The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-19

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Many things can be propagated
easily and rapidly by cuttings. This
is applicable to many trees, shrubs,
vines, plants and flowers. And in
cold climates ut is best to save the
cuttings in the fall. The cold, dry
winds of Iowa, reduce the vitality
of limbs and twigs very low, if they
do not entirely kill them. And
though their close connection to the
parent body and root may bring
vitality in the spring, yet when cut
off after the exposure to the bleak
winds of winter, they perish when
attempting to propagate from such
cuttings. The best time to save cut
tings is in the fall after the leaves
have fallen. Bury them in a dry
place in the ground. A sandy soil is
the best. Such trees as the willow,
catalpa, Lombardy poplar, mulberry,
cottonwood, and many other kinds
can be multiplied rapidly in this way.
So also can gooseberries, currants,
grapes, snow balls, roses, and many
of the ornamental shrubs. Now Is
the time, or last month, to look to
this matter. They may not, like the
hog or the OK, bring money directly
TO the pockets, but such things by
care add largely to the value of real
estate, and still more largely to the
great sum of human happiness. AS
soon as the leaves drop, select cut
tings of various things. If one has
them not, probably a neighbor has,
and to one who shows spirit to
take care of them, they are general
" freely given. Then bury till
spring in the ground where the wa
ter will not stand, and set out in the
spring.-iOtca register.
To PREPARE FEATHERS FOR USE.
In every farmers family, or wher-
ever poultry is kept, it is of no con-
sequence to save the feathers of all
the fowls for stufiing pillows, sofa
pillows and the like, even if il is not
deemed worth while to sell them.
OF course geese and duck feathers,
being much more valuable than any
others, will always be preserved with
care; but downy feathers of hens
and turkeys serve very good pur-
pose, and unless you wish to make
busters of the wing and tail feathers
the soft feathery portions of these
may be stripped off the quill and
added to the rest. Unless your flock
is large il will take some time to Sc
cure enough feathers to stuff even a
cushion ; and ms they are gathered
from time TO time, they must be put
into whole cotton bags, tied closely
so that no moth millers can enter,
and placed for short time in q
warm oven to dry thoroughly. II
you sometimes, for family use, and
for speed and convenience, scald
your hens before picking, the fcath.
ers can be dried in tin pan, in d
moderately warm stove oven, and
added to the rest. Be sure that nc
bits of skin or flesh adhere to the
feathers, as IL gives an unpleasant,
oder, which is with difficulty re-
moved. Feathers thus saved and
prepared answer very well for under
pillows or holsters, and are quite
nice for chair and sofa cushions.
An ingenious person can manufac'
ture, for home use, feather busters
fully equal to those that are hawket
about the streets in shape or size, re
sembling nothing SO much as the
huge bridal fayors Tor nosegays) will
which English people burden them
selves, and which our own people
are shaping largely. For busters
look among the castofls in the atti'
for old parasol handles that are cary
ed, polished, inlaid and what not
Remove them from useless skeletons
drive short nail through the brush
end, and tie to il strong linen twin'
with one end about eight inches ant
the other about two yards long; ar
range "A row of turkey tail and sof
wing feathers around the stick ant
wind them close with the long string
so proceed, finishing with the shor
downy feathers. Then have read.
some melted resin, with which Il
cover the string (Which should b.
tied to the short end securely, an'
cover the quill part of all the fea
Tiers. A sheath of colored kid o.
broadcloth should be fastened owe
the ends of the feathers, and yol
have thus an ornamental and usefu
article, at little or no cost.-RWa
World.