Mower County transcript., 1871-07-06
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

A WET sponge and green leaves are
worn in the hat by Bostonians to avert
sunstroke.
THOSE owning out-ponds should keep
ducks away from them. One able bodied
duck, it is said, will kill and cat ten trout a
day, and an ordinary flock will clean out a
pond in year or two.
PovERTY and riches are mere imagina-
tive distinctions The man who can cat
his bread and be happy is certainly richer
than he who can't cat it unless il is spread
with butter.
WHETHER to eat ice cream or not, that
is the question. The following is an 0pin.
ion that is floating around the country
Ice cream has very injurious influence
upon the functions of the stomach. As
soon as it becomes melted and digcsted i,
becomes a pow eriul heating material, pro.
ducing violent reaction, and leaving the
membrane in a loaded or congested condi
ton"
DULL TOOLS are an abomination to an
active man, besides being prolific means
Of wasting time, which is money The
knives of the mower should be kept well
ground, and while the horses are resting
the driver who has been riding comforta
bly, round the field, should be occupied in
giving keen edge to the III by means Of a
emery stone or common whctstonc
When knife is changed it should he
ground and prepared Immediately, that ii
may be ready for use the moment it is
needed. A "stitch in time saves nine,
should be chalked upon the door of every
barn, and learned by heart.-HeurM aau
Home.
TIE american RurM Home thinks it is
less labor to transplant beets from seed
beds into we'll prepared ground, and after
wards cultivate them, than to weed and
thin them in the field. 1t gives 1906
plants as the proper number for an acre
and thinks man and boy can transplant
them in two days, the boy dropping the
plants and the man setting them in holes
made with dipple-bctter we think, by
the use OF mason's trowtl, with which
the earth can be pressed, the plant insert
ed, the trowel drawn out, allowing the
earth to fall back of itself.
PINCHlNG IN TOMATO VINES. The
| RurN NeD Yorker cOmmends this Drlc
| tice on the ground that, it planted in rich
| soil, the plants will usually continue grow
ing vigorously, expeIding their strength
in the carly part of the season, in produc
ing stems and leaves-little fruit appear
ing until late, so late that much Of the croI
ordinarily does not ripen, in the North
by pinching in the vines, the efforts of the
i plant are turned to fruit production. i
thinks the tops should be pinchcd of
when the plants are q foot high, and the
the laterals when foot or little more il
length.
In reply to query as to the best metho(
of killing out hazel brush without plow
ing, and the best time to chop sprouts
from stumps, Rural" in the Chicago
Tribune, says: GAS a general thing, trees
cut in August will die. 1t should be done
when in full growing vigor, and before the
wood is matured. Sprouts cut from stumps
in July, and again in August, are pretty
sure to be finished Hazel brush cut in
spring and fed down by sheep through the
summer, will be out of the way; other.
wise they may need two or three cut
tings."
To drive potato bugs from his fields, 8
Russian gentleman living near Chica &C
takes fine pulverized, air Stacked line
commences at one end of the field ani
scattcrs it over the vines for the distance OF
about ten rods. In the course Of the day
~ 'AS itAio 10 aPPltcN Ill VIC Il'IIllHg, tle
hugs nearly all betake themselves further
down the row where no lime was scatter
ed. The next day he scalters lime on the
vines for like distance, and thus con
tiLu's day by day, till the bugs are driven
on to q small area, when they are destroy
ed by Paris green or by other means.
A WRITER in Appleton'y Jouqna1 collates
the proverbs, superstitions and curious
facts about cats. This extract may save
some mothers worry: A common super
stition charges cats with sucking the
breath of infants, thereby causing Their
death by strangulation. This is a false &C
cusation, as pussy's mouth is so formed an.
atomically that she would not be able tC
do so sanguinary deed did she wish it
Instances are On record where cats have
crawled into a cradle or bed and laid down
on an infants face, not probably with any
criminal intent-though children have
been found dead under such circumstances
but purely for the sake Of the warmth
of the infants body and clothing.