The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1875-01-28
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.


wide, and two feet deep; throw the dirt
from the bitches on the space between
beat it down till it has some hardness,
and give it enough slant to prevent "cav-
ing" and you have fence for a lifetime.
In most cases here we need no turf or
"win-bushes" as they do, for in year
the bank will be covered by luxuriant
growth of blackberry bushes, answering
every purpose. Even where timber is
plenty, we can make this fence cheaper
than almost any other.
The ENGLISH WALNUT.-Sumet twenty
two years ago we planted in our stable
yard, now a part of the garden, an
English walnut tree, at the request of a
valued friend, who died two years after.
He said in dozen years it would begin
to bear fruit, and thereafter afford suffi-
cient fer family; that his father had
many years before planted three such
trees in spots of ground that were useless
for cultivation, and they yielded large
supply. We followed his advice and
planted this tree, which has for several
years given us fair supply of fruit, but
the present season we have gathered over
one bushel, it never having yielded more
than a peck. There are now number
of these trees in this neighborhood, COM
ing into bearing, showing that they do
very well here; but this is about the
farthest point north that they will stand
the severity of our winters. Some eight
feet of the top of the tree upon our prem
ises was killed in the severe winter six or
seven years ago.-Ge'mdntOucn Telegraph.
PAINTING SHINGLE ROoFs. The
Country Gentleman has the following on
the subject: Our own experience Is
against the use of either coal-tar or paint.
The black surface made by applying the
tar causes the roof to become hot in the
suns rays, and the shingles to warp and
crack; the wood becomes water soaked
beneath the tar when it rains, and the tar
prevents speedy drying. The conse-
quence has been that tarred roofs are
destroyed in a comparatively few years,
while the rain water has copious black
sediment. Painting roofs produces a
similar result, but in much less degree.
uzless the shingles are thoroughly
painted on both sides, and are kept thus
painted, which is almost impracticable:
Some wears ago we took up a roof laid
about twenty-five years before with good
shaved pine shingles, painted before lay
ing with good redochre paint IN oil.
Every shingle when removed was COM
pletely rotton. The paint had held the
moisture longer beneath, and done more
harm than good. A roof is so much ex-
posed to the direct rays of the sun and
to the rain, that it is nearly impossible
to prevent the cracking of the paint and
the entrance of the water; and when
this process once begins decay goes on
rapidly. Well-laid pine shingles have
lasted forty years and more when not
painted.
HoRsE-CIIPP1NG.- Sands, the circus
proprietor was the first to clip horses In
this country, in 1874. There was oppo-
sition to the practice at first, but expe-
rience proved that clipped horses escaped
many maladies to which the animal IS
subject, such, for example, as the colds
that are taken from the congealing of
perspiration under thick coat of hair.
The clipped horse does not perspire, SO
freely as the animal whose hair is suffered
to grow; he is therefore less likely to
catch cold after heating drive in q
freezing atmosphere. Moreover, the
clipped horses skin is more easily
kept clean. This is the time of clipping
for the winter, and at many establish
ments in this city the work is done with
machines under the pressure of extensive
patronage. A knife is made to revolve
over comb, cutting off the hair evenly
as it projects above the teeth. Thus ra-
pidity and evenness of clipping are Sc
cured, and there is no danger of cutting
the skin. A horse can be clipped In this
way with one machine in two or three
hours, but several machines may be op-
Grated at once on the same animal, thus
greatly expediting the operation: The
price varies from six dollars to eight dol
lars. and the operation is usually repeat
ed later in the season. Horses used in
running races are not often clipped, be,
cause they are not used in winter, and
because their fine coats are not benefited
by the shortening OF the hair.
The custom of clipping is believed to
have originated in Wales, where rough
coated ponies are in use. Thence II
spread to England and other countries
/ The extent to which it is followed in thu:
country was shown on the boulevard'
Yesterday, where unclipped horses were
exceptions among the hundreds thai
dashed over the snow.-Ne1o York Sun.
INVENTIONS NEEDED.-The An1ericd'
artisan calls the attention of inventor
to the following needful agricultural i'm
plements: A ditching machine that vii
cut a narrow ditch for the reception o
drain-tile; an apparatus to be drawn b!
horse power and capable of laying thu
tiles in the ditch when formed; mol
plow which shall make subterraneal
drain that will not choke up in year o
two; an efficient potato harvester-al
though scores of machines designed TO
this purpose have been devised, nom
actually comes up to the needs OF tn
grower, and the laborious, dirty and dis
agreeable work of potato harvesting i
still universally done by hand; stone
gathering machine capable of clearing
field of stone and piling the same in win
rows, fitting the field for easy mowini
with a machine; a sowing apparatu
that will sow peas and beans as effectu
ally as the common grains are sowed, TO
be it known that these round or nearl.
round seeds persistently refuse to be GOV
cred by the action of the harrow, an
roll to the surface as fast as the teet
stir the soil about them; small ms
chine, it must not be large or costly, 10
pulling fax; a small, power-accumr
fating windmill, Eot to exceed IN cost
user more than fifteen or twenty dollars
for churning and similar purposes; a
automatic sheafbinder for harvesters,
device already experimental with i
many ways, and projected for using wIr'
twine and straw in its operation, bu
nevertheless not yet thing accon
plished.
Several important machines are le
out of this list, among which may /
named a corn-husker, sheep-shearer,
cow-milker; and in the house a goo
washing-machine. one that will do til
, work right, is needed worst of all.
Household Helps.
BIRDS NEST PUDDING. and COZ
six rich, tart apples. Set them in
| pudding dish, filling the cavity of eac
with blanched raisins, two blanche
t almonds, and teaspoonful of suga
. Then pour over it tapiGca, prepared /
soaking for three hours one cup in tv
cups of boiling water. and two Gu