The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-05-24
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

FROM WINDOW GLASS.-Put sufficient
saleratus into hot water to make q
solution, then saturate the paint which
is on the glass. Let it remain until
nearly dry, then rub it fl with WOOL
en- cloth.
ROLL THE WALKS AND ROADS 1t
is good plan to roll thu pathways
from time to time, during tie winter.
ing them firm, and is especially bene-
fetal Immediately after a rain and be-
fore severe frost again sets in, as well
as all times when the frost is out two
inches or more. 1t matters little wheth-
er the path is travelled upon or not;
the rolling is at this season more effec-
tive and essential toward forming
hard track for the coming season than
double the labor expended in July and
August. Decorate your front grounds
and make your Uttered flower beds at
tractive during the winter, by covering
the beds with the branches of ever
green's and by sticking small trees in
groups all around.
To CLEAN PAINTS.-Use but little
water at tine; keep it warm and
clean by changing often. A flannel
cloth is better than cotton. Be care
full of soap. Pot but little soap or skim
milk in the water; and soap to the
cloth when needed. A sharp piece of
wood is Indispensable for the corners.
The point will become like paint
brush. A saucer of sifted ashes, used
where the paint is badly smoked or fly
| specks are thick, is towel, and don't
spill drop of water. Never put soap
on grass unless it can he well rinsed,
! which can never be the case with win
dows; wash off dirt in clean warm wa
ter, and dry; then with paste of
| whiting and water, and with q little
CLOTH, place little in the center of
each pane. With another cloth, rinse
over the glass; next rub off with dry
cloth till the window shines like crys-
| tai.
| VALUE OF SALT.-Salt is not only an
| agreeable condiment,, but also an indis-
pensible requisite. When moderately
used, it acts rs gentle stimulant to the
stomach, and gives piquancy and relish
| to our food. In Africa the high-caste
| children suck rock-salt as if it were
sugar, although the poorer classes Of
natives cannot indulge their palates
Hence the expression in vogue among
them: "He eats salt with his vic
tuals," signifying that the person al
luded to is an Opulent man. In those
countries where mineral salt is not pro
durable, and where the inhabitants ar,
far removed from the sea, q kind of sa
line powder is prepared from certain
vegetable products to serve i'll its stead
Indeed, so highly is salt valued in some
places that from its very scarcity it Il
employed as substitute for money
Food Journal.
| OKRA.-This is frequently pronounc
ed ochre (which is a pigmenD instead
of as it is here correctly spelled. TIL,
seed of this plant should be sown dry
after a rain, pretty thickly in drills
the drills being about two feet apart
and when the plants are up few
inches, thin out to twelve inches apart
The dwarf variety is the best as it grow
only some three feet high and bear
equally well with the larger sort
Those, however, who have the larg
will find it dwarfted enough by replant
ing a couple of years. There is nothing
more delicious in soups, and the youn.
pods-for the pods are only fit to ca
when young and tender-can be strun!
up and dried for future use, when the.
are scarcely inferior to the others il
the green state. We are very sure tina
if once grown it will not be abandoned
Can be sOwn up to the middle of May
How To REDUCE BONES FOR AGRI
CULTURAL USES.-.A writer in the H0r
ticulturist says he buys bones of thu
butcher at a dollar the hundred pounds
aud considers them the cheapest fertili
ger he can obtain. He transforms then
into meal by the following simple anG
effective process: | have a large water
tight bOgshead standing outdoors, nea
the Kitchen. In the spring [ cover thu
bottom about six inches deep with dry
soil. On thisI put layer Of bone
about the same depth, and cover then
entirely with unleached ashes. o.
these another layer of bones, then ashe
and so on until the hOgshead is full
leave it then exposed to the sun ant
rain all summer and winter until TIN
next spring. Then, on removing tn
contents of the hOgshead, find nearl.
all the bones SO soft that they viii
crumble to powder under a very Sigh
pressure, aud, mixed with the ashe
and sell, they give a nice little pile O
manure, ready for immediate use. An.
of the bones not sufficiently subdUed,
return to the hogshead again for anoth
er years slumber.
New ENGLAND AGRICULTURE
leading Philadelphia journal has re
marked that "there is no use in deny
ing that the whole interior Of NeS
England has been pretty much eXnaus
ted fer agricultural purposes by its orig
inal population" This is net true
Poor as is our land, we can produc
more bushels of wheat, corn and Othe
cereal grains to the acre than any 9th
er section of the country. Thefe is n
difficulty in raising on fair land, prop
erIy cultivated, 75 or even 100 bushel
of corn, and 80 or 40 bushels OF whea
to the acre. We are now busy in blast
ing rocks, extracting stumps and drain
ing meadows; and soon, if mechanics
and trade pursuits do not by the pros
poets of extraordinary profits entic
away from our rugged soils all tn
Young men, we will have New Eng
lands fields correspond in productive
ness with those of Old England. w
have pluck here, aud are not brighten
6a ny STdiiltc OOuitci VI % iA"'o.
swamp; we can tear in pieces the one
ahd dry and pulverize the other. New
England may yet become the gardel
OF the CONTEMPLATION Journal
Chemistry.
SHEEP EATING THEIR WOOL.-In
stances of sheep eating their own woo
are quite common, especially durin
the latter part of the winter and earl
spring. Some have thought the caus
resulted from the presence of n sma
parasite-as minute rs the red spider {
some towering plants-which produc
anfrritation, and to allay this the shee
acquired the habit of biting its Ow
skin, and thereby eating its own WOO
1t is generally believed, however, tina
the habit is analogous to hens eatin
their own eggs, and of the abnorm;
appetite of cows for old bones, wOole
rags, &C., and is caused by an exhau:
ton of the phosphates of the soil. Ol
pastures and fields that had been lon
cropped, are deficient in these element
hence the absence of them in the feet
/ and consequent want of them by tn
, animals. As a preventive, mix q sma
: quantity of bone meal with corn mea
and give them an occasional fee,
, Sulphur also has been found % be
preventive of the habit, AID man
, farmers keep their fiocks CONSTANT
supplied with it. 1t no doubt assists
! giving a healthy tone TO the system.-
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