The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-01
Farm, Garden and Household.


good deal OF experience, and know
what you want, make chest and select
the tools yourself, but if you get one
which some one else has furnished, you
may, to be sure, get q good set oI
tools, but there will be many for which
you will fud but little use. Even reg.
ular mechanics have different ways OF
using tools, and an ingenious amateur
will often make shift to do without Ger.
tain tools, which carpenter or black.
smith consider Indispensable. Here
are some good suggestions, which we
clip from the AgrjcuItu,SSt "Every
farmer should have small room, tight
and warm, which he can lock, and
where he can keep his small tools,
Then he wants good, solid work.
bench, with an iron vice on one side.
and O wooden one on the other. For
iron working, he wants q solid piece OF
iron for an anvil, o seven-pound steel
face hammer, riveting hammer, one
large and one small cold chisel, two Oh
three punches from one quarter to
three-eighths-inch, rimmer and O
countersink, to be used with bit-stock,
a screw plate that will cut screw from
one-quarter to three. .eighths-
then with round iron of the various
sizes, and ready-made nuts, he can
make any bolt he wishes. For carpen.
ter work, he wants square, a shaving
horse, drawing knife, set of planes,
auger from one-half to two inches, q
fine band-saw, with coarse cross-cut and
rip-saw, large cross.cut saw for logs,
and grind-stone.
IN, Notas
Coup in chickens often follows ca.
tarrh If the latter is not promptly taken
in hand. The symptoms are similar.
A frothy substance occurs in the inner
corner of the eye, the lids swell, the
eye-ball being in severe cases wholly
concealed, and the fowl, unable to
see or feed, loses all spirit, and often
dies. A fetid smell is emitted by fowls
In advanced stages of this disease.
SO long as an egg is an egg and they
are sold by count, farmers will not be
in haste to exchange thin, small, old.
fashioned barnyard fowls for the large,
improved and more valuable kinds
neither will they DO less likely to &c
sorting their eggs, selling the small
ones to the grocer aud the large ones
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what is more commendable, eating them
themselves.
To finish house in what is called
rough cast is done by throwing O,
splashing upon the mortar, while it is
yet soft, a mixture of freshly slaked
lime, water and clean, fine gravel, which
is Immediately brushed over an6
colored uniform hue. Small stones,
pebbles and bits of earthernware anc
other materials are sometimes dashed
on, instead of using the sifted gravel
We would not advise the use of laths
for should they warp, the mortar is liza
able to crack. The rough cast should
be made on either brick or stone work
Facts Worth Knowing.
If you have any difficulty in maxim,
wall paper stick to walls that have beef
wbitewashed, it can be easily remediet
by making sizing of common glu
and water, and applying with brusl
to the walls, and if your paste b.
good the paper will remain firm TO
years.
70 MEASURE Corn IN THE CRIB -
Two cubic feet of good dry corn on til
cob will make one bushel of shelle
corn. If you want to get the numbe
of bushels of shelled corn in crib Q
corn upon the ear, multiply the length
breadth, and thickness of the inside O
the crib and divide by two, and yo1
have the number of bushels of shelle,
corn it contains.
To MEASURE APPLES OR POTATOES L
THE CRIB. - Multiply the length
breadth, and thickness of the bin, an
this product by eight, and point off tn
figure in the product for decimals.
TIC ESTIMATE THE AMOUNT OF HAY I
A Mow.-Ten cubic yards of meade
hay weigh ton. Twelve cubic yard
of clover when dry weigh ton.
Mice Cleaning Combs.
The practice of giving combs, to
cleared of dead bees by mice, has bee
practised in frame for more than fit
years. 1t is good only for those VIII
own the old gums or boxes. AS til
owner of these immovable hives cannc
take out combs, if he wants to presery
some hives full of combs, he has 1
clean them, to prevent moulding, an
mice can do that work for him. Bl
the cleanliness of this process is deub
full; wherever mice have access, the
impregnate the things around wit
their special scent, which is far fro,
being agreeable, besides they eat NJ
only the dead bees, but the combs ais
There is for us, owners of movab
comb hives, a better way to clean OF
combs it is to introduce them in
May colony, between two combs full
brood. The next day all dead bees a,
removed, and the comb is scented ane
with the odor Of living bees.
Whoopins Cough Remedy.
One of the London journals contain
a statement by DR.. Berry, of his su
cessful treatment of uncomplicatt
whooping cough with diluted nitr
acid, in doses of from five to fiftet
minims, according to age, with simp
syrup, given every three or four hour
alleviating the cough and spasm, al
apparently cutting short the diseas
During an epidemic of the disorder,
prescribed this frequently and wi
very satisfactory results. He offers !
suggestion as to the operation
the remedy, but he believes it's actit
to be that of tonic, sedative and an
septic, and, at the same time its refri
Grating properties are not to be lo
sight of. In all the cases treated
has, of course, paid attention to t
state of the digestive organs, and
such cases as have required it, he b
given an aperient combined with
Alternative.