The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-01-02
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD

LoLLING OF A HoRsE's TONGUE. .--Rivet
section OF knife from q mowing-ma-
chine on his bit; dull the edges and
make everything smooth. The knife run
ming up in his mouth prevents him from
drawing his tongue far enough back TO
get it over the bit. Carelessness in
breaking colts is the cause of it. He
has just finished breaking a colt that
had this habit. He broke him by taking
strong rubber tape, sewing buckle
on one end, and running it through the
rings in the bit and over his nose, tight
enough to hold the bit up against the
roof of his mouth. He thinks the rubber
would not cure an old horse of the habit,
although he never tried it but the
knife will prevent it as long as it is used.
AN EASY WAY TO HANG HoG.-A
Western farmer says: Take the hind
wheels of a wagon, with the reach in /;
take ladder about ten feet long let
one end extend about two feet out be-
hind the wheels; tie it with rope to the
axletree and reach back the wheels up
to the butchering platform, draw the
hog on to the ladder headforemost, let.
ting the hind parts of the hog reach as
far back as the ends of the ladder, and
letting the hog lie on his back then
wheel him to the hanging-place, lower
the end of the reach, letting his legs go
each side of the hanging-pole, putting
the other end of the gambrel in its prop
er place; raise up the forward end of
the reach, letting the hog slide down the
ladder remove the wheels, and YOU will
find that the thing is done with very
little lifting.
RAT PROOF Corn CRIB.-A CORES
pondent of the Cincinnati Gazette gives
the following directions for making arat
proof corn crib. Let the four corner
posts be eight inches square from the
sills which are to support the floor of the
crib into the posts at a distance of two
feet from the lower end. Before putting
the frame together, taper the lower ends
of the posts for the distance of two feet,
so that at the very base the posts shall
be only four inches square. Now, when
the frame is set up let these posts also
stand on tapered rocks. If the crib
needs more than these four posts to bear
up the corn that will be put into it,
make legs like the lower portions of
these posts, and set these legs under the
sills, and put on the floor, making the
latter tight, and which will be about
three feet from the ground. Have the
door made tight, and keep it shut, and
no rats will get into your crib.
M1NCE MEAT.-Boil six pounds of lean
beef until tender, let it get cold, and
then chop it very fine with your cleaver
:. Pick three pounds of beef suet and chop
that fine. Stone four pounds of raisins
and cut them up. Wash two pounds OF
currants and dry them. Cut in bits one
pound of citron, and chop one peck Of
peeled apples. Have two teaspoonful:
of fine cinnamon, one of allspice, one
dozen cloves, one large nutmeg, one tea,
spoonful of black pepper and large
spoonful of salt in separate papers, al
nicely powdered, three pounds of nice
brown sugar, and the syrup from tn,
peel of two oranges, preserved; chor
the peel up fine. Put in your tray 9
layer of the beef, then suet, then sal
and pepper, next sugar, apples, and the
other fruit, then your spices and chopped
orange peel. When all are in, pour tht
syrup of peel over it with one quart o
French Tor some other good brandy
: Work it all up with the hands until vel
mixed. This will keep in stone jars un
til the spring, and cannot be surpassed
If made strictly by directions. WheI
you wish pies made Oft, line your baking
plates with rich puff paste, and fill will
the meat; then add sweet cider and
little wine to moisten the meat. Cove
with top crust and bake pretty brown
Serve them hot.
HOUSING FARM 1MPLEMENTs.-"L lie
us see," says a writer in the America1
Rural Home, How much it costs not t.
furnish shelter tor farm tools. 1ht
woodwork seldom wears out; the timber
of a plough or harrow or roller or har
vester, if it were wasted only by the or
dinary wear in doing its work, would
last on an average probably doze1
years. If exposed to the weather all the
time, four years would be the longest
term of its duration. Sheltering nipple.
ments, then, will make them last three
times as long as if unprotected Now
farms of one hundred acres require tool,
to the amount of $500 at least and
most of our farmers have that much cap.
ital thus invested. If carefully housed
and painted so they receive no damage
from the snow or rain, the woodwork Of
one set of implements, costing $500, will
last as long as three sets unhoused, and
costing 81 800. Now the difference be-
tween these sums at simple interest
amounts to about 81 ,4C0, great deal Of
money to be paid even in twelve years
by farmer, for totally neglecting to
house and paint his implements. If they
are sheltered mart of the wear the loss i,