The Newtown bee., 1880-03-10

three days in succession. then admins ter ball consisting of half an ounce of aloes and one drachm of calomel.
 Loss of appetite, thirst, diarrhea, gen. eral weakness and blueness of the comb are the principal symptoms of chicken cholera.
 Luck in farming is in selecting the seed with care, draining the fields, keep out the cattle, and having good fences.
 After chickens are month old cracked corn and wheat screenings are better for them than dough.
 Household Hints.
 To whiten ivory boil in lime water.
 To give stoves good polish rub them with a piece of Brussels carpet after blackening them. .
 Scrub your floors with hot brine ke- fore tacking the carpet down, and once week scrub your carpets with coarse salt.
 Cold boiled potatoes used as soap will clean the hands and keep the skin soft and healthy. Those not over boiled are the best.
 In making crust of any kind do not melt the shortening. Let it be as cold as possible and knead it through the flour. Melting it injures the crust.
 Shake off and remove all dust from a black garment every time 1t is worn. Nothing sooner defaces a black silk, poplin or woolen than to wear it shop ping. riding, or even for a day in the house, and then hang it up without re- moving the dust.
 A TABLE ORNAMENT. - Sew coarse flannel around goblet with the stem broken off, put this shapely dome upon d saucer of water, wet the flannel and sprinkle over as much flax seed as will adhere to it. The flannel will absorb the water from the saucer, which should two weeks the flannel will be concealed in beautiful verdure, which will vie with any table ornament.
 To WASH NEW FLANNKL.-Put new fl annel into clean cold water, and keep it in for a fortnight. changing the water si X or seven times; then wash it we'll W ith clean warm water and soap to get out the oily matter. You will find the 1annel will never get hard or shrink
 To CLEAN HAIR BRUSHES. A dessert spoonful of hartshorn to a quart of cold ater, in a wash-hand basin. Dip in the hair brushes, and rub them until clean. Then rinse well with cold water; rub dry with towel, and stand upright at an open window.
 COVERING FOR JARs.-A good water proof paper for covering jars used in preserving, etc, may be made by brush ing over the paper with boiled lin5eed oil and suspending it over line until dry.
 STOCK SoUP.-Save all the bones from roast beef, mutton. chicken, turkey i; put these bones in a pot, with three quarts of cold water, some salt; let it boil for five hours, then strain; cut some vegetables, carrots, turnips, cabbage, leeks, and put them in the strained stock; boil slowly for three hours more i; just before serving, take small piece of sugar, put it on an iron spoon on the stove until it melts and is converted into caramel, and stir it into the soup Fdrkdr
 Potatoes Grown Without Planting.
 A French gentleman, l.. Lachaume, declares that he can produce proliferous potatoes at villa conclusion based on the following experience: Last spring he placed a moderate sized tuber on a cellar shelf, and systematically pinched off the sprouts every week. On the 1st of September the rind burst, and few days after four or five small potatoes appeared. His explanation is that the constant repression of exterior growth caused this internal development of buds. Anybody can try this interesting experiment. Whether this singular tendency can be turned to any practical account remains to be seen. The young tubcrs are developed at the expense of the mother tuber, as is proved by the pTn6n1I of the tissues of the latter, but when separated they will grow independently just as any whole seed potato or set
 ould do. It is just possible that seed potatoes so produced might have some advantage over others produced in the ordinary way, especially for forcing purposes. As a matter of physiological significance this case is paralleled by the occasional production of internal buds in trees, and which owing to their imperfect development, produce the knots which are so commonly met with.
 Packing of Poultry.
 Augustus F. Higgs thus told New York Grdphic reporter how poultry should be prepared for shipping: No food should be given fowl twenty-four hours before killing. Food in the crop looks bad, and is liable tosour. Don't take the head off; the skin then recedes from the neck and the fowl presents 8 ghastly appearance; the head had better be left on. Nor should the intes- tines or crop be drawn. If poultry are scalded the water should be as near the boiling point as possible the bird, held by the legs, should be soused three times. This makes picking the feathers easy. The bird is them " plumped by sousing twice in water nearly or quite boiling. and twice in cold water for similar length of time. Some buyers prefer fowl dry, picked. They look much leaner when dry picked than not to cut the flesh or break the bones. The fowl must be entirely cold when packed. If packed with animal heat in it, it will be almost sure to spoil. Hand threshed dry straw is best fol packing. It should be free from dust and very dry. Boxes are the best pack ages and should contain, say from 150 to 250 pounds. In barrels poultry is apt to get bent and twisted out of shape.
 Dust for Lice on Cattle.
 A writer in the Farmers' AdUocate says: Some ten or twelve years ago an agricultural writer observed his bull to be free from lice, but not so the rest of his cattle; and thinking over the matter he came to the conclusion that the habit of paving the dirt over himself must have the effect Of keeping lice off the bull, and he tried dry earth on the rest of the cattle with the best effect Ever since reading the above l have used