Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-10-28
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

The best oil for making boot and har.
ness leather soft and pliable is castor oil.
-Tocure ringworm, says an exchange,
paint IT with iodine few times and it
will entirely destroy every vestige OF it.
Vines and creepers on the walls pro-
tect them and make a house warmer and
drler, and also make ii look much better.
Whitehead ground in oil is said to be
an excellent application for saddle chafes
or harness or yoke gals on horses and
cattle.
Sponge Cake.-Five eggs, beat to-
gether halt an hour, one cup of sugar,
one and one-half cups of flour, one tea
spoonful lemon.
AS soon as a boil becomes hard and
inflamed paint it with iodine. The poison,
it is said, will not be scattered, but will
be absorbed by it.
Lamps are liable to explode when
trimming is neglected. The wick being
charred low down in the tube the flame
obtains access to the oil below.
Autumn is the proper season to pre-
pare gratis, and cuttings of grapes, cur
rants, ounces, gooseberries, poplar and
many other plants, taken off in fall and
buried in the ground all winter, will grow
with facility in the spring. Crafts should
always be taken off in the fall and kept in
moist sand or sawdust till ready to use
Ohio Farmer.
Some soils will require and bear to
be turned over to almost any practicable
depth; others will not allow of this with
out injury to the ground and succeeding
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paratively shallow furrOw, while the stra-
tum below requires breaking and loosen
ing, that water may settle away, to the less
injury OF growing plants, and to furnish
more and better space for their roots
Consequently only good judgment and ex-
perience with the soil to be worked can
determine just the treatment adapted
thereto. No arbitrary rule can be made
applicable in all cases and conditions.
Only one rule should prevail in all cases,
and that should be to prepare the best pcs
sible seed bed wherein to deposit the seed.
N. Y. Herald
There is vast deal of swindling
practiced by produce-dealers and stock
buyers, and farmers are cheated of fair
profit on their sales because they trust to
others to tell them how much they take
to market. No class of men are so trust
ing. Last fall a neighbor weighed a load
of wheat on my scales, and on weighing
the same load at the railroad depot il
fell short almost two bushels. persuaded
another neighbor to weigh his hogs on my
scales. The difference shown in the
weight between my scales and those of the
buyer saved my neighbor 49, In these
cases the scales were found to be "out of
balance y and this is the way fraudulent
buyers get out of their dishonest trickery.
The first three grists took to mill after
procuring my scales were tolled one-eighth
instead of one-tenth as the law provides
My grain was very clean. stated the
case to the miller, that he had taken un-
lawful toll and since that time get all |
am entitled to. 1t is no little satisfaction
to know that one is getting what he is en-
titled to. The products of your farm cost
too much money and hard labor to be
guessed of and to be taken from you by
fraudulent weights. A set OF scales will
save their cost in a short time.--Detrstt
TribJl,1e