The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-07-14
THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL TUESDAY. July il,

ants. cockroaches, spiders, chintz buGs, and
all the crawling pests which infest our houses.
Take two pounds of alum and dissolve in
three or four quarts of boiling water; let il
stand on the fire until the alum disappears;
then apply it with brush, while nearly
boiling hot, to every joint and crevice in
your closets, bedsteads, pantry shelves and
the like. Brush the creyices i'm the floor Of
the skirting or mop boards, if you suspect
that they harbor vermin. IT, in whitswash-
ing ceiling, plenty OF alum is added 10 the
lime, it will also serve to keep insects at
distance. Coackrosches will flee the paint
which has been washed in cool alum water.
Sugar barrels and boxes can be freed from
ants by drawing chalk mark Just around
the edge of the top of them. The mark must
ba unbroken, or they will creep over 1t; but
a continuous chalk mark half inch in
width will set their depredations at naught.
Powdered alum or borax will keep the chintz
bugs at a respectable dista nee, and travellers
should always carry a package in their hand
bags. to scatter over and under their pillows
in places where they have reason to suspect
the presence of such bed-fellows.
RAISING TURKEYs.-A farmers wife, in the
Rural World, gives her practice with
turkeys: Have no mole than four hens to
each gobbler, and do not starve them during
winter. Watch them very closely about
laying time, as they nearly always hunt
nest the day before they deposit their first
egg. Make good large nest in some large
building that you can confine them in, and
the next morning after they hunt their nest,
catch them and shut them no in the place
where you made the nest. for after they
| have laid one egg there they will always 90
| back to that nest. LII they choose a good
place of their own accord, / let them alone;
| though put few common hens eggs in
the nest and take out the turkey eggs every
day and put them in a cool place, a. beat
| Injuries them quicker than cold, provided it
does not freeze. let each turkey set the
first time she wants to-; but let no young
turkeys run with common hen, tor if they
do half dozen times, they are more trouble
than fifty running with a turkey hen. The
advantage of letting turkeys set on their
first laying of eggs is this: the young tur-
keys are Matched before the weeds and grass
get high enough TO wet and befoul them in
the mornings. 1 watch them two or three
days, and no weak ones are lost; then thew
get no more attention, only feeding when
they come to the house. On no account give
them raw food when SMALL feed mine on
corn bread sometimes soak it in sour milk
and sometimes give them curd. Never shut
4 them up unless it rains hard. To prevent
cholers, give chem sulphur twice week.
BREAKING coLT.-An Ohio editor re-
Gently saw Mr.. Bob Strader, of Kentucky
break two-year old colt to harness in hall
an hour and thus tells the story of the way
in which il was done: The colt had never
been bridled. He was attached to curricle
called "break-dray," and put through as
tonishingly quick. The break-dray is moth
} ing more than a strong brOad-tread dray
with long shafts, the tail omitted, and a
spring seat between the wheels. The har-
ness was strong, and so arranged over the
t hips as to prevent the possibility of high
kicking, and the colt was hitchcd so faI
2 from the dray that his heals could not posi-
, bly, reach the driver. The process of hitch
= ing was, of course, very delicate, as
let his heels fly awkwardly. All bein(
ready, one man held the colt and another
- took the seat and reins. The colt was theI
let go to plunge as he pleased. The break
r draw, which was so broad that upsettinl
seemed out of the question, was pushed upol
q the colt, and the colt pushed sidewise unit
O he started. A few plunges settled him
He went as he pleased-up hill and dow
hill, and 50 on until he finally struck
70 steady, sober trot and was thoroughly brok
g The confused and bewildered look of TIA
v colt was pitifully amusing. Mr.. Bob StIede
s was giving directions, and upon one of til
N breakers raising his hand to slap the colt I
le urge min, Mr.. Srader said: Don't
that. Never strike colt when you al
go breaking him. Push him sidewise or an,
% way. Let him go just where he viii and no
Or he will. Let MIN tall down if he WILL bI
to don't strike him." When the colt w;
L taken out OF the shafts he was as wet as If l
,a, bad bees in water, and a child could haN
In handled him. He had not been struck
a blow.