The Newtown bee., 1880-11-03
FARM, GARDEE AND HOUSEHOLD.
Neep Sheep,


 Keep Sheep. At least few sheep should be kept on every farm. No kind of stock is more profitable. In starting a flock, 8 few superior animals should be chosen in stead of double the number of inferior ones. The increased value of flock range from good sheep, will greatly ex- ceed the increased cost of 8 few good ones to start with, over what inferior ones would have cost. Start with good sheep and keep them good or make them better, by generous keeping. Ii one ln- tends to half starve his sheep he might a swell begin with half-starved ones, as they would be more likely to 'shold their own than those used to better keeping. Sheep-keeping, however, IS not profitable when the starving process is adopted, and we would not recom- mend it to farmers who practice any such methods. When good sheep are purchased to start with and are we'll kept, sheep-keeping is profitable, bene. ficial to the farm, and is to be com mended. d.-LetCiston Joa.raadt
 Gas-Tar ys. Poultry Lice.
 A short time ago my poultry-house was swarming with lice; it could not be entered without having the clothing
 
 the roosts. If hen brushed my hand with her wing, dozens of lice could be seen running over it. Indeed SO des- perate did affairs become that even to look at the poultry-house produced 8 sensation of crawling things. Swab- ping the roosts and sprinkling the nest. with kerosene had no perceptible effects Fumigating with gas-tar and sulphur met with no better success. The youngest broods of chickens grew weak, moped around for time, and finally died. Some of the hens also gave evil dent signs of weakness, and their combs turned a sickly color At this stage of affairs, I applied for remedy to 8 friend noted in poultry-raising as well as in other things Professor J. B. Turner). I learned that twenty years before he had painted the inside of his poultry. house with gas-tar, and, although keep ing constantly large number of fowls, had not been troubled with lice since. l got few quarts of gas-tar from the gas works, at the rate of ten cents per gallon. This tar is about the con- sistency of new paint, and was readily applied to the inside walls of my hen- house-with an old whisk broom-as high up as the roosts extended; the in side of the nests and roosts were also
 
 was done on the morning of 8 clear day, and by night the house was dry enough for the chickens to roost in it. Before the tar was applied the old nesting was removed, and the floor, which is of dirt, was well scraped and sprinkled with wood ashes. I he chickens began 10 improve from that time forth, and in less than two weeks not an insect pest was to be found about the house or chickeps.-Neso York Tribune.
 RegenerattnG the Potato:
 Captain Mayne Reid, the well-known writer of books of adventure and travel, has been for the past three years exUeri- menting with seed potatoes from Mex ico, the original habitat of the plant, with q view to escaping the blight which has been so disastrous to the potato crop in England and Ireland. He writes to the London Lave Sock .JCatraadE from his place in Hereford shire, briefly detailing his experience, from which it appears that of eleven different varieties. planted at the same time, in the same soil, and with the same cultivation, the Mexican alone showed rot a spot of blight, all the other kinds having been found to be diseased in q greater or less degree. In addition to the immunity from disease | he finds also that while the best of his English seed yielded Q crop of but five tons, or considerably less than 200 bushels, to the acre, the Mexican seed produced over ten tons without special care in cultivation, many single speci- mems weighing 8 pound, or even a pound and half. After being stored through the winter ia ordinary field pits they come out perfectly sound, and appear to improve in quality as the spring advances. As table potato, or | for feeding to stock, he thinks they have 1 no equal in England, and he proposes that the government shall take in hand the importation of seed from Mexico or Peru as a preventive of the blight Massachusetts Plou9hman.
 Health Hints.
 To cure chilblains, slice raw potatoes, with the skins on, and sprinkle over them little salt, and as soon as the | liquid therefronl settles in the bottom of the dish, wash with it the chilblains one application is all that is necessary.
 The following is recommended for in- famed eyes: Borax half dram camphor water three ounces. The above simple prescription is in common use by the highest medical authorities. It makes Q wash unexcelled for the | LTtaUIu6uU Ol 10udIDuldLIOI OI UlG eyes. In using if, lean the head back and drop three drops in the corner of each, and then open the eyes and let it work in. Use it as often as the eyes feel badly.
 Dr. Ebrard, of Mines, states that he has for many years treated all his cases of sciatica and neuralgia pains with an improvised apparatus, consisting merely of flat-iron and vinegar, two things that will be found in every house. The iron is heated nntil sufficiently hot to vaporize the vinegar, nd is then GOV cred with some wcolen fabric, which is moistened with vinegar, and the appar atus is applied at once to the painful spot. The application may be repeated two or three times a day. Dr. Ebrard states that, as rule, the pain disappears in twenty-tour hours, and recovery en- sues et once.
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