Connecticut western news., 1875-12-24

in water enough to cover them. All that lay flat, as they would on smooth surface out of water, are good. Those of which the big end rises are bad. The vessel used should have 8 smooth, level bottom. N@S@
 In cases of a sudden jar, knock, or jam of the hand or fingers, immediate ly after the blow press the injured- part, with the uninjured hand, say hetween the thumb and fore6nger, and gradually let up on it. It will nearly always re- move the pain, and generally any swell ing, that might occur under the circum- stances. re>
 In making whifdetrees, they will be stronger if the front side of the whif1e- tree is nearest the heart timber and the back side toward the bark; they will retain their shape longer if the timber be split in this direction, across the grain of the wood.- Sciestidc American. Potatoes for Horses. 5
 I once came near losing very valu- able horse, correspondent writes, from feeding him dry hay and oats with noth- ing loosening. I have never believed in dosing horse with medicine, but some thing is actually necessary to keep a horse in the right condition. Many use powders, but potatoes are better, and safer, and cheaper, if fed judioiously If those who are not in the habit oi feeding potatoes to horses will try them, | they will be astonished at the result ] have known a horse changed from s lazy, dumpishs one, to quick, active, headstrong animal, in i've days, by sim ply adding two quarts of potatoes to his feed daily. If Every much cleeRn corr meal is fed, they d. not need so many potatoes. Too many potatoes are weak ening,> and 80 are too many apples When T was . lad, Twas away from home at school one winter, and had the care of one horse, one yoke of oxen, and one COW, eysrY one -ofa which ! had te card orourfy every day. The horse lhad three pails of Water, four quarts of oats two quarts of small potatoes, and two quarts of corn extra every day he work ed, with what hay hen wanteds and { stronger and more active horse hav' never yet seen. Ea -3 II Ashes for Cattls.
 The LiVe Stock Jouyse0l has a core spondent who found his cattle given tt the habit of eating wool, chewing bones etc. They became thin in flesh, refused to eat hay, and presented a sickly ap pearance.'s He had no impression tha their food, lacked the constituents fo making bone and his neighbors uset bone meal without noticing any good re suits whatever. At last he put abou four bushels of leacfed ashes in hi barnyard, and threw out to them abou shovelfnl each day. They all ats witt evident relish. Alter turning them ou to pasture, he put one peck of dry ashe per week on the ground in the pasture They ate 1t al, and gnawed of the gras where 1t had been lying The cattle be gan to improve, gaining, flesh and look ing better than they had for seYers years. He says this morbid appearanc was unnoticed. years ago, from the'fa that the ground was new and ashy fror tue burning of the woods and land clear ings. Since this discovery, he gives on H quart lof ashes mixed with one quart 0 salt, tostwelve head of lcattle abon ut ono Il a week. a U
 II The Fodder.
 Il Take two young men-one plods an, M the other works. The plodder save Il $500 year. for thirty years, and regu I larly deposits it at six per cent. com H pound interest that is, he invests in H good six per cont. stock his every year H $500 and all the interest of all the ade N posits-and what is the result 2-s- An Al swer-$25, ,140. What of the worker Il If he is one in ten thousand, he ha \ about the same. Unless he is one o ten thousand, he has little or nothing But the $25, TAO is sure to any one o the ten thousand-in asword, to any body at all who could earn $500 . yea more than he could use.s If he coul
 save but one dollar year it would b nearly Q hundred, or rather it would b trifle over if kept For thirty-thre
 years-that is $1OS. 1s.4
 -9 Raising Wheat.
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