The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1873-05-07
Agricultural
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.

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PATENT STARCH PoLIsH.-Spermaceti
two ounces, and two ounces white wax
melt, and run it to a thin cake. A piece
the size of a cent gives linen the ap-
p~earance of having just left the hands
of the most expert finisher, and pre-
vents the iron from sticking.
WHITE SPRUCE BEER. Three pounds
of loaf sugar, five gallons of water,
with enough of essence of spruce to
give it a flavor, a cup of good yeast, a
little lemonpeel if you choose, and
when fermented, bottle it up close. It
is a delightful beverage in warm
weather.
DURING the year 1871 there were con-
structed in this country 1851 miles of
railway. During the last year 6,511
miles were built, making the result of
1872 in this respect inferior to the
showing of its predecessor. The entire
length of railway in the United States,
completed and in operation at the close
of the year, was 70, 158 miles, and A.
900 miles more are in various stages of
progress.
A MAN in Chittenden county, vt, has
made an experiment designed to ascer-
tain how lar soil is protected from cold
| by snow. For four consecutive winter
days, there being four inches of snow
on a level, he found the average tenn
perature immediately above the snow
fourteen degrees below zero immedi-
ately beneath, ten degrees above zero ;
under a drift two feet deep, twenty
seven degrees above.
GENERALLY speaking, cold feet, like
other local maladies, comes of low gen.
eral vitality, and the real cure is to be
sought in lifting up the general force.
But the cold, shallow foot-bath, a daily
change of wooden hose and the use of
shoe-soles as broad as your feet, will,
generally speaking, keep your feet
warm Loose shoes permit the blood
to flow freely. A tight glove, you
know, makes the hand cold.
The seven wonders of the world are
among the traditions of childhood, and
yet n~inety-nine persons out of one hun
bred can not name them. They are the
Pyramids the temple, the walls and
the hanging gardens of Babylon the
Chryselphantine statue of Jupiter
Olympus, the most renowned work of
Phidias the temple of Diana at Ephe-
sus, which was two hundred and twenty
years in building, and which was 425
feet in length and 22O feet in breadth,
and supported by 127 marble columns
of Ionic order, 80 feet high Mauso-
leum at Halicarnassus, erected to the
memory of MausoIus, the King of Caria,
by his wife Artemesia, B. @. 1853 the
Pharos at Alexandria, a lighthouse
erected by Prolemy Softer at the n
trance Of the harbor of Alexandra, 45O
feet high, and seen at a distance of 100
miles: and lastly, the Colossus at
Rhodes, a brazen image of Apollo, 1O5
Grecian feet in height.
SETTNG.-I always find it best to set
hens under shelter or on the ground.
If this last is not practicable, I have a
green sod taken up thin and place an
der the nest. This is very important,
for the earth contains heat enough to
keep the eggs in good condition while
the hens is off in quest of food,
something which boards or mere litter
under the nest would not be sure to do, I
[ make my nest of straw pounded Or 7
bruised finely with the poll of an ak, /
usually laying it on a smoothly cut l
stump of a tree to pound it. {
MILK OF DISEASED CATT1E.-Mr. Hus-
son, in a paper upon the milk of animals l
diseased with the cattle plague, an {
nounces, as the result Of one of his re- {
searches, that neither the flesh nor the 6
milk of animals suffering from this cattle I
plague-contagious typhus-will con- t
vey the disease, although they may suf- '
fer greatly in their nutritive properties.
The milk of diseased COWS he found to I
have a more OF less marked reddish 6
yellow tinge, and a disagreeable flavor, q
although cats fed upon it seemed to |
suffer no inconvenience. a
No GIRL should marry until she is fit 6
motherhood, and no girl is fit for 1
motherhood at sixteen years of g a
Becoming a mother at sixteen or seven I
teen with an average girl in this Iati- {
tude means offspring Of an info rior kind, l
and it means premature old age in the +
mother. will not say that no girl at
should marry, but I can say that
I have never known a girl to marry at
that age where I did not thinkit a great il
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VEGETABLE IvoRY.-This substance 4
is the albumen of the seed of a small il
of South American palm. The 4
fruit consists of several cells, in each of P
which there are four seeds they are n
enveloped in a tough, fbrous tesla, F
Whlch on oelng removes exposes the v
ivory. Itforms a good substitute for a
animal ivoroy, which it excels in color, a
being of adelicate transparent white. 1t, a
however, loses its purity after a certain I
Pretty ornaments can be made {
of this vegetable by the turner. "
Spring CLEANrNe.-Simple salt and 2
cleans and preserves mating c.
more efectually than any other method. n
repid tea cleans grained wood. Oil n
cloth should be frightened, after wash tt
ng with soap and water, with skim Il
milk. Salt and water washing preserves il
oedsteads from being infested by ver- tt
min, also mattresses. KEROSENE oil is n
he best furniture oil it cleanses, adds tt