The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1879-06-19
VALUABLE NOTES.
Kerosene will soften boots and shoes
that have hoon har1nnx.d hv xratn~

Kerosene will soften boots and shoes
that have been hardened by water.
For throat distemper CRATE fine small
wild green turnip; or if dry give heap
ing spoonful mixed with bran or oats.
1t is good for cough also.
A few drops of ammonia added to q
gallon Of water and applied once week
TO Ill pots of flowers will do much good
and keep the pots and the earth from
souring.
Some one who has experimental in
the matter says that a handful of bran
scattered in each hill of potatoes when
planting will increase the yield one
third.
A grave mistake is made by farmers
who think that stock should not be fed
at home after the first appearance Of
grass. Stock will show this false econ
Omy all through the season.
a dairyman says: Never keep poor
COW the second year. No man can af-
ford to keep COW that viii not make
from two hundred and ninety-nine to
three hundred and twenty pounds Of
butter, or its equivalent, every year.
For tomatoes or potatoes take one
wheelbarrowful of earth from where the
vine is to stand and fill in with half coal
ashes and half soil. The yield will be
nearly doubled thereby.
Soak oats in tepid water before feed
ing them to horses. Old horses with
bad teeth can then masticate the grain
sufficiently, and greedy young animals
will not swallow it whole.
A soft, thin, velvety skin is nearly al
ways found on a good COW. and a thick,
hard hide ON poor one. A soft, firm
skin denotes rich milk. while soft and
velvety skin denotes large quantity of
milk.
An old poultry raiser, who believes in
milk for fowls, says: 1t is meat and
drink both. Some of the best chickens
| ever saw were raised by the free use
of milk with their food. Hens lay as
well or better with this than with any
other known article of food offered to
them.
A miller Of Halliday, Illinois, who lost
many hogs from cholera, has found that
dry bran slightly sailed is good RENE
dy for it. If the hogs refuse to eat il
starve them till they do. Another one
claims that if hogs are given what salt
they need in a clean pasture it will have
the desired effect.
Every family finds more or less bones
accommodating. Burn them with wood,
and the ashes thus enriched is one of
the most valuable of fertilizers. Money
cannot buy any article which will SO
fertilize our soil. Bones thus consumed
will quadruple the value of wood ashes,
which, in themselves are among the best
soil enrichers.
DO not give tired horse very cold
water, as it often produces collie. Many
allow water to stand for some minutes
in buckets. On the road horses should
be watered once in ten miles ut least. |
The stomach of horse is so small in
to his body, that large
draughts injuriOusly distend il, consc-
quently small quantities at regular in
tervals is the best rule.
Shade trees are often planted too near
to our dwellings, and too thickly, so as
to make the house dark and damp and
chccrless. Large evergrcens are very
much out of place on the sunny side of
house, while they form an appropriate
screen and wind-hreak along the cold
md exposed sides of our buildings. Set
nut trees il is a duty but set them out