The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-09

bath, and find it, too, even If they have
to 20 into the garden or flower beds to
do so. With fowls in confinement, the
means and matter must be supplied,
during the warm weather especially.
and most fanciers consider It desirable
to continue the supply the year round
When there is plenty of shed or house
room, and plenty OF dry earth or street
dust can be obtained Gt should be stored
away in barrels during the dry spell for
future use), a wheelbarrow load or bar
relful can be emptied in one corner,
where it can be confined in small space
with narrow boards, so 1t does not get
scattered and spread around when the
hens are dusting themselves. Another
good way, and 1t has the advantage OF
being more economical, is to get from
the nearest grocery store, or make them
yourself, W hich can be easily done, good
sized, shallow boxes made of some light
material. These are kept nlled with dry
earth Or dust and put in some convenient
place in the poultry house or sheds,
where the poultry soon learn their uses.
Poultry Monthly.
The Distribution OF Manure.
Ifmanure has been thoroughly rotted,
yet preserved from wasteful leach ing
during the summer, it can be scatte red
over meadows or grain fields in early
winter, with very complete diffusion
and SO as to reach every part of the sur
face and every feeding root before these
awak, from their torpor and begin their
active suction of the juices of the soil in
April. For not only is the manure
spread thinly and finely, but the rains
and snow of winter make continually
an infusion of this diffusion, conveying
it into the loan like as the roots will
next convey IL from the soil into the stem
channels of the various negotiating
plants. The only improvement on this
practice is that which obviates loss from
washing away off frozen ground. or
leaching away through sand, namely,
the gardeners practice of keeping the
manure sheltered until the plants begin
to want it, and then applying it in liquid
form. The effect on plants in state of
| growth, and therefore able to "take its
tea," is most obvious and striking. The
late Thomas Rivers, of Sawbridgeworth, q,
so famous.for the superior growth of his
roses, dwarf trees and orchard-house
culture, urged the application of liquid
manure, strong like soup or beer, in
January, but weaker, like tea, through
the season of active growth. He pre-
ferred night soil, and next cow-duug
Travellers in China all speak admiringly
of the great yield they obtain from the
soil, but all feel disgusted Mt their pro-
cess. They continually feed with dis
| solved and well-diluted human ordure,
and habit seems TO have quito deadened
| their sense of what is most offensive to
| a Western barbarian. They slop the
enriching slop about as if 1t were pur.
est water, or even eau de Cologne ap-
piled to better practical purpose than
that odoriferous eau is specifically
adapted to.-Nei0 York Iri5aae.
Cows and the Weather.
Cows are very sensitive to the infu-
ence of the weather. In bright, clear
days their vital forces are more active
and vigorous, digestion is more rapid,
and assimilation and waste are more
active, and secretions which, like butter.
depend upon the destruction of tissue.
abundant. Lassitude is favorable to
transu 1ation, because it relaxes the
delicate membranes and makes the pass
age of liquids easier, and consequently
more abundant. Thus, while the fats in
milk diminish, the albuminoids increase
in muggy weather; and yet given
weight of milk makes less cheese than in
| fur weather. This loss in cheese is
owing to the fact that as the albumen of
the blood passes over into the milk
vessels, the major part of it is converted
into caseine, which is coagulable by
rennet, while albumen is not. This
change from albumen to caseine is
effected by the vital forces, and is more
or less complete as they vary in strength.
The greater energy of bright days in
crcases the per cent. of caseine, and
makes that of albumen less. In muggy
weather this is reversed. These changes
often amount to enough to make five per
| cent. difference in the yield Of cheese in
favor of good weather, while the total
| of albuminOids, as shown by analysis,
is the greater in the muggy days. From
| the decrease in fat and the increase of
albuminoids, which are heavier than
fat, the milk of the muggy days show S
the greater specific gravity ana yields a
less per cent. of butter.-Pr0feSSor Il. b.
arnold.
Health Hints.
A certain cure for felon, says an ex-
change, is to wind cloth loosely about
the finger, leaving the end free. Pour
in common gunpowder until the afflicted
part is entirely covered. Keep the
whole wet with spirits of camphor.
The inhalation of air charged with
ammonia vapors,a ,as remedy for whoop-
ing cough, has been tried in France with
success. One of the methods of applica-
ton employed is boiling ammonia IN the
room where the patient is.
Doctor Millet, French army surgeon,
recommends powdered aloes as dress
ing for wounds, both as means of
favoring cicatrizatiop, and for closing
them. 1t is said to relieve the severe
pain almost Immediately, and requires
to be renewed only at long intervals.
The following drink for relieving sick
ness of the stomach was introduced by
Doctor Halahan, and is said to be very
palatqble and agreeable: Beat up one
egg very well, say for twenty minutes,
then add fresh milk, one pint; water,
one pint; sugar, to make it palatable;
boil, and let it cool; drink when cold.
II it becomes curds and whey it is use
less.
To Break up BrOody Hen.
A writer gives this method: "You
inclose the hen in coop Qight or dark),
and keep her there for three days and
three nights. She must not have par
teal OF Victuals to eat or drink. When
she emerges she will be so run mad
hungry. as to Danish all thought of her
former intentions. No fear of starvation
in this plan. have practiced it for years,
and recommended it to hundreds. 1t
is sovereign cure. Several hens may be
put together. One obstinate case in a