The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-04-09
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

THE required amount of food for
horse for ordinary work is twelve pounds
of oats or any other kind of grain food,
and fourteen pounds of hay. A horse
weighing 200 pounds, and fed eight
quarts of grain or oats, which is equiva-
lent to eight pounds, should be fed
eighteen pounds of hay. Hay is the
nerve food for horse, cattle or sheep,
and grain is the muscular and adipose or
fat-producing food.
COFFEE is said by DIR. Guillasse, of the
French navy, to he almost specific in
the early stages of typhoid fever. He
gives to adults two OF three tablespoons
fuls of strong black coffee every two
hours. alternating with one or two tea
spoonfuls of claret or Burgundy wine.
The beneficial effect is immediate. A
little lemonade or citrate of magnesia
should be given daily, and after n while
quinine.
TEA drinkers nowadays will do we'll to
apply the following sample test to the
tea purchased of their grocers Turn
out the infused leaves, and if they are
found good brown color, with fair sub
stance, the tea will be wholesome but
If the leaves are black and of Il rotten
texture, with an oily appearance, the tea
will not be fit to drink. The purer the
tea, the more the distinctively brown
color of the leaf strikes the attention.
The mixing that is frequently adopted to
Areduce prices results III the two kinds of
leaves being supplied together 1t is
important to see that the leaves have the
serrated or saw-like edges, without which
no tea is genuine.
The choice of lubricant is frequently
ill-made. Common kerosene is too often
inludiciously used III place of II thicker or
more bland oil, because the heat pro-
duced by the friction rapidly vaporizes
the oil and leaves the journals dry.
Crude petroleum for the same reason is
fitted only for very slowly revolving
journals, such rs water wheels. For
very heavy machinery, or for gearing,
tallow and black lead rubbed up to-
gether is the best lubricant, and also the
best for wagon and carriage aXles during
hot weather For hght-running ma
chinery sperm oil is the best good olive
oil that has not become rancid and acid
is perhaps the second best, and for win
ter use lard oil is excellent, but is rather
too drying to be first-class lubricant
Castor oil is better for axles in winter
time, and black lead with it is help at
any time.
VERY beautiful baskets for holding
flowers can be made of the longer and
more feathery kind of MOSES. A light
frame, of any shape you like, should be
made with wire and covered with COM
mon pasteboard or calico, and the moss,
which should first be well picked over
and cleansed from any bits of dirt OF
dead leaves which may he hanging about
it, gathered into little tufts and sewed
with coarse needle and thread to the
covering, SO as to clothe it thickly with
a close and compact coating, taking care
that the points of the moss are all out
ward. A long handle made i'll the same
manner should be attached to the
basket and tin or other vessel, filled
with either sand or water, placed within
to hold the flowers. BY dipping the
whole structure into the water once in
three or four days its verdme and elias
ITCHY will he fully preserved, and block
of wood about an inch thick, and stained
black or green, if placed under the
basket, will prevent all risk of damage
Il II I Il.