Mower County transcript., 1871-08-03
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

a TIMELY MOIlO FUN A1IILE OLhS.-
Avoid unripe fruits.
LIFE is like bank.nCte, and your vir-
tues are the ligares upon it.
If misfortune comes into your house, be
patient and smile pleasantly, and it will
stalk out again, for it can't bear cheerful
company.
How TO CURE WASP SrlNas.-Potash
water is the quickest cure for wasp stings.
A small quantity should be kept in a glass
stoppered bottle. Open the sting with a
needle, and put on ono drop Of the potash
Watcr.-Erchan9e.
GLycEKlNE and ithargc, stirred to a
paste, harden rapidly, and make suitable
cement for iron upon iron, for two stone
surfaces, and especially for fastening iron
to stone. The cement is insoluble, and is
not attacked by strong acids.
TnREE-FoURTHs of the difficulties and
miscrics of men come from the fact that
most want wealth without earning it, fame
without deserving it. popularity without
temperance, respect without virtue, and
happiness without holiness
KILLING GRAssHoPPERs-An Austra-
llan paper states that ii common larkspur
he s>wn in gardens and vineyards, the
flowers will be eaten by the grasshoppcrs,
which will suddenly die. The writer
states that he has followed this plan with
success for years.
Nix. JOSEPH HARRIS says, in the Ameri-
can Ag'7culuaast, that while he believes in
clover and that we cannot grow too much
of it, it should all be fed on the farm, and
he believes that fall-fallowing, on clay
land, is more in accordance with the facts
of scientific farming than is the practice of
ploWing under clover.
APPLYING PLASTER TO LAND.-The
Rural Neo Yorker says: Three bushels
per acre is enough for any crop. II to be
applied to corn or potatoes, throw table
spoonful on each hill after the first hoeing
II to pastures. meadows or spring grain,
SOW broadcast rs carly in spring us you
can do it, doing it, if you can so manage
it, just before rain"
If caught in shower, and you get your
hat wet, brush it before it is dry. And 80
of the horse. When he comes in wet with
perspiration smooth his hair with a coarse
brush-a common broom is better than
nothing-in the direction you wish it to
lie when he is dry. The animal will feel
better and it will be only half the trouble
to clean him the next time he needs it,
WATERING TEAMS OFrEN.-How many
times a day does the plowD>an or driver Of
team in the harvest field slake his thirst
Does it not occur to him that the horses
Or oxcn which have been severely taxed
with labor, and have possibly been pro.
fuscly sweating under the hot sun,
are in as great need of quenching
thirst as he? When animals are kept too
long from water, they will certainly take
more than is proper for them, and many
tit of collie is occasioned thereby. The
practice of watering, at least once between
feeds in the morning and again in the
afternoon, should be regularly followed,
and if fifteen minutes is thereby lost to the
plow, it will be more than made up in the
renewed vigor with which the team will
take hold on its return.-Heayth and
Home.
CLEANLINEss.-A neat, clean, fresh air
ed, sweet, cheerful, we'll arranged house
excrts moral Influence over its inmates,
and makes the members of family peace
able and Consideratc of each others feel
ings and happiness. The connection is
obvious between the state of mind thus
produced, and respect for others, and for
those higher duties and obligations, which
no laws can enforce On the contrary, a
filthy, squalid, noxious dwelling, in which
none Of the decencies of lite are observed,
contributes to make the inhabitants selfish,
sensual, and regardless Of the feelings OF
others; and the constant indulgence OF
such passions renders them reckless and
brutal.-Bee-Ke Keepers Journal
AT meeting of the Potomac Frui,
Growers Association, a member stated
that he had been successful in raising
good crops OF ounces, not by pruning tc
q single stem, as is recommended in the
books, but by permitting it to throw ur
three or four stems, and form q busly '
head. He pruncs very little, merely taking
out or shortening cross shoots. He per
mits the grass and weeds about the tree tC
remain and decay on the ground, and give,
light dressing Of salt annually. He cuts
away blighted branches as soon as posi-
bic. He has grown ounces for thirty
years, always with perfect success whcl
! the tree was kept'in the bush form, and al
ways with bad results whenthe single stem
style was attempted.
To TAN SQUIRREL SK1Ns.-Place tn
hide on smooth, round sided slab, mad
for the purpose, with two legs in one end
and let the other end rest on the ground
! drive a nail in the upper end to hold tn
skin while slipping from fleshing. Scrap,
; off all the flesh with blunt knife, bein,
careful not to tear the hide. Then taxi
the brains of the squirrel and work then
thoroughly into the skin; this renders tn,
. skin pliable. Then, to preserve the ski
!, from the ravages of insects, scatter OF
some powdered alum and little saltpeter
; Let dry; then stretch and work it until a.
, pliable as may be desired The above i
acknowledged to be very good recipe fo
, tanning all kinds Of fur, although Their
may be better ones in ErchGn0e.