The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-06-13
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.

Q066 OL hNOW L6UI6.
J -THE CREAM IN MILK.-Dr. Ande
son, Edinburg, Scotland, has proved
actual an alysis that the last gill of mi
drawn from the adder of the COW CO
tains sixteen times the amount of erea
incident to the first one, the separate
of the cream from the milk taking plat
in apart of the udder, particularly in il
stances where the animal is suffered |
stand at rest for some time before mill
ing.
AMONG the peasantry in China, it
said, they ascertain the exact hour {
noon by opening the lids of a cat
eyes. At the exact moment of twelv
o'clock the pupil looks like blac
line, but as the sun descends it gradual
ly widens to be q pretty large oval a
sunset. From sunrise to noon the pu
pill is gradually narrowing up to twelv
O'Clock again. So they say half pas
twelve, one, two or three, according t,
the width of the aperture, their accura
cy depending upon experience.
-SoILING-W Webster's Dictionary GOV
ers great variety of information, an(
in answer to q correspondents inquiry
as to the meaning of the above term W.
quote "The act or practice of feeding
cattle or horses with fresh grass or greer
! food, cut daily for them, instead o.
pasturing them. This is concise an6
comprehensive the term green food
includes a variety of crops aside from
grass, intended to fill out the season
and give greater variety. For instance,
| rye comes on rapidly in spring and
makes excellent forage; corn may be
sown in drills at intervals, to furnish
successive cuttings through August,
when grass is getting scarce, and oats,
barley, vetches, lucern and other
plants may also be made useful at diff
ferent periods.
NETTING FOR WINDOWS AND DooRs.
If we would have cool paplors, dining
rooms, kitchens and bedrooms, during
the hot summer weather we must have
musquito netting or wire gauze in all
our windows, and, if possible at the
doors also. Window blinds can not
take the places of netting or gauxe, be-
cause they exclude so much of the cool
evening and night air, and although
they are very essential and needful to
shut out the hot sunshine, and the beat
ing storm, yet they will not answer all
our needs. Musquito netting can be
purchased at very cheap rate, and the
"gude mon" can easily make or procure
some frames to fit all the windows,
which can be either painted white or
stained dark red to match the sashes
of the windows. Then dark blue, pink,
green or white musquito-netting can be
easily stretched and tackled over them
by the skillful fingers of house-mother;
and after she has used them for one
summer, nothing could persuade her to
go without them another season. They
will exclude mosquitoes, flies, moths
and all other insects, and will not ex-
clude the fresh, cool air. They are
very easily taken out and put in; or
they can be so arranged that the win
dows can be closed on damp, cool days.
Any woman can tack piece of the net
ting across the lower half of the window
on the outside of the sash, if that is the
only means she can employ. The wire
gauze requires a workman's handling,
and it can be made into permanent
shades which will Withstand all wealth
ers. When we have tried the good ef-
feet of these shades we must also have
the doors attended to. A slight frame
"O1h VI pluS Cc1I4 OO 141eRuC1 teA4l AooOShSNt
to the outer door posts by means of
strong hinges; and with hasp to fast
en- it with, and handle to open it by,
we can bid defiance to flies and mosqui-
toes both by day and night. Common
tools and little ingenuity are needed
to prepare a door, blind or shade for
the outer kitchen piazza, which will add
far beyond its cost to the comfort of the
cook and housewife. Mosquito netting
can do duty for the shade when thedoor
frame is ready but coarse wire netting,
such as is used for sieves and the like,
would be far preferable, because it
would last for a long time, while the
cotton netting is usually destroyed in
two years. In using the cotton netting,
however, for the windows, it is well to
select the pure white for the parlor,
pink for the chambers, and green or
blue for the kitchen pantry and milk
Eye6right.