Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-09-07
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

! USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.
CUTTING TlMBER.-If posts or rails are
needed tor service during the winter, the
trees may be cut now, while in full leaf
Allowed to lie rs the trees are cut the
evapotion from the leaves will drain the
timber nearly dry when short exposure
afterwards will very etfcctually season it.
The economy OF using posts and rails
peeled Is very great; the loose bark re.
tains moisture between it and the wood
and the sap wood soon r0ts. When peeled
the sap wood dries, and will last MANY
years longer.-HearM and Home.
To CLEAN Brass Rub the surface of
the metal with rotten stone and sweet oil.
then rub of with piece of cotton flannel,
and polish with soft leather A solution
OF ONalic acid rubbed over tarnishrd brass
soon removes the tarnis}, rendering the
metal bright. The acid must be Nashcd
OFT with water, and the brass rubbed with
whitening and soft leather. A mixture of
muliatic acid and alum dissolved in water,
lmparts golden color to brass articles
that arc stepped in it for few seconds
WRITER in the Food Jouq'nal saws that
out of twenty samples of bakers bread
analy zed and examined by bin, only three
were positively genuine, while sixteen
were contaminated with an actual poison
The quantity he says, is not so great as to
snow Immediate effects, but thousands are
unconsclously consuming a half grain of
snlphate OF copper every day, habit that
cannot be long practiced with impunity.
AS he suggests, however, the fault may
not rest entirely with the bakers, since
there are inferior brands of flour in the
market, warranted to mako white bread
without the use of alum.
i THINNING TURNIps-Thisi is duty that
must not be negle ctcd, if fair, we'll grown
roots are desired, and these make the
heavy crops If the soil is rich, and the
growth promires we'll, twelve or fifteen
inches should b. left between the plants.
otherwise less will do. A sharp hoe is good
singing instrument. Vacant spaces may
ne filed by transplanting, if it is carefully
done. A garden trowel should be used
and scoopful Of earth taken with the
plant and deposited in the place desired
This work should be done on damp
evening, or during a shower of ram. ii
dry weather occur, it will hardly be worth
the trouble; at least, we have found it 80
in our Observation-Disclosures and Home.
How TO BORE HOLES IN G1Ass-Any
hard steel tool will cut glass with great
facility when kept freely wet with cam.
phor dissolved in turpentine. A drill ,w
may he used or even the hand alone. A
hole bored may be easily enlarged by
round file. The rugged edges of glass YES
sells may also DC thus easily snoothed by
flat file. Flat window glass can readily
be sawed by a watch spring saw, by the
aid OF this solution. In short, the most
brittle glass can be wrought almost as easily
as brass by the use of cutting tools kept
constantly moist with carnpAorized oil of
MISUNDERSTANDING
A CORRESPONDENT of the N2ao Eu1lG7ad
Farmer says that double zinnias are now
as effective flower as can be raised. Their
perfectly cupped petals have quite cc]ipsed
those OF the dahlia The white varieties
are now al established fact. They are
very beautiful, being Of paper wilderness,
and every petal is perfectly formed. In
order to grow them in perfection they
should be prunned and pinched in, and
prevented from struggling A we'll grown
plant, properly trained and prunned, is as
fine an object as the tlower-beds can ex-
hibit. This season striped zinnias are the
novelty.
CRACKED HEELS, OR GREAsE-This
complaint, when neglected, becomes very
troblesome. Filth is its chief cause, and
without the cause being removed it is i'm
possible to cure it. In some cases the leg
is swollen to the knee, and discharges of.
fensive matter from suppurating cracks,
which are opened at every movement Of
the horses loot. No careful horseman,
however, would permit his brast to become
afflicted to this degree, for early treatment
brings about speedy and easy cu,e. Car
| bohc soap and VAIN water, applied three
times day, and a little glycerine to pro-
tect the cl,an< ed surface from exposure to
the air, will effect a cure. Ihis unsightly
| disease should not be permitted to exist a
moment longer than necessary to eradicate
it. We can not imagine man OF proper
sclfrespect allowing himself to be seen in
| public driving horse suffering from it.
Hearth and lone
Hors WITHOUT PoLEs-A correspond.
ent of the Country Gentlenanm writes as
follows Eight years experience proves
that we can pick our hops as cneap!y, and
much heater, by using baskets and pick
ing from the vine trained horizontally and
low, without cutting any part of the vine,
thus leaving 1t to mature and rlpen the
root for next years use when the hop yard
is trailed in this way, no hills die, Tut the
plant is more vigorous each year, as long
as it is well taken care Of, with one fourth
the manure that is required if the plants
are cut Many of our hop-growers are
not aware OF the great outrage they are
committing upon the first principles of
vegetable physiology by severing such a
mass of vines and foliage as is done
in all cases where the hop is trained high
and the vines cut to pick. have seen
yards OF luxuriant growth and great yield
picked early, bleed 80 as not to produce
next year; the ground around the hill
would be kept wet for days by the flow of
| sap from cutting.
TIE Chemical News gives us from the
German MonuI Of IPt'srmacy the follow.
ing receipt, by Reinsch, for making the
soup tablets so much in use in the German
army during the late war: Take eltv. II
parts, by weight, of good suet, melt it in
an iron pan, and make it very hot, so as to
become brown; add, while keeping the fat
stirred, eighteen parts of rye meal, and
continue heating and stirring, SO as to
make the mass brown; and then four
parts Of dried salt and two paris of
coarse]y pulverized carraway seed. The
mixture is then poured into tin pans
somewhat like those used for making
chocolate into cakes. The cakes have the
appearance Of chocolate, and are chiefly
intended for the use of the soldiers while
III the field. A. quantity Of about one
ounce of this preparation is sufficient to
yield, when boiled with some water, ra~
ton of goud SOUP and in case of need,
the cakes being agreeable to the taste,
may be eaten raw.
rotation OF Crops.
All cultivated plants extract quantity