The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-11-08

70 do, nature strives to assist. After Il
has been filtered, fill clean, well.hooped
casks, and put them in dark, cool eel
lar. Take out the bung and keep the
cask FULL let il work half the usual
time, then bung tight and let il stand a
few days. Then draw of the cider from
the sediment which lies in the bottom
OF the cask. II you desire drink Of
extra fine, return the cider after
the cask has been well washed
out, let II remain few DAYS,
then repeat the process, and after the
sediment mas the second time all been
removed. NIL up the barrel and cork up
tight This cider in this condition will
keep one year. Or, TO convert it into
sparkling drink, good champagne ci-
der, or wine cider, bottle il up with
govdscorks in common bottles as soon
rs the second draught il made, and ex-
pose II TO the light and air as little as
possible If you wish 10 retain the gases
and life Of the article. Add one good
raisin to each bottle and drink at your
leisure. This makes q pleasant, exhila-
rating drink One quart should he used
sparingly for several meals. 1t should
be used only at meal time, then it IS
taken up and disseminated with the
food and is very healihful and strength
cning as beverage and antidote for
dyspepsia and jaundice. When cideris
drawn from the cask, some leave vent.
this lets out the gases aud DESTROYS the
life OF the cider; SO does the mixing up
massachusetts in the barrel; the cider
becomes so weak and insipid that it will
not change into vinegar. The life prin-
clples are destroyed. Other nostrums
should be avoided, such as some use to
keep the cider plain and sweet. Bot
tied cider should lie on the earth in a
dark cellar until wanted for use.
RAISING TURKEYS. -- Twenty-Five
years ago, almost every large farmer
living not too near to neighbors was in
the habit Of keeping turkeys. They
were q great help in the way of DESTROY
ing grasshoppers, crickets, and other
injurious insects which. prey upon the
crops OF the garden and field. They
usually roasted on trees near the farm
buildings, and after the first few weeks
from Matching, gave ve-y little trouble
to the feeder, and afforded good bunch
Of bank notes for paying off debts which
might come due about Thanksgiving.
Christmas or New Years. OF late
years, however, the profits from turkey
raising have been very much diminished
by disease which attacks the birds at
All ages, from the time they are as large
IS quails till they are fully grown. The
symptoms are dullness, pale skin on the
ACE and down the neck, an inclination
% sit on the ground or TO lag be-
hind when feeding with the flock in
he fields, and a yellowish watery
discharge from the bowels. The birds
Usually live but a few days after these
are observed. They lose
heir appetites and grow rapidly weak
n I'LL they are found dead on the
round, near their usual haunts. II
hey are opened, the liver will be found
cry much enlarged, and with numer-
'us tubercles scattered over the surface.
7 seems To be purely disease OF the
Iver, as the other organs in most cases
resent normal appearance. We
ave lost three fine flocks in years past.
y this disease, without knowing any
ure or preventive, and many others in
arious parts Of New England have had .
similar experience, and have conse-
uently abandoned the raising Of these
hoice birds. Charcoal and sulphur, we :
elieve, have been recommended TO be
liked with the food, but by the time the
iscase shows itself, it is not an easy
latter TO administer medicines in this
'ay, as the birds have little or
Q appetite. While looking at
'me fine, large and healthy looking
lrkeys at the Vermont State Fair, and /.
lscussing methods OF raising with Mr.. Il
harles Morse, of Plainfeld, he stated !
'at he had been very successful in treat
& this disease by giving red pepper,
nnamon, and rhubarb, in the form Of
lis, which can be easily given to the =
wis, whether they have an appetite or y
y. The rhubarb is physicking in its
fect on the bowels, while the pepper
"a cinnamon warm up the birds and
!mulate action in the digestive organs. +
g have had no experience with this
eatment, but give it wholly on the au- ]
ority Of Mr.. Morse. Since turkeys
we become 50 scarce upon our New
ngland farms, grasshoppers and crick- =
have increased to an alarming ex- >
nj in many localities. Whole fields Of
ass are sometimes eaten by grass 8
ppers, especially the second crops Of -
'ver, Of which they are particularly s
nd.--N. r.. Farmer. "