The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-08-08
Useful Suggestions.


Ir is now ascertained beyond all
doubt that when a COW is abused she
will give less milk, and the milk will
make less butter.
To keep dressed poultry from spoil
ing when warm weather comes on,
sprinkle the fowls with powdered char
coal, after the animal heat has left the
body.
AFTER pretty full discussion of the,
cost, efficiency and durability of differ
ent kinds of fences, Michigan farmers
club concluded that good worm rail
fence is the cheapest and best that
farmers cali use.
THERE is nothing better for sick
headache than the following prescrip-
ton: Magnesia, fifteen grains solu-
ton of potassa, fifteen drops compound
tincture of SIENNA, six drains sirup of
ginger, one dram compound infusion
of orange peel, half an ounce. Mix.
Take at draft as An aperient.
To prevent horses from rubbing the
hair off of mime and tail, take half atea-
cupful of sharp cider vinegar, pour on
the spot were the rubbing is done, and
card it while pouring on, and it will be
found that this simple thing will stop
rubbing down fences, or spelling the
looks of the tail in the stable.
If an edge tool is so hard as to crum-
BILE, grind it on dry stone until the
edge turns blue; it will then cease to
break, and the temper will generally
prove to be about right. Scythes and
axes are sometimes too hard at the
edge, but if treated in this way will give
no further trouble.
An undoubted pedigree for at least
five generations is considered sufficient
to entitle an animal to be considered
thoroughbred. although, strictly speak
ing, the term really implies unbroken
descent on both sides from English-Ara-
bian or pure Arabian ancestors, not for
five years only, but as far back as
records extend or pedigree can be
traced.
A LEADING medical journal says that
sleeping rooms should always be ar
ranged, if possible, so as to allow the
head of the sleeper to be turned toward
the north. Frequently, in cases of
sickness, a person will find it impossi-
BILE to obtain rest if his head is in any
other direction, and often q cure is re-
tarded for long time.
A TEAsPooNFUL of liquid ammonia in
one gallon of warm water will often re-
store the color of carpets, even if pro-
duced by acid or alkali. If ceiling has
been whitewashed with carpet down,
and few drops are visible, this will re-
move it. Or, after the carpet is well
beaten and brushed, scour with OK gall,
which will not only extract grease. but
freshen the colors-1 pint of gall in 3
gallons of warm water will do large
carpet. Table foor-cloths may be thus
washed. The suds left from wash,
where ammonia is used, even if almost
cold, cleanses these new foor-cloths
well.
THE contents of a cesspool may be
rendered comparatively inodorous by
frequent additions of plaster, or ground
unburned gypsum, or diluted oil of
vitriol, or solutions of copperas. Prob
ably the easiest way of using the con-
tents for manure is to throw fine earth
into the vault until semi-lixuid sub
stance is formed, and to scoop this out
and deposit it into a quantity of dry
soil gathered in readiness for it. The
earth absorbs all the liquid and all the
gaseous matter, and if kept covered from
rain for few days it viii be in excel
lent condition to spread over meadows
or fallows to be prepared for the fall
crops.