Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-04-04
FAR VI AND FIRESIDE.


b short rules of action 10 cases of accident
IS It would not be bad thing to cut this on
!. aud carry them 10 ones pocket-book, or
better yet, commit them to memory:
/. For dust in the eyes avoid rubbing, dash
+ water into them remove cindsrs, etc., with
the round point ola pencil.
Remove insects from the ear by tepid wa.
ter: never put hard instrument into your
ear
Ii an artery is cut, compress below
+ II choked, get upon all tours and cough.
Smother FIRE with carpets etc. water
will often spread burning oil, and increase
danger. Before passing through smoke.
take full breath and then stoop low, but If
carboDic is suspected walk erect.
Suck poisoned wound, or. cut out the part
without delay hold the wounded part as
long as can be borne to bot coal or the
end of a cigar.
In case of poisoning, excite vomiting by
tickling the throat, or by warm mustard.
For acid poisons give alkalies for aka.
line polsons. give acids white of an egg
is good in most cases.
For appopexy, raise the head and body
for faintiug lie fat
1t IN the water, float on the back, with
the nose and mouth projecting.
For slight burns, dip the part 10 cold wa.
ter; it the skin is destroyed cover with var.
Dish .-
SEED PoTAToEs. An old Maino farmer.
in giving his idea of seed potatoes, says that
we use too ripe seed when we propagate
from tubers that have lain in the ground
until dead ripe. He says that plants that
are propagated by tubers require different
treatment from those propagated BY seeds.
Our corn and grains that we use for seed
we like to have stand little longer than the
main crop, and become perfectly matured.
on the same principle our corn is selected
from the ripest, best developed ears and
kernels
But potatoes for seed should be dug and
placed in cool dark cellar, just as soon as
majority Of them will slightly crack open
In boiling. This is most invariably while
the tops are yet green and growing fast.
The tubers are then in a most vigorous state.
Dlsconnect them from the parent stalk at
that time, and they retain their vigor.
Instead of deteriorating as most of us
know the older sorts have, their vitality is
increased, and they yield better, with less
tendency to rot. As long ago as 1915 and
subsequently, observation led him to make
some experiments to test the theory, and he
finds it the proper course to pursue.
1t is not often that the late planted pota-
toes are better for seed than those planted
early: The lateness Of their planting prob
ably prevents ripening, hence the principle
OF the above reasoning would be in force.
SAVE THE Best Fowls FOR BREEDING
Ii is the worst possible policy to kill all the
best and handsomest fowls, and save only
the mean and scraggy ones to breed from.
This is precisely the way to run out your
stock; for like tends to breed like, and the
result u.s. that by continually taking away
the best birds, and using the eggs of the
poorest, your flock will grow poorer and
poorer every succeeding year. 1t would
seem as though this was too plain to be
insisted npon, but, in fact, cline upon limeo
is needed 1t is the crying want of the
poultry upon the farms the country through
this careful and intelligent selection of The
best for breeding. Nothing is lost by a lit,
tie self-denial to start with. The extra
pound or two of poultry flesh that you leave
on its legs, instead of sending it to the mar
kes, is as good seed, and will bring forth
tent fold and twenty.fold in your future
broods. Save your best stock for breeding.
RAT RooF Consolidating recently seen
in our exchanges, several plans for exclu-
ding this troublesome vermin from cribs,
we give plan that our experience proves
to be etiectual. Make your stills square,
say ten inches; saw into and block out from
these so that the joist will be even, or face
with the top; the floor then rests on these
sills so that there is no place for the rat to
stand, to cut his way through the floor.
And as further preventative have your
post, upon which the house is to rest, three
feet long; sink them into the ground 6
inches. this will leave the crib 80 inches
above ground, at the top Of the rost tack
around around strip Of tin, or 8 inches
wide, the tin being hard and smooth. the
mischievous little rascals can not climb over
it, and are completely banked
FITS FOR PoTAToEs. -Pits for potatoes
should be made on dry soil and where there
is no danger of water standing 10 the spring.
Our own plan is to make q deep dead fur.
row with plow, and then throw out the
soil on each side so to make the bottom of
the pit about three feet wide. Cover the
potatoes with four or FIVE inches Of straw.
and then throw light coat of SOIL about
sufficient to cover the straw, leaving some
ventlators at the top. Just before Winter
sets 10, put on another coat of straw and
cover it with earth. This second coat Of
straw holds dead air between two layers Of
earth, and will keep out the severest frost.
CURING BEEF.-A writer tells how to
cure beef. my plan is very simple one.
dissolve eight pounds of salt and four
ounces saltpetre in about pail of water,
by heating on the stove. When it comes
to scald. | add two quarts molas es and
two pounds Of sugar. After skimming care
fully, pour the whole over the beef aud
place weights on it to keep it under. These
are the proportions to about a hundred
pounds Of meal. Let this lie from four DAYS
to two weeks
STAGNANr WATER FOR Cows. Out of
14o families supplied with milk from dai.
ry in Islineton, England, seventy suffered
from typhoid fever. One hundred and s;x-