Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1874-03-07
E F KNOWLEDGE.

USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.
SWEETS or TuE S,w.-The Ignite
Inch is plentiful in all sawdust may
10 turned chemically, by treatment
nth mineral acids, into good grape su.
'ar and the Manufacturer and Builder
uspccts that it is from savdust comes
he artificial sugar a French firm Is said
% be able to sell for a fourth Of a cent
} pound
THE DAvY LAMP NULSERABLE.-The
souud-waye produced by the slightest
explosion Of gunpovder in a mine Is
shown TO be capable Of destroying the
saiety-property of a Dayy lamp, and
causing it to communicate its fire to in
hammable gases outside, So, at least,
says Mr.. Galloway, who should be good
authority. II such Is the case it was to
defect Of Dayy's immortal invention,
and not to the mere gunpowier flash
Of blasts, that 20 many recent eZplo-
sions Of tire.damp were due.
AGE or HoRsEs.-A new wrinkle
about the age Of horses is the discovery
Of an Illinois farmer, who determines
the age Of all animals over nine years
old By the following novel method
After the horse is nine years old a
wrinkle comes on the upper corner Of
the clover lid. and each year theTeafterhe
has one well-defzel wrinkle for every
year over nine. u, for instance, a horse
has three wrinkles, lie is twelve, il he
has four, he is thirteen. Add the nun
Der Of wrinkles to nine ami you will
get it.
HAEyFgs FOR OZES.-TLeyoke, as We
use il, does not in its best state place
the strain farther back than the base Of
the neck. Notice whore the hair is
neck-woru on your cattle, and see il
yo1 can convince yourself that the spot
was intended BIZ nature to be subjected
70 the strain put upon it. In Africa,
and elsewhere, the yoke Is bound to
the base Of the horns, This plan has
its advantages as we'll as its disa1rau-
tages. The coke, in the first place, is
Of simple form, being merely q straight
piece Of wood, and !. may be lighter,
for il il not a-kwsrily clt across The
gran. Ca the other hand, the cattle
cannot move their heads freely, nor can
they Use the pushing power Of tLeis
shoulders, We NAV, therefore, dismiss
the plan a. not practicable here. 4
sllple-coHtriYed harness, combined,
perhaps, for use before a two-wlaalei
cart, with q light yoke, resting IL posi-
lIe On the shoulders, OK upon q collar,
woT.d distribute the strain, and make
matters easier for man and beast.
A Brg EzrzHWgAroR.-H9t alum
water Is q recent suggestion az aI il.
sec..cide, It will destroy red and black
ants, ~cocEr5aches, spiders, ckiutz bugs,
and all the crawling pests which iLfest
orr houses. Take two pounds Of alum
and dissolve II 10 three OF four quarts
Of boiling water let it stand on t4e fire
until the alum disappears then app :
j. with q brGsl, while nearly boiling
hot, 10 every Joint and crtyics il v0gr
closets, bed steads, pantry shelves, and
the Ike. Brush the c~revices In the
floor Of tie skirting or mop-bOarls, il
yOu suspect that they harbor vermiu.
il, in withdrawing q ceiling, plenty Of
alum is added 20 the line, j. will also
serve 10 keep insects a. q distance.
CJckr1acAe7 will fee the paint which
has been wssLaI in cool alum water.
Sugar barrels a1i boxes can be freed
from ants By drawing q wide chalk
marx Just round the edge 81 the top 0,
tLsm. The marx mus. be unbroken q
they will creep over il, but a coE:inu.
Gus chalk line half an inch IN vidtl
VIII sat their deprei4ti1us at uaugLt,
EorgE PLA.T-A pretty adornmen.
fox picture frames IL German ivy, CON
u5a trailing vine which grows wit
grfa. lryuriarce. All the old medicin
phia's which infest out-oi.the-way clio.
cts, may lie utilized for this purpose
Those should be filed with water an
hung behind the pictures, and a slip
the ivy inserted. The vine is quit
hardy. We have seen q single slip, j
pint bottle, grow until it ran alon
the entire length Of a moAerate-siz
room. We recently noted a way
rlise oak trees in hyacintl glasses,
being merely necessary to suspend ii
acorn inside and a%little above the waite.
A sponge moistened, with fine see
scattered in lt7 pores, soon becomes
mass 0. living verdure, though a pre-
tier ornament, we think, can be mad
OF a large pine burr, similarly prepare
and hung, like the acorn, over waite
Fine grass seed is the best to us,
About as pretty vine as can be %selectt
for window dressing may be obtaiGC
from the ordinary sweet potato. I'll
bllb need only be set in a hyacin.
glass, and it will soon send ont shoot
EyGLIsH FARmyG.-The farming
England is the best in the world. II
farms are usually large, and the farme
men Of intelligence and Of large capita
More attention is paid there than al
where else TO the making Of manur.
grain Is largely grown and the syste
Of a regular rotation Of crops, TO mai
tain the fertility Of the soil, is almc
universal. Over a large part Of t
country the cash profit of farming
secured by the sale of grain, but t
fertility Of the land, the ability to pl
duce grain, is kept up by the feedi
of u heavy stock Of cattle or shee
which are kept mainly for the sake
the manure they make, and which 0
largly fed on purchased food-in grC
part oil.cake and Indian corn import
from America. Such a complete systc
could hardly be carried out on so lar
a scale on many farms in this count
for few Of our farmers have the nee
sary capital /; but it is, after all, t
system toward which we shonld wol
and to which We must look for the ~
manent future OF our agriculture. o
farming can eve be perfect, nor a
thing like if, until we shall have reach
the point of a constant improvement
the soil. A constant deterioration /
been a necessary consequence of I
rapid spread of population over t
whole breadth Of the land, but it m,
before long be followed by a wave
better farming, which alone can elal