The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-01-31

age of great tenacity, may be made by
mixing rice four with cold water, and
letting it gently simmer over the fire.
NEVER put the hands into butter.
There is no excuse for so doing, and
every sense OF cleanliness forbids it.
True, the hands are clean still, as butter
abserbs any and every impurity with
which il comes in contact, excessive
perspiratiou o. the hands, or any humor
o. the blood, might thus be impaired to
the butter. A wooden ladie to lift the
butter from the churn, or to turn it over
while being washed, answers Just as well
and vast deal better.-[Iowa State
Register.
NEW YORK continues TO be the great
dairy SAFE. 1t has !, 139 factories for
cheaze-Jefarsan county leading with
1875, followed by Herkimer So, Oneida
Madison n and Allegsny. The aver
age numbar of cows contributing milk
was sos $50 owned by % COS patrons,
and producing So l160C6 pounds OF
cheese, 3 2iS 125 pounds Of butter and
7S61,752 pounds Of skim cheese. Orange
county sold s $50, 700 gallons of milk,
Westchester, pa COZ, Dutchess 5,10l,-
60. Paiman :. 42S 602.
ONE of the very best preparations for
repairing roo's thai leak is to procure
coal tar at the gas works, and mix finely
siited coal ashes or road>dust with it till
about as thick 70 mortar. Plaster with
this care ully around leaky>roof valleys
or cutters, or about chimney fushiDgs
Il viii soon set as hard as stone, and ap>
parently rs indestructible. This prepar,
alton is very cheap, and would probably
answer equally well spread over roof
previously laid with felt or roofing paper
Once put on properly, it would seem to
be there TOR there Tor all time Prairie
Farmer.
MORE than 1000 years ago, Socrates,
the iliustrious philosopher of Athens,
said OF the cultivation of the soil: Gag
riculture is an employment the most
worthy the application OF man, the most
ancient and most suited to his nature. 1t
isthe common nurse of persons in evrey
age and condition OF life; it is the source
OF health, strength, plenty and riches,
and of a thousand sober delights and hon.
est pleasures. It is the mistress and
school Of sobriety, temperance, justice,
religion, and in short, OF all virtues, civil
and military"
Thistle seeds are frequently carried by
the wind several miles on the land, while |
they have been seen at sea twenty to
thirty miles from land. What shall we say |
to a man who dare sow seed weeds broad
cast over our land? And yet, practically, |
those who permit thistles to flourish and |
bloom UNDECIDED, either on their own or
their neighbor's property, are guilty of
a suicidal neglect. In England land
owner recovered damages and costs in an
sction brought against neighbor who
refused the landowners application to
have the this.les cut down.
AN English writer thinks one cause of
the greater frequency of blindness in
horses than in any other domesticated
animals is the inconvenient position of /
the hayracls from which many of them
have to feed. Placed, as these frez
quentiy sre, high up on the stable walk
thevhOrse must seek his fodder withN
raised head and outstretched neck, and |
its removal is accompanied by a shower |
of dust and small, sharp-pointed parti-
cles OF chsf and seed which naturally /
fall into his eyes. Further causes of this !
very common afiiiction may be found in
the pungent ammonia gases so freely /
didused in illventilated stalls, 10 the
trying cross-lights common in stabling
ald in the ludiscriminsJe employment
OF binders, which divert the line OF
vision from the natural direction.
a SOMEWHAT curious result of coup.
ling two parents of different colors is
mentioned by a correspondent OF the
London Agricultural G lzette. A sow of
the small black Suffolk breed, having
haa two lit,ers to pure boar of her own
race and color, was put to large white
hog If the form and strain exhibited in
the large breed classes. When in farrow
divers speculatious as to the color of her
produce were yentured by her owner
aud his herdsmen. A neighbor was
stro7g on the certainty Of parti colored :
pigs Toe actual result is a litter of
twelve. OF which six are entirely black
and six are entirely white; not a spot
mars the uniformity of either hue. 1t
Is not often that the opposing claims of
fathers and mothers family to deter,
mine the character of the children are
so eouitablv adiusted