The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-04-13
never be allowed to boil, as in that case

never be allowed to boil, as in that case
they would instantly curdle.
If one has a neglected orchard, he
should not let this spring go by without
an attempt to renovate it. Old trunks
covered with loose scales of bark, and
coated with lichens and moses, should
have in the first place thorough scrap
ing, and this should extend along the
larger limbs so far as is necessary. After
this scraping they should receive strong
alkaline wash. There is nothing so good
for this purpose as good homemade soft
soap, made from lye (or potash) and
grease.
A HEN may be calculated to consume
one bushel of corn yearly, and to lay
twelve dozen or eighteen pounds of eggs.
This is equivalent to saying that 81
pounds cf corn will produce when fed
to this hen one pounds of eggs. A pound
of pork, on the contrary, requires about
five and one-third pound of corn for its
production. When eggs are twenty-four
cents a dozen, and pork ten cents
pound, we have the bushel of corn pro-
ducing $2.88 worth of eggs and but
S1.05 worth of pork
BLEEDING a horse is generally done
in the jugular wien with a broad-bladed
lancet; and when the vein is sufficiently
pressed and secured, so as to cause it to
swell, then the point of the lancet is
sent in with the left hand, and, cutting
upwards, makes all the opening neces-
sary. When sufficient blood is taken
the cut ought to be squeezed together
nd as
the vein below. the wound the blood will
shoot out in stream and fail clear into
the bucket ready to receive it.
In selecting flour, first look to the
color. If it is white, with yellowish
straw-color tint, buy it. If it is white
with blush cast, or with black specks
in it, refuse it. Next, examine it's ad-
hesiveness-wet and knead a little of it
between your fingers; if it works soft
and sticky, it is poor. Then, throw
little lump of dried flour against
smooth surface; if it falls like powder,
it is bad. Lastly, squeeze some of the
-four tightly in your hand; if it retains
the shape given by the pressure, that,
too, is good sign. 1t is safe to buy
-four that will stand all these tests.
These modes are given by all old -four
dealers, and they pertain to matter
that concerns everybody.
THE ancient Greeks, the Macedonians
and the Romans of the ante-C asarean
era, men who in hygienies, in health and
strength were so strangely superior to
u.s. restricted themselves to one meal per
diem, to which they devoted the hour
between sunset and night. They COM
menced their days work at daybreak
and kept it up till it was completely
finished, till late in the afternoon, if
necessary; then they took bath, passed
an hour in the gymnasium, and dedica-
ted the cool evening hours to good cheer,
music, dances, and pleasant converse
ton. The children of nature, Indians,
hunters, and teamsters, follow the same
plan; they breakfast upon a cold bis
cult, with cup OF coffee, perhaps, if
they have the ingredients and time to
cook; then march or hunt till they go
into camp, to eat and rest and be in par,
adise for few hours.
TURTLES eggs are held in great esteem
wherever they are found, as well by
Europeans as others. They have a very
soft shell, and are about the size of a
pigeons egg. The mother turtles lay
thrice a year, at intervals of two or
three weeks, depositing in one night as
many as hundred at laying. An ex-
perienced eye and hand are required to
detect the eggs, as they are always in
geniously covered up with sand but,
when they are hunted, very few escape
The Oronoco Indians obtain from these
eggs a kind of clear, sweet oil, which
they use instead of butter. In the
month of February, when the high
waters of the Oronoco have receded, mil
lions of turtles come on shore to deposit
their eggs. The certainty and abund-
ance of the harvest is such that it is es-
timated by the acre, The yearly gath
ering about the mouth of the river alone
is about five thousand jars of oil, and it
takes five thousand eggs to make a jar.