The true northerner., 1873-11-14
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

plantain leaves wash and brtiise them
well now strain them through cloth,
and sweeten with honey for an adult
one tablespoonful is dose.
Cows should be taken in about sun
set, or before they are preparing to rest
for the night, and on no account allow
them to be hurried to or from the pas
ture, especially when full of milk.
KEEPING HoNEY.-Honey will not
candy if a tablespoonful of cream tartar,
dissolved in water, be mixed with
gallon of honey when scalding hot.
Care must be taken not to scorch the
honey.
To CLEAN GOLD CHAINs.-Put the
chain in small glass bottle with warm
water, little tooth powder and some
soap. Cork the bottle and shake it for
minute violently. The friction against
the glass polishes the gold, and the soap
and chalk extract every particle of
grease and dirt from the interstices of
chain of the most intricate pattern !;
rinse it in clear cold water, wipe with q
towel, and the polish will surprise you.
MANY farmers have an idea that sheep
do not need water, but this is mistake.
1t is true that they will go without drink
long time in cold weather and on moist
pastures, but in dry weather and on
high land they suffer for want of it.
To HULL CoRN.-One quart of strong
lye, prepared by pouring warm water
upon a peck or more of ashes add two
quarts of boiling water to it, and put in
the corn let it boil until the hulls be-
gin to start, which you can determine
by taking out few kernels and washing
them in cold water. Skin out all the
corn rinse it in two or three waters !;
put it into cold water, and let it boil up;
turn off that water so as to extract all
the lye fill up with boiling water, and
cook for four hours slowly add salt to
your taste; let it boil half an hour more,
and serve. 1t must cook great while
to be palatable.
COOP MEN MAKE COOP HORSES. A
horse is never vicious or intractable
without direct cause. If horse is
restive or timorous, you may be sure
that these faults arise from defects in
his education. He has been treated
either awkwardly or brutally. Com
birth accustom him to the presence,
voice and sight of man speak and act
gently; caress him, and do not startle
him. All chastisements or cruelty con-
fuse the animal and make him wild.
They are good men who make good
horses.
GARDEN WALKs.-Very solid and
durable walks, either for garden or
street, may be made by mixi ng melted
asphalt or bitumen with screened gravel
or screened coal-ashes, and spreading
the mixture upon prepared bed and
rolling it compactly. To be more ex-
plicit, we would say, first lay out the
walks level, grade and roll them. Spread
! then a coating of three inches of coarse
gravel or finely broken stone mingled
with the melted asphalt, and ram or roll
it down closely. Then add one inch of
finer gravel or coal ashes and spread
evenly, and roll well, spreading sand or
fine ashes at each rolling until the path
becomes dry and hard, and all the as
phalt is absorbed by the sand or ashes.
No weeds will come up through such q
path, nor will moss or grass grow upon
it. For few weeks occasional rollings
will be needed. York Tribune.
AT WHAT AGE TO SELL HOGs.-Most
Northwestern hog breeders unite in the
practice of selling their fatted hogs il
the fall or early winter, at the age OF
sixteen to twenty months. This is good
evidence that this plan pays best under
all tie circumstances, and yet there is 6
respectable minority who insist, and
give weighty reasons for their position
chat it pays best to have pigs come
early, "crowd" them, and sell then
when eight or nine months old. The
argument of the larger class is that il
takes comparatively little to keep the
pigs in fair growing condition the frs
winter, and that the second summer
they will make rapid growth at very
little cost in the clover field, and later
in the stubble fields. The argument OF
the either side is that it takes a certain
quantity of food to sustain life, and tina
the food necessary to keep the store pigs
in good condition through the winte
and spring months, and through th'
next summer, if fed to them during tn,
first summer and fall, would give then
a fine growth and good size then mucl
less corn would fatten them than woulC
be necessary the second fall. There i
no special difficulty in making a pil
weigh three hundred pounds when min
months old, but it is claimed that thi
cannot be done where large numbers ar
kept together. We wish there were
more records of actual trials of thes
plans, so as to better get at the actua
cost of raising and fattening pigs, lit
tered say at the first of April, and sol'
when nine months DID, IVeSter
Farmer.
PUMPKINS FOR SToCK.-The dlfferen
opinions of farmers as to the value @
pumpkins for milch COWS and othe
stock, is Lelieved to be the result of di1
fercnt ways of feeding them, by CORE
spondent of the Germantown Iele
graph. In hurry to clean a field
farmers will give their cattle a surfeit @
pumpkins for day or two, then for
day or two perhaps none, and thus a
ternate feasts and fasts, and conclud
pumpkins are worthless, or worse. Th
, writer says he intends to feed pumpkin
about two months-making them las
till the snow flies. He feeds regularly