The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-11-14
F1RM AND HOI ,SEHOLD.

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 a
gallon of honey when scalding hot.
Care must be taken not to scorch the
honey.
To CLEAN GOLD CHAINs.-Put the
chain in a small glass bottle with warm
water, little tooth powder and some
SOAP Cork the bottle and shake it for q
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 q
chain of the most intricate pattern ;
rinse it in clear cold water, wipe with a
towel, and the polish will surprise you.
MANY farmers have an idea that sheep
do not need water, but this is a mistake.
1t is true that they will 90 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 CoKN-One quart of strong
I've, prepared by pouring warm water
upon 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 a great while
to be palatable.
Coop Men MAKE Coop HORSES. A
horse is never vicious or intractable
without a direct cause. Ii 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 brutaily. Com
mencc the education of a horse at his
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-Nery solid and
durable walks, either for garden or
street, may be made by mixing 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 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 a
path, nor will moss or grass grow upon
will be needed. d.-.New York Tribune.
AT WHAT AGE TO SELL HoGs.-Most
Northwestern hog breeders unite in the
practice of selling their fattcd hogs in
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
respectable minority who insist, and
give weighty reasons for their position,
that it pays best to have pigs come
early, "crowd them, and sell them
when eight or nine months old. The
argument of the larger class is that it
takes comparatively little to keep the
pigs in fair growing condition the first
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 on
the other side is that it takes n certain
quantity of food to sustain life, and that
the food necessary to keep the store pigs
in good condition through the winter
and spring months, and through the
next summer, if fed to them during the
first summer and fall, would give them
a fine growth and good size then much
less corn would fatten them than would
be necessary the second fall. There is
no special difficulty in making pig
weigh three hundred pounds when nine
months old, but it is claimed that this
cannot be done where large numbers are
kept together. We wish there were
more records of actual trials of these
plans, so as to better get at the actual
cost of raising and fattening pigs, lit
tered say at the first of April, and sold
when nine months DID, Western
Farmer.
PUMPKINS FOR STooK.-The dIfferen
opinions of farmers rs to the value of
pumpkins for milch cows and other
stock, is Lelieved to be the result of diff
ferent WAYS of feeding them, by q CORE