of
plowing under clover.
APPLYING PLASTER TO LAND.-The
Rural NeU Yorker says: "Three bushels
per acre is enough for any crop. If to be
applied to corn or potatoes, throw table
spoonful on each hill after the first hoeing
If to pastures, meadows or spring grain,
sow broadcast as early in spring as you
can do it, doing it, if you can SO manage
it, just before rain"
If caught in shower, and you get your
hat wet, brush it before it is dry. And so
of the horse. When ne comes in wet with
perspiration smooth his hair with coarse
brush-a common broom is better than
nothing-in the direction you wish it to
lie when he is dry. The animal will feel
better and it will be only half the trouble
to clean him the next time he needs it.
WATERING TRANS OFTEN.-How many
times day does the plowman or driver of
team in the harvest field slake his thirst
Does it not occur to him that the horses
or oxen, which have been severely taxed
with labor, and have possibly been pro-
fusely sweating under the hot sun,
are in as great need of quenching
thirst as he? When animals are kept too
long from water, they will certainly take
more than is proper for them, and many a
fit of colo is occasioned thereby. The
practice of watering, at least once between
fptAa in the nnrpinn nd ir,t ha
afternoon, should be regularly followed
and if fifteen minutes is thereby lost to the
plow, it will be more than made up in the
renewed vigor with which the team will
take hold on its return.-HedTM and
Home.
CLEANLINEss.-An neat, clean, fresh air.
| ed, sweet, cheerful, well arranged house
exerts moral influence over it's inmates
and dmakes the members of a family peace.
able and considerate of each others feel.
ings and happiness. The connection is
obvious between the state of mind thus
produced, and respect for others, and for
those higher duties and obligations, which
no laws can enforce. On the contrary, a
filthy, squalid, noxious dwelling, in which
none of the decencies of life are observed
contributes to make the inhabitants selfish
sensual, and regardless of the feelings Of
others; and the constant indulgence oi
such passions renders them reckless and
brutal.-Bee- Keepers Journal
AT a meeting of the Potomac Fruit
Growers Association, a member stated
that he had been successful in raising
good crops of ounces, not by pruning tC
a single stem, as is recommended in the
books, but by permitting it to throw w
three or four stems, and form a bushy
head. He prunes very little, merely taking
out or shortening cross shoots. He per
mits the grass and weeds about the tree tc
remain and decay on the ground, and givei
a light dressing of salt annually. He cut.
away blighted branches as soon as posi-
BILE. He has grown ounces for thirty
years, always with perfect success wheI
the tree was kept in the bush form, and al
ways with bad results when the single stem
style was attempted.
To TAN SQUIRREL SKINs.-Place tn,
hide on smooth, round d-sided slab, made
for the purpose, with two legs in one end
and let the other end rest on the ground
drive nail in the upper end to hold thu
skin while slipping from fleshing. Scraps
of all the flesh with a blunt knife, beinf
careful not to tear the hide. Then TAXI
the brains of the squirrel and work then
thoroughly into the skin; this renders th,
skin pliable. Then, to preserve the Skin
from the ravages of insects, scatter OF
some powdered alum and little saltpeter
Let dry; then stretch and work it until a.
pliable as may be desired. The above h
acknowledged to be a very good recipe fol
tanning all kinds of fur, although tber,
may be better ones in use-Erchdnqe.