Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-02-06
Farm, Garden and Household,

To DESTROY RATS. These pests can be
got rid of by mixing live plaster of Paris
with -four, dry, in equalparts. Sprinkle
little sugar on it to make it more
sought after. Lay in dry places and
about their haunts. They eat ravenous-
ly, drink, and die sure. Cor. Western
Rural,
SAUSAGE MEAT.-If you want it extra
nice, take two nice fresh hams and one
shoulder; take off the skin and have it
chopped nicely; season it with salt,
pepper, sage, and very little sugar.
If you like spiced meats, use with that
few cloves, some mace, and nutmeg.
Keep it in dry, cool place, and fry 1t
in balls, or stuff the skins when you
first make it for dried sausages.
For Driving STEERs,-A subscriber
asks: (Which is the best whip or
goad for driving steers or oxen; also,
will some one give directions for making
or fitting q yoke?" We would prefer q
whip, says Rural New Yorker. goad
is simply brutal instrument of torture
and, it cannot be used without ipficting
torture. A whip may, if the driver is
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out intlicting pain; but both the driver
and oxen need to be well trained in such
cases.
MmX.---Milk of average quality has. in
every 100 parts about the following COM
position: Water, $40; butter, 3.43;
casein, 3.12; milk sugar, 5.12; mineral
matter (ash), .93. Milk varies in COM
position from variety of causes, some
times having less water and more butter.
Very rich milk contains from to 8 per
cent of butter, and will not unfrequent-
ly show percentage of more than 16
parts of dry matter, while that which
may be called of fair average quality
will yield no more than II to 13 per
cent Of such matters
SrEAM1NG FooD FOR Mich Cows
Leo writes to the Tribune that he feeds
all cooked food to fifty COWS, sells his
milk at twenty-five cents q gallon, and
that steamed fodder will produce as
much milk as the best clover hay. He
soils his COWS in summer, beginning the
season with winter rye, then oats, clover,
lucern, millet, Indian corn sown in drills,
turnip tops. He says he has got some
millet that will grow fourteen feet high,
with head nearly eighteen inches long,
which on highlymanured soil he expects
to cut three times. He has specimen
of the long heads to prove his veracity.
New METHOD OF STORING GRAIN.-A
plan has been submitted to the French
Academy for storing wheat in portable
sheet-iron granaries, in which vacuum
is maintained equal to at least three or
four inches of mercury, this being suffi-
cient to destroy all insect life, (although
more vacuum is preferred), and to in
sure the evaporation of any moisture IN
the grain. The apparatus is of cylin-
drical form, placed vertically, and with
convex top and bottom, the top pro-
vided with an opening through which
the inlet of grain is led, with waive
pipe through which the air is exhausted,
and with gauge by which the degree
of exhaustion is indicated. The grain
is removed through an opening in the
bottom. In an experiment where living
insects where introduced in large guam
titles with the grain, it was found that
they were all killed without doing any
mischief, and at the end of six months
the wheat was found to be in as good
condition as at the outset.-NcC YORK.
Daily Bulletin.
SHEEP.-A farmer put into his yard
300 sheep that weighed an average Oi
80 pounds each; he fed them 120 days,
and they gained in that time 120 pounds
each---in all $500 pounds for the flock.
He fed them for sixty days all the straw
they would eat, and one pound of corn
each per day; for the next sixty days he
fed them all the hay they would eat and
the pound of corn each. This gives, in
all, two bushels of corn (120 pounds) for
each sheep, and probably two pounds,
or ID lbs. of hay for each sheep for
60 days---say > 1-2 lbs. of hay each--in
all $50 pounds per dayor 80 pounds
for each sheep. Then we have, corn at
one cent per pound and hay at $l5 per
ton, just eight cents per pound for the
29pounds of mutton and wool produced.
If the manure made, paid for the trouble
and straw consumed. Then he had, in
addition to his gain of twenty-nine
pounds, each sheep (Which, as has been
stated, was paid form hay and corn at
eight cents per pound), the increased
price per pound that the sheep would
bring on the first day of February, when
fat, over their price on the first day of
December, when they went into the
yards---and generally this would be from
80 to 100 per cent advance.
STICK TO THE FARM.-Miss Mary A.
E. Wager of MOOrc'S RoT0i says she is
quite sure that the more person knows
of life in great cities the greater empha-
sis will he or she give to the advice con-
tanned in the head line, and for these
reasons: The majority of country boys
are in no sense of the word fitted or
prepared for participations in the rival
ry and competition of business in the
city. They would find themselves as
much ont of their sphere or groove for
usefulness as a statesman would to be
placed in command of a ship. Or to
make the illustration more pertinent,
they would succeed in the city in about
equal measure with the city men who
go to the country to get rich farming,
audyou know how that's. Hundreds of
young. men come from the country to
the city weekly in search of work. l
see them anxiously walking the streets,
or standing at the street corners
in brown study. Often times
tbav ora rohbad of tbair Eft1o stora of