The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-09-12
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by feeding chopped straw, oats and
rape seed, thoroughly cooked by steam,
ana raw Swedish turnips, one Of the larg
est diaries in England increased the yield
of milk from 552 to $50 gallons per each
COW per annum
Water in which potatoes have been
boiled is said to possess poison fatal to
lice On cattle. Wash freely with sponge
or wooden cloth, choosing sunny day or
warm stable for the operation, and as
their hides dry rub down with a curry
comb
Every family should provide barrel
or box for receiving chicken-bones, fish
bones, and bits of bones which accumu-
late III the kitchen. A hundred pounds
may be saved in a few weeks. Such
bones are valuable for grass land, and for
burying around all kinds of fruit trees
and grape vines.
The Grape CuZt17ast says that large
vineyardist in Illinois keeps not less than
one hundred ducks constantly among his
vines. He says it is wonderful with what
diligence they will dart afte. all kinds of
bugs, thrips, flies, and small snails, and
he considers them among the best of in
sect eXterminatOTs.
The following will be found one of
the best cures ever used for CALLED should
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lines the inside Of tea-chests, and after
smoothing it, fit it to the collar, so that it
will fit on the chafed place. 1t will sell
dom fail of perfectly curing the CALLED
surface Western Rural.
One pint of linseed oil and half a
pound of sulphur, given in the early
stages OF the disease, is recommended by
Harris Lewis for bloody murrain in cat
tie. However, he says that since, in
most cases, it is brought on by feeding on
wet pastures, drainage will be an excel
lent preventive. Another Give cattle
all the salt they will eat, mixing in a gill
OF sulphur to four quarts of salt.-Es-
change.
In the last report of the American
Pathological Society, an Iowa orchardist
engaged for twenty-five years in growing
pears, and has lost in that time by blight
fifty times as many as he now has grow
ing. In 1864 he ceased to cultivate his
trees, and allowed them to grow to grass,
which he kept down by cutting every
few weeks; and to keep the sod open he
spread barrow-load of manure around
each tree in autumn. Since that date,
eight years ago, he has not lost tree.
"A man who had been troubled with
! jumping cattle, and who had tried every
plan imaginable, with the worst cases Of
jumping cattle, found nothing would sue
coed in keeping them in their place but
to put board over their face. Take an
inch board, about fourteen or fifteen in
ches square, or large enough to cover
their eyes, and let it come down within
| four inches of the end of the nose; tie
this to their horns, by boring two holes
to correspond with the width of the
horns, and they will not Jump.
John S. Lippincott tells ia the Poultry
| World how he marks chickens: 81 take
a very small saddler's punch and punch a
hole in the web of the foot, being careful
TO cut it out clean, as if not cut clean out
It will grow up again. For my own con-
the handle of the punch, to prevent it
hurting my hand. The marking is done
in this wise: Hold the chicken in your
| left hand, and let it's feet rest on block
Of wood or lead and with your hit hand
punch the hole in whichever web you
wish. They can be marked in various
ways, so that by keeping book to CORE
spond you may tell your different strains
when grown up"
For saddle gals there is no better ap-
plication than a strong brine of salt and
water, containing about One-fourth of
myrrh. If these places become liberated,
the horse must have rest, and the parts be
well fomented and cleansed with tincture
of arnica If it does not yield to this
treatment, recourse must then be had to
blistering and healing up the wound by
the application of cerate plasters, and
subsequently tincture of alOes and myrrh;
but the saddle or collar should never be
put on until the sores are entirely healed
In nine cases out of ten, however, little
care in the beginning will obviate the
necessity of treating such wounds at all.
"A correspondent of an exchang &c
gives the following method for preserving
| cider: l get my cider pure, right from
the press, and 1 desire it made the last of
the season, in cold, frosty weather. To q
barrel Of cider, add seven pounds of
brown sugar; let it ferment until you
think it safe to drive in the bung perfect
ly tight. Rack off into clean cask in
March Gf you wish good cider, the cask
that holds it must be as clean as your milk
pitcher), and take about two quarts of
the cider and put in one-quarter pound OF
gelatine, and let it soak two or three
hours; then warm and stir it till the gela-
tine is all dissolved. Set away until per-
fectly cold, and mix with cider, and sti1
it well with stick, through the bung
hole, long enough to reach the bottom OF
the barrel, agitate it thoroughly, and bung
up tight; bottle in April CT May. If it
presses the corks too much, stand it up.
The corks must be tied. If it has not life
enough, lay it down.