The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-12-10

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The average annual rainfall at Cincin-
natl for the past forty years has been
forty-six inches, amounting to eight bar
rels per square yard. A building thirty
feet square has one hundred square yards
of roof, and will yield on an average
eight hundred barrels of water per an
num-about seventy gallons per day.
How TO MAKE A COOP BED.--Per-
haps some housekeepers would like to
know they can make an inexpensive and
at the same time good and durable bed,
or mattress, and bolster. have bed
that will, with good usage, last a life
time. 1t is merely a tick, the same as
for husks, with openings in the upper
side to insert the hand for stirring, and
filed with cut paper. Now, reader, do
not throw aside the paper with disgust,
but, if for nothing but curiosity, finish
the article. II will do no harm; posi-
bly, you may be induced to make one.
The work of cutting the paper is not
such long job, as you would think.
Take any kind of clean paper, except
straw paper, and fold it or roll it, so that
it can be cut at one clip of the shears,
and then cut it, you need not be particu-
lar as to the width. These clippings are
like little curls or rings of paper, and lie
almost as light as feathers, and after
using the bed they will not break upand
grow fine and dusty, but are clean, and
can be stirred as light as when first used.
/ have heard people who have slept on
them say, they were the best beds they
ever slept on" / prefer them to feath-
ers or common mattresses; hair mat
tresses are nicer, of course, but few of us
farmers wives can afford to buy them
whereas, the paper bed we can have
without cost, except the work, and that
the smallest child you have who can use
a pair of shears, will help you, and if
not kept busy too long at a time, will
think it play. The same material makes
nice pillows for lounges, chair cushions,
cradle ticks, etc. ] have box to keep
waste paper in, which is out of the way,
and at the same time handler than the
rag-bag; and when it is full cut them
up into another box and put them in the
tick. / use the same ticks that l have
used for straw; wash them and sew up
the openings, so that they are just large
enough for the hand to pass through
readily; three openings are sufficient
Cor. Cincinnati Times.
BONE AS A MANURE.--The bones of
all animal creation are composed of three
substances, phosphoric acid, lime, and
gelatin of glue---thrcc of the best fertil-
izing substances to produce good seed.
But where do the bones of animals come
from? Certainly from the soil, through
the grass, hay, grain, ETC., consumed as
food. Therefore, every horse, bullock,
cow, sheep, and hog sent off from the
farm without returning like quantity
of to the earth bone causes our land to
yield less and less every year, till the
land becomes what is termed worn out.
Besides, every load of hay and every
bushel of grain sold off the farm carries
away the same material, as it is the hay
and grain that make the bones of our
cattle, horses, etc.
Five per cent. of all plants are COM
posed of ten mineral substances, of which
bone forms large part, and which comes
directly from the earth, while the fat of
animals is composed of carbon, oxygen,
and hydrogen, three of the gases which
plants take exclusively from the air, in
the forms of carbonic acid and water,
and which constitute about ninety-fOur
per cent. of all plants.
POLL EVIL REMEDY.-A corrcspon-
dent of the Western Rural says: "Probc
the pipe to the bottom; take equal parts
of corrosive sublimate and white vitriol,
about what you can pick up on the point
of small penknife. Put it in thin
muslin cloth, tea thread around it, put
it down the pipe with the probe, letting
the end of the thread hang out at the
top. Repeat this once n week for three
or four weeks, until the pipe comes out.
If properly done, will warrant cure
without the use of the knife or causing a
stiff neck. l have cured many horses,
both for myself and others, and never
had failure. Young horses arc partic-
ularly worth the trial. After the pipe
comes out, there is nothing To do but TO
keep the parts clean with soapsuds and
water"
How TO FIX THE CLOCK.-When the
clock stops do not take il to the repair
shop, till you have tried as follows
Take off the pointers and the face take
off the pendulum and its wire; remove
the ratchet from the "tick" wheel, and
the clock will run down with great We
locity. Let it go; the increasing speed
wears away the gum and dust from the
pinions clock cleans itself If you
have any sperm oil, put the least bit on
the axles. Put the machine together,
and nine times in ten IL will run Just as
we'll as if it had been taken to the shop.
In fact, this is the way most shopmen
clean clocks. II, instead of pendulum,
the clock has watch escapemcnt, this
can be taken out in an instant, without
taking the works apart, and the result is
the same. 1t takes about twenty min
utes to clean brass clock in this way,
and saves a dollar.
KEEP Hoes OUT OF THE WATER
A correspondent of the Colonial Farmer,
whom the editor declares to be practi-
cal breeder, writes that to handle hogs to
the best advantage, pasture is needed
of green grasses, clover, bluegrass, and
timothy, and it is best if there is no run
ming water or stock ponds in the field.
Hogs do better where there are no stock
ponds or branches to wallow in. In
place thereof have well water pumped
for them. Have troughs made, and nail
strips across, eight inches apart, to keep
the hogs from lying down in the water,
and let these troughs be placed on floors,
to keep them fDp digging up wallowing
holes If fccdNye given them, it should
be soaked in swill barrels for twelve
hours--no longer---before feeding, and
fed to them as drink.
IlOuscho1d Helps.
CRACKER DEssERT.---Choose whole
soda crackers, and lay each upon a sep
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