The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-01-28

shattered and sundered;
Then they went onward--but
More than six hundred.
How TO GET A SKUNK Our OF A Gel
LAR.-L. l.. S. writes: "About fort
night ago we found skunk in our cellar.
How TO get him out without disturbing
him was puzzle. WANTED to have him
shot but my wife would not agree to that.
After breakfast, an acquaintance, John
Thomas, heard the story and went over
to my house, and he and my son Robert
went down to the other end of the cellar,
beyond where the skunk was, and began
to whistle the same as if he was calling
the dogs, when the skunk made for the
door as quick as he could. They killed
it after he went out, and when l came
home the skunk was gone, and there was
no more smell in the cellar than If he
had not been there at all"
WHITE STREAMS IN BUTTER.-"A Sub.
scriber," Alexandria, MIMI, says: 81
should be glad to know the cause ofwhite
streaks in butter, and how 10 prevent
them"
Reply.@This defect is occasioncd some
times by the nature of the cow, which in
some cases is such that good colored but
ter can never be made from her milk
sometimes by too long churning, or 10y
churning at too low temperature, OF
permitting the cream TO become too soui
or thick before It's churned. Sometimes
it is caused by want of proper or sufli,
cient working. AS a remedy we would
suggest the use of annato or annatoine
IF IN aIn "
for cOloring butter or cheese. The anna
TO of the drug stores may be used by tax
ing piece the size of u pea for twelve
quarts of cream, dissolving it in warn
water, and stirring it into the cream il
the churn. The strained juice of car
rot may also be used for cOloring.
CATNIP FOR BEEs.-A Correspondent
of the american Bee Journal writes: Fol
some time past have been giving mucl
attention to honey producing plants, and
am constrained to believe that the cat
nib plant has not received the consider
alton that its Importance justly entities
it to. For three years past, l have beer
sowing the seed on waste places in al
directions for the distance of mile o.
more from my apiary, and / have neve
seen anything equal it. 1t commence
to bloom here the last week in June, ant
lasts fully three months, giving contin
uous yield from the time the white Glove
fails till frost.
1t thrives in any part of our country
stands our continuous summer drouth
better than any other plant, and nevel
fails. Our bees are on it every momen
of daylight there is, from one months
end to another; not even a smart rail-
will drive them from it. Notwithstand
ing it is now the driest time that has
been known here for many years, tn,
bees make constant roaring over tn,
the little catnip field which I am cult
waiting. We shall plant more of it 10
cultivation next spring, or rather winter
January and February is the best TIM
to SOW it. Quinby says, eff there is any
article that 1 would cultivate especially
for honey, it would be catnip. l fine
nothing to surpass it,"
DESTRUCTION OF WooDLAND.-Oul
wealth of maple walnut and hickory il
substantially gone, and large part of il
has been wantonly destroyed. Wiscon
sin had magnificent forest growth, but
the people are sweeping it away at a rapiC
rate. One billion feet of timber was Gu
in single year. 1t will not take more
than q decade or two at the utmos
to fairly exhaust this source of wealth t.
the State. Michigan and Minnesota ART
following in the same course, slashinl
away at their forests as if tree had NJ
right to lift its head. One of our mos
intelligent army officers, General Bris
bin, who knows the western country
thoroughly, and to whose accurate knowl
edge of this subject we are indebted fol
many facts, says that $4,000 acres o
Wisconsin timber, are cut annually Il
supply the Kansas and Nebraska markets
alone. The Saginaw forests are ever
now practically destroyed, and if the
Northern Pacific railway is built, it will
open up to the axe the one remaining
belt of American timber--in Oregon and
Washington Territory.
The railroads have been the great de
stroyers of cur forests. They use 100,
$1,000 of ties annually-that means the
leveling Of Mt least 150, 900 acres of trees
The outrageous waste of timber caused
by the telling Of forests and the burning
of trees to bring the land under cultiva
ton still goes on at a fearful rate. From
1860 to 1870 no less than $4,000, 900 acres
Of forest were thus wantonly destroyed
For fuel, also, vast tracts are leveled OIL
their trees. it took 10000 acres Of forest
to supply Chicago with fuel one year
1871. Our annual decrease of forest from
all these causes is not lar from 5000, 600
acres. Yet we plant only 10000 acres OF
new forest ayear.
The necessity for commission of for.
estry, and the needs of efficient laws in
all the States for the preservation of our
forests, need no further argument than
these facts.
AN EXPERIMENTAL farmer of our
acquaintance made an experiment. He
took sheep that weighed about 100
pounds, put it in pen, and after it had
become wonted weighed all its food, and
found that three pounds per day of fod-
der and grain was all he could make the
sheep eat. The farmer had verified rule
we'll known to the much despised "booly
farmers" and arrived at by many and
careful experiments, that about three
pounds of good food per day for each one
hundred weight of live stock, is fatten-
ing allowance. For illustration, sheep
weighing 100 pounds requires three
pounds of food per day, and steer
weighing 1000 needs thirty pounds.
These rules are approximately correct,
being varied somewhat by quality OF
food and stock. The farmer knowing
the weight of his feed and that of his
stock, byapplying these rules can guess
closely as to whether he has food enough
for his stock.-Rochester Democrat.
Household Helps.
CHILE SAUcE.-Take five large onions,