The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1881-03-05
FAFsNI NOTES.

- A ht dItlly NNiltl LAS uSCll kuOMu III tllls
couatry since l743.
--EIaine raises nearly 1000, 900 bushels of
potatoes per annun.
The hay crop of New York is worth
over SG0,0o0O0O PER onnum.
One gallon Of white paint should cover
forty-firr square yards Of surface.
ALL animals without exceptions rumi.
nate which have horns and cloven feet.
--Tha gelatine pervals in young animals,
md hence their bonea are quite flexible.
CONNECTICUT tobacco lands give au aver
age annual yield Of 1900 ponnds to the acre.
Ordinary oogincs burn about ten pounds
Of coal per hour for each rated one horse
power acquired.
No man can afford to have his mlch
COWS driven BY dog unless the dogs knows
as much as his owner should know.
The diary COW is worl; of art, and SO
g. the beef auima; both are the productions
of man to SUIT his needs and convenience.
-Nine-tenths of the fixed capital of all
the civilized people in the world is embark
cd in agriculture, which employs 200 200, 900
ofmen.
There are 5000, 900 square inches TO an
acre in q bushe of timothy seed there are
4O,oOO,oOO seeds, or nearly seven seeds to a
square inch.
I'm 1879 Vermont planted $4,000 acres
to Indian corn, raising 2,O37 600 bushels, or
at the rate Of SO bushels TO the acre. Total
value, 81, ,4S7 ,4iS, at the rate of 73 cents per
Lushel.
The raising of sheep is of the greatest
benefit to the land, because wherever they
feed new and sweet grasses grow and -four.
ish, and the weeds are destroyed. Farmers
should raise turnip5 and feed them to sheep.
Too close in breeding produces barren
ness, and the very opposite has the same
effect. The other extreme is known as vic.
lent crossing, The most violent cross is that
between unlike species, as between the horse
and the ass, tie product of which is bar
rem mule.
Milk cools more rapidly in metal pans
than in porcelain utiron pans rust. Zinc
is acted upon By sugar of milk and Tactic
acid. Copper produces verdigris. TIN costs
too MUCH, and so tin plate is used MS the
safest, and at the same time the least ex.
Pensive.
1t has usually been supposed that tho
listing Of iron depends principally upon
moisture and oxygen 1t would appear, how
ever, from DR.. Calyert's experiments that
carbonic acid is the principa! agent, and
without this the other agencies have very
little effect. Iron does not rust at ali in dry
oxygen, and but little in moist oxygen, while
it rus,s very rapidly in a mixture of moist
carbonc acid and oxygen.
When it is desired to make corks air.
tight and water-tight the best method is to
allow them to remain for about We minutes
beneath the surface Of melted paralilne in a
suitable vessel, the corks being held down
either by perforated lid, wire screen or
similar device. Corks thus prepared can be
easily cut and bored have perfectly smooth
exterior, may be introduced and removed
from the neck ola flask with ease, and make
perfect seal.
The bot. the inhabitant of the stomach
OF the horse. is produced from the eggs OF
The gad-ny, which are deposited in the hair
of the horscj from these eggs arc hatchcd a
little grub, which is licked oifby the horse
and swallowed. Sometimes several hun
drcds are thus deposited in its stomach
Formerly they were considered very in
jurious, but now it is conceded that they
cannot do as much injury as the nostrum:
used for destroying them.
"A New Yorker writes: "To rid land o
tIumps dig around aud under them with q
spade, leaving basin to catch the water o
winter and spring, which, as it freezes, slow
ly raises the stumps from their beds Som,
Of the largest We're SO raised by spring tha
we could tip them over by hand the sole
ones I went around ogain to give Jack Eros
another opportunity to get his icy finger
under them. think field can be cleare,
in one half the time that it could by the ol,
way"
between sleeps hoors a small apertur
may be seen called the biAex canal, who's
office it is to seorste an oily fluid for the pur
pase Of lubricating the skin between th
hoofs, it being called into action by ever
step the sheep takes in procuring its fooc
Therefore, when prepetually wet or con
Eiantly dirty, the parts swell, and this seers
tion already spoken Of is stopped or RETARDED
hence not only is the skin deprived of tn
oily scc,oijoui but the secretion itself be
comes an irTiant of the glands which secret
cd il. Inhammatiop Of The pats is the col
fequen' result, Lenas foot "a, which unlea
retardod and ramedisa Nes, soon destro,
not only the hools bnt the glands, and pei
hsps the coronary border which secrets lh
LuoIs.
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