The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1871-06-29
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

A WET sponge and green leaves are
worn IL the hat by Bostonians to avert
sunstroke
THOSE owning trout ponds should keep
ducks away from them. One able bodied
duck, it is said, will kill and eat ten trout a
day, and an ordinary flock will clean out
pond IN year OF two.
POVERTY and riches are mere magma
tive distinctions. The man who can eat
his bread and be happy is certainly richer
than he who can. eat it unless it is spread
with butter.
ANOTHER new meat-preserving process,
said to be very successful, is described in
the K0nieur Scisntifque. 1t consists in the
immersion of the meat in solution of per-
fectly pure carbolic acid IN water. Not
only raw meat, but eggs, fish and vegeta-
bles can be preserved by the same method.
WHETHER to eat ice cream or not, that
is the question. The following is an opin-
ION that Is floating around the country:
Ice cream has very injurious influence
upon the functions of the stomach. As
soon as 1t becomes melted and digested it
becomes powerful heating material, pro-
duclng violent reaction, and leaving the
membrane IN 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 b occupied in
giving keen edge to them by means of a
emery stone or common milestone
When knife is changed it should be
ground and prepared Immediately, that it
may be ready for use the moment it is
needed. 4 stitch in time saves nine, ="
should be chalked upon the door of every
barn, and learned by heart-Hedrh and
| Home
HE american Rural Home thinks it is
| less labor to transplant beets from seed
beds into well prepared ground, and after
wards cultivate them, than to weed and
| thin them in the field. 1t gives 1900
| 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-better we think by
| the Use OF masOn's trOwcl, with which
! the earth can be pressed, the plant insert
ed, the trowel drawn ont, allowing the
earth to fall back of itself
i-NNiii- IN 1OMAlo VINES. - uC
| RuTM AeD Yorker commends this prac-
tlce on the ground that, if planted in rich
soil, the plants will usually continue grow
ing vigorously, expanding their strength,
| IN the early part of the season, in prOduc.
ing stems and leaves-little fruit appear
ing until late, SO late that much of the crop
ordinarily does not ripen, in the North.
| by plnchlng IN the vines, the efforts of the
| plant are turned to fruit production. II
| thinks the tops should be pinched off
when the plants are foot high, and the
| the lateTals when a foot or a little more il
| length.
| IN reply to query as to the best method
! OF killing out hazel brush without plow-
ing, and the best time TO chop sprouts
| from stumps, Rural" in the Chicago
Tribune, says: AS 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. a
Russlan gentleman living near Chicago
taxes nne pulVerZed, alr-slackCd lime,
commences at one end of the field and
scatters it over the vines for the distance of
about ten rods. In the course Of the dav.
If the lime is applied in the morning, the
bugs nearly all betake themselves further
down the row where 40 lime was scatter
ed. The next day he scatters lime on the
vines for a like distance, and thus con
tlnues day by day, till the bugs are driven
on to small area, when they are destroy
ed by Paris green or by other means.
a WRITER in Apolet0n's Journal collates
the proverbs, superstitions and curious
facts about cats. This extract NAV save
some mothers worry: A common super
stition charges cats with sucking the
breath of infants, thereby causing their
death by strangulatiOn. This is false &C
cusation, az pussy's mouth is so formed an
atomlcally that she would not be able to
DO so sanguinary deed did she wish it.
Instances are on record where cats have
crawled into cradle or bed, and laid down
on an Infants face, not probably with any
criminal lntent-thOugh children have
been found dead under such circumstances
but purely for the sake of the warmth
OF the infants body and clothing.