The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-05-02
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saves it for the use of plants, when q
hard lumpy soil will not retain it.
+. Mr.. E. d. Allen, of Agawam, Mass,
stated at a late meeting of the Hamp-
den Harvest Club, that a cow kept I'D all
the year round would produce about two
cords of manure.
Forty years ago nearly the whole of
Ohio was dense forest; DOW resolu-
| ton is introduced into the Ohio Legisla-
ture to encourage the cultivation of forest
| trees. Well! the change is no greater.
than in hundred other things.
To make clean. sweet butter, provide
| the cows with an abundance of good food,
pure water, and keep them in clean
place. Kept In half starved and I'M
| healthy condition, they cannot produce
| reasonable quantity Of pure sweet milk.
Coal and wood ashes may be utilized
| by using them as absorbents in privy
vaults or for house Stops, &C., and by ap-
plying to the soil 10 such compost. They
will deodorize privy vault, if used daily,
and make excrement portable, and if
used in sufficient quantities, render its APP
! plication to the soil, after suitable mix
ing, easy, safe and convenient. NeN
Animportant advantage of under drain
ing is, that it is at work when the top of
the ground is frozen, when, of course, a
surface drain is inactive thus making
the subsoiI SO dry and porous that when
the frost comes out the water drops
through at once, leaving the ground dry
and ready for working.
HOW TO SET FENCE POSTS.
In the Western. Raral of Dec. 3Oth,
Fence Maker" Verm,llion Co., ILL.,,
asks for information about driving fence
posts. The tools necessary are spade,
crowbar, one OF two iron mauls or sledpa
hammers and bench about three and
half feet high aud eight feet long
| First, set stakes where you want the CEN
ter ot tie posts then mark of the dis
| lance you want your posts apart, and
with the spade dig square hole eight or
ten inches deep, then with the crowbar
open hole twelve or fourteen inches
deep, each time ranging with the stakes;
fill the small hole with water; set in the
post, with one hand to hold it, while ono
standing on the bench drives it down;
then fill in the dirttaken out with the
spade, and tramp down.
II your fence runs through any wet
| places, only take out a little of the top
| sod and drive the post down three feet.
1t will require considerable care to get
the posts in a straight line. But they
will be much better than if set in the or
binary way, besides you can drive them
at least a third faster. Sharpen your
posts during the Winter. Make long
stright point on them. Posts set accor-
ding to the above directions will never
give way until rotten.
Iowa Falls, La. II. CALKINs.
| BOILING POTATOES.
To boil a potato we'll requires more at
tention than is usually given. They should
! be well washed and left standing in cold
water an hour or two, to remove the black
liquor with which they are impregnateG,
and brackish taste they would other
wise have. They should not be pared
before boiling; they lose much of the
starch by so doing, aud are made insipid.
Put them into kettle of clear cold wa
ter, using no more water than will Just
cover them, as they produce considera-
bic quantity of fluid while boiling, and
| too much water will make them heavy
As soon as just done, instantly pour off
the water, set them back on the stove,
and leave the cover off the saucepan till.
the steam has evaporated. They will
then, if good kind, be dry and mealy,
This is an Irish recipe. and good one.
OATMEAL PoRRIDGE.
This is very healthy dish for children,
and may be made quickly, by having a
saucepan Of boiling water ready. Put in
little salt. AS it boils, drop the oat-
meal in with one hand, stirring gently
with the other. Boil it well, and keep
stirring, as it burns very easily. Pour it
inro basin, and in few minutes it be-
comes firm. Eat with cold milk, or sugar
and butter Ii can be made pretty stiff
| or thin, just as a person fancies,
| TO CRYsrA LLIZE GRASSES, FLOWERS, ETC.
Dissolve six ounces of alum in one
quart Of warter, boil until dissolved;
steep the grasses or flowers in the solution
while hot. By the time the water is cold,
the crystals will be formed, If the crys-
are too large, add more water. Separate
the little branches gently, taking off the
superfuous Jumps Fern leaves. oats.
fax, and the long feathery grasses are
the most beautiful for crystallizing.
INCoMBUSTIBLE WOOD.
1t is fact worthy of general notice
that wood may be rendered, without great
| labor or expense, nearly as capable OF re-
sisting fire as brick or stone. This is
done by soaking the dried lumber short
time in solution of soluble glass, a sill
cate of soda or potash, after which it is
immersed in lime-water, by which the
silicate of soda is decomposed and the
pores of the wood filed with silicate
of lime. The substance is Ere proof and
cannot be dissolved 10 water, and its
opA a4f tho Ehar of tho
wood are, therefore, permanent. Soluble