South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-07-28
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

A TIMELY MoTTo FOR LITTLE FoLKs.-
Avoid unripe fruits.
LIFE is like a bank-note, and your vir-
tues are the figures upon it.
If misfortune comes into your house, be
patient and smile pleasantly, and it will
stalk out again, for it can't bear cheerful
company.
How TO CURE WASP STINGs.-Potash
water is the quickest cure for wasp stings.
A small quantity should be kept in a glass
stoppered bottle. Open the sting with a
needle, and put on N drop of the potash
water.-ErchGR9e.
GLYCERINE ard lithargc, stirred to a
paste, harden rapidly, and make a suitable
cement for iron upon iron, for two stone
surfaces, and especially for fastening iron
TO stone. The cement is insolu5le, and is
not attacked by strong acids.
THREE-FoURTHs of the difficulties and
miseries of men come from the fact that
most want wealth without earning it, fame
without deserving it. popularity without
temperance, respect without virtue, and
happiness without holiness.
KILLING GRAssHoPPERs-An Austria
lisn paper states that il common larkspur
be sown in gardens and vineyards, the
flowers will be eaten by the grasshoppers,
which will suddenly die. The writer
states that he has followed this plan with
success for years.
Mr.. JOSEPH HARRIS says, in the AmeTi-
can AgricuHUTiSt, that while he believes in
clover and that we cannot grow too much
of it, it should all be fed on the farm, and
he believes that fAllfallowing, on clay
land, is more in accordance with the ats
of scientific farming than is the practice Of
blowing under clover.
APPLYING PLASTER TO LAND.-The
Rural Nep Yorker says: Three bushels
per acre is enough for any crop. If to be
applied to corn or potatoes, throw a table
spoonful on each hill after the first hoeng.
Ii 10 pastures, meadows or spring grain,
SOW broadcast as early in spring as you
can do it, doing it, if you can so manage
it, just before a rain"
If caught in a shower, and you get your
hat wet, brush it before it is dry. And so
of the horse. When ne comes in wet with
perspiration smooth his hair with a coarse
brush-a common broom is better than
nothing-in the direction you wish it to
lie when he is dry. The animal will feel
better and it will be only half the trouble
to clean him the next time he needs it.
J WATERING TEAMS OFTEN.-How many
times a day does the plowman or driver of
a team in the harvest field slake his thirst?
Dots 1t not occur to him that the horses
or oxen, which have been severely taxed
with labor, and have possibly been pro-
fusely sweating under the hot sun,
are in as great need Of q~uenching
thirst as he? When animals are kept too
LONE from u-afa- rhau mill oarfaSrH,r AaI,
more than is proper for them, and many 9
fit of collie is occasioned thereby. The
practice of watering, at least once between
feeds in the morning and again in the
afternoon, should be regularly followed,
and if fifteen minutes is thereby lost to the
pillow, it will be more than made up in the
renewed vigor with which the team will
take hold on its return.-Hcd!h and
Home.
CLEANLINEss-A neat, clean, fresh air
ed, sweet, cheerful, well arranged house
exerts a moral influence over It's inmates,
andmakes the members of a family peace
able and considerate of each others feel
ings and happiness. The connection is
obvious between the state of mind thus
produced, aud respect for others, and for
those higher duties and obligations, which
no laws can enforce. On the contrary, a
filthy, squalid, noxious dwelling, in which
none of the decencies of lite are observed,
contributes to make the inhabitants selfish,
sensual, and regardless of the feelings of
others; and the constant indulgence of
such passions renders them reckless and
brutal.-Bee-K Keepers Journal.
AT a meeting of the Potomac Fruit
Growers Association, a member stated
that he had been successful in raising
good crops of ounces, not by pruning to
a single stem, as is recommended in the
books, but by permitting it to throw up
three or four stems, anu form a busEy
head. II eprunes very little, merely taking
out or shortening cross shoots. He per-
mits the grass and weeds about the tree TO
remain and decay on the ground, and gives
a light dressing of salt annually. He cuts
away blighted branches as soon as posi-
bic. He has grown ounces for thirty
years, always with perfect success when
the tree was kept in the bush form, and al
ways with bad results whent the single stem
style was attempted.
To TAN SQUIRREL SKINs.-Place the
hide on a smooth, round sided slab, made
for the purpose, with two legs in one end,
and let the other end rest on the ground;
drive a nail in the upper end to hold the
skin while slipping from fleshing. Scrape
off all the flesh with a blunt knife, being
careful not to tear the hide. Then take
the brains of the squirrel and work them
thoroughly into the skin; this renders the
skin pliable. Then, to preserve the skin
from the ravages of insects, scatter on
some powdered alum and a little ssltpeter.
Let dry; then stretch and work it until as
pliable as may be desired. The above is
acknowledged to be a very good recipe for
tanning all kinds of fur, although there
may be better ones in use.-EbchaRge.