The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-10-30
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.

a. ANAAtyB ny not taxing care oil
thelr milk. 1t would astonish many Of
them If they were informed that they
sustained loss of to u per cent. in
quantity by their own carelessness OF
ignorance, which they might save by a
little more care, and thus add the amount
they lose IN price per pound by not hav.
ing prime article, which, in many in
stances, exceeds 10 and often 90 pei
cent, and it will be readily seen that
the loss thus sustained would do q good
deal toward banishing hard times, which
so many are corrnlainirg of at present.
Runner CE,rENr mere are several
kinds of Ipdia rubber cement. The
best know IS marine glue" A cheap
er cazIent, and one that is highly recon-
Iuonded, is made by cutting quantity
of pure India rubber, in it's natural
state, into small pieces, putting them
in a wide-mouthed bottle, and filling it
about half full of the purest benzine ;
the rubber will swell up almost imme-
diately, and If well shaken will in few
dal assume the consistency of honey.
If the rubber does not dissolve, add
more benzine. II, when dissolved, the
cement is too thin, add more gum. A
piece af Rubber one inch in diameter
will make a pint of cement. This dries
In few minutes, and is very useful in
uniting pieces of leather, as it is both
elastic and durable.
VALUE OF WHEAT MEAL.-The Lon
don Dietetic Reformer shows by scien-
tifc data that wheat meal, which is
cheaper than bolted meal or fine -four,
contains one third more nutriment than
flour does from which thu bran has been
sifted. Fine flour, according to this
journal, is not food at all, in the proper
sense of the term; the elements of the
grain that are separated in the process
of boiling, being essential to perfect
nutrition, those who use fine -four are
obliged to subsist mainly on other
things, or lose their health; that no one,
therefore, who makes bakers bread a
principal article of diet can long main
tain health, while those who use wheat
meal bread, unfermented and unadul-
terated, can maintain their health with
very small addition of other food.
OLD POTATOES. eastern exchange
gives this advice Potatoes, to be 81 Cd,
should never be exposed to the light,
but be kept in as dark place as posi-
BILE. After they begin to srrout in the
ebIlHRY lubJ bAoulO DS IhAtu up
the bins or heaps and kept in boxes or
barrels. If you have a few barrels
saved ont for your family use, instead
of picking them over and spreading
them every few weeks, put them into
enough barrels 50 that you can easily
turn them from one to another. Have
one extra barrel, and once every week
turn them all out from one to another
This keeps them moving so often that
the sprouts cannot grow enough to do
much harm. The sprouts which come
out from the potato use up the nourish-
ment it contains, and leave it soft,
watery and insipid. By treating them
as proposed above they may be kept in
condition for the table several weeks
longer than by routing them, and at
the same time save a great deal OF
work.
TREATMENT OF HORSE DIsTEMPER.-
Stewards American Farmers Horse
Book saws The treatment in its gen
eral features resembles that for CLAN
ders. Bleed in the neck vein, taking
about three pints of blood then take
and thoroughly mix together one table
spoonful of gunpowder, one of lard,
one of soft soap, two of tar, and one of
Is
of this down the horses throat as far as
you can with a paddle or spoon. Do
this twice a day. At the same time
make a strong decoction of tobacco, as
hot as the horse can bear it, with which
wash his neck two or three times a day.
In connection with the above give the
animal as much sulphur and resin as he
can be induced to eat-a quarter of a
pound each day at least-prOportion
two parts sulphur, one part resin. Food
light, such as mashes, boiled oats and
cut feed; or, if in season, grass is bet
ter. No corn till after recovery. No
work while suffering. Keep stable we'll
fumigated.
RECLAMATION OF LAND.-The world
is indebted to Scotch intellect for many
cheap yet valuable improvements of
land, of which the following may be
named as a sample: Stakes were driven
into the mud at the waters edge at reg
rlar distances parallel to the course of
the river. Between these stakes branch
es of trees and brush were closely in
terlaced, and by this simple continuance
silt and mud were deposited, forming
an embankment up to high water mark
keeping 1t off the meadow formed be-
hind the embankment except at high
floods. The meadow was hard and dry
enough to bear grazing cattle; and the
river swamp, thus reclaimed with few
stakes and brush put in the right places,
will now sell for $500 an acre in British
gold. West and Middle Tennessee, to
say nothing of the flooded bottoms and
swamps of the eastern part of the state,
nor of the low grounds in our sister
states of Alabama and Georgia, have
inundated land by the ten thousand
acres which might be reclaimed by this
Scotch process at very small expense.
Pork RAIsING.-A correspondent of
an agricultural paper writes MY
own theory of pork raising, based upon
experience, observation, and q little
philosophy of things, if written for the
benefit of others, would be about as
follows: During the hot summer
months / should feed very little solid
feed, such az corn in the ear or I'M
cracked. l would keep hogs on green
feed constantly, either grass, oats or
rye, and feed them at regular intervals,
once or twice day, upon mashed feed,
either shorts, chopped oats or rye. huck-
wheat, etc; feed in trougks. When
fed in this way, and at the same time
allowed access to water and shade, hogs
bear crowding through the hot months,
very good time, if not the best, to
take flesh. This puts them in good
condition for corn feeding, which should
commence about the LIST of September,
when the new corn crop is soft and ten
der. Treated in this way hogs become
probably as perfect as any. method
could make them. Upon the whole,
too, believe 1t is the cheapest and
most economical.
ADULTERATED BUTTER. When butter
is mixed with tallow it may be detected
by melting little of the butter in a
spoon and smelling it, when the tallow
may at once be perceived. Another way
to learn whether this substance has
been added is to melt small piece of
butter at heat not exceeding that of
boiling water, and pour it into wine
glass. Then Immediately pour over it
two fluid drachms of commercial nitric
acid (squa foTtis), and shake them
slightly. If the butter employed was
pure it will rise to the surface and not
become Opaque for some minutes, but
if it contains much tallow it will be.