Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-03-20
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

RIPE cheese may be known by its nav
ing lost its elasticity under pressure OF
the finger; it keeps soft after cutting
not drying up readily-and melts in the
mouth like ripe pear.
REMEDY FOR Cold FEET.-Soak the
feet in warm water with a little cayenne
pepper in it two or three times a week.
Try this for a month, or longer If neees-
sary, and you will find it an excellent
remedy for cold feet.
To PREVENT the teeth from decaying,
brush them with lime water. Even if
they are far gone, it will cause them to
decay with little Or no pain. Saturate
the brush well, and use with tooth
powder.
AT discussion upon the most profit
able disposition of straw, by an English
farmers club, recently, the preponder-
ance of opinion was in favor OF treadlng
down into manure by sheep fed on clover
and turnips.
REMOVING TAR SPoTs.-The old rem
edy for removing tar is butter; tar is
soluble in fat, and especially in butter;
when this is left on the tar spots for some
time, both butter and tar are easily wash
ed out by sponge, with soap and water
1t is the same with resinous wagon grease
Recently DR.. Brikerd announced that he
had discovered that creamy mixture OF
powdered extract of liquorice, with OIL
of anise-seed, will easily dissolve tar, resin,
pitch, Venice turpentine, etc. 1t is after
ward washed out with soap and warm
water.
BEEF TEA.-A writer in the Canada
Lancet gives new process for making
beef tea, as follows: "Take thin rump
of steak of beef, lay it upon board,
and with a case-knife scrape 1t. In this
way red pulp will be obtained, which
contains pretty much everything in the
steak, except the fbrous tissue. Mix this
red pulp thoroughly with three times its
bulk of cold water, stirring until the pulp
is completely diffused. Put the whole
upon moderate fire and allow it to come
alowly to a boil, stirring all the time to
prevent the caking' of the pulp. In u.s.
ing this, do not allow it to be strained,
but stir the settings thoroughly into the
fluid. One to three fluid ounces of this
may be given at time
CHEAP POTTERY YARD.-Set posts
firmly in the ground, six feet high, eight
feet apart Take No. wire and stretch
from post to post outside, fastening with
staples made of wire driven into posts.
Place three wires one inch apart, one foot
from the ground; another three at three
feet ten inches from tire ground; another
| three at top of posts. Take common
laths and weave in, leaving three inches
space between sides of each. This makes
the fence four feet high Then take
other laths, picket one end, and chamfer
the other like chisel blade, and inter
weave among the top wires; then shove
the chamfered edge down beside the top
of the bottom lath, tapping under wires
two inches. This makes cheap, dur
able, pretty fence, that is seven feet and
ten inches high, and fowl-tight. Wires
should be left somewhat slack, as inter
weaving the laths will take it up. ".
| Lang IN the Poultry Wor1d.
How MUCH WILL KEEP A HoRsE.-A
horse weighing from ten to twelve hun
dred pounds will eat about six tons of
hay, or it's equivalent, in year; and we
suppose the real point to get at is, wheth-
er one can keep his horse cheaper on
some other product than hay. This is an
exceedingly difficult question to answer
it depends so much on circumstances.
We shall not attempt to answer it fully
at this time, but will merely say that, in
our opinion, three and and a half tons of
corn stalks and two and half tons of
corn would keep a horse year in fully
as good condition as six tons of good hay.
We may estimate, also, that it will take
three and half tons of oat straw, and
two and half tons of oats to keep a
horse a year-a bushel of oats weighing
thirty-two pounds, so that it will take
over 155 bushels and three and half tons
of straw to keep horse year. 1t would
take about two acres of good land to pro-
duce this amount-LiDe Stock J0urna}