Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-05-02
Farm and Garden.

Poultry keeping for Women.-There are
many women who, especially during the
last half dozen years, while the price of
eggs has been SO high, make money
much faster by tending poultry than by
sewing. 1t is an occupation especially
suited to women, because it involves
patience and attention to details, rather
than strength. Then, again, the hard
est thing for many men to learn, in
handling either poultry or bees, is gen
tleness. How many times we have seen
| boys, and men with no more sense than
boys, jerk hens roughly from their
nests, enter the poultry house abruptly
and frighten the occupants till they
rush in a huttering mass into the far
thest corner, and keep the poultry COM
munity in constant agitation and dis
tress. But all domestic animals appre-
ciate the manners of women attendants,
when they are fortunate enough to be
cared for by them.
Now that there are women gardeners
and florists who by commendable in
dustry and business qualities have risen
to eminence in those callings, and
while one of the most if not the most
successful bee-keepers in the whole
country is a woman, we hope to see
others give poultry more attention than
it has hith received. Aside from
profits, the keeping of fine poultry for
fancy is an elegant pastime very popu-
lar with English ladies, and we see no
reason why the fashion should not be
adopted here.-Poulry World.
Turning Leather-The Boston Journal
of Chemistry gives what it calls an ap-
proved recipe for tanning, as follows:
Soak the skin or hide eight or nine
days in water, then put it in lime take
it out and remove the hair by rubbing
it, and soak it in clear water until the
lime is entirely out. Put one pound of
alum to three of salt, dissolve it in
hide; soak the hide in it three or four
days, then take it out, let it get half
dry, and then heat or rub it until it
becomes pliable. Leather prepared by
this process will not do well for shoes,
but answers from hamestrings, back
bands, and various other purposes of
the farm.
Cutting CIover.-When red clover is
allowed to go to seed, it greatly ex-
hausts if it does not kill the root, and
though a greater amount in weight of
cured feed is obtained, there is less di-
gestible food. The increase is chiefly
in woody fiber, which is mainly mineral
and insoluble. There is, therefore,
greater amount OF waste. This, OF
course, if taken care #, goes to the ma
nure; but there can be nothing gained
by taking material off from the ground
in the form of clover stalks, for the sake
of returning it in the form of manure.
Salt and Charcoal for iStock.-The use
of charcoal as well as salt has been
highly recommended to farmers, as
tending to keep stock in good condi-
ton and help their general improve
ment. Salt acts healthily on the blood.
Charcoal strengthens and heals the mu-
cous membranes throughout the all
mentary canal, and increases the pow
ers of the digestive organs, healing any
unhealthy condition existing there. 1t
prevents worms generating in the
stomach, etc.; it absorbs the putrescent
gases by which worms are generated,
and they consequently die. The free
use of salt and charcoal will contribute
to protect cattle from epidemics, and
will counteract the effects of putrescent
or semitic wafer