Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-13
HOME AND FARM.

win love thee while wait,
And within the golden gate,
We shsIlg4eet where indeed shall see His face
HOME AND FARM.
Henry Anthony, living near Smyrna,
has a new prOscess for growing spring
chickens for the Centennial, which from
present Indications promises well. He
has a house, about twelve by twenty-five
feet, with glass front and ends. He has
stove in it which he uses when neces-
sary. He sets his first hens some time In
December, and now he has nearly four
hundred little chicks. He expects to
reach five hundred, and to be able to
ship his first fbrooders'' in May. Each
hen has her own particular compartment
in the house, and the floor is covered
with little pens and thrOnged with little
eilirpers. The house is lined with tar
paper to keep out yirmin, and so far this
seems to accomplish all that was claimed
for it. The success in growing chickens
has been remarkable, so far in the exper-
iment.-Smyrna Times, Delaware.
DEATH IN The WELL.-Always before
going into a vault, or well, or deep pit,
Send down a light; If il goes out death
is &C the bottom, because there is carbOnic
acid gas there, which is an air that has
no support for the lungs, gives no life to
the blood, and we as certainly die, and
as soon, as if we had no air at all las If
smothered, or in the water, or hung.
But If a person has fallen into the well
and some one must go down, the quickest
plan to purify the air, and to get rid Of
the carbonic acid gas, is 10 throw quick
lime into the we'll, if there is any water
at the bottom; if not, throw some in;
this throws out heat, which rareiies the
carbonic acid and sends it to the top; be-
sides, the dissolving lime absorbs it.
Large quantities. of water thrown in is a
substitutes; or set shavings or paper on
fire and let them fall to the bottom; the
fresh water absorbs, the flames rarefies
the gases.-Dr. Hall.
If farmers would keep 4 slate hanging
in their barns or work shops, with
pencil attached to a string, so as to note
down work to be done on rainy or stormy
days when the hired men could not work
out of doors, il would be found to be of
great advantage. Have il understood that
whenever rain comes, the slate is To be
referred to for orders, so when you are
away from home the work can go on.
There are scores Of things that can be
probably done at such times, and just so
much time saved in good weather. All
the wagons and carriages can be CREASED,
the harness oiled and repaired, the axes,
hoes and spades ground or cleaned, floor
of barns or out-hOuses cleaned or repair
ed, tools or implements repaired or paint
ed, bee-hives, chicken coops and other
things made, hen houses cleaned or fu-
migated with sulpher If fowls are lousy,
eeller cleaned, apples and potOtoes assort-
ed, and all such work be done, and with
out the loss of time. Farmers, keep
slate and make note of what work can
be done at such times.
FAT BABEs.-Fatness is no more an
indication of health than leanness, both
of which, in the extreme, are evidences
of disease. If babies, like pigs, were de-
signed for the market, it might be desira-
BILE to have them very fat and plump.
They are often too fat for health or conf
fort, and especially liable to attacks of
the Group and Kindred diseases. This
fairness results from too much food for
the small amount of exercise, and from
wrong food, such as an excess of sweets
and oily food. Babies using the bottle,
should have milk as nearly resembling
the mothers as possible, which is made
by adding One-third water to cows milk.
The mothers milk contains less cream,
which shows the folly and wickedness of
feeding a baby on cream and water.
When child is too lean it is we'll to add
cream, and when too fat to reduce the
milk in richness. The fat babies often
sleep too much and the lean ones too lit
tie. Give the fat ones less food, less
sweets and cream, and more air and eX-
ereise.
TREATMENT OF RosHs.-Mr. James
Pentland in his catalogue for 1875, a we'll
filled, compact volume of Al pages, says
on this topic, that many persons are dis
appointed after they plant rose in not
seeing il flourish and bloom afterwards,
never dreaming that the faglt is with
themselves for some think that all that
is necessary is just to make a hole IN the
ground and stick it in and cover It up,
whereas there is no plant that likes good
treatment better than the rose, and none
that will so amply repay for generous
treatment.
Roses, in general, grow best and bloom
finest III q rich strong soil, and where
the soil has been exhausted in gardens
long under cultivation good plan is to
trench the same, or where this cannot be
conveniently done, to get some virgin soil
and incorporate with the other. We have
tried this in small gardens with good
success by removing about one-half Of
the exhausted soil and replacing it with
(what would be termed) elay.-American
Farmer.
HUNGER.-When the system begins to
need nutriment, it sends Il fluid from ev-
cry portion of the body towards the stOm-
ach, where it aceumulates in little reser-
voirs, the distensiOn Of which causes the
come, the more hungry are we.
This fluid not only gives notice that
food is needed, but it has the power of
dissolving it, rs water dissOlves sugar,
and thus prepares it for yielding its nu-
triment to the system. If, therefore, a
person eats without an appetite without
being hungry, there being none of this
dissolying fluid in the stomach, the food
is not dissolved, does not undergo any
healthy change; on the contrary, being
kept up to the stomach heat of about !,
hundred degrees, 1t soon begins to fer
ment, to decay, to rot; if meat, it literal
ly becomes carton; ifYegetable, il sOurs;
in either case, generating gas and wind,
causing unseemly belchings and nOisome
eructations or these gases, being con-
fined, distend the stomach, causing pres
sure against the nerves, originating va
rious pains and discOmforts more or less
distressing, to last sometimes for hours
or half 4 night, preventing refreshing
sleep, TO be followed by 4 day of general
discomfort and unfitness for business.
Sometimes the stomach becomes so dis
tended with wind that it crowds up
against the lungs, preventing them from
receiving their proper amount of air, and
there follows distressing feeling of inn
pending sutfocatiOn. The same effects
follow when too much food is eaten;
more than there is fluid in the stomach
to diSsolve.-Dr. Hall
BOYS, THESE ARE HARD TIMEs.-This
is the cry coming up from all tongues
now, and one main cause of dull times or
''hard tines is we have not enough of
earnest, intelligent, faithful workers
among our producers.
The following brief article on this sub
ject, from the Blackshear Georgian,
should be printed ON every press in the
State, until its vivid truths absolutely
annihilated the lounges who prevent us
as people from attaining to a condition
of general prosperity.
$50 IL is, young man, and the longer
You sit around town, holding your hands
and twirling your thumbs and signing
for better ones to come, the harder times
will be. Spring is coming: seed time is
here; the pillow handles call you; the
axe is TO be swung; the music of the ham
mer and the anvil must be heard, and the
glisteas~3 of the frightened hoe seen
amorssssie tares of the field. Oh, cease
talking about hard times, and Jump into
the ranks of that noble army-the sons of
toll.
"TheFe may be no place for you be-
hind the counter, or Mt the desk in the
counting house, or conductor of train,
or engineer; or do your aspirations mount
TO the professions! These may all be