Connecticut western news., 1878-11-20
,FsF:rF .~fIfE F'1 1lSf FARM AND GARDEN.
A PENNsYLvANIA IcE-PH.


 Few farmers of any pretension in Chester eounty buthaSe ain lice-house, and, with few exceptions, they are pits dug in the earth on some knoll for the sake of the hatural drainage afforded by the, more porous nature of the ground on elevations. Their capacity rangesI from twelve to thirty-six two-horse loads, according to the supposed need of the consumer. Building above ground, ex- cept for storing large quantities, fails toI give satisfaction owing to- the difficulty of excluding air from the ice around the sides, which is the chief cause of ice not keeping. As an example, an ice-pit we made some years ago will answer as we'll as any. A pquare chamber, dug in a sandy subsoiI, and walled with 15-inch wall, well .1nortared for six or eight inches thick next to the ice, ten feet square at the bottom. eleven feet at the top and ten feet deep. On the wall six inch hewn joice were laid, and on these floor, with trap-door at one, side to admit the1ice: On this room, weather boarded, and shingled, serves for chn1rn- ing with a power churn; but usually a frame is laid on the wall, rafters put up with sharp pitch, board roof nailed on, ends boarded qp, leaving door to slide the ice through, and the job is done. In our pitwe left. the space at7two sides, between the floor and wall, open to ad- init air and to carry off moisture from the melting ice, it:mattering little about afr passing over the surface of ice, SO it is kept from. the, sides. The work of digging, walling and building the house was done by farm laborers during Hull in the press of other work, and is good substantial job. We fill it in two days usually, with from twelve to fourteen three-horse loads of ice hauled from mill pond one-third of mile distant, the ice thrown in with-lttle care for ar rangement, except to level it every two or three loads. Cover with oat straw well packed down, and we never fail to have suficiency of ice, till late in Oc- tober, for all purposes about the, house
 
 County, Pa.
 THE CAPE WORM AND ITS REMEDY.
 The common idea that the eggs of the gape-worm. are deposited in the nostrils of chickens by the large louse sometimes found on then heads is incorrect, accord ing to Dr.. N. Cressy's. statement made in the Poultry. World: . 's,A 1ouse can- not be the product of. a worm any more than a bird can produce tadpole." A remedy for these worms given in the Weekly Globe is the smearing of whole wheat or small-sized whole corn with kerosene, andsfeeding Tit -to>the chickens next day, two or three times The pun gent oil destroys ther4 4arvse' oreggs and the live worms alike. ,, A caution isgiven notsto, use too much Kerosene rerAthe chickens will refuse to eat It., An Eng fish experimenter states that tipon dis covering this disease among fine, flock of five to to six weeks old chickens, he undertook to relieve his birds with a quill from hens wing, from which he stripped the feather to within an inch and half of the, upper end, trimmed it with a1scissots ltos about3 half an inch widg( (pointing Sfhe endo, and thrust the feather down the windpipe, over the tongue, pushing it as far as it would req oh; then turning it about briskly, withdrew Sits ; This 1oosened several worms, the bird coughed little and threw up more, and so it was cured. He repeated, thia thi experiment. upen all the others that appeared to be simi. larly affected, with very satisfactory re- suits. ,-.-,z /, <s2, { {;s1A1n FARMS. H. k
 George May Powell fuEnishe6a paper to the American Farmers Club on small II Al