The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1876-07-21
GENERAL IMPORTATION

GENEhAL ESfVhMthfVN
A GOOD coating for outside brick
work is made by mixing clean river
sand 20 parts, litharge 2 parts, quick
lime 1 part, and linseed oil sufficient
to form thin paste. tits also useful
as cement for broken stone, drying
exceedingly hard.-IScientifc Ameri'
can.
To CLEAN THE INSIDE OF ANY TEA
PoT.-If the inside Of your tea pot
or coffee pot is black from long use,
fill it with water, throw in a small
piece Of hard soap. set on the stove
and let it boil from half an hour to an
hour. 1t will clean as bright as
new dollar, and costs no work.
Tor DRESSING Fruit TREEs.-The
London Garden says: There is no OPP
Grafton in gardens, more recommend
ed, or one which is of more general
utility, than top dressing the soil as a
means of enriching it for the benefit
of the roots of trees. The richer the
material used, the more efectual il is
for good. Top dressing can be appli-
ed to orchard trees on grass with the
perfect confidence that improved crops
will follow, although the grass may be
the first to show the benefit Of top
dressing.
Or all the blunders that the COM
mon farmer makes with trees, none is
so common or so hurtful as the prac-
tice of cutting off lower limbs. All
over the country nothing is more CON-
mon than to see big limbs cut of near
the body Of the tree. This is 4 sin
against nature. The very limbs ne
cessary to protect the tree from wind
and sun are cut away. But the great
est injury is the rotting-too big to
heal over, and kept moist by the
growing tree, the limb must rot, and
the rotting goes to the heart and hurts
tho whole tree.-[Gardener's Monthly.
CURE FOR ScRATcHEs.-Take by
weight one part of resin and three
parts of lard. Melt them together
over q slow fire, so as not to scorch or
burn, and when melted let it cool !;
then it is ready for use. 1t will cure
scratches on horses legs. if applied as
soon as the disease is discovered. Use
no water, but brush off dirt if any on
the legs. Then apply good coat of the
grease-enough to cover the parts at
fected-once day, and two applica-
tons will cure the worst kind OF a
case. 1t is also good for old scabs on
horses or cattle, and tor gals and sad
die scalds on horses.
A FARMER who sows clover seed
plenteously and uses plaster literally,
need not fear to grow as large crops as
he can. Large crops enable him to
make and use more manure, and thus
increase the fertility of the soil. In
the clover crop, the large, broad leaf
takes most of its growth fiom the at
mosphere. and the root is mainly nour-
ished by the subsoil. Thus where
clover is grown the soil from five to
six inches in depth is constantly tend.
ing to fertility. and where manure is
carefully saved and used, the farmer
who grows clover has obtained the
first requisite to success in his bust
ness Correspondent Country Gen
tleman.
How to mother motherless young
animsls-foals, calves. or lambs. Rub
the palm of the hand full Of gin. ON
the nose and mouth of the dam; rub
q little OF the same bottle along the
back of the young animal to be adopt
ed. place them together, and the rela-
tionship is complete. The advantage
of this simple process will be complete
to those who have to do with long
wool sheep, where. as is frequently the
case, eve dies, leaving a pair of
lambs, while prcbably another eve
loses her lambs, when exchange Of
mental affection is instantly brought
about by the gin, to the saving aud
successful rearing of what otherwise
would be two troublesome pets at best
When a eve has three lambs, and an
other eve one, the disparity can be
cfiectually remedied in the same man
ner.
How TO WATER Hanging BAsK.