The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-05-06
HOME AND FARM.


To CLEAN TEE GuN-The following 1t may
be well to know: Guns and rifles may be
easily cleaned from lead by the following:
If a nuzzle-loader, stop up the nipple or
communication hole with little wax, or II
breach loader, insert cork II tine DISdcn
rather tightly; ext pour some quicksliv,eI
into the barrel and put another cork IN the
mnzzle than proceed to roll II up aud down
the barrel. shaking it about for few min
, utes. The mercury and leGd will form an
amalpam. and leave the barrel as clean and
free from lead IS the first day 1t came out Oh
the shop. The same quicksilver can oe USED
repeatedly by straining II through WASH
leather, for the lead will be left behind IN
the leather, and the quicksilver VIII De
again fit for use.
How TO WoRK.-As order is kept by hav-
ing splsce for everything, and keeping
everything in it's place; so work succeeds
! best y hen it is rightly done, and at the right
time. There are a best and worsttine lot
doing everything, and best ara worst
time for doing it. One who has Wen conslo,
cred his seasons work aud has list OF all
that has to be done, will go right; one labor
will succeed another with regularity, and
each will be well done. Every loo snoulo
tell. There should be no making holes and
filling them up again on a farm, no nano
work where machines can De useo; no si mar
wasting by the rain or baked 10 the sun
while crops are starving tor 1t; no work
done twice over; no cattle starved Orallowec
to suffer and fail, to be restored az greater
cost than they are worth; everything snoulo
be ahead aud work NUT be driven and not
be allowed to drive The head must guide
she hands alw2ys.-Pen and Plow.
MANUFACrURED FEATHERS. Some i'm
provements come very late. The following
from the Cincinnati Enquirer is one: Arti-
fetal down has come to - more highly
prized in Paris than the natural down, be-
cause it is rlucn lighter. 1t is made from
feathers OF any kind, b. cutting the baros
of the feather from each side or the quiz,
putting them in a stout cloth sack, ana rub
bing them between the hands rs washer
woman does linen. Five minutes ruDDlng
will have mixed the mass into a telt like
r substance, rendering il homogeneous. mat
is edred0n artificial, aud sells in Paris for
So in gold Il pound, and this price Is con-
= stantly increasing. a process has also oeen
invented for making cloth OF feathers. 10
, make square metre IA metre Is 1873 inehes)
of cloth, lighter aud stronger tnan wool F.,
from 700 to $50 graunles "a gTanme IS lo.4
grains) Of this down are required. Bus TINS
drap dc plume takes color admirably, ana
wears wonderfully, because, 1nstSad OF
breaking and cutting in the places most ex-
posed 10 wear, il mats itself more and
= more into a felt like substance. the esti-
mate has been made that IN France alone
enough feathers are allowed to go to waste
each year 20 make from 1000 to 5000 square
metres o cloth. In other words, as much is
lost in France in feathers, rs is paid for cot
ton.
CARE OF WORK HoRsEs.-The following
very important instructions are by an Indi
ana writer for the Cincinnati Gazette: /
+, would say to B. L., when you begin work
ing your horses in the spring, always re-
move the gears and collars at noon, and
battle the shoulders in cold water; repeat the
operation at night also. Do this invariably
and, If your collars are right, you Will PToba-
bly, have no more trouble. IL, however
there is az unusual tendency to soreness or
calling, you will find it beneficial to add
, to the cold water little alum. If there is
, an abrasion OF the skin, us9 common salt
, instead Of alum; but invariably use your
water cold and use plenty Of it. There can
not be too much said against the habit Of
, leaving the gears upon horses during theiI
hour OF rest az noon In our sultry summer
weather. And you can best understand tde
relief afforded by the cold bath (when the
horse becomes accustomed to lt), by the
grateful feelings with which you wash and
cool your own head and face, and by its re-
freshipg effect. Try it for experiment.
Batbe the sWeaSy shoulders of one horse and
Leave another without, and see how much
sooner, in the healthy reaction which follows
the application, the bathed shoulder is CRY
and ready again for the collar. Old team
stsrs know the value of these apparently
small attentions TO their horses. With The
constant hard service demanded of them
and their necessarily cramped and unnatuIa
mode Of life, their period of labor would b'
much reduced without them. 1t is only 10y
the wide pasture range and moro natural
food tha5 the farm horses of our country en-
dure tbeir unnatural usage until they be
come old and broken down at eight or tWelv'
wears old. And il seems that our farmer
have vel to learn the important fact tina
their teams might be preserved as good unit
sixteen or eighteen years old as they usu
- ally are when only ten years OF age.