The Placer herald., 1872-08-24
HOUSE AND FARM.

cold when the weather is very warm, and
expose themselves in various ways when
overheated, fatigued, or sweaty. This is an
erroneous idea--dcstructive to life and health.
When the system is fatigued with exercise,
bverhcated or sweating, great caution is
necessary to guard against taking cold.
Some people cay they never take cold and
have no fear of taking cold. But are they
never i'll in some form? Oh, yes; but they
do rot cough, and conclude they do not take
cold.
Colds do not effect all people alike. All
do not cough that have been expos ID to cold;
but the insensible perspration cannot be sud
denly checked without injury to people and
animals. Hence it is dangerous to drink
cold drinks when one sits down to rest,
though if exercise is continued, they may be
partaken of in small quantities with benefit.
The systems of men and animals that exer-
else must not he rapidly, but gradually
cooled.
Horses ought not to be watered when
about to stop exercise, either in warm or
cold weather This practice subjects them
to disease and often destroys their lives.
More than twenty-five years since, | read
in Cutters Physiology that when people
were warm from exercise, or from other
cause, they ought to throw something over
their shoulders on sitting down to rest. An
observance of this rule, has, | am satisfied,
saved me much sickness. If men would
put on coat when resting, or after work at
night, it would save them many bad feelings,
and sometimes death -Rurdl Ne,U YORKER
HINTS ABOUT WoRKNG.- great aim
Of the farmer must be to make the labor he
employs, as well as his own and that of his
teams more effective. To do this requires
much study. A man may work hard and
accomplish little. He does not plan well, or
he lacks system and order Another lays
good plans, but lacks energy sufficient to
carry them out in all their details 1t is a
great thing to know when to work and when
to let others work. In haying and harvest
inc, a farmer who employs good many men
should rarely undertake any steady work.
He can accomplish far more by attending to
the little details than by using up all his
strength in pitching or binding. lie should
always be present, ready at any moment to
lend hand where his work can be most eff
fective. He should be able to see at a
glance that every important bolt in a machine
is tight. He should know the weak spot in
all his operations, and be prepared for all
emergencies. He should realize that the
weak link determines the strength of the
whole chain. In the innumerable details of
farm work, this weak link is sometimes in
one thing and sometimes in another, but it is
always somewhere. In one field it may be
in the reaper and in another the binders !;
sometimes it is in the pitcher, sometimes the
unloader, or on the stack or NOW. 1t is al
ways somewhere, and the farmer should
look out for it and be prepared to strengthen
that point.-Er.
KEEPING CREAM.-Next in Importance to
having milk perfectly pure and sweet and
free from all animal odors, comes the matter
of keeping the cream after it is taken Oft the
milk. In the first place, the less milk there
is with the cream at the time it is set in the
cream jar, the better "A great deal of care
lessness is shown in this matter, for be it
known that milk makes cheese, while cream
only makes butter; and the more milk there
is in the cream at churning time, the more
cheesey-havored will be the butter, and 4,
therefore, the more likely to spoil afterwards,
unless excessively salted. Really pure,
good butter requires very title SALT while
butter as ordinarily made will soon spoil, un-
less we'll salted or kept covered with brine.
LICE ON FowIs.-Another enemy of my
poultry yard was lice. These little pests
were so bad that the most persevering of my
sitting hens were driven from their nests,
seeming to have all the blood sucked out of
them. | did everything | could hear and
read of to get rid of them, yet they seemed
to come as thick and fast as ever, until |
was almost persuaded to give up raising
chickens, or at least on so large scale,
when, either by chance or advice, was in
duced to try ''lard, which | applied well
under the wings and body. These may
seem simple cures, but nevertheless practical.
Try them for yourselves. "Dixie" may
also profit by these suggestions. Ag-
yicolae.
Soup FOR INvALrDs.- To a pint of warm
water add three tablespoonfuls of cod liver
oil, shake them until they are thoroughly in
corporated. Take Glove of garlic that has
been stepped for some twenty-tour hours i'll
SIENNA tea and shred it into the liquid. Season
with rhubarb and magnesia. Some add
forcemeat balls of the same size-apd OF the
same material as anti bilious pills. Brown
with salamander, and serve up.
To MAKE CIDER INTO VINEGAR.-Add
half rain water and little molasses and set
in the sun or where it will keep warm.
Before the days of fruit in the West, | have
made excellent vinegar by taking gallon of
molasses with four of soft water and mixing,
then spreading some molasses on piece of
brown paper as large as your two hands and
putting in.--Aum Sally.
AN INrAIIIBLE CURE FOR REPTILE BITES.
One tablespoonful of gun powder: one of
salt; the yellow of one egg Heat them all
together, SO as to form plaster, and apply
to the wound. A yellow water will issue,
and when the plaster becomes soaked with