Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-08-31
AGRICULTURAL.

MANAGE IN HoRsEs.-An the many
parts of the horses body should be
with an equal mixture OF soft
soap and ointment, and in twenty-four
hours it hould be washed OFT with warm
water, and the horse carefully dried and
blanketed afterward. If one application
is not sufficient, a second one shonld be
made; but eight or ten days should in
tervene between each application.
B. F. FULLY writes the Rural Nelo
Yorker that the best time to kill trees
and brushes is to cut them in the dark of
the moon in July or August, when the
sign is in the heat, There will be no
trouble in killing any kind of a tree or
shrub. This year the days to be chosen
should be the 18th and 10Th days of July.
l speak from experience; L have killed
the black locust with a fsingle stroke of
the AK"
NANCE ON PIGs.-Mange is a disease
similar to the itch, a scrofulous disease
that attacks pigs and hogs, if they are
not fed regular and with nutritious food.
The best way to cure the mango is to
wash the pigs clean, and give them a
good greasing with lard. Whitewash
the pen thoroughly, Inc if a little car
bolic acid or kerosene oil is added the
better. Give them clean pens with plenty
of clean litter. Feed a little sulphur or
A-oS AASclAL w ~ IN ~
ing the above a little attention the farm
ers will have little fear of the mango.
To KEEP FLIES FROM HoRsEs.--I have
employed a remedy for the last fifteen
years, both for horses and cattle, which
I wish could be known to everybody.
Procure a bunch of smartWeed-and
Drulse 1t to cause, the juice to eXude.
Rub the animal thoroughly with the.
bunch of bruised weed, especially on the
legs, neck, and ears. Neither flies or
e other insects will trouble him fortwenty-
four hours. The process should be re-
peated every day. A very convenient
way of using it,gis to make q strong in
fusion by boiling the weed i'll water a
few minutes. When cold it can be con-
: v~eniently applied with a sponge or brush.
? Smartweed is found growing in every
section of the country, usually on wet
ground near highways.-E. II. G. in Ne
SSg5Scientiac Ameficdn-s = i'd
GOOD RAT TRAP.-Take a barrel
which will h~oldHwater, cut the head a
little smaller than the top of the barrel,
= pass string through the center of the
9 head and hang it up so that it may hang
perfectly free. inside the barrel, three or
four inches below the chine. Now put
"a five or six inches of water, N drop
ne rgreese on the top of the barrel
!, which you must Balance by tack
pm some thin pieces of lead, place
trap where the rats can get it cas-
md it is ready. They come up to
he grease and stepping IN one side
e mead the other naturally tips up,
q goes the rat. The head soon gains
ailibrium and is ready for another
times when there is considerable
around where they can get at it.
won't take it for bait. In this case,
a little anise-seed in your bait.
CANNED FRUIT.-Fruit is not only the
lost delicious but the most healthful
lood we have, and every family should
be supplied withit the year through. In
order to have a supply through the win
ter and spring, preparations must bt
made early. The best mode of preserv-
ing Is by canning. The old style of pre-
serving--a pound of sugar to a pound O
fruits worse than none. Glass jar!
with glass covers are the best. Thosi
jars. with proper care, will keep any
kind of fruit without sugar, and will las
for a generation. Not only peaches
pears, grapes, tomatoes, and the small
fruits, but green beans, peas, corn, ant
other vegetables, should be canned il
large quantities, SO that they may appeal
upon the table not only every day, bu
at every meal, until fruits and vegetable
, come Ground again. "But look at tn
expense J" some will eXclaim. If is no
8 expensive as meat, and far NOR
healthful as well as ~palatable. Try it
and save your doctors bill.
MELON VINEGAR.--In California larg,
quantities of vinegar is made from waite
melons. The California Farmer give
the following recipe for making tn
O. 81 same: -t54
A good heavy oak barrel OF cask O
forty gallons was selected, one head take
out, and the barrel filled with melons
which were pommeled to a mush, heater
by a blunt stick as they were cast int
the barrel. When full, or nearly so, tn
head was again inserted, and hoops tight
ened and allowed to stand on end in tn
sunlight with a n until a sour chang
consumed most parts of the melon. The
ten gallons were racked off and remaine
in a key till it was fair vinegar; abou
foul pounds of sugar were added at thi
- time, and the liquor was all strained OF
and put into bottles of less than a quart
with the addition of one tablespoonful G
alcohol, or. pure spirits, added to eac-
bottle. Very soon it made vinegar S
sharp that water was neeessarYstO b
added to its use, an abundance ofsmothel
collected in the barrel, keg, and also i
the bottles. This gives Is a supply 70
one year. Many persons are daily fed o.
this ranch.
- How TO Jack BUTTER.-Butter put u
r in good looking packages, and withall c
a size convenient for the purposes of tn
-. retail dealer, will always command tn
70 highest market prices. Pals are tn
last thing in the world i'll which butte
should be packed, unless it is of very su
perior quality, and this market is know
= not to be overstocked. ] twill sell onl
to the trade of this city, as no other
want butter put up in that style. 1t is
useless trouble to which the consignee
put, to collect and return them, and
also expensive. The firkins used wit
best success are manufactured from we
seasoned hard spruce, although white fl
oak or ash will do. No sap should b
left on the timber on any account, as, b
long standing the sap is liable to sou
- grow black or mouldy, and injure tn
butter. Size, about twelve inches dee
by eleven inches in diameter at the tor
and nine at the bottom, in the clear, wit
a good tight made to fit close, so a
to exclude all air. This size will hol
from thirty to forty pounds, and tn
shape is preferred by the retaileron az
count of the ease with which the butte
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