South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-07-07
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

An Ohio dairyman has dicovered that
poison in cheese is occasioned by the cows
eating lobelia.
ALWAYS do as the sun does-look at the
bright side of everything; for while it is
Just as cheap, it is three times as good for
digestion.
An experienced sheep feeder is reported
as saying that one pound of grain per day
for a sheep was all he had ever found it
profitable to feed. Last winter he fed 313
sheep, using five bushels of corn daily and
all the hay they wished to eat.
AN Iowa correspondent of the Western
Rural thinks posts should be set eight
feet apart for wire fence, and that there
should be a good solid post every forty
rods to stretch the wire on. Five wires,
the first M foot from the ground, the
next two at distances of eight inches, and
the next two nine inches apart, is the ar
rangement he recommends.
A PHYSICIAN of great note has said {:
Tobacco has a tendency to soften and
weaken the bones of young people; it
greatly Injuries the brain and spinal mar
row, and, in fact, the whole nervous fluid.
A boy who smokes frequently, or in any
way uses tobacco constantly, is never
known TO make a man of much energy,
and generally lacks muscular as well as
mental power"
A NOVELTY in domestic arts is the
introduction of starch cOlOred to any de-
sired tint. By its use a dress may be done
up in different colors, as the owner may
wish, thus obviating, at times, the Ueces-
sity for new articles of clothing. Crimson
is made by rubbing three parts fuchsine,
dissolved in water, into twenty parts OF
glycerine, and then adding one hundred
and fifty parts of finely %pulverized starch.
ASHES OF HARD AND SOFT Wood
1t is generally supposed that ashes OF pine
wood are not so rich in alkalles as those
of hard wood. DR.. Dana says, in his
Muck Manual: In equal weights, pine
ash affords foul times more alkali than the
ash of hard wood" At the same time, 8
bushel of hard wood ashes yields more
alkali than a bushel of pine wood ashes
the ash of the pine being much the light
est. According to analysis, only about Il
quarts in a hundred of hard wood ashes
are soluble.
Mr.. GARRETsEE is writing a series Of
articles for the American Rural Home
about farms he has visited. He saws he
Aoo AOuh0 oOLAC ~ L. ldAAnCO " AAOuCl
and others who have made no money re
Gently he has found one who, wisely
as he thinks, has farmed for a home anC
farm had paid, said: "Yes, l have lived
here thirty years and lived well" lii. G
thinks this was all that wes necessary, al
he says he never saw a more desirable
home.
MARKETING MMK.-Milk, properly
cooled as it comes from the COW, will keel
sweet from twenty-four to thirty-six hour
in hot weather. At least such is the testi
meny of Orange County dairymen, whC
have long been engaged in furnishing
milk for the New York market. Greal
care should be taken to cleans the cans ant
keep them perfectly sweet. They mus
be thoroughly scalded out with boiling
water, and be sure that the water is boiling
hot when applied. Well made cans, pro
perly cared for, will last three or fouI
years, and perhaps longer. The time
can will last depends of course upon it
usage. Bad usage may bangit TO pieces il
a year. The milk ans On some roads &c
very hard asage-RurG NeD Yorker.
SCIENTIFIC FARMING consists altogethe,
a3d solely in deriving the greatest pos
sible profit from the soil. Lessen tn,
labor and increase the yield, is the sum o
the whole. To do this, every thing mus
be done at the right time, and in the bes
manner. By draining, the water must b.
got rid of; by cultivation, weeds must b.
destroyed; by manure, the soil must be en-
riched; by rotation of crops, the larges
yield must be secured; by improved stock
the food must be economical and made o
more value; and the how-to do all-this il
the sum and substance of agriculture
science. Books on farming relate the ex
perience on successful men, the expert
ments they have made, and the result
they have attained. Any and every farm
er, who, by the use of his reasoning
powers, is enabled to raise one bushel o
corn per acre more than he has hitherto
done, by improved methods, is a scientific
farmer, however much he may disown tn
name; and not only has he done a goo,
thing for himself, but the world at large is
TO some extent, better for his efforts an,
success; his mission, as a man, has beel
to that extent fulfilled, and he will leav
the world better than decentralization
and Home.