The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-08-28

" in protecting from dampnese, is very
important in the case of young turkeys.
TILL they get full dress suit of feathers.
poultry house overrun with red
mites was speedily cleared bv burning
IN it two pounds Of sulphur on a coal
IRE in hand furnace, the doors and
windows being tightly closed.
To rid young chicks of vern,in The
american Poultry Yard recommends
mopping the feathers and fluff of the
mother hen in the evening with a
sponge dipped in kerosene and squeezed
dry.
According to The Farmers Friend. a
hen of any breed will yield only half as
many eggs the second as the first wear
after she begins laying, and, therefore.
"all fowls kept after they are two years
old are kept at loss. !"
There is nothing better. probably
nothing so good, for mixing with poultry
droppings, as road dust gathered in sea-
son and stored in a dry place for time of
need. Put il barrel or box in alter
nate layers. using about twice as much
dust as droppings, and mix before usino
by pounding the mass together in a
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A successful English practice is to
Keep fowls in portable houses. which are
moved from field to field on the farm.
whenever insect food or the waste of
gathered crops is plenty. Mention is
made OF gardener who has long, mar
row, bottomless coops in each of which
he places hen or two, or mother and
chickens, and sets them down between
MS rows OF growing plants, and moves
them from time to time. Insects are
thus captured, and there is a good deal
OF helpful scratching.
Household Hints.
A fresh cut watermelon is good for
fever.
Ginger ale will relieve stomach cramps
and cholera.
Carbolic acid or ammonia, in the foot
bath, will cure perspiration of the feet.
A bit of sandpaper in the house will
keep needles sharp and save annoyance.
Fresh cream is the best cure for sun.
burn. 1t draws the fire, soothes and
heals.
Furniture polish can now be had bv
the pint; applied with cloth it makes
the furniture look like new.
Powdered borax spriukled around the
base boards and on the shelves will drive
cockroaches and ants away.
A bottle of cement, bucket OF paint.
with hammer and nails, will save to any
household ten times their cost every
year.
Branches of the elderbush, hung in
the dining-room of house, will clear
the room of flies. There is an odor
which the insects detest.
Kerosene lamps which are trimmed
daily rarely explode. The carelessness
OF the housewife can be blamed for
most OF the lamp explosions.
Save your washing suds for the gar
den; If they are poured over the roots of
the plum trees they will kill the cur-
cuilo; If turned at the roots of gerani-
nms, roses, etc, they will enhance their
beauty teDfold.
TO cure weak eyes, take rose leaves,
the more the better, and put them into
little water; then boil; after this strain
INTO bottle and cork it tight. You will
nnd this liquid very beneficial in re-
moving redness and weakness from the
eyes.
Curing Hay,
A writer in the Utica Herald saws
II rain falls Immediately after cutting
hay, no harm results, as the water
cnnnot be absorbed by the grass which
already has its fill of the juices. In this
oondltion it may lie for days on the
Fpread and be safe. Had it been dried,
tho base would have been entirely diff
tefent. With fair weather and the ted.
GER, few hours will draw off the
qtside water, and relieve the hay of
much of its inside moisture, so that the
'u'ces are concentrated, and may thus,
with the hay, be put into cock. This
pest done soon after the middle of the
Nay. when the mass is hot, the heat ex-
peiiIng the mo sture, and the hay curing
more effectually in its own shades. Hay
fNHed somewhat late in the afternoon ie
SIRE TO imbibe moisture from the dew.
which begins to fail early, though in
1eibly, and has been one of the lurk.
.'e mischiefs to hay. Instead of gath
the hay then, the mower should be
Hy. Out any time from the middle
fffnoon till dark. The cut grass being
aen, the dew will not hurt it, and if a
day follows will soon be taken up by
sun, the tedder set to work, and by
see or four O'Clock be in cock. A few
willcure it fit for the barn. Where
Pc bay is thin and there is no clover, with
% drying weather it may be taken in
e same day without first going into the
ek have known the whole hay crop
81 in this way in a drought. Glover
lures putting up and curing in the
i1 this on account of its coarseness.
Keeping Roses in Bloom.
Is @. g. M. of Cooperstown, N. Y,
Res Information on keeping roses in
oom. Our best horticulturists recon-
4end, as soon as roses have formed their
let flowers in the open ground, to
nch of the end of the first shoot, and
soon as the rose is fully opened to