Connecticut western news., 1873-01-10
Farm, Garden and Household.

10 everybody. It i0 now proposed to use hangings made of metal, and an &C., count of this new invention, which comes to us from Paris, has been read before the Society of Arts. The metal employed is tinfoil in sheets about six teen feet long, end from thirty to forty inches wide. The sheets are painted and dried at a high temperature, and are then decorated with many different patterns, such as foliage, flowers, geometr1cal figures. imitation of wood, or landscapes. When decorated, the sheets are vanished, and again dried, and are then ready for sale.
 new mode of washing linen has been introduced and adopted in Ger many. The operation consists in dis solving two pounds of soap in about three gallons of water as hot as the hand can beer, and adding to this one table spoonful of turpentine and three of liquid ammonia; the mixture must then be we'll stirped and the linen steeped in 1t for two or three hours, taking care to cover up the vessel which contains them as nearly hermeticallv as possible. The clothes are afterward washed out and rinsed in the usual way. The soap and water may be relocated and used the SOOAA oAAICg DuG HI GlldJ CdS0 udl1 d Ut- ble-spoonful of turpentine and table sDeonful' of ammonia must be added. . The process is said to cause a great economy in time, labor, and fuel
 A writer in the Country Gentleman says: "Steers I handle and yoke up the first winter before they are year old, and during the following summer, to aocustom them to the yoke, and to walk side by side evenly together. The second winter put them to light sled, and put small rope around the nigh ones head. not to guide them by, but to secure them from running away from me by some sudden fright or some other cause. I then, with light, short whip. proceed to teach them to draw, to 9s forward, to stop, to haw and gee. l use few words with them, and few motions of the whip, not trying to teach then too many things at once. When they gre little older, I teach them to back by choosing piece of descending ground for that purpose, with the empty sled or cart for load. I never try ts plough without driver till steers are four years old.
 An Iowa farmer recommends the fol- lowing device for measuring land. Take two slats about six feet long, sharpen one end of each, lay them upon a floor like pair of open compasses, so that the points Shall be exactly five feet six inches apart; now nail the other two ends together and piece across the middle, so that it will look like the let ter A. and the measure is finished To measure land place one point at the starting place and the other also on the grousd in a straight line for destination: stand alongside the. machine, with one hand on top of it; take one step for ward, tip up the point that is behind. swing it around (from you) on the other poiut, and set it in line also. A person In this manner can measure correctly as fast as he can walk---three spaces make rod--wak straight without stepping, coant the spaces, divide these by three, and you have the rods.
 Oalifornians lead in the matter of dairy cuteness so far as heard from. A commission firm in San Francisco sslate. ly found that some of their customers were exasperated about something, and soon sundry suspicious and greasy. looking boulders and bricks were brought in and deposited on their coun ters by persons who stated that t1ey found them in frkins of butter they had bought of the frm,. and these persons not unnaturaaly indulged in remarks that they could not be deemed oompli mentarv to the butter dealers. An in veshgation was at once made, when il was discovered that consignment con s1stdng of twenty-eight firkins of wha- purported to be choice product of the dairy was largely doctored" in thil substantial manner. Some of the frkins contained from ten to fourteen pounds of rock and brick. Measures were a once taken to trace the ingenious william, to its proper source."
 A correspondent of the Praars Former, who has had large experience with swine, says the following are re liable:
 Prevesatsne.---One peck wood ashes four pounds salt, one pound each o black antimony, copperas, and sulphur quarter of 8 pound saltpetre. Pound mix thoroughly and moisten enough t prevent waste: put in trough in a dr place where the hogs can at all time eat as much as they please of it. hay strictly followed directions and have ha no cholera.
 Remaedy. Ut is: Sulphur, two pounds copperas, two pounds; madder, tw pounds; black antimony, half pound saltpetre, half pound; arsenic, tw ounces. The quantity is sufficient fo 100 hogs, and is mixed with slop enoug for few doses all round---a pint t each hog. Each time tried this ha about fifty head, and not one died ths was able to walk to the trough and ha enough life left to drink,
 A correspondent of the Vermont Fd, nser thus describes an improved poke ( 1umplng-stick: First put piece acros the horns. Then have piece of har wood board, one- Salf or three-fourtE inch thick, and about three feet Ions Have hole inserted in the bar acros the horns in such way that when tn hard wood strip is inserted in it, runnin out over the back, as the animal natl ratly carries it's head, the rear end wi bs just free of the back. Drive thre e' four shingle nails, ground sharp int this end, letting them come throug three-fourths of an inch, so that as 500 as the animal makes an effort to rais his head to jump the fence, the mai will soundly prick his back, and he wi be apt to frisk his tail and start fo some feed that is easier to be obtained For cheapness and durability this a engagement is unequaled. It weighs les than three pounds; it is not in the wa in travelling around, and when the an nal lies down it is on one side, as 1t natural for the animal to throw it's hea opposite to the side it lies on. Whe they are feeding it is upright in the ail It will keep the animal to which it applied where he belongs, sure.
 The general servant of Parisian ger tleman entered, "ike Niobe, all tears, his wife's chamber sobbing:
 "Oh, madam! ooh. madam p'