The Red Cloud chief., 1877-10-11

uuucI ollSul pressure OOuOeAASS,
when the flowers are thick, and contain
a good deal of moisture. she puts ~.
in fresh cotton the next H~I' anu aiter
.h.t doo. 80 -.suurb them. But in
pressing nearly all the small flowers, the
cotton need not be changed at all, and
not even opened until the flowers are
preserved. l noticed that the little
schOOlma'm's pressed flowers had a soft
bright look. She groups the long
stemmed ones prethly in vases, or lays
them between sheets of thin glass, and
hangs them in her windows in winter,
she says. They havn't at all the poor,
pinched, faded, lattened look of flowers
prepared in other ways. The little
schOolma'm presses green leaves and
ribbon grass in the same way, keeping
their color perfectly; and she told the
children when they wanted to pile a
number of these double contton layers
together, it was better to lay a sheet of
blOtting-paper In between the sets. Some
times she lays tissue paper between the
flowers and the cotton; but it is of the
thinnest kind.
A California p Ow.
The largest plOW ever manufactured
in this city is now being made at the
shops of Matteson & Williamson, to the
order of H.. Barnhart. The plOw is de-
signed for work in the tuIes, and is a
formidable looking implement. 1t will
cut afurrOw t~hlrty-,ight inches wide.
The mould board is eight feet long from
the point to the end, sweeping upward
with a curve of about four feet radius.
At the end it stands two feet above
-" ei"u-Iu. Ano iaIu SIuo Is seven
1eet long. At the real a horiz ,ntal cut-
tlng-plate is arranged to cut under the
SOIL on the land side a distance of ten
inches. The furrow will be cut as shall
low as possible, not exceeding three or
four inches. The plow will be attached
to a sulky, and will require a team of
twelve stout horses to pull it. Mr.. Barn.
harts theory in regard to tule- blowing
is that the burrows should be as wide
as possible, and i. would be better if the
whole sod could be turned Over without
making a furrOw. 1t is with this end
In View that he has ordered the NAM
moth plOw.-StOcktOn INDEPENDENT.
Ftcts Worth Remembering
One thousand shingles laid four inch
es to the weather will cover Over 100
square feet of surface, and five pounds
OF shingle-lails will fasten them on.
One-fifth more siding and flooring is
needed than the number of square feet
of surface to be covered, because of the
lap in the siding and matching of the
floor.
One thousand laths will cover 20
yards of surface, and IL pounds of lath
will nail them on.
Eight bushels of good lime, sixteen
bushels of sand ard one bushel of
hair will make enough mortar to plas-
ter 100 square yards.
A cord of stone, three bushels of lime
and a cubic yard of sand, will lay 100
cubic feet of wall.
Five courses of brick will lay one
foot in height on a chimney. Nine
bricks in a Course will make a flue eight
wide and twenty inches long,
and eight bricks in a course will make
fiue eight inches wide and sixteen
long.
The Prospective Hog Crop.
While there are unfavorable reports
from some portions of the West, taking
The country generally, it may be set
down as reliable that the fall and win
ter supply of hogs is very promising.
In many places where cholera existed |
here is, this year, an entire absence of
.he disease. From the returns of sum. !
.er packing it appears that the quality !
8 improving; and, should the corn crop |
urn out as favO ably as it now prom
SEES to do, there is little doubt that the
Western States will forward to market,
his year, n of the best crop of hogs
'ver marketed. So far. the number of
'igs is reported as largely in excess of
asst year, especially in the far Western
States. The aggregate reports of the
assessors for the states of OhiO, Iowa,
Missouri and Nebraska, compare as fol-
Ows for the two years:
1877. 1870.