Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-01-26
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

-c"eileu legs IN horses are remcUleu
by giving the horse room to turn around
and move a little and by keeping him on
an earth floor we'll bedded Exercise is q
cure for swelled legs.
When the hoofs of horses are brittle,
writer in the New York Tribune recon-
mends rubbing the soes and the shells of
the foot with mixture of two parts tar,
two parts beef suet, whale oil four parts,
beeswax and honey each one part. Melt
over slow fire and mix well.
To make crullers. take one cup of
buttermilk or sour milk three tablespoons
OF melted butter, one egg, one teaspoon of
saleratus; flavor with nutmeg; little
salt mix as soft as possible, and cut any
desired shape. Have your fat hot. If a
piece OF raw potato be peeled and thrown
In the fat it will keen the crullers from
burning.
For Richmond batter cakes, take two
cupfuls of slfted flour and one of corn
meal, three eggs beaten separately, made
into batter with buttermilk or sour milk
in which teaspoonful of soda has been
thoroughly dissolved. Pour upon "a
creased griddle from spoon, and allow
the cakes to have the thickness of good
buckwheat cakes.
The DroDers' Journal says +" Get rid
OF old--that is, unprofitable-sto which
1t will not pay to winter Carry this right
through, from horned stock down to hens.
1t Is Improbable to depend on old horses,
and thrifty farmers usually get rid Of them
before they are quite past labor But there
is often deep and laudabe attachment
between the farmer and his old four legged
n,,I Il l.,
mendation to be taken as applying to
them. Old milch-cows should be fatted
as soon as they are past their milking
prime. Old ewes give weak lambs and
light fleeces qualify them for mutton as
soon as possible"
The drive-wells which are extensive
ly used in the South and West are made
as follows: A piece of inch and a quarter
gaspipe is perforated with several hun
dred holes near the end. which is covered
with fine brass-wirc screen, and this in
turn is protected by covering of sheet
zinc or iron, also perforated The ex-
tremity Of the pipe is sharpened, or steel
point may be fixed 1t is then driven into
the ground, adding pieces at the top AS it
sinks in. AS soon rs the proper depth is
reached pump is attached, and the result
is an ineXhaustible well, often giving an
abundant supply of water in half an hour
after the end of the pipe first entered the
soil.-.ScteAtifc american.
Damp cellars ana the decaying vege-
tables in them are productive of much i'll.
health. II cellars could be entirely dis.
pensed with in dwelling. houses it would
he an excellent change from the present
SYSTEM but so radical an innovation will
hardly meet with mucn favor, especially
from those whom it would benefit most
farmers wives. If the cellar, however,
is necessary evil it can be rendered
much less Of an evil than it is at present
by careful attention TO its freedom from
decaying substances, and by making it
perfectly dry and ventiating it thorough
~. Dryness may be secured marlborough
system of drainage, and ventilation by an
opening into the chimney (Which should
in all cases be built from the cellar up),
and by other openings into the outer air,
connected with the cellar floor by pipes
OF sufficient capacity to keep up a
thorough circulation and frequent change
OF the atmosphere. Mass, Board Of Health
Report