Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-01-27
SOOT.

be obtained at reasonable price, it will be
found invaluable to the farmer. By insuring
vigorous growth, it helps plants to withstand
the ravages Of insects. Being composed of
carbon sulphur, and ammonia, there is no
crop upon which it cannot be used with ad
vantage In the liquid form, it can be used
in the proportion of peck to hogshead of
water, and for strawberries, just as they are
swelling this would be the best method Of ap-
plying it. On turnips, as a field crop. for
protection from the fly, it can be used at the
rate of forty or fifty bushels to the acre, more
or less, according to convenience. One hun
dred bushels to the acre will do no harm.
An analysis in France of sample of SCOT
taken from chimney where wood had been
the fuel used, showed, among other consttu..
ents, twelve and a half per cent of water,
over twenty per cent. Of heterogeneous matter,
twenty.seven per cent. Of soluble compounds
of lime and potash, and thirty per cent. of
huuic acid. With such an exhibit we should
expect splendid results from its use as there
always is SCOT from coal is usually thought
to be better than that from wood, and it is
best when made in a chimney of low heat.
SCOT is valuable not only az manure, but
to drive away insects that attack young cab
bage, turnip, radish and other plants. Like
any gritty substance it repels them, and the
bitter principle it contains, when dissolved by
the rains or dew and spread on the leaves, is
dsagreeable to them. 1t is one Of the most
valuable substances the gardener can employ
FEEDING BEEsIN W1NrER.-After an un-
propitious season, bees are apt to 60 into win
ter quarters lilly provided with stores. Well
informed and cautious apiarists aware of this
lack, feed weak colonies during the fall sufi
cieutly to supply the need. Itis never desir.
able to feed liquid stores, either honey or sy-
rup, in winter, and not we'll to feed at any
unless positively demanded. The best way
to feed, if We must, is to put candy made
from granulated sugar on the frames, just
above the cluster. This will be kept warm,
and can be taken, and will disturb the bees 50
little that, if it must be done, it will generally
succeed. IF the bees can pass the winter un-
til March-and the stores needed during the
cold winter are very light compared with
those consumed later after brood rearing COM
mences-then we may feed either honey or
syrup. Then the bees can fly occasionally
aud will receive no harm from liquid food.
This food, too, will stimulate broodrearng,
and thus work double benefit. The feeder
will need to be so constructed as to keep the
food near the cluster or the bees will not ap.
propriate it, because of the cold. No one
should fail to use division board in winter
and spring. Keep the bees crowded on to so
few frames that all will be covered, and spring
dwindling will do little harm.-A. j. Cook,
Agricultural College, Lansing, Mich.
How TO Boil AND STEw.-To do either
beginning in actually boiling water, and the
point again Immediately, and to boil for five
minutes. The action of the boiling water
upon the surface of either meat or vegeta.
bies is to harden it slightly, but enough to
prevent the escape of either juice or mineral
salts After the pot containing the food
has begun to boil the second time, it should
be removed to the side Of the fire and allowed
to simmer until it is done. This simmering
or stewing extracts all the nutritious qualities
of either meat or vegetables. The pot should
be KEEP, closely covered unless for a moment
when it is necessary to remove the scum.
The steam will condense upon the inside OF
the cover, and fall back into the pot in drops
of moisture, if the boiling is slow. Do not
think that rapid boiling cooks faster than the
gentle process recommend. After the pot
once boils you cannot make its contents cook
any faster If you have fire enough under it to
run steam engine. Remember, if you boil
meat hard and fast it will be tough and taste
less, and most Of its goodness will 60 up the
chimney or out of the window with the steam.
How TO TREAT FROST BITEs.-1f any
part of the body gets frozen, the very worst
thing 10 do is to apply heat directly. Keep
away from the fire. Use snow if you can get
it; if not, use the coldest possible water. Last
winter our little boy of FIVE years froze bis
feet while out coasting at considerable dis
lance from the house. He cried all the way
home, and the. case seemed pretty bad. |
brought big painful Of show and put his
feet into it, rubbing them with the snow.
But my hands could not stand the cold.
was alarmed to see him keep his feet in the
snow so long, but he could not bear them
out of it. 1t was half an hour before he
would take them out, and then the pain was
all gone, and when [ had wiped them dry
and rubbed them little, he was entirely
comfortable, put on his stocking aud shoes
and went to play. He never afterwards bad
any trouble with his feet on account OF
this freezing. His sister got her feet extreme
ly cold, and put them at once to the fire. Her
case at first was not so bad as her brothers,
but the result was much worse. Her feet
we're very tender all winter, and she suffered
from chilblains. Her toes had swollen
purple look, and she had to take larger
size of shoes.-American A AgriculturiSt.
Ice FOR TEErHING CHILDREN.-The pain
of teething may be almost entirely done away
with, and the health Of the child benefited.
by giving it splnters of ice, picked off with
pin, to melt in its mouth. The fragments is
so small that it is but drop of warm water
before it can be swallowed, and the child
has all the GOODNESS for its feverish gums with.
out the slightest injury. The avidity with
which the little thing tastes the cooling morsel,
the instant quiet which succeeds hours of
| fretfuness and the sleep which follows, are
the best witnesses of this magic remedy. Ice
may be fed to three months child in this
way, each splinter being no larger than a
common pin, for FIVE or ten minutes, the re-
suit being that it has swallowed in that time
teaspoonful of warm water, which, 80 fur
from being a harm, is good for it, and the
process may be repeated hourly as often as
the fretting fits from teethiDg begin.
NANCE IN A HORsE,-This is caused by