The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-07-02
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.

about 1910 outlasting white oak posts
set about ten years later. But he finds
the Usage orange on the whole the best
TIMBER Tor posts, growing rapidly, and
proving very durable, and the planta-
ton when cut reproducing itself readily.
how TO USE PARIS GREEN.-D. @.
hlchmond, of Ohio, recommends the
following way of applying this virulent
bug-killer. avoiding the danger of the
arsenic dust flying in the air and en-
terinR the breath. a hogshead of wa
ter, with faucet, is drawn on q wagon
60 the potato field, as q reservoir to
draw from. Fill pail with water and
stir in heaped tablespoon of pure
Paris green, and more if impure. Dip
in an old broom, and with It sprir kle
the infested plants. Bright sunshine
is the best time.
WoRcEsrERsHmE SAUoE.-A cores
pendent of the London Garden gives a
recipe for this popular sauce. He saws
81 do not offer it as Lea & Perrin's.
but do say that it is equal. If not
superior to It, in my opinion. 1t is not
q recipe copied out of book, but one 1
have known long time. Half pound
shailots OF. pimento, powdered
OF: mace, powdered 4: I OF. cayenne
half nutmeg, powdered; h. anchovy
nsh; OF. salt 3 pints vinegar 6 OF.
soy. Chop or bruise the shallots, beat
up the anchovy fish, mix all together,
iet It stand for a month or so, and last
~ strain through a coarse sieve"
PoTAro YEAsr.-The following is in
every instance sure, provided it is made
according to directions Boil and mash
ten peeled potatoes one small hand
full OF hops tied in bag, and boiled in
one quart Of water rub the mashed
potato through the colander; stir to-
gether well then add a coffee cup of
sugar let it stand few minutes then
pour on two-thirds of a quart of cold
water, and when lukewarm, stir in one
pint OF good yeast, and set in a moder-
ately warm place to rise. When we'll
termented, put into q stone ing. cork
tightly. For one loaf of bread. use a
teacup of yeast. Put one or two table,
spoonfuls of melted butter and one
thIrd OF tablespoonful of soda in the
bread when you mix it, after the sponge
IS sufficiently light. OF course a little
salt.
TRAVELLING ON THE FARM.-Did anv
OF your readers ever think of the am
cunt Of travel it takes to raise a crop
of corn? 1 never saw an illustrat;on II
print, and thought I would give Won
one. have a twenty-acre 6eld. forty
by eighty rods. To break this M would
take one hundred and sixty-six miles.
Narrowing it, about forty miles. Fur-
rowing out, ninety miles. PLANTING for
ty-hve miles, If with a planter and if
dropped and then covered. ninety
miles. And for each blowing of two
furrows IN row, ninety miles or five
plowings, four hundred and fifty miles
Thus you will see it takes about EIGHT
or nine hundred miles of travel to raise
twenty acres OF corn, not counting 90
ing 70 and returning from the field
Besides there is replanting, thinning,
Eolllngs etc.-L1ldf0RG Farmer.
To DESTROY CocKRoAoHEs. - Toka
dry red lead mix with thin nooIasses
to a consistency of thin cream then
take pieces Of glass and broken plates.
eIc. spread 1t on about as thick "a
thin WlndoW-glass. Where reaches are
very numerous, give them plenty of
the mixture, as they eat very 0reediIv
OF 1t. L think the general failure nil
roach poisons is this-tha poison ia 40
quick IN poisoning the reaches that
they Will not eat enough of IL to xiii
them, Tor they are slow eaters. The
red lead being slow In it's effect ON
them, they viii get good quantity in
20 them before 1t will sicken them. 7
nhFe hotlced when any of them would
happen 70 be trampled upon, it would
appear they were entirely filled wifi
the red lead. Place the lead where the 5.s
reaches can get at it most convenientIv
III the lead should become too drv and
naro, mix little more lead and mo-
lasses with the old to freshen IL mn
again. and place it in other places.
STARCH FROM PoTAToEs. Tho starch
factories in the Missiouoi valley in
Northern Vermont, are run only in the
autumn, and the farmers dis1ose Of
their potatoes at these places. receivino,
pay either In cash or starch. One busbel
OF potatoes, 1t is stated, Yields from
eight 70 nine pounds of starch, and the
cost OF production is only one cent n
pound, so that the profits of the mann
iactuIer are large. The potatoes are
DVugnt from twenty to twenty-five cents
ana the starch is sold for
nve cents round. The factories are
cheaply built, and are sitnate5 on
mountain streams, where the no,Var ia
OBTAINED by the erection of short
Gam, and the construction of n turbine
wheel and some simple machinery 10
Drive the graters. The potatoes being
reduced to pulp are strained. and tbe
Btarchy PARTICLES are allowed ~ Mas
into large tub to settle. The water
Is drawn on, and the sediment or starch
Is thoroughly washed, and after BEING
dried IN kiln, is barreled for sale.
CONVENIENT WAY TO ME4srpv L.,
III the lines are already established
the plat can be measured with Snfgic;ovt
accuracy for all practical ,,nr1osos -.
means OF neat red pole, made as fol-
lows procure stick Of pine white
Wood' Eastwood, or almost anv other
timber, enc and a half inches sonare
ana sixteen and one-half feet Lon,
Dress each end, tapering from the mid.
ole, 80 that the pole will be one and a
haIt inches square at each end. Sncb
pole will be light and stiff Nov
graduate one side with the marks renre.
sehting feet and inches, and 0rad1afa
announcer side to indicate a Surveyor
INKS. A pole one rod in length mnst
De equal to twenty-five links. no divide
Ohe slde correctly, let a mechanio's
will divide the distance into twentS t s,.s
equal PAGES or links. A line can bo
measured with slch pole nearly as nc.
curately as with n surveyors chain II
person does not understand how 20
murphy chains and links, let him COM
Pute the measurement by square feet
IN one acre there are 43, $50 feet. Meas
ure any length and breadth of q sonare
pat, multiply the one by the other. and
aiy1ae the product by $500, which
Will give the number of acres and tba
lumber OF square feet representing the
tIacuon OF an acre. II it is desirable
20 measure triangular plat, two sides
OF which lie at right angles. measure
t s Two sides, multiply the distance in
Ieet one by the other, and divide tbat
product by two, which will indicate the
LUMBER LUMBER OK square feet, by 1850, and
of acres. Oeh
Poultry-RaIslng for Ladies'.
one young country girl, Miss Annie
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