The Red Cloud chief., 1874-05-28

ENCOURAGE home manufactures, il it
does cost a little more at first. 1t will
all come back to you i'll various unno-
ticed avenues.
Why is it that some men always have
good crops in bad seasons? 1t is from
the fact that Providence helps those
that help themselves.
BE careful to battle horses, shoulders
just beginning spring work, three times
a day with cold water. If the shoulders
are tender, use a decoction of white oak
bark.
THE american Stock Journal says ::
"For gravel III horses, give twO-thirds
of a tablespoonful of saltpeter in a little
salt, for three consecutive deys or take
a pint of watermelon seed, and boil it
in two quarts of water till reduced to
nearly One-half, and drench two mOrn-
ings in succession /; your horse will be
cured"
VALUE OF HIDES AT HoME.-Thc skin
of an animal, whether cow, colt or
horse, that dies on the farm, is worth
more at home than at the tanners.
Cut it into narrow strips, and shave off
the hair with a sharp knife, before the
kitchen fire, or in your workshop Oh
stormy days and evenings. You may
make them soft by rubbing. A rawhide
halter strap an inch wide will hold a
horse and last longer than an inch rope.
1t is stronger than hoop-iron and more
durable, and may be used to hoop dry
casks and boxes, and for hinges. Try
it on a broken thill, or any woodwork
that has been split. Put it on wet and
nail it fast.
A WRITER who has devoted his life to
raising onions, says "NOne but a
novice would ever thia onions. 1 did it
the first year, and spoiled full one
quarter of the crop by the operation,
and have never repeated it. Onions
will grow in lunches, and / think bot
tom better where they crowd each
other, yer though the center ones are
lifted entirely out of the ground. SO
long rs the roots reach into the soil the
bulbs will keep on growing, though
they may be an inch or more above the
surface of the ground. Where the seed
is sown by a drill, there will be no occa-
sion for thinning, except possibly where
the drill stops, and a spoonful of seed
falls in Ii spot.
To DESTROY LICE.-The bestprepara-
tions for the removal of lice from cat
tie, young or old, are a salve Of fresh lard
ground up with fine sulphur Zone ounce
of sulphur to four ounces of lard). and
raw linseed oil mixed with kerosene oil
in the proportion of four parts of lin
seed to one of kerosene. These should
be rubbed from between the cars all
around the backbone to the root Of the
tail about twice a week. Two applica-
tions are generally sufficient. They
are no in any degree hurtful if they are
licked by the cattle. Lice which have
been placed in contact with a small
quantity of either of these mixtures
were Immediately killed, while mer-
curial ointment and carbolic acid failed
to kill them in several hours.-N. y.
Tribune.
FACTS IN FATTENING CArrLE.-Bous-
singault estimates that an OK weighing
74S pounds, fed upon 40 pounds
per diem, will increase in weight
about two pounds sally. Accord.
ing 10 MI. Low, an OK
no pounds and consuming DOB pounds
of turnips per week, if he thrives, Will
gain in the same time nearly fourteen
pounds in weight. Allowing 100
pounds of hay worth rs pounds of tur-
nips, the increase is still about two
pounds a day.
Mr.. Dubois says the quantity of
green fodder consumed by an OK during
the eight months when he is fattening,
is equivalent to $500 pounds of dry
hay. The average ration of green for
age per diem. he calculates, therefore,
is equivalent to about twenty-seven
pounds of hay.
Mr.. Stephenson estimates that Sc per |
cent. of the whole animal will be butch
cr's meat s per cent. tallow; 6per cent. |
hide ; and % per cent. entrails. This, of
course, depends upon the condition of
the beef-a fat one will yield n greater
per cent. of meat at fifty-three to sixty
two per cent.-Rur0t NcW- Yorker.