The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-08
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.

A SOLUTION of borax kills both animal
and vegetable protoplssm, and preserves
meat from putrefaction. It arrests TO
tation in vegetable cells, and soon kills
rotifiers, entomostraca, and infusoria. 1t
also prevents fermentation.
A SUBSTITUTE for ink has been de-
vised by DR.. Jacobsen, of Berlin, which
consists of points, like the leads of or
binary pencils, that can be fitted into
holders. The writing at first very much
resembles leadpencil marks, but when
moistened Immediately assumes a violet
tint, and then adheres to the paper like
ink. AS many as six good copies can be
taken from it by means of an ordinary
copying press.
ACCORDING to an English patent,
fresh meat, fish, vegetables, ETC., are
preserved by immersing them in a more
or less concentrated solution of acetate
of ammonia, and allowing them to dry
in the air. If the articles are to be pre-
served for months or years, they are
packed in casks or cans filed with a
solution of the salt. The boiling, roast
ing, etc., readily expels the acetate, and
the articles ere said to be free from the
sweetish taste which acetate of soda
imparts.
There is great danger in turning stock
on a grass field on which plaster has
been recently sown, or until the plaster
has been taken up either by rain or
heavy dews. At r lanOke, Virginia,
some stock turned upon a field on the
same day on which it was plastered all
died in a few hours. There were no
Indications of "hoven," the stock be-
ing In good condition, and the sudden
death was believed to be solely the
effect of the sulphate of lime.
FIRE-FANGED MANURE.-Mr. Bryan
Tyso1a, yvoahinoton, d. O., sends the
World the following upon tho sDOVS
subject 9Th is stable or barn. yard
manure that has heated in bulk until it
has turned to a white moldy color,
being very light. In that condition it
is scarcely worth carting to field, the
ammonia, which constitutes the princi-
pal strength. having been driven off
INTO the air by the heat. I once tested
this matter by manuriDg a row of sweet
potatoes with fre-fanged manure, put
ting about quart to a hill, and a row
beside it with the same quantity of
manure that never heated. The IN
heated doubled the yield. The fire.
fanged made no perceptible increase"
IT is reported that an Italian pro-
lessor has discovered that perfumes
from flowers have a chemical effect on
the atmosphere, converting its oxygen
into ozone, and thus increasing its
health imparting flowers. As the result
of his researches, he states that the
essence of cherry, laurel, lavender,
mint, juniper, melons, fennel and Der
gamot are among those which develop
the largest quantities of ozone, while
anise and thyme develop in less de-
gree. Flowers destitute OF perfume
have no such effect. He recommends
that jewellers in marshy localities and
places infected with animal emanations,
should surround their homes with q
profusion of the most odoriferous flow
ers.
BUCKTHORN FOR 9EDGEs.-The editor
of the Country Gentleman says in an
swer to a question concerning the buck
thorn for hedging, that it is easily grown
and transplanted, and forms a hedge
row with less training and cutting than
most plants, "but having no real thorns,
and not growing to a very stiff tree, the
hedge does not become really fOrmid-
able barrier, although making a fine
compact screen. To make it strong for
hedge, the soil should be rich, and q
strip of land, several feet wide, kept
well cultivated, and entirely free from
weeds and dry knolls would probably
not be rich enough to give it a strong
| growth, and wet land would be unde-
! sirable. OF late years the buckthorn
| has been mostly superseded at the north
by the money locust, and in favorable
| localities and in well. drained land by
| the Usage orange.
How LndBURGER CHEESE IS MADE
The primary steps to the manufacture
of Limberger cheese are similar to those
employed with ordinary cheese, except
| that the curd is taken up in a moister
| state, more whey being permitted to re-
main, and the mass is hea' ed to a differ
ent degree of temperature, thus pre-
| serving all the richness which otherwise
would be lost. It is then taken from
| the vat and put in perforated molds i've
| inches square by seven inches in depth,
| which are placed on the draining table,
where it is allowed to remain r a short
| time. 1t is then taken in the cheese
cellar below the ground and put on the
pressing tables, where it remains about
"a hours before it goes to the sailing
table. After four or five days it is
ready for shelves, where it is placed on
tiers, and changed and rubbed daily for
| about four to six weS ks before IL is
packed. The packing process is done
| by rolling it in heavy paper and
covering it with tin foil, when it is ready
| for market.
KEEPING POULTRY IN ORCHARDS -
Some farmers make it practive to keep
their poultry in their orchards from
early spring until cold weather sets in
and they find that it pays them for 80
| doing. A picket fence should be built
around the orchard, high enough to
prevent their flying over, with suitable
house or shed il one corner of the yard
to she ter them at night. Thus stu
ated, the poultry will thrive and pros
per, keeping themselves in good condi-
ton, and the increase in eggs will be
| greatly augmented and their usefulness
and value enhanced to their owners at
least, on account of the thousand myri-
ads of insects aud worms which they
destroy, and which will more than repay
the cost and labor of building the fence.
| BY keeping them inclosed in this man
ner a large number of fowls may be re
tanned in an orchard and the continual
scratching which is done by them will
prove advantageous both to the soil and
! trees Themselves. -N Massachusetts PIU1O-
man.
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