The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1871-03-30

\ correspondent OF the Country Gentle
man gives the following directions for
vanishing pictures :
OF. Canada balsam.
on. spirits of turpentine. Mix.
Before This composition is applied, the
drawing or print should be sized with So
luton OF isinglass in water. When dry,
apply the varnish with camers hair brush.
A piece of ising lass three inches square,
dissolved in three or four tablespoonius of
warm water, is about right. Try the pro-
Tess on some picture of no consequence,
for the iSinglass must be strong enough to
prevent the varnish from affecting the pa
per. Pretty colored Autographs may be
treated in this manner with very pleasing
effect, particularly landscapes, and if franz
ed, need no glass, which detracts so much
from everything except an engraving.
The nutritive value of different kinds of
cattle food, given by Prof. Johnson in his
work entitled GLOW Crops Grow is as
follows Good hay is placed at 100, oil
cake ca, oats 50, corn sc, barley 81, good
clover hay 50, and wheat 49, This is sup
posed to be an average.
Here is something for Sugar-makcrs to
experiment upon, and think about =
MAPLE SAP. Is there any difference in
The flow Of the sap of the sugar maple, if
tapped close to the root or higher up? W. W .
Trumbull Co, 0. According to theory
sap should be richer as it flows farther
along from the small roots where it enters
the tree, by dissolving more matter in its
progress. BY an imperfect experiment. per-
formed some years ago, we could perceive
no difference, however, by careful and re-
peated tasting, between the sweetness of
the sap taken out at the root, and near the
top of the tree
Let me append query, while upon this
topic: Why does the sap cease to How
when the wind is Southerly? This is a
well-known fact to all who have ''been in
the sugar bush" Will some one with the
solution answer?
The ''MIane Farmer" predicts a wet sea-
son this year. ''We look for wet season
the coming spring and summer. One ex-
treme of atmospheric condition in the pass
ing years, usually succeeds another. We
have during the winter of 1570-7l, expert
enced au unusual drouth-the approaching
season we shall in all probability have fal
greater amount of rainfall than in the past
growing season." We coincide with this
fully.
/ We extract from the Rural New Yorker
the following plan Of making cheap walks
for the garden and about the building:
III,
4 Take two barrels of freshly slaked lime
and one of good cement, and mix with wa
| ter, as for mortar. Spread this over goot
foundation of broken stone and gravel. As
it hardens roll down smooth.
The Importance of providing these can
not be priced too highly. In spring and
autumn they protect the feet from wet an(
the house from mud. With little thought
we believe that very few can afford to
neglect this important matter longer.
| The "BoSton CutivatOr" thus Straighten n
its line of Agrlculturists, as the promp
general his struggling legions, for Il dccis
i've charge
Farmers:
are you ready for springs work? II not
make haste, for the advent of spring seem
at the door. Robins, bluebirds, blackbirds
wild geese, with other harbngers of sprin:
have made themselves welcome by thei
notes of JOY and rejoicing. How cheering
are the notes of these birds to the ears G
farmers; even the merry peppers of pool
and SwampS are welcome heralds of spring
All these notes ring out the admontior
''Be ready for work"
1t pays to be careful, of money especially
SO the farmer near South Hampton, Ct
thinks, and from which all may learn u use
full lesson if they will.
farmer near South Hampton, Ct, sol
horse for $3.50, and on going home pu
the money In its place, u dilapidated drawe
in an old bureau. His place for matche
was the same drawer. A few days after
wards, after using a MILESTONE, he threw i
into the aforesaid drawer, when, fe,
minutes later, he saw smoke coming fror
the drawer. On a hasty examination h
found that the milestone had ignited tn
matches, and set fire to the greenbacks
which were burned to ashes Moral-Hav
separate places for matches, milestone
and greenbacks.
To Cure Toothache.
} AS every one ought to make himself use
full in imparting knowledge or experienc
10 others, will inform the readers of tn