The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-08-06

sterB. were selected Tor roasting. AT the
appointed time party of six sat down
to test their merits. After soup and
fish the head waiter, with an expression
of pity not unmingled with contempt,
brought Ia the roast. Half rat, which
had been carefully wrapped in bacon
previous TO the roasting, was served to
each. It was trying moment, but the
plunge was taken. and the first mouth
full ELECTED the remark Well, at all
events, it's not nasty No.. indeed,
it's a great deal better than rabbit. i
call it very fair eating. Each man
finished his portion, and three or four
picked the bones.
ASHES AS FooD FOR OATT1E.-A cor
respondent of the Live Stock Journal
found his cattle one spring affected
with the habit of eating wood, chewing
bones, etc. They became thin in flesh,
refused to eat hay, and presented sick
" appearance. He had no impression
that their food lacked the constituents
for making bone and his neighbOrs
used bone-meal, without noticing any
good results whatever. At last he
put about four bushels of leached
ashes in his barnyard and threw out to
them about a shovelful each day. They
turning them out to pasture, he pat one
peck of dry ashes per week on the
ground in the pasture. They ate all up
and gnawed off the grass where it had
been lying. The cattle began to i'm
prove, gaining flesh and looking better
than they had done for several years.
He says this morbid appearance was
nnnotieed years ago, from the fact that
the ground was new and ashy from the
burning of the woods and land clear
ings. Latterly he gives one quart of
ashes mixed with the same quantity of
salt to twelve head of cattle about once
a week.
A BIG CHUNK OF PLATnzA. Paris
mint has Just completed the manufac-
ture of bar OF iridated platina of the
enormous weight of five hundred
pounds, and worth 210,00 francs, the
exhibition of which recently took place
at the Conservatory des Arts ct Meters
of Paris, in the presence of delegates
from foreign countries and members of
the Academy If Sciences, invited by
Gen. Norm, director of the establish
ment, That mass of metal, quite ex-
ceptional for its size and homogeneous
ness, is to be used in making the stan
| dard meters and kilogrammes required
| by various governments for the adoption
| eff the metrical system, or the compar-
] ison of their weights and measures.
Each set will cost $500 francs, and
| forty-fve have been ordered by differ
ent powers. The fusion of tho metal
was effected by the aid of seven blow
/ pipes of oxyhydrogen gas inserted into
the cover of enormous crucible forty
cubic meters of that fluid were suffi-
cient to keep up the combustion of the
seven jets of ordinary gas during the
two hours the combustion lasted
The light of the incandescent metal
was SO intense that the melting POI
i could only be looked into with tho ai6
of a colored glass. Many centuries
may pass before the occasion shoulC
rise for such work as that executed
as the production of platina is veT1
limited, and does not exceed from tor
to ton and a half annually.
KEROSENE FOR HENNERIEs. -WheI
lice are troublesome in a hennery tn,
use of kerosene will be found to answe
an excellent purpose. If necessary
get small wateringpot and sprinkle i
everywhere. We know of It's being
used in this way and with complete
success. It was also applied to tn,
fowls by rubbing under the wings anC
among the feathers on the back of tn,
neck, and the pets were effectuall,
cleaned out, ;" without apparent harm
to the fowls. For small chickens, rub
bed lightly with q feather about thu
head and on the neck, it is admirable
and il is there where lice can GENERALLY
be found if they exist anywhere among
the flock. One application of this sor
will suffice for many weeks. Careful
observers will have noticed that Their
are several breeds of hen lice to conten,
against. The species that attack sitting
hens in hot weather are very small
very atcive in their motions, and multi
tudinous in numbers. They will some
times drive the hens from their nests
and become so numerous about tn
! hennery that visitors cannot enter
without carrying off more or less of tn
I | pests on their persons. Their presenC
will be indicated by a delicate crawlin
sensation on the hands, the neck, or th
!. body. Cracks and holes about I'll
o building viii harbor millions of them
g such times. For such a house keroseI
Z is the remedy. Apply it literally fro
o top to bottom, and, If one applicable
q does not entirely remove, apply a secon
> time. In applying to the chickens an
# fowls be careful not to get any in IL
}. mouth or eyes. It may not prove fata
n but it viii not do any good. It evidentl
"a does not makes small chickens feel liv
q ly, but it will not harm them seriousl
n if they are we'll housed or can get a
Is the warmth they require. We have n
q yet tried it in hens nests but have 1
N doubt that il sprinkled through the hi
"a or straw of which the nest is formed
s. will answer better purpose than 81
/ phur or ashes in the bottom. Tt wi
is positively kill the vermin harboring
the nests, while it is evident that d.
sulphur and ashes are only disagree
O. BILE. OF course, the effect of q sing
N application will not last always b
n one or two applications a year viii pro
4 ably be found to be sufficient--at leas
g. in memories whose owners are n
z frightfully negligent. The lice fouI
4. on the heads and necks of young chick
A. are very large compared with those
IS Testing the nests of sitting hens, al
Ia we do not remember to have ever sc,
" them except on fowls. The toReh of
10 small amount of kerosene infuses wo
" drOus activity into them, while eot
le saturation evidently paralyzes. Not
a. ing but their bligthed remains will
u found one day after a good applicable
N of kerosene.-COtnatry Gentleman.
l. RutIer in New Orleans