The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-06-27
usEFIn KNOWLEDGE.

about 1916 outlasting white oak posts
set about ten years later. But he finds
the Usage orange on the whole the best
timber for posts, growing rapidly, and |
proving very durable, and the planta-
ton when cut reproducing itself readily. |
How TO UsR PARIS GREEN.-D. G. |
Richmond, of Ohio, recommends the |
following way of applying this virulent
bug killer, avoiding the danger of the
arsenic dus t-fying in the air and en-
tering the breath. A hogshead of wa
ter, with faucet, is drawn on a wagon
to the potato field, as a reservoir to
draw from. Fill pail with water and
stir in a heaped tablespoon of pure
Paris green. and more if impure. Dip
in an old broom, and with it sprii kle
the infested plants. Bright sunshine
is the best time.
WORCESTERSHIRE SAUoE.-A cores
pondent of the London Garden gives a
recipe for this popular sauce. He says:
81 do not offer it as Lea & PERKINS,,
but 1 do say that it is equal, if not
superior to it, in my opinion. 1t is not
u recipe copied out of book, but one 1
have known long time. Half pound
shallots /; 1 OF. pimento, powdered
OF. mace, powdered OF. cayenne
half nutmeg, powdered; tb. anchovy
fish l OF. salt +; pints vinegar 6 OF.
soy. Chop or bruise the shallots, beat
up the anchovy fish, mix all together,
let it stand for month or so, and last
ly strain through coarse sieve"
PoTAro YEAsr.-The following is in
Pevery instance sure, provided it is made
according to directions Boil and mash
kten peeled potatoes one small hand
Jul OF hops tied in a bag, and boiled in
pc quart of water; rub the mashed
Ftato through the eolander stir to-
gether well then add a coffee cup of
glgar let it stand few minutes then
pour on two-thirds of quart of cold
9 water, and when lukewarm, stir in one
pint of good yeast, and set in moder-
ately warm place to rise. When well
fermented, put into a stone Jug cork
tightly. For one loaf of bread, use a
teacup of yeast. Put one or two table
spoonfuls Of melted butter AID one
third of a tablespoonful of soda in the
bread when you mix it, after the sponge
is sufficiently light. OF course a little
salt.
TRAVELLING on THE FARM.-Did any
of your readers ever think of the am
cunt of travel 1t takes to raise a crop
of corn? L never saw an illustration in
print, and / thought I would give Won
one. l have twenty-acre field, forty
by eighty rods. To break this up would
take one hundred and sixty-six miles.
Narrowing it, about forty miles. Fur
rowing out, ninety miles. Planting. for
ty-five miles, if with planter and if
dropped and then covered, ninety
miles. And for each blowing of two
burrows III row, ninety miles, or five
plowiDgs, four hundred and fifty miles.
Thus you will see it takes about eight
or nine hundred miles of travel to raise
twenty acres OF corn, not counting 90
ing to and returning from the field.
Besides there Is replanting, thinning.
rolling, etc.-LadiGla Farmer.
To DESTROY CoCKRoAoHEs. Take
dry red lead mix with thin nolasses
to a consistency of thin cream then
take pieces Of glass and broken plates
etc. spread 1t on about as thick as
thin window-glass. Where reaches are
very numerous, give them plenty of
the mixture, as they eat very greedily
OF 1t. think the general failure with
roach polsons IS thls-the poison is so
quick IN poisoning the reaches that
they will not eat enough of it to kill
them, for they are slow eaters. The
red lead being slow in its effect on
them, they will get good quantity in
to them before it Will sicken them. 1
have noticed when any of them would
happen 10 be trampled upon, it would
appear they were entirely filed with
the red lead. Place the lead where the
reaches can get at it most conveniently
If the lead should become too drv and
hard, mix little more lead and mo-
classes with the old to freshen it M
again, and place it in other places.
STARCH FROM PoTAToEs.-The starch
factories IN the Missiquoi valley. in
Northern Vermont, are run ONLY IN the
autumn, and the farmers DISPOSE of
their potatoes at these places, receiving
pay either in cash or starch. One busbeI
of potatoes, it is stated, Yields from
eight to nine pounds of starch, and the
cost OF production is only one cent a
pound, so that the profits of the manu-
facturer are large. The potatoes are
bought from twenty to twenty-five cents
bushel, and the starch is sold for
five cents a round. The factories are
cheaply built, and are situated ON
mountain streams, where the power is
obtained by the erection of a short
Gam, and the construction of a turbine
wheel and some simple machinery to
drive the graters. The potatoes being
reduced to pulp are strained, and the
starchy particles are allowed to pass
into large tubxto settle. The water
is drawn of, and.the sediment or starch
is thoroughly washed, and after BEING
dried in kiln, is barreIed for sale
CONVENIENT WAY TO MEASURE LAND
If the lines are already established
the plat can be measured with sufficient
accuracy for all practical purposes BY
means OF neat red pole, made as fol-
lows: Procure a stick of pine. white
wood, Eastwood, or almost any other
timber, one and half inches square.
and sixteen and one-half feet long,
Dress each end, taperiDg from the mid
Ole, so that the pole will be one and a
half inches square at each end. Such
pole will be light and stiff. Now
graaaate one side with the marks repre-
sentlng feet and inches, and graduate
another side to indicate a surveyors
links. a pole one rod in length must
De equal to twenty-five links. To divide
one side correctly, let a mechanics
compass be adjusted so that the points
Will divide the distance into twenty-five
equal PAGES or links. A line can be
measured with s.Ich pole nearly AS ac-
curately as with q surveyors chain. If
person does not understand how to
multiply chains and links, let him com
,ssnpte the measurement by square feet.
Pne acre there are 43, $50 feet. Meas
kany length and breadth of a square
multiply tie one by the other, and
r. tie. product by AZ, $50, which
ave the number of acres and the
Der OF square feet representing the
tion of an acre. If it is desirable
triangular plat, two sides
Al which lie at right angles, measure
ise two sides, multiply the distance in
Aft one by the other, and divide that
foduct by two, which will Indicate the
humber of square feet, by 43, $50, and
the quotient will represent the number
of acres.
POuitry-Raising for Ladies.
One young country girl, Miss Annie