The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-04-15
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.



Rows of houses should be arranged in
parallel lines, the spaces between the
ranks being left open at the ends. Con-
fined squares and courts are very un
healthy.
The height of house, from the caves
to the ground, ought never to exceed the
distance to the nearest building in front.
Behind or at the side of every dwelling
house, there should be an open space,
exclusively belonging to it, at least
fifteen feet across, measured in q direc-
tion at right angles to the house wall. .
Back to back houses are unhealthy
and inconvenient, and ought never to be
built.
There should be windows to open on
both sides of house where all the win
dows are on the same side, perfect venti-
lation is impossible.
Every room should have one or more
windows opening into the outer air the
window area should not be less than one
tenth of the area of the floor thus
room twelve feet by ten feet should
have a window at least four feet by three
feet.
At least half the window should open,
and the opening should always reach to
to be more than a foot below the highest
part of the ceiling.
The form of window frame which
opens by swinging on q horizontal pivot
is recommended in preference to the or
binary sliding frame, especially for cot
tages and other places where the window
is of small size.
Rooms in newly-built houses should
not be less than eight feet high; attics
should be of this height over at least half
their area.
Air-bricks should be inserted in
the wall just below the level of each
floor, to ventilate the space under the
ioists.
Bedrooms that have no ofreplace should
have an air-brick near the ceiling it is
good plan to make this to open by hol-
low architrave above the window, so that
the draught may strike upwards and not
downwards.
Where gas is used, ventilator and
hue should be placed above the burner
to carry off the burnt air.
In building house it is recommended
to leave air-fues in the wall near the
chimney, which may easily be done by
building around quarter pieces, which
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Hints and Helps.
Mr.. S. J. Nash, or North East, in
forms the Erie Observer that from
eighteen acres of clover he has this
winter thrashed seventy-two and a half
bushels of seed, an average of over four
bushels per acre. This is an extra
ordinary yield, two bushels per acre be-
ing about the usual amount.
Prompt pay, with certainty of it as
soon as it is earned, prompts and stimu-
lates good and faithful work for men
are not apt to ignore the advantages of
such pay, and will not be likely to risk
losing such place. We think every
farmer who has experimental in this di-
rection will indorse this as a rule.
The following is q good recipe for soft
soap, made with potash and domestic
grease: Add three gallons of rain or
other soft water to one pound of con-
centrated lye; boil and put into it four
pounds of tallow and soap fat. When
the solution becomes clear, add twelve
gallons more water. 1t is ready for use
when cold.
To make labels adhere to tin, use flour
paste, with two tablespoonfuls of coarse
sugar to every quart.
Take warning A farmer in Knox,
Me-, mourns valuable OK, poisoned to
death by eating paper stripped from the
walls of the house.
The proposal that fat cattle show be
held annually in some of the leading
cattlemarket cities of the United States
meets with much favor.
The duty on hops has been increased
from five to eight cents per pound.
In order to ascertain the gain in weight
OF growing cattle, an experiment was
tried as follows: A short. horn bull
calf was weighed on the 10Th of April,
1874, when he was Just four months old,
and his weight was found to be 500
pounds. May u, he weighed 500 pounds;
June II, 7O3 pounds; July II, S01
pounds; August -, $50 pounds, and
September II, 966 pounds; total gain
in five months of 463 pounds, or 921
pounds per month.
Look to Your Cattle.
Spring is here and now is the time
when the farmer should care well for his
live stock, especially his cows. If his
cattle have been treated well they are as
robust and fat as when winter set in.
But if they have been without shelter
and poorly fed, they are poor in flesh
and weak. At this season milch COWS
should have warm sheds and plenty of
good food. While cattle should have
warm sheds, yet they should have good
ventilation. Horses should have clean
straw for bedding and be groomed daily.
Sheep folds should be so constructed as
to permit the sheep to have full ingress
and egress, that the occupants can select
their own positions. Stock should be
fed highly at this season of the year, that
they may come out in the last of spring
in good condition. Warm sheds and a
sufficient quantity of wholesome food
must be provided for stock, if the farm
ers expect to receive profit from this
branch of their vocation. Cold sheds, or
none at all, and poor food for his stock,
will result in great loss to the farmer.
His cattle will come through the winter
in poor condition, and it will take all the
spring to regain the flesh lost from i'll
treatment.
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