The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-09-06
TOPICS FOR THE FARM.
Treatment of HoueY.-Put the

Treatment of Honey.-Put the honey,
comb and all, in a tin pan on a moder-
ately warm stove, adding to each pound
of honey a tablespoonful of water. Stir
it occasionally with a piece of wire when
the contents of the pan are perfectly
liquefied. 1t must not boil. Set where
it can cool un~disturbed; then pass a
knife carefully around the pan to de-
tach the cake of wax on the top, and
rapidly, with great care, lift off the cake.
Don't let it drain into the pan an in
slant, but place it in another %utensil.
Any one thus clarifying honey, will find,
on putting aside the cake of wax, that
the impurities adhere to the cake of wax,
while the honey beneath is clear. If
the honey should, in time, candy, heat it
with a very little water sugar. Keepin
jars tied up in a cool place. Break up
the wax cake and wash it in cold water
till cleansed of honey; then melt and
strain it. To bleach the wax, boil it,
after straining it, for an hour inplenty of
water, in which use afewdropsof chloride
of soda. When quite cold, lift off the
wax and leave it to dry and whiten in
the open air.
Killing Wild Oats.-A correspondent
of the Toronto Globe writes: Of all the
curses that soil is heir to, wild oats bear
off the palm. Then let those whose
| farms are overrun take the worst field
they have, gahg-plow toward the end of
| August, and harrow wet. A growth will
come with the full rains. Gang in the
spring, and SOW as early as possible
with oats. Harrow well and roll. Cut
all for hay as soon as the wild oats are
out in the head. The other will not be
far behind if sown early. If properly
cured, this will make very good hay.
Our cattle appear to prefer it to timothy
or clover, and thrive well on it. Then
pillow as deep as you can in time for a fall
growth, harrow and leave till spring.
Harrow again, as that will start some
grains which did not grow in the fall.
Then, after your spring crop is in, begin
to summer fallow, and, if the land has
been run down, SOW buckwheatand pillow
under when in blossom. 1 am told that
the buckwheat will heat and destroy all
seeds that come up in contact with it.
but I cannot speak from experience
After the first blowing and a stroke Of
the harrow, do not disturb the land fol
some time, SO as to give a chance for an
other growth. Plow in August and le
rest till spring. Then there are two
ways of proceeding: the most efficient i
to repeat the oat-hay crop and seet
down; if you cannot afford that, SOY
wheat, and you will find that you hav'
| still some wild oats among it. To de
. stroy what will be left on the surface
9 g%ang-plow lightly, SOW oats for hay, ant
t seed down. To grow them out is tn
J only way to get clear of wild oats
was once recommended to spread stra,
over the bad patches and burn them.
. tried the experiment on n spot, an
t went back in about three weeks after
whistle a requiem over their ashes; bu
!, witness my chagrin and disappointmer
when / found them like soldiers dresse
in green uniforms, with bayonets read
t for another onslaught.
|, How to Make a Well.-Mr. J. "
= Pinkham has a paper on "Wells an
= Cisterns" in Scri6ner for Septembe
with plans showingh how they are contain
mated and how they should be CO
n structed. He says of wells: First,
course, the well must be SO constructe
that it cannot act as a drain for tt
i neighboring soil. This can be done |
10 making the well above low-water ma
le of some material impervious to water,
d by emitting this part of the wall q
r. together. The irstcan be accomplish
is by having the wall from a point two
N three feet from the bottom made
y brick withSa coating of hydrulic GENE,
" on its exterior, or of hydraulic we
: tubing with the Jennings well protects
Id with cement; in either case the ear
lie should be thoroughly packed around t
lie wall, and a slight embankment shou
IN be made around the orifice to pl
vent the inflow of surface or stOr
er water.
ng In such a well the draining surface
TT. so reduced, and placed at such a distan
he below the surface of the ground, that
" the great majority of instances the
d d PRODUCTION of foreign matter becom
" impossible, except in SO far as there is
chance that substances will fall into t
ne well from above. To prevent this
well should be kept covered when L
in use. In most cases, however, it is b
ter to omit the upper part of the wall
}. together. After the excavation is co
pleted; the wall can be built in t
usual manner for a distance of two
ISL three feet, more or less, as circumstan,
". may demand; the service pipe can tn
be placed in position, and the W
he arched over. The remainder of t
he excavation can thenbe filled with ear
re well packed as it is thrown in, and t
81 pipe carried to any convenient point.
ile' will be necessary to place above
NJ arch several layers of stones successive
to smaller to prevent the falling of ca
he into the space below.
he The workmen will probably sugges
we layer of turf Or straw to accomplish t
object, but the presence of either
these substances will cause the water
f rv be unpleasant for a considerable til
led and will prove the cause of much ann
the ance.
of There is a prevalent notion that a "
in should be ventilated for the purpose
er, allowing ~noxious gases to escape; 6
that water is better for being exposed
the air. I hardly need state that
only nOxiOus gases in a well a., e., ga