The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-01-23
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

The Germantown Telegraph says
that in the next law against vile weeds,
for which fine and Imprisonment are
the penalties, the Jerusalem Artichoke
should be inserted by all means. 1t
knows OF grass-tield, the past sum-
mer, in which the vile thing has nearly
half the ground through some former
owner, perhaps fifty years ago, having
been seduced to give it a place.
The rule should be everywhere, dur
ing the part of the year when fires are
kept burning. to avoid hosting outside
windows. 1t is safer and better to
leave the chamber door open, as also
the Fireplace; then there is a draft up
the chimney, while the room is not so
likely to become cold. If there is some
fire in the room all night, the window
may be opened an inch. Halls Jour-.
NAL says that it is safer to sleep in bad
air all night with temperature over
fifty. than in pure air with a temper
allure under forty. The bad air may
sicken you but cannot kill you; the cold
air can and does kill very often.
The Rural Nes0 Yorker says: can
intending purchaser should have the
horse brought out before him, and
watch the animal as he stands at rest.
If the owner is continually starting the
horse into motion, and urging him to
'show off, something may be sus-
pected, because it is when the horse is
at perfect rest that his weak points are
divulged. If the horse be sound he
will stand square on his limbs, without
moving any of them, the feet being
placed flat upon the ground, and all his
legs plumb and naturally posed. If
one foot be thrown forward, with the
toe pointing to the ground, and the
heel raised, or if the foot be lifted from
the ground, and the weight taken from
it, disease or tenderness may be sus-
pected.
FARMERS are a queer sort of folks.
As soon as they hear that pork is going
down in market, into town they rush
and try to engage theirs before it gets
down any lower, and so they help to
make the market duller by over-stock-
ing it, whereas if they would stay
home, it would not be long before
butchers would be coming to them and
bidding up the price. In Schenecta-
dy, our market-town, the farmers have
"beared'' the pork market to such an
extent that the price has gone down,
within two weeks, from five dollars per
hundred to less than four dollars.
This suits the butchers who help to
growl and run the price down, while
they expect to double their money in
vested. There is no reason why pork
should be SO low in price, except the
panicky pressure made by the farmers
themselves. -Rural NeaO Yorker.
BUTTER is never better than when
the manufacture of it is finished.
Every day that it is kept, though the
fact may not be apparent to the senses
at first, deterioration is at work, and
the money value declines. But this is
far from being the case with cheese.
When taken from the press, indeed,
bandaged and amounted, the first pro-
cess only is complete. The chemical
changes which, in butter, work to les
en- value, will in cheese, when proper
ly conducted by art, develop value.
But this can occur only when the
cheese has been properly manufactured
from pure, fresh and uncontaminated
milk. Nor can it occur in the best
made cheese from the best materials,
unless the necessary conditions are I'M
derstood and the proper facilities are
at hand to secure such conditions in
their perfection. The curing, no less
than the manufacture of cheese, is a
high art, and must have for its basis a
thorough science.-HooEiass.