The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1874-11-13

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The average annual rainfall at Cincin-
natl for the past forty years has been
forty-- inches, amounting to eight bar-
rels per square yard. A building thirty
feet square has one hundred square yards
Of roof, and will yield on an average
eight hundred barrels Of water per an
num-about seventy gallons per day.
How TO MAKE Coon BED.-Per-
haps some housekcepcrs would like TO
know they can make an inexpensive and
at the same time good and durable bed,
or mattress, and bolster. have bed
that will, with good usage, last life
time. 1t Is merely tick, the same as
for husks, with openings in the upper
side to insert the hand for stirring, and
filed with cut paper. Now, reader, do
not throw aside the paper with disgust,
but, II for nothing but curiosity, finish
the article. II will do no harm; posi-
bly, you may be induced to make one.
The work of cutting the paper is not
such a long job, as you would think.
Take any kind Of clean paper, except
straw paper, and fold it or roll it, 80 that
II can he cut at one clip Of the shears,
and then cut it, you need not he particu-
lar as to the width. These clippings are
like little curls or rings Of paper, and lie
almost as light as feathers, and after
using the bed they will not break up and
grow fine and dusty, but are clean, and
can be stirred as light as when first used.
l have heard people who have slept on
them say, they were the best beds they
ever slept on l prefer them to feath-
ers or common mattresses; hair mat
trcsses are nicer, of course, but few of us
farmers wives can afford to buy them !;
whereas, the paper bed We can have
without cost, except the work, and that
the smallest child you have who can use
a pair Of shears, will help you, and if
not kept busy too long at time, will
think it play. The same material makes
nice pillows for lounges, chair cushions,
cradle ticks, etc. have box to keep
waste paper in, which is out of the way,
and At the same time handler than The
rag-bag; and when it is full cut them
mn into another hoy and mt them in thu
tick. Use the same ticks that have
used for straw. wash them and sew nm
the openinps. 40 that they are lust large
enourb for the hand 10 mas, ,broueb
readily. three openipps are sufficient, >
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Rut whore do the homes Of animal. come
from9 Certainly from the .o;I ,broucb
the grass. bav. grain etc. consumed n.
food Tbereiore every horse bullock
cow. sheen. and hog cent off from the
farm without returning like quantity
of hone IN the earth causes our land 10
Weld less and less every wear till the
land becomes what ia termed worn ont
Resides every load of bav and every
busbel of grain sold off the farm carries
awav the same material a. II ia the bav
and Grain tho, mala tba homes NJ onr
Cattle horse. e,c
Five ner cent Of all nlants are com.
no.ed of ten mineral substance. Of which
none forms LARGE mart and which comes
directly from the earth wbi,e tho fat of
animals i, composed of carbon oxygen
al hvd,oo., IL zoo Of ,ho o.s.s wh;oh
n,a,,s ,.ke exclus;v.lv from the air in
the forms of carbonic acid and water
and which constitute about ninetv.four
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