South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-01
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

AN English physician reports that,
among the poor, rubbing the soles of the
feet with garlic is very popular as a pre-
ventive against disease.
CUTTING TnBER.-If posts or rails are
needed for service during the winter, the
trees may be cut now, while in full leaf.
Allowed to lie as the trees are cut, the
evapotion from the leaves will drain the
timber nearly dry, when a short exposure
afterwards will very effectually season it.
The economy of using posts and rails
peeled is very great; the loose bark re-
tains moisture between it and the wood,
and the sap wood soon rots. When peeled
the sap wood dries, and will last many
years longer.-HedTh and Home.
To CLEAN BRAss.--Rub the surface of
the metal with rotten-stOne and sweet oil,
then rub off with a piece of cotton flannel,
and polish with soft leather. A solution
of oxalic acid rubbed over furnished brass
soon removes the tarnish, rendering the
metal bright. The acid must be washed
off with water, and the brass rubbed with
whitening and soft leather. A mixture of
muriatic acid and alum dissolved in water,
imparts a golden color to brass articles
that are STEPPED in it for a few seconds.
A WRITER in the Food Jog7al sayst that
out of twenty samples 81 5akers' bread
analysed and examined b hin, only three
were positively genuine, while sixteen
were contaminated with an actual poison.
The quantity, he says, is not S o great as to
show immediate effects, but thousands are
unconsciously consuming a half grain of
sulphate of copper every day, a habit that
canno be long practiced with IMMUNITY.
As he suggests, however, the fault may
not rest entirely with the bakers, since
there are inferior brands of flour in the
market, warranted to make white bread
without the use of alum.
THINNING TURNPs-This is duty that
must not be neglected, if fair, well-grown
roots are desired, and these make the
heavy crops. If the soil is rich, and the
growth promires well, twelve or fifteen
inches should be left between the plants,
otherwise less Wilde. A sharp hoe is agOod
singing instrument. Vacant spaces may
be filled by transplanting, if it is carefully
done. 4 garden trowel should be used,
and a scoopful of earth taken with the
plant and deposited in the place desired.
This work should be done on a damp
evening, or during a shower of rain. If
dry weather occur, it will hardly be worth
the trouble; at least, we have found it so
In our experience.-Hedrh and Home.
How TO BORE HOLES IN GLAss-Any
hard steel tool will cut glass with great
facility when kept freely wet with cam
phor dissolved in turpentine. A drill-bow
may be used or even the hand alone. A
hole bored may be easily enlarged by a
round file. The ragged edges of glass YES
sells may also be thus easily smOothed by
a fiat file. Flat window glass can readily
be sawed by a watch spring saw, by the
aid of this solution. In short, the most
brittle glass can be wroughtal almost as easily
as brass by the use of cutting tools kept
constantly moist with camphorized oil of
turpentine.-EJchaRge.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Neu Enqland
Farmer says that double zinnias are now
as effective a flower as can be raised. Their
perfectly cupped petals have quite eclipsed
those of the dahlia. The white varieties
are now IN established fact. They are
very beautiful, being of a paper whitencss,
and every petal is perfectly formed. In
order to grow them in perfection they
should be prunned and pinched in, and
prevented from struggling. A well grown
plant, properly trained and prunned, is as
fine an object as the flower-beds can ex-
hibit. This season striped zinnias are the
novelty.
CRACKED HEELS, OR GREAsE.-This
complaint, when neglected, becomes very
trOblesome. Filth is its chief cause, and
without the aus being removed it is i'm
possible to cure it. In some cases the leg
is swollen to the knee, and discharges of,
fensive matter from suppurating cracks,
which are opened at every movement of
the horses foot. No careful horseman,
however, would permit his beast to become
afflicted to this degree, for early treatment
brings about a speedy and easy cure. Car
bolic soap and warm water, applied three
times a day, and a little glycerine to pro-
tect the cleansed surface from exposure to
the air, will effect a cure. This unsightly
disease should not be permitted to exist a
moment longer than necessary to eradicate
1t. We can not imagine a man of proper
selfrespect allowing himself TO be seen in
public driving a horse suffering from it,
Hearth and Home.
THE Chemical NeuS gives us from the
German Manual of Pharmacy the follow.
ing receipt, by Reinsch, for making the
soup tablets so much in use in the German
army during the late war: Take eleven
parts, by weight, of good suet, melt it in
an iron pan, and make it very hot, so as to
become brown; add, while keeping the fat
stirred, eighteen parts of rye meal, and
continue heating and stirring, so as to
make the mass brown; and then fouI
parts of dried salt and two parts OF
coarsely ~pulverized carraway seed. The
mixture is then poured into tin pans
somewhat like those used for making
chocolate into cakes. The cakes have the
appearance of chocolate, and are chiefly
intended for the use of the soldiers while
In the field. A quantity of about one
ounce of this preparation is sufficient tc
yield, when boiled with some water, a "a,
ton of good soup, and in case of need
the cakes being agreeable to the taste
may be eaten raw.
HoPs WITHOUT POLEs.-Ac correspond.
ent of the Country Gentleman writes as
follows /: Eight years experience proves
that we can pick our hops as cneaply, and
much neater, by using baskets and pick.
ing from the vine trained horizontally and
low, without cutting any part of the vine
thus leaving it to mature and ripen the
root for next years use when the hop ward
IS trailed in this way, no hills die, but the
plant Is more vigorous each year, as long
as it is well taken care of, with one fourth
the manure that is required if the plants
are cut. Many of our ~hop-growers are
not aware of the great outrage they are
committing uDon the first principles o.
vegetable physiology by severing such g
mass of vines and foliage as is done
in all cases where the hop is trained high
and the vines cut TO pick. l have seer
yards of luxuriant growth and great yield
picked early, bleed so as not to produces
next year; the ground around the hill
would be KEPT wet for days by the flow o.
sap fir OH cutting.
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