The Placer herald., 1871-08-26

HOUSE AND FARM.


cat for three reasons: 1st, to grow; I'd, to
keep warm; Sd, 10 repair waste. Hence,
all food contains one of two elements, and
sometimes both, called nitrogen and carbon
The nitrogen makes flesh, sometimes called
muscle, and is the same as lean meat. Car
bon makes fat, and is that which keeps us
warm. Sugar, starch, arrowroot, oil, butter,
suet and lard have no nitrogen, there is
nothing in them to make flesh out of; all the
nutriment they afford is carbon, the material
for warmth.
Infants and children often get so chilly as
to freeze, as it were, unless they had some
thing sweet in their food; hence nature has
implanted in them an unspeakable taste for
sweet things. The thing the newborn in
fant needs first and always is warmth. But
ter, oils and starches abuond also in the
heat producing elements, but require strong
powers of digestion-are applicable to grown
persons, and to the old; hence, as we grow
old, we like fat meats and butter more.
1t is in obedience to these laws that the
Almighty bcnifcencc and wisdom has i'm
parted a relish for the oils and fat meats in
winter, because extra heat is needed. The
Greenlanders, whose country is always COW
cred with ice and snow, consider butter and
lard and tallow candles and the rankest oils
the greatest luxuries conceivable. But rice,
on which many in warm countries chiefly
live, is said to contain scarce one per cent
of the fat or heat-producins element, while
oils have ninety-six per cent of it.
All know buckwheat cakes are reished in
winter, but as spring comes on we begin to
lose our appetites for them. The cakes
themselves contain fifty four per cent of fat
as heat-producing elements, and they are
made more palatable by spreading butter on
them, and molasscs, each being almost en-
tirely-ninety-six per cent-heat- producing
But outdoor workers eat meat and bread
the year round, and never weary of it, lc-
cause twenty-five per cent, of such food is
Aesh-forming, and gives that much power
and strength to work.
The Uses or CARBoLc AcrD.-Possby
no article Of late discovery is of equal value
to the farmer with this. Being destructive
to all forms of insects it furnishes u barrier
TO their incre Sc, which will tend much to
deliver us from their ravages. 1t also de-
stroys the minute fungus which produces
mold, and those mysterious gems by which
as is claimed, diseases are spread from one
individual to another. Used in proper
form it will se,ve as a wash for trees and
plants, destroying the insects which infcst
them, and their eggs. 1t will rid animals of
all parasites; lice, ticks and scab, are all
destroyed by it. 1t is an excellent appca-
ton to all fostering sores or wounds. In
cases of the rinderpest it was the only sub
stance used that was of positive use in pre-
venting infection. Such being the valuable
properties of this article, it should 5e in the
hands of every farmer F. his convenience
it is put up in preparations that may be con-
venenily used. In the shape of carbolic
soap, it is easily applied as wash; in the
"dsinfecting powder, it may be used in all
cases where II dry application is needed; and
in the sheep-dip ana vermin-destroyer, it
can be used in cases where strong liquid
applications are necessary Hearth and
Home.
BEEF TEA.-Many persons believe that
beef tea is very nourshing, and that it is an
excellent strengthener for people of weak
health. This is mistake Some few
aware of the fact and now their view is con-
firmed by DR.. Marcel There is no nonrish-
ment in beef tea. Mixed with solid food, it
imparts relish which promotes digestion;
and the best that can be mixed Herewith is
the beef from which it was made, reduced to
powder. In two, at least, of the London
hospitals the mixture of powdered beef
with the beef tea has long been practiced
and there the patients get strong on a beef
tea diet. 1t is worth remembering, too, that,
the objections to the use of beef tea apply
equally to the preparation described as Ex-
tract of Meat, with the further disadvantage
that the extract is always stale.-Cham-
6ers' Journal.
WATERING PLANTS WITH IRoN.--It seems
to be generally conceded that wonderful eff
fects may be obtained by watering fruit trees
and vegetables with solution of sulphate of
iron. Under this system it is said beans
will grow to nearly double the size and will
acquire a much more savory taste. The
pear seems to be particularly well adapted
for this treatment. Old nails thrown into
water and left to rust there will impart to it
all the necessary qualities forcing vegetables
as described --Er.
awe are inclined to think that the appli-
cation of almost any well prepared liquid
manure, will produce effects equally marked
as those noted above. Gardeners have not
paid as much attention to the use of manure
in that condition as they should do. The
Chinese fully understand the value of liquid
manure, and use it freey in all their gardens
about this city. y.-Raral Press.
The BEAN VINE AND THE Sun. this
side OF The equator, all bean vines at all
times twine the same way. Why? 1t has
been question whether the sun has any
thing to do with the matter. TO settle this
question, Prof j. Parish Stele wrote to
friend residing in Brazil just below the Trop
ic Of Capricorn, asking him how the bean
winds there. His friend replies that it goes
ornun1 tho unla in praniSolv tha rovorSa AZ;