National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-09-22
Farm, Garden and Household.

the stopper of glass decanter is toe
tight,a cloth wet in hot water and applied
10 the neck will cause the glass to ex.
pand, and the stopper may be removed,
In phials, the warmth of the hand may
be sufficient.
How TO BORE HOLES IN GLAss,-Any
hard steel tool will cut glass with great
facility wheS 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 en-
larged by round file. The ragged edges
of glass vessels may also be easily
smoothed thus with fat file. Flat win
dow glass can be readily sawed with a
watch-spring saw by aid of this solution.
In short the most brittle glass can be
wrought almost rs easily a. brass by the
use Of cutting tools kept constantly
moist with camphorized oil of turpen-
tine
BUTTER MAKING IN HoT WEATHER -
When 1t is very warm and dry, we cool
our milk room by keeping wet sheets
wrung ont Of cold well water, hung up
in the warmest part of the room. Put
small quantity of milk in pan, and if
shelves are used, set upon Stats an inch
or two thick, so to let the air cool the
bottom of the pan be sure to skim be-
fore the milk gets sour or thick, in TWEEN.
ty-four or thirty-six hours, and some
times in very warm weather in twelve
hours. Throw handful of salt in the
cream pail, put in the cellar or other
cool place, and stir all the cream well
every time more is added. The great.
est care and neatness in every particu-
lar is necessary to make good article of
butter,-U Farmer.
STATISTICS. yield OF corn
stalks to the acre III hills three feet six
inches, by three feet six inches
Common culture, tons per acre.
Better culture, q tons per acre.
d Good culture, 3 tons per acre.
Best high culture, 81 to tons per
acre.
Estimating quality of hay in a NOW :
Well-settled hay is 800 cubic feet to the
ton or four cords less ~ cubic feet :;
thus, bay 16x60, with with 20 feet
posts, will be -960x20-19 900
cubic feet. Five hundred cubic feet in
to 10, 200 cnbic feet, and you have 3S %
tons of hay in your bay. Add one-half
in bulk to this, and you will have an
equally fair criterion by which to esti-
mate your tonnage of cornstalks if cured
and housed
Your HENNERY. Nothing is made by
over-crowding the hennery on the con
trary, it will prove detrimental. The
fowls must be fed regularly and at
stated periods. They must have plenty
of pure water at hand at all times--this
is MS of much Importance to the health
of the brood as proper food. If posi-
bic they should also be given in addition
n plat of grass for a run. Place within
the hennery dust heap; this may con-
sist of wood or coal ashes, sand, or dust
from the streets. 1t should be kept IN
der cover, so that it will not become
drenched with rain or snow, and to it
the fowls should have access Mt all times
to dust, and thereby rid themselves, in
a great degree, of the numerous para
sistes which infect them. Poultry
Standard
RENEWING MEADOWS First harrow
the ground thoroughly with harrow
with sharp teeth, in September SOW
liberal supply of seed give the meadow
good coat of old manure, spread from
the wagon then brush it over so as to
have the manure made fine and well in
corporated with the surface. Another
way is, when the ground will admit, to
pillow the meadow, turning smooth fur
row, cultivating with the harrow and
making the surface smooth SOW the
grass seed, following with liberal coat
of old manure or compost, spread from
the wagon, so rs to spread it evenly
use the bush to incorporate it firmly
with the earth. This process should be
completed in September, so that the
young grass may he rooted by winter,
and full crop may be expected next
season. Flowing and seeding with
crop of rye this fall, or crop of barley
early in the spring, may be desirable in
some cases. but it will delay the hay crop
at least one season. s.A.
BARK LICE.-A correspondent writing
from Brookline, Mass, says: In 1888
l began to exterminate bark lice by
wash of potash, and succeeded in clear
ing my trees, that were overrun with
both kinds. / continued it yearly, in
the spring of the year, and / have not !
suffered since. while many others are
complaining of the injury their trees are
suffering. For the last three years |
used the crude wood ashes unleached. |
] put about three quarts of ashes into !
bucket of water, and mix it well, and |
with an old broom put it on the trees.
rubbing them well with the broom. 1t |
leaves a quantity of ashes on the tree,
and every rain gives new wash from
la Lea hn L.. 4
this perfect remedy if done faithfully.
II should be stirred often, so as to give
a due quantity Of the ashes to every tree.
II may be put on any time But /
would recommend April and August as
the best time for application. The ashes
and old broom are in the possession of
every one. So no excuse can be made
for not discriminating the great evil of
bark lice or scale.
CANNING FRUIT.-Just at this season
when so much fruit is canned for winter
use, the newspapers abound with direc-
tons for putting up the fruit securely
We know many ladies are troubled with
the air bubbles which are often seen in
the glass jars after they are sealed up.
An exchange gives some useful hints on
this and other points, and we clip para
graph:
In regard to the air bubbles which
often form while the bottle is filling.
little care will obviate the difficulty. In
putting the fruit into the bottle do not
pour in such way as to close the whole
mouth Of the bottle, because that pre-
vents the escape of the air but rather
let the fruit slide gently down the side {
Of the bottle. 1t can be done Just as
quickly this way as the other. The Sc |
cret of bayinp bottled fruit laep Ia IN