The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-18
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wire gauze instead of glass, carefully fit
ted to the eye, and fastened to the head
by a gum-band, will furnish sufficient
protection while the wearer is threshing,
cutting stone, etc, and at the same time
give the organ plenty Of air.
The best mules are bred in Kentucky.
and it is not uncommon to find teams
there sixteen hands high, and weighing
!, 400 pounds each. Although OCCASION
ally there are larger mules, even as high
as eighteen hands, such are rare and I'M
desirable. The use of mules is rapidly
increasing in this country, there being
over 1,15O,OOO in use in 1870, against
570,222 in 1850. When properly and
kindly treated, the mule is not the Vi
cious animal he is generally supposed to
be, and il is a mistake to be prejudiced
against him on that account.
From peck of pumpkin seed
dropped and covered in the gaps of a
corn-field, dairy of nine cows has been
kept up to summer milking and the
quality of the butter is supcr-excellent,
and six heifer calves raised from the
above are as fat as moles. The cows are
fatter, too, than a majority of the cattle
slaughtered. These cows have been max
ing about six pounds of butter per week,
besides supplying new milk and cream
for gentleman's house with sixteen in
mates. The pumpkins are chopped up
in the managers with spade, morning,
noon and night, about half busheI each
time when cut into pieces. They eat
while being MIXED, morning and night,
and they come to the yard and go into
the stable for half an hour at noon.
Beets, carrots and some other roots and
small ears of corn will follow, SO as to
keep up the milk during winter.-Cor.
Country Gentleman.
"A great many directions have been
published for mending india-rubber boots
and shoes, most of which are worthless
The following can he relied on: Procure
small tin-box of prepared rubber in a
semi-liquid condition, which can be pur-
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where india-rubber goods are kept for
sale. The boot must be washed clean
and dried. Then the surface around the
rent is to be roughened little with the
point of a knife, after which the SEMI
liquid rubber is spread on with spoon
as thickly as it can be without flowing
away. Then a neat patch is prepared and
covered with one or two coats of rubber.
When the prepared rubber is almost dry
the patch is applied and held on firmly
for few minutes.-Scientifc american.
The ill effects of soda on linen have
given rise to a new method of washing
which has been extensively adopted in
Germany and introduced into Belgium
The operation consists in dissolving two
pounds of soap in about three gallons of
water as hot as the hand can bear, and
adding to this one tablespoonful of tur-
pentine and three of liquid ammonia !;
the mixture must then be well stirred,
and the linen stepped in it for two or
three hours, taking care to cover up the
vessel containing them as nearly hermet-
ically as possible. The clothes are after
ward washed out and rinsed in the usual
way. The soap and water may be re-
heated and used second time, but in
that case half tablespoonful of turpen-
tine and a tablespoonful of ammonia
must be added. The process is said to
cause great economy of time, labor and
fuel. The linen scarcely suffers at all,
as there is little necessity for rubbing,
and its cleanliness and color are perfect.
The ammonia and turpentine, although
their defensive action is great, have no
injurious effect upon the linen and while
the former evaporates Immediately, the
smell of the latter is said to disappear en-
tirely during the dyeing of the clothes.