Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-11-15
EaEIll and Garden


or two of old rails or poles on q piece
of ground sufficiently inclined to carry
off water, fill the crevices between the
poles with saw dust, cover with old
boards, slabs or banks, get from the
saw mill few loads of slabs, take four,
say twelve feet long, notch the corners
like log house, set them on the plat
form and you have crib about ten and
half feet square by the width OF the
slab deep; fill this crib with sawdust
and pack it down hard. Cut your ice
so that it will pack close, and two by
four feet; lay it on the sawdust, put
on another crib of slabs and fill up and
pack hard with saw dust, all around,
and SO go on until you get up six or
eight feet; then put a foot and a half
OF sawdust on top; over this put shed
roof OF slabs-One end of the slabs
nearly to the ice, raising the other
three feet. IL ice IS all that is wanted,
it will keep in this manner as well as in
vanished house.
In a short time the frosts, aided by
rams and and winds, will have scatter
ed bountiful supply of leaves over
the woodlands. These leaves can be
made to do an excellent service on the
farm. They should be carefully raked
together in heaps and drawn to the
homestead, where a shed or some place
can be found in which they may be
stored away. They may be hauled in
Il hayrack by weaving in some corn.
stalks between The stakes, close enough
to prevent them from falling through
A large barn basket is convenient
thing to load tn EN- with, and it will be
surprising how many loads may be
gathered from an acre of wood
land. They make very excel
lent bed for hogs, BENG to some
extent the bed provided for them by
nature. For sows with young pigs
they are the best bed that can be pro
cured, as there is no danger. when
they are used. of the young pigs get
ting entangled in the bedding and
crushed. As source of manure, they
are valuable, they rot easily and have
good tertlhzlng qualities. Elm and
oak leaves contain q large proportion
OF potash and leaf mold, or The de-
composed leaves, make a valuable adj
dltlon to the soil of flower gardens, or
for potting plants. Where manure is
scarce-and where is it not ?-leaves
should be the first resource whereby an
increase may be made.-Erchunge
CHEAP WASH FOR BUILDINGS.
a clean, water tight cask, and put into
1t half d bushel of lime. Slack it bv
pouring water over it boiling hot, and
in sufficient quantity to cover it five
inches deep, and stir it briskly till
he,
water, and add two pounds of suiphate
OF zinc and one of common salt. These
VIII cause the wash to harden and pre-
vent It's cracking, which gives an I'M
seemly appearance to the work A beau
tIful cream color may be given to the
wash by adding three pounds of yellow
Ochre; or good pearl or lead color by
the addition of lump of iron-black.
For fawn color add -four pounds of UNI
Der, one pound of Indian red, and one
pound common lampblack. For stone
color, add two pounds raw lumber and
two pounds of lampblack When APP
piled to the outside of houses and
and TO fences, it Is rendered more du-
ra5le by adding about pint of sweet
milk to a gallon of wash. -Scieutifc
american.
How TO KEEP A HORSE QUIET WHO
KICKS IN THE NIGHT This most annoy
ing habit, which often produces I'M
slightly swellings on the hooks, besides
more serious injuries, is frequently the
result OF nervousness and ennui, and
not of vicious propensities. It is a
form of hysteria of the limbs, to which
others beside horses are subject. I'm
fortunately the same simple means Of
cure SO efficacious i'll the horse are not
SO applicable to the human ami
NAL To cure this disagreeable habit
In the horse all that is required is to
attach round ball of wood, weighing
about two pounds, to the hind fetlock |
OF the limb most commonly employed
IN this pastime, by means of strap
two and a half or three feet long |
Whenever he lifts his foot to kick, a |
blow from the ball at once administers |
correction for the fault he is about to |
commit, and in short time he gives up
his bad habit. This plan has proved |
very successful. Edtn6urgh Med. |
Jour-, Sept, 1871.
: The Forest City Base Ball Club, of
cleveland, sent an agent to New York |
asst Week to make overtures to Jimmy
Wood, of the Cl1icagos, to assume its
'aPtalncv. The agent has just re-
and reports that a contract has
1een signed to that effect. The new
nne for 1872 is now complete, it will
De much stronger than last year
9 REMEMBER. life is but a shadow;
It's date the intermediate breath we
lraw." Insure In The Mutual Life In
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