The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-11-07
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.


A CORRESPONDENT of the Pomologist
has found hat potash placed in rat
holes and mole runs will clear the
premises of these pasts in u short
time.
RAW beef chopped up fine with
onions is II new "feed," which Ger
mans consider n cure OF preventive
of dyspepsia, as well as Of lung
diseases.
GnEGN fruit has always been con-
sidered as tending to produce the
cholerine diseases, but we believe
that oyer ripe or partially decayed
fruit is fully as productive OF disease
as the former but fresh, ripe fruits
are always healthful and nomishiDg,
and are among the natural food OF
man,
To REMOVE old putty from broken
windows, dip II small brush IN me
trio or muriatic acid (ob'ainnb'e ut
any druggists and with it anolnt
or paint over the dry putty that add
here's to the broken glass and frnmes
of your windows ; after m hours IN
teryaI the putty viii become 50 soft
rs to be removed easily.
Tr IS said that sweet or sour milk
will swee'en irowAy butter much bet
ter thNn salt or saltpetre there Is
nothing that absorbs whatever is
offensive to the smell or taste, so
quick as milk, cream or butter, and
no agent n be employed that will
so quickly or surely extract the
flavor of the wood from new dairy
utensils.
The varieties of wood produced in
different parts of the world are more
numerous than most people are
aware of. At the Paris Exposition
of 1870 there were, from forty.Iiyc
different countries, no less than
3,7G9 different kinds Of wood cX-
hibited, 395 coming from Eurooe,
2j2 from Africa, S5S from Asia, 9GG
from Oceanica, l,29S from America.
If YOU will have wooden floors and
stairs, lay II flooring OF the thickest
sheet from over the %joists, and your
wood upon that, and sheathe your
stairs with the same material A
floor will not burn without a supply
of mir under it. Tnrow IL dry board
upon u fit pavement, and kind,o ii
as it lies if you can. Prevent
draughts and, though there will be
fires, no houses will be consumed.
THE standard bushel of the United
States contains 21J04 cubic inches.
The mImperial bushel," is about G6
cubic inches. Any box u measure,
the contents of which are equal to
2l5O.l cubic inches will hold n bushel
Of grain, In measuring fruit, yogo-
tables, coal or other substances. one.
fifth must be aided. In other
words, q peek measure five times
V @ Iull makes one bushcl. The
usual practice is to "heap the
measure
IL TEACHING IL young hOrSet to drive
well, do not hurry to sec how fast he
can trot. Keep each pace clear and
distinct from the other; that is, in
walking, make him walk and do not
allow him to trot. While trotting,
be equally careful that he keeps
steady Mt his pace, and do not allow
him to slacken into o walk !; the
reins, while driving, should be kept
snug, and when pushed to the top Of
his speed, keep him well in band,
that he may learn to bear upon the
bit, so that when going at Il high
rate Of q eed, he can be held at bis
pace, but do not allow him to pull
too lard, for it is not ouly unplaas-
ant but makes it difficult to manage
him.
AS RUBBER plates and rings are
nowadays used almost exclusively
for making connections between
steam and other pipes and appara'
tus, much annoyance is oftea ex-
porienced by tho impossibility or
imperfeciion Of an air-tight connec-
ton. This is obviated entirely by
employing u cement which fasteDs
alike wei to the rubber and the
metal or wood. Such cement is
prepared by u solution of sae!lac in
ammonia. This is best made by
soaking pulvcrizcd gum shcilac in
ten times lis weight Of strong am
monia, when u Shiny mass is oh ain
ed, which in tnreo or four weeks
will become liquid without the use
of hot water. This softons the rub-
Der, and becomes, after yolatiliZl-
ton OF the ammonia, hard nnd i'm
]permcablo to the gases and fluids
american IrtiSGH.