Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-07-06
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
digestion.
AN experienced sheep feeder is reported
as saying that one pound of grain per day
for 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 good solid post every forty
rods to stretch the wire on. Five wires,
the first one 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 q dress may be done
up in different colors, as the owner may
wish, thus obviating, at times, the eces-
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 alkalies as those
of hard wood. DIR. Dana says, in his
Muck Manual: In equal weights, pine
ash of hard wood" At the same time, a
bushel of hard wood ashes yields more
alkali than bushel of pine wood ashes,
the ash of the pine being much the light
est. According to analysis, only about l3
! 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 says he
has found some who has farmed for money
and others who have made no money; re.
Gently he has found one who, more wisely
as he thinks, has farmed for a home and
a good living, and who, when asked if his
farm had paid, said: " Yes, / have lived
here thirty years and lived well" Mt. G.
thinks this was all that was necessary, as
he says he never saw more desirable
home.
MARKETING MMK-Milk, properly
cooled as it comes from the COW, will keeE
sweet from twenty-four to thirty-six hours
in hot weather. At least such is the testi
| rnanv of Oropna Corptu dol
have long been engaged in furnishing
milk for the New York market. Greai
care should be taken to cleans the cans anC
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 foul
years, and perhaps longer. The time
can will last depends of course upon it.
usage. Bad usage may bangtit to pieces il
a year. The milk cans on some roads ge
very hard usage-Rural Neao Yorker.
SCIENTIFIC FARMING consists altogethel
and solely in deriving the greatest pos
sible profit from the soil. Lessen th'
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'
SoG LII Vi NY CultlfdilOu, WttuS muSt u
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 econOmized and made o
more value and the how to do -all-this i
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 reasonin,
powers, is enabled to raise one bushel O
corn per acre more than he has hithert,
done, by improved methods, is a scientif
farmer, however much he may disown tn
name; and not only has he done goo,
thing for himself, but the world at large is
to some extent, better for his efforts an,
success; his mission, as man, has beel
to that extent fulfilled, and he will leav
the world better than he found it-Reart
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