Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-07-15
Practical suggestions.

IT takes eleven pounds of milk to add
one pound live weight to calf and an
OK that weighs one thousand three hun
dred pounds will consume twenty-five
pounds of hay in twenty-four hours to
keep from losing weight. If he is to
fatten he must have just twice that
quantity, when he will gain two pounds
a day. This is one pound live weight
to eleven pounds good hay To obtain
fifty cents hundred for his hay a far
mer must sell fat steers at five dollars
and fifty cents per hundred pounds.
ELDER EVANS, the Shaker, says
s'For the past ten years we have treated
felons with hot water. and with uner-
ring success. No cutting, no blistering,
no anything, but immersing the finger,
hand, or even the whole arm if neces-
sary, in water as hot as can be borne,
until the pain is gone and the core is
| loosened and drawn from the bone
When rusty nails have produced wounds,
the same course has been pursued If
on the hand or foot, keep it in hot
water.
The American Industrial Monthly
says: "The most economical and
satisfactory black paint we have ever
used for iron work was by mingling
about two quarts. of coal tar with pint
or pint and half of benzole, which
was laid on with a paint brush. This
makes an excellent varnish for rough
work; it could not be recommended,
however, as fine varnish for any inside
work. Three years ago the iron fence
and iron balustrade and hand-rails of
our front steps were covered with such
a varnish, while the iron-work of adjoin-
ing neighbors has been painted every
year with oil and lamp black and var
nish. At the present time our fence
looks much the best, and scarcely needs
painting, while theirs really needs
coat Of paint. A paint made of coal
tar and benzole will be found excellent
for smearing the iron-work of farm i'm
plements. AS benzole is somewhat
volatile, no more paint should be pre-
pared at one time than will be used I'M
mediately."
The principal points by which to dis
Germ the quality of the flesh in a fowl
are, says the Cottage Gardener, the
color of the feet and the kind of skin.
The yellow foot generally indicates a
fowl with tough flesh, heavy bones, and
yellow fat. It is very rare that this
color does not show itself in the skin.
However, it does not exclude certain
qualities of the flesh in the pure de-
scendants of the two exotic races.
Cochin China, and Drama Pootra.
With the exception of yellow and green,
which can never be recommended, all
other colors from black to white are
equally indications Of an excellent flesh.
When the skin, and above all that of
the sides and breast, is of a fine tissue,
delicate, and easily extended, also hay
ing rosy-pearled color, one may be
certain that the flesh is good and will
fatten rapidly.
| To make a square harrow in two
parts, hinged together in the centre,
take four pieces Of AKA oak or maple
scantling six feet long, and eight pieces
three feet long. Mortice the shorter
pieces into the longer ones twenty
inches apart and six inches from each
| end, thus making two frames or gates
six feet long, three feet wide, and with
four cross-bars each. Hinge the two
gates together by means of three pairs
of eye-bolts with long rod passing
through each pair. Put five feet twelve
inches long and three-quarters of an
inch thick of square iron rod into each
cross-bar, and three teeth into each
main bar between the cross bars. There
will then be ffty-two teeth. The har-
row should be drawn from one corner.
The HOusehOId