The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-09-10
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

A SIMPLE DIsNFEcTANT.-R Roasted
coffee, says the homeopathic World, is one
of the most powerful means, not only for
rendering animal and vegetable effiuvia
innocuous, but Of actually DESTROYING
them. In proof of this, the statement is
made that room in which meat in an
advanced degree of decomposition had
been kept for some time, was instantly de-
prlyed OF all smell on an open coffee
rooster being carried through it, contain
ing one pound of newly-rOasted coffee ;
and in another room, the effluvia occa-
stoned by the clearing out of cess-pool,
so that sulphurretted hydrogen and am
monia could be clearly detected was en-
tirely removed within half minute on
the employment of three ounces of fresh
coffee. The best mode is to dry the raw
bean, pound it in a mortar, and then
roast the powder on a moderately-heated
iron plate until it assumes dark brown
hue; it is in this state ready for use.
PORK RAIsING.-A correspondent of
the Germantown Telegraph says: "My
own theory of pork raising, based upon
experience, observation, and, probably,
q little philosophy of things, if written
for the benefit of others, would be about
as follows: During the hot summer
months | would feed very little solid feed,
such rs corn in the ear or uncracked. |
would keep hogs upon green feed con-
stantly, either grass, oats, or rye, and
feed them at regular intervals, once or
twice a day, upon mashed feed, either
shorts, chopped oats or rye, buckwheat,
fp1 in he eo1 H.:
way, and at the same time allowed ac-
cess to shade and water, hogs will bear
crowding through the hot months very
good time, if not the best, to take flesh.
This puts them i'm the best of condition
for corn feeding, which should commence
about the first Of September, when the
new crop is still soft and tender. Treated
in this way hogs become probably as per-
feet as any method could make them.
Upon the whole, too, l believe it the
cheapest and most economical"
BUTTER MAKING.-We note by the
Western papers, and other sources of in
formation, that butter making is receiv-
ing an increased share of attention over
former years. In some places they are
indeed talking about the business being
overdone. This is almost always the
case when any great industry is taken
hold of earnestly, and is a trouble which
soon rights itself by the weaker brethren
falling out of the track. From the same
sources we note that it is believed the
quality has somewhat degenerated in the
main, and this is also a general result of
over-production. Many have an idea,
when the market is poor, that it does not
pay to do things well. The sharp-witted
take advantage of this. 1t is their golden
opportunity. Most people who make
money by farming or gardening do it by
always having a first-rate article. The
more poor stuff i'll market the better
theirs sells. Whatever is in general and
steady demand will always have an open
market for the good article. We do not
expect butter making of the right sort
will ever be overdOne. - Philadelphia
Press.
WHAT Is HIGH FARMING?- AN Amer
lean farmer of note, after visiting England
and examining with the critical eye of a
practical and experienced agriculturist
the system pursued there, says: 81 am
thoroughly confirmed in my old faith
that the only good farmer of our future
is to be the high farmer There is a
widely-prevailing antipathy among the
common farmers of our country against
not only the practice of high farming,
but against the use of the phrase by ag-
ricultural writers. This is all wrong,
and should at once be corrected. Through
some miscOnceptiOn of the meaning OF
the phrase, and also of its application,
they have come to believe it synonymous
with theoretical book farming new
tangled notions boosted progress, fol-
lowed by disappointment and final fail
urc. This is all an error. High farming
simply means thorough cultivation, lib
eral manuring, bountiful crops, good
feed, and paying profits therefrom. 1t is
not strange that misconceptions have
arisen in the minds of doubling farmers
who have been eyewitness to some OF
the spread-eagle experiments of enthusi.
astic farmers, better supplied with money
obtained in business they know how to
manage, than with practical experience
on the farm. Bountiful crops and paying
profits, of course, are what all farmers
who are depending upon the farm for an
income are striving to obtain; and every
year as it passes is reconfirming the
opinion that the profits are small, and
will grow beautifully less where high
farming is not practiced."
How TO PROTECT FRUIT FROM BIRDS
An English writer thus describes his
plan, which has proved successful, OF
protecting all kinds of fruit: "And
what, will you think, is my talisman
Simply ball Of gray or white brown
linen thread. take a ball of this in my
hand, fasten the end of it to one of the
twigs of the gooseberry or currant bush
es, and then cross the thread backward
from twig to twig in perhaps dozen
different directions, fasten off, and the
thing is done; and it will last two years,
the thread on the tree, mean. 1t is not
necessary that the thread should be white
or coarse /; it ought rather to be fine and
dark-a thing to be felt, not seen. have
watched the birds after performing the
operation; they come boldly to settle on
the trees, and they strike against these,
to them, invisible snares, for such, nc
doubt, they seem to be! they fly off in a
terrible hurry, and settle on the trees and
walls around about, longing and getting
hungry, till they disappear, and you will
see them no more.
As regards peas and other seeds,
which l always SOW in drills, l simply
stretch thread, sometimes two, along
each drill, at about two inches from the
ground, supporting it at that height by
little forked sticks. If you put it much
higher than this the birds do not seem to
care for tit docs not touch them that
is the grand secret, something they dc
not well see, nor know what it means.
have seen the people put a thick white