Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-01-15
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A HINT TO FARMERS AND LUMpERMEN.

A HINT TO FARMERS AND LUMBERMEN
When you are cutting logs for lumber
to be shipped, unless it is dimension, cut
it Ii feet long, then you will be able to
get two lengths upon one car.
Ways OF MAKING TEA.-The China
man puts his tea in a cup, pours hot
water upon it, and drinks the infusion of
the leaves; he never dreams of spelling
its flavor with sugar or cream. The
Japanese triturates the leaves before put
ting them into the pot In Morocco they
put the green tea, a little tansy, and
great deal of sugar in teapot and fill
up with boiling water. In Bokhara
every man carries small bag of tea
about with him, a certain quantity Of
which he hands over to the booth keeper
he patronizes, who concocts the bever-
age for him. The Bokhriote finds it as
difficult to pass tea-booth as our own
dram-drinker does to 60 by gln-palace.
His breakfast beverage is Schitschaji,
that is tea favored with milk, cream, or
mutton fat, in which bread is soaked
During the daytime sugarless green tea
is drank, with the accompaniment of
cakes of -four, and mutton suet. It is
considered an inexcusable breach of man.
ners to cool the hot cup of tea with the
breath but the difficulty is overcome by
supporting the right elbow in the left
hand, and giving circular movement
to the cup. How long each kind of tea
takes to draw is calculated to the second
and when the teapot is emptied, it is
passed round among the company for
each tea-drinker to take up as many
leaves as can be held between the thumb
and fnger-the leaves being esteemed an
especial dainty.
THE WHEATEN LoAF-Good wheat
bread and butter is the staff of civilized
life. Take away wheat bread and but
ter from our families for few genera
tions, and who is prepared to say that
civilization would not glide easily to a
state of barbarism? There is sound
philosophy in this suggestion; because
there is no other kind of human food that
is so admirably adapted to the develop
ment of the human frame, including a
noble brain, as good wheat bread. Civ
ilization has seemed to keep pace with
the production of wheat, and refined So
ciety the world over has seemed to exist
coeval with the wheaton loaf
We find the lowest order of intelli-
gences standing on potato Only one
step above this class, another order is
found on hoecake. One degree above
this we meet with the class that has risen
in the scale of being as high as it is pos
sible for mortals to rise ON a pancake.
Head and shoulders above all of these
classes we find the highest order of intel
LICENCES, with large and welldeveloped
brains and noble characters, standing Sc
curely on their wheaton loaf No other
food can excel the wheaton loaf, because
it furnishes more and better material for
the human brain than any other food.
CARE OF HoRsEs-A celebrated writ
er says: "All horses must not be fed
in the same proportions, without regard
to their ages, their constitutions, and
their work, because the improperly of
such practice is self-evident. Yet it
is constantly done, and is the basis of
diseases of every kind.
Never use bad hay on account of it,
cheapness, because there is not proper
nourishment in it.
Damaged corn is exceedingly injuri-
Gus, because it brings on inflammation Of
the bowels and skin diseases
Chaff is better for old horses than
hay, because they can chew and digest
it better.
Mix chaff with corn or beans, and dc
not give the latter alone, because il
makes the horse chew his food more
and digest it better.
Hay OF grass alone will not support a
horse under hard work, because there is
not sufficient nutritive body in either
When horse is worked hard its fooc
should chiefly be oats; if not worked
hard, its food should chiefly be hay, be
cause oats supply more nourishment anc
fascinating material than any othe
kind of food; hay not so much.
For saddle OF coach horse, half
peck of sound oats, and eighteen pound
of good hay, are sufficient. If the ha,
is not good, add quarter of peck NOR
oats. A horse which works harder ma,
have rather more of each. One tina
works little should have less.
Rack feeding is wasteful. The bette
plan is to feed with chopped hay, from
, manger, because the food is not thel
thrown about, and is more easily chewet
and digested.
Sprinkle the hay with water that ha
salt dissolved in it because it is pleasing
to the animals taste, and more easil
/ digested. A teaspoonful of salt in
bucket of water is sufficient
Oats should be bruised for an oil