Connecticut western news., 1874-11-06
Farm, Garden and Household.
Farm Notes.

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 Farm Notes.
 The hay crep of New Hampshire is said to be worth six, times as much as its corn crop, as hay can be bought for $12 ton and corn for $l per bushel. The pasturage and hay of that State are computed to be worth $12,- GOO, ,00O annually.
 A good lubricator for wooden axles is made of six parts of clean tallow and two parts of fine smooth plumbago. Another is made of five parts of sallow, five parts of soapstone, one part plum bago and nine parts rosin oil the tall low and oil are heated and mixed, after which the soapstone and plumbago are added. ..l ...
 California Changers have found a better means of securing cheap trans portation to near market than by hold ing political conventions. The farmers of limited district having failed to get a reduction of freight rates on an established railroad, joined together and built Q narrow-gauge railroad, twenty miles long, to the nearest port. They calculate to pay for the railroad in short time out of their savings in freight. ..... Fresh tan bark is not of any value applied to land, nor should it be mixed with barnyard manure. If you want to use it, mix lime and salt with it and let it decompose before mixing with barn. yard manure.
 Apples are excellent food for horses, and indeed for any kind of live stock that will eat them. The windfalls, such as are not useful for cider, shoald cer- tainly be promptly gathered and fed to stock. For swine they are better cook ed; but horses will eat and thrive upon them fed as they come from under the trees. If the thousands of bushels of windfalls could have been fed to stock, it would have peroeptibly reduced the ravages of the coddling moth in the orchards next year. Persistent effort in this direction year after year would surely result in better and fairer fruit and in healthier stock. --
 Medical Hints.
 BEE STINas.-It is said that few drops of coal oil applied to parts stung by bees, wasps, or hornets, will give instant relief.
 AsTHMA RRMEDY.-Gather brakes, by some called ferns, in the woods, dry them, place some under the sheet and sleep on them. Add few fresh ones every few weeks, and do not abandon it as soon as little better continue @ year or more. This is an old Indian remedy. .-.e-
 CATkRRa REMEDY, Take a wide. mouthed glass bottle loosely filed with cotton, aud pom on 1t the following mixture Pure carbolie aoid, 3G grains; saua ammonia (sp. gr. 0.96l, 9o grains; distilled water, l50 grains rectified spirits of wina,. 80 grains. Inhale ire. quehtiy through the nose, and now and then, into the mouth.
 CONSUMPTION AS AFFECTED BY REs1. DENcE.-Dr. Bowditch of Massachu- setts, in report to the Legislature oi that State, discusses the relation of consumptive diseases to the matter of residence. The first point he urges is that the cellar should be always dry also, that no possibility should exist of drinking water becoming contaminated by refuse :; and hence, for the latter, closely cemented stone, brick, or vitri. fed tile drains should be used, while the supply for drinking should be brought to the housefr some distant spring or pond. The dwelling, he says, is the best situated on an elevated knoll, open to the south and west winds, but somewhat shielded from the north and east. There should be means of allowing sunlight to enter every room; and, as regards temperature, about 70 deg. medium is the best, the heat to be derived from open freplaces connected with we'll constructed chim. neys in every room.
 ARemedy for Burns.
 The white of an egg has proved the most ef6oacious remedy for burns Seven or eight successive applications of this substance soothe the pain anG effectuslly exclude the burn from the air. This simple remedy seems pre- ferable to oollodion or even cotton Extraordinary stories are told of the healing properties of 8 new oil whicl is made from the yolk of hens eggs The eggs are first boiled hard, ths yolks are then removed, crushed anG placed over fire where they are care fully stirred until the whole substance is just on the point of catching fire when the oil separates and may b, poured of. It is in general use among the colonists of Southern Russia as means of curing cuts, bruises ani scratches.