The Placer herald., 1871-05-06
HOUSE AND FARM.

8Oot ptlceS may occasionally succeed, but 1t
generally fails. Farmers by holding back
thsir produce may help speculators to 'form
= corner" but the Spectators never divide
tbs profits. If you can get fair price, sell
q soon ~ you are ready. But if an article
that you can hold does not bring fair price,
II u b below the cost of production, do not
dispose Of it. 1t will certainly rise. We
know that there are few things that make a
farmer "feel 80 bad" as to find that if he had
held his produce few weeks he could have
got much higher price. We know farmers
WHO sold their barley at 81 so and their
wheat at 81 Is; while some of their neigh
bora held both, and sold their barley for 50 10
and have their wheat still on hand Now,
it - not pleasant to think that you could have
got GO cents bushel more for the barley,
but there is some consolation in thinking that
you got so cents bushel more for the wheat
than you could get now. We once crossed
the Atlantic with well known captain in a
sailing vessel. Another equally celebrated
captain left Liverpool on the same day.
When we took in the pilot the first question
tho captain asked was "Any news of the
New World?" "She reached New York
three days ago." We call felt as bad" at
being beaten as the farmer who sold his bar
ley at 81 60. But our captain remarked
'sHe must have taken the Southern course.
Hehas hit it for once. But it is wrong, never
theless." So we say of the farmer who got
81 10 for his barley. He hi it for once.
But the principle is wrong. Better to sell
when you are offered fair price. The same
farmer had some capital fat hogs They
were very fat. and he was offered 135 cents
f,r them. He kept them three weeks and
cold them for 104 cents.
How TO REMOVE HAIR FROM THE PERSON.
"A correspondent asks the Herald of Health
how hair can be removed permanently, and
remarks, II have been told to pull it out. "
The Herald answers as follows: "The least
injurious way is to continue pulling it out Jun
til the glands become so weakened as to be
unable to replenish it. Two or three times
pulling it out will be sufficient with some,
while others may have to repeat it half a
dozen times or more. "-Rurul Neav Yorker
We have known the pulling of hair, as
recommended by the Rural to result in Grey
sipelas. Persons to get rid of hairs in or on
the nose pull them out, and the operation is
almost invariably followed by an ugly boil in
sron the nose, and which boil we have known
70 turn to ereysipelas. Hairs under nc cir
cumstances should be pulled out, as disease
in some form will be the result Cincinnati
Enquirer.
A CUEE FOR THE AeUE.-The following
appears as leading editorial in the Cleve-
land Herald, and as we have some fever
and ague in California, we give it for what
It is worth:
1--WE wish to give very simple remedy for
fever and ague and wish to emphasize it by
saying that it has, to our knowledge, proved
very sficacious. 1t is simply common salt
A teaspoonful taken in water and teaspoon
full deposited in each stocking next to the
foot as the chill is coming on. That's all
there is Of it. Butknowing that it has been
very eficacious in breaking the chill and
perfecting cure, we put it in our editorial
columns, where no humbug remedy shall
ever find place if we know ii"
BEDS MADE TOO EARLy.--The desire Of an
energetic housekeeper to have her work COM
pieted at an early hour in the morning C c,uses
her to leave one of the important items of
neatness undone. The most ehectual purify
ing Of beds and bed clothes, cannot take place
Il NO time is allowed for the free circulation of
pure air to remove all human impurities
which have collected during the hours of slum-
ber. AT least two or three hours should be
allowed for the complete removal of atoms of
insensible perspiration which are absorbed by
the bed. Every day this airing should be
done. and occasionally bedding constantly
used should be carried into the open air, and
when practicable, left exposed to the sun and
wind for half a day.
SALT on WHEAr.-A correspondent of the
Santa Cruz Sentinel says that he sowed one
ana half bushels of salt per acre upon one
half Of ten-acre field just after seeding it
with Spring wheat, and the result was that
the salred portion was ready for the sickle
i've days earlier than the unsalted portion,
and not q particle Of rust and must could be
found, and the increase of crops he estimated
At FIVE bushels per acre. The Sentinel asks
Have any Of our readers observed similar
effect from the application Of salt.
BEE ST1NGs.-A writer to the Scientific
american says that good absorbent will
ease the pain Of stings. The best absorbing
substance that have tried is lean fresh meat
This will relieve the pain of a wasp sting al
most instantly, and has been recommended
for the cure Of rattlesnake bites. have also
used it With marked effect in erysipelas.
On OF PEPPERMINT TO RELIEVE Pam
A writer TO the London Lancet says: GA few
days ago, when in China, became acquainted
with the fact that the natives, when suffer-
ing from facialneuralgia, applied oil of pepper
mint ~ local anaesthetic, not only in neu-
rslgia, but also in gout, with remarkably
good results. / have found the relief from
pain to be almost instantaneous.
AppLEs.-An eminent French physician
says the decrease of dyspepsia and bilious
affections in Paris, is owing to the increased
consumption Of apples, which fruit he main
tains, is an admirable prophylatic and tonic,
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