The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-01-30
FARM AND HOME.
FARM HINTS.

A VERY Gear and transparent mucii-
age Of great tenscity, 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
absorbs any and every impuritY with
which it comes in contact, excessive
Precipitation OF the hands, or any humOr
OF the blood, might thus be impaired to
the butter. A wooden lsdle to lift the
butter rom the churn, or to turn it over
being washed, answers lust as well
and vast deal better Iowa State
Register.
NEW YORK continues to be the great
dairy Sta5e. 1t has l ,lS9 factories for
cheese-JeGerson county leading with
126, followed by Herkimer So, Oneida
g., Madison n and Allegany. The aver
age number of cows contributing milk
was 3O8, 1852, owned by 23,0O5 patrons,
and producing SO 1905 pounds OF
cheese, 8 2l3, 125 pounds of butter and
7,880,752 pounds Of skim cheese. Orange
county sold Is, $50, 700 gallons OF milk,
westchester, 5. 244,O07, Dutchess 5, 1Ol,-
$40, Putnam 2,42S 602.
ONE of the very best preparations for
repairing roofs tina. 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 as mortar. Plaster with
this care 'ully around leaky>root valleys
or cutters, or about chimney fushiDgs.
1t will soon set as hard as stone, and ap>
parently as indestructible. This prepsr>
alton is very cheap, aud would probably
answer equally well spread over a roof
previously laid with felt or roofing paper.
ence 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
is the common nurse Of persons in evrey
age and condition of lie; it is the source
of health, strength, plenty and riches
and of Thousand sober delights and hon
est pleasures. 1t 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 tt
thirty miles from land. What shall we say
10 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 oil
a suicidal neglect. In England a land.
owner recovered damages and costs in ar
action brought against a neighbor VIII
refused the landowners application tc
have the thistles cut down.
AN English writer thinks one cause o.
the greater frequency of blindness in
horses than in any other dOmesticsted
animals is the inconvenient position Of
the hsyrscks from which many of them
have to feed. Placed, as these fire..
-~quently are, high up on the stable wall,
the horse must seek bis fodder with
raised head and outstretched neck, and
it, removal is accompanied by shower
of dust and small, sharp-pointed parCi.
cIes of chat and seed which naturally
fall into his eyes. Further causes OF this
very Common affection msy be found in
the pungent amms'is gases so freely
ditfused in ill ysu,...J-d stalls, ia the
trying cross-Hgdts common in stabling
and in the iDdiscriminste employment
OF blinders, 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 Gazette. A SOW of
the small black Suffolk breed, having
had two filters to pure boar of her own
race and color, was put to large white
dog Of the form and strain exhibited in
the large breed classes. When in farrow
divers specUlstions as to the color OF her
produce were ventured by her owner
and his herdsmen. A neighbor was
strong on the certainty Of parti colored
pigs The 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 an mothers family TO deter
mine the character the children are
70 equitably adjusted.
HOUSEHOLD HELPS.
SWEEPING CARPETs.-Dampen corn.