The Hickman courier., 1878-06-21

ration WAS abundant and so offensive
that they ordered the child tepid bath,
containing couple of pinches of sui
phate of iron. This gave relief to the
pain, and, being repeated twice a day, 20
minutes each bath, the child was soon
well.
THE prices obtained at the HoWden
great horse show in England win furnish
an index of the value of the several
classes of horses there: Strong agricultus
raj and dray horses brought from $3.50
to $500 each harness horses from $500
to $3.50 high steppers, suitable for car-
riages, in pairs, from $3.50 to $500 each;
hunters, at all rates, from $3.50 70 $50 |
each.
For watermelons, break up the ground
deep, harrow, check twelve Ieet apart.
Have little or no hill; leave tie bill
concave. Six or eight inches from the
hill put stable manure TWO and a half
inches thick. Cultivate well; plant
good seed; have no squasbes, pumpkins
or gourds near. Clip the ends of vines
il you wish large melons instead of great
numbers
LEMON PUDDING.-Three~fourths Of
pound Of -four, six ounces Of butter, the
juice of one large lemon, one teaspoonful
sugar. Make the above proportion Of
-four and butter into smooth paste;
roll out the thickness of about half Sd
inch, squeeze the lemon juice in a cup
stir a tesspoonful ef flour in it and IS
much moist sugar as viii make a stiH
paste, spread this mixture ove se
dough, roll it up, secure the ends, and
boil in Toured cloth two hours.
SAVE all the bones for homemade
fertilizers. Take a tight barrel, box or
hogshead, cover the bottom with Jour or
five inches of unleached ashes; upon
this place layer of bones as close as
they can be packed together, covering
completely with unleached ashes then
another layer of bones, and thus alter
nate layers of ashes and bones until the
box or barrel is filed. Pour in couple
of pailfuls of water, or place the vessel
in the yard where it will get sufficient
moisture from occasional showers. In
few months it viii be found that the
/ bones are dissolved.
AN eastern farmer says: cater ex-
perimenting with all the varieties Of
corn, sowing broad cast, in drills, and
cultivating by hoeing it, 1 have come to
the conclusion that the best and most
profitable way to raise corn fodder is to
plant sweet corn, put your VOWS three
feet apart, plant thick, not more than
two feet apart; put in six or eight
stalks in a hill, manure heavily, keep 1t
clear of weeds, hoe two or three times,
and you will have an abundant crop of
the best kind of fodder for Hhlch cows"
/ SPoTs ON Towels AND HOSIERY will
! disappear with little trouble if a little
hartshorn is put into enough water to
soak the articles, and they are left in it
an hour or two before washing; and, If
1 cupful is put into the water into which
white clothes are soaked, the night be-
| fore washing, the ease with which the
articles can be washed, and their great
whiteness and cleanness when dried, viii
be very gratifying. Remembering the
small sum psid for three quarts OF harts-
horn of common strength, one can easily
see that no bleaching preparation can be
poOre chpauIv obtained
To REMOVE GREASE SPoTs.-Put half
q teaspoonful of hartshorn TO half tea
spoonful of alcohol wet bit Of wool
en- cloth or soft sponge in it, and rub and
soak the spot with it, and the grease, II
freshly dropped, viii disappear. If the
spot is OF long standing, it may require
several applications. In woolen or cot
ton, the spot may be rubbed when the
liquid Is applied, and also in black silk,
| though not hard. But with light or col,
ored silk, wet the spot with the cloth or
sponge with which the hartshorn is put
on. patting it lightly. Rubbing silk,
particularly colored silk, is apt to leave
q whitish spot, almost as disagreeable as
| the grease spot.
THE internal vital organs Of the hog
are very much like those of man. Hogs
are subject to many diseases that men
are subject to. i severe cold frequently
produces pneumonia in man, and in hogs
it produces the same disease. Tens Of
thousands of hogs die yearly by this dis
ease. The preventive is good feed, good
shelter, warm and dry bedding. fhogs
lay out on the cold, wet ground, if they
and their bedding are exposed to rain
and sleet and snow, is it any wonder thst
they take cold, get the pneumonia and
die? Men subject to the same treat
ment would die. The hog has not fur or
wool, or hair, or if called hair, a very
coarse article it is to shield it from cold
and storms. Hence good shelter, dry
beds and kind treatment are very essen
/ tial TO keep hogs healthy and thriving