The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-27
THE CLARION.
Thursday. January %, 1851
HOUSE AND FARM.

ways be washed IN lukeWarm water With
a piece Of soft old flannel and wiped
perfectly dry each time.
FoR WINTER NIGHTS An excellent
and well-tred recipe for keeping boys
and girls out Of mischief in the long
Winter evenings is to give them some
thing suitable and interesting to do. Set
them To making scrap-boOks. If there
are two or three children let each one
take subject and see what and how
much he can collect upon that for his
book. For example, we have what we
call an animal crap-book," in which is
pasted every fact, incident and anacdote
relating TO animals. We have a dog
department, horse department, etc.
PROPAGATION OF THE CRAZE BY
EYEs.-A German agricultural journal
informs Us that the grapevine can be
propagated by means Of eyes, so as to
save three years time in the growth,
each eye furnishing new shoot. Each
grapevine Will furnish as many shoots
a. it has sound eyes, and they are TO be
cut of about a quarter Of an inch from
the eve on each side, so a to have a
cylinder of wood about haitian inch long
with the eye in the center. If prepared
in the Autumn these eyes may be put
in a cellar in Winter. In April they are
to be laid down at a depth Of two or
three inches in burrows about six inches
apart, and covered with little manure,
watered in dry weather, and the earth
about them occasionally loosened.
UTILIZE Your CANs.-Now, as you
begin to use canned fruit and have
empty cans, it is a good plan to fill some
of them with pickles and put them away
for use in the late Spring and Summer.
Select the hard, crisp cucumbers. Put
them into the cans and turn hot vinegar
over them and seal them tightly. If
you wish to keep the chopl ed pickle,
heat that, vinegar and ali. Fill some
Of your cans with stewed cranberries.
Then in the Spring, when apples have
lost their flavor, you can make very
good apple pie by adding two or three
tabe-spOonfuls Of cranberries to one pie.
Do not leave empty cans standing
around in the pantry when the fruit Is
taken out Wash the can, dry it and
the cover and the rubber ring. Then
put the top on and set the can on the
shelf which you took it from.
The CULTURE OF BEEs.-The Mendo-
elmo Beacon says: We have reason to
believe that portions Of the MendOcino
Coast are adapted to the culture of bees,
and even h0usCholders whose means will
not enable them to buy a COW, or to
provide for keeping her were they in
possession Of one, might procure Il colo
ny Of bees, and provide hives for the
swarms resulting theretrom. Bees, like
other stock, require pasturage, but IN
like horses, cattle and sheep, they are
free-commoners, ranging at will in
search Of stores, nor can they be arres-
ted and punished for their intrusion
upon premises alien to their owners.
A single colony Of bees, in good condi-
ton in the Spring, may be counted
upon to double or triple their numbers
in a single season, securing ample stores
for Winter consumption, while supply
ing a gratifying surplus for household
uses. This accumulation will prove most
acceptable in families, especially when
the price Of butter rules so high as to
place it beyond the reach of those not
blessed with elongated and plethoric
pur es. Try colony of bees as an ex-
pertinent.
BoTs IN HoRsEs-A CERTAIN RENE
DY.-In the past fifteen or twenty years
| have cured a great many horses, in
fact, for sometime have kept about 10
in my stable at once, and during the
time | have never lost one with bots in
him. | have pursued the following
course whenever | suspected their eXis-
tence: Fill in an ordinary jnnk bottle
half full of molasses; then fill with
sweet milk, shake well and drench
follow the above ill about an hour with
n bottle otstrong sage tea, made of or
binary garden sage next day give that
horse a bait Of rough rice and the dead
bots Will come with rice. My theory is
that the milk and molasses being sweeter
than blood, the bots turn loose to eat it.
The sage tea will kill them, and it is the
only thing | ever heard of that will do
it, without injury to the horse. The
rice will cut out the dead bots better
than salts; in fact, if you will give
horses a feed Of rough rice every two
weeks, | do not think there is the least
danger from bots; at least, such is my
experience. As a proof Of what | have
written, get two sage leaves, dip them
in hot water, lay one down, put lively
bot on it. then cover him with the other
and he will die instantly. Sage l have
also found very beneficial in collie, and
is perfectly harmless, if it does no good.
Correspondent Carolina Farmer.
POINTS OF \ COOP Gown. Henry
Stewart, of the Rural New Yorker,
gives the following as the chief charac
teristics of good cow-the points being
so well defined that any one can make
the selections They are also in accord
ance with the results of experience
'fThe extremities should be delicately
formed the tail long and thin, except
ut its root. which should be large and
strong the muzzle should be fine the
head long, fiat and thin, but broad
across the ewes, to give room for large
brain. which is the foundation for a
highly developed and active nervous
system the horns fine, thin and neatly
curved the eyes bright and active,
agreeing with the active brain, but
calm, quiet and mild in expression, sig
nificant of a quiet cOntented disposition,
and one not readily disturbed or worried.
As the seeretions of the body all come
from the blood, and as a rich, yellow
color is desired in the butter, so the skin
should be filled with q yellow pigment,
and the inside of the ears and thighs,
and the other places where the hair is
light and the skin plainly visible, should
be of an orange color, SO the scales or
ear-wax should be of the same color.
The hair should be fine, smooth and
silky; and in short. the whole appear
ance should be satisfying to the eye,
and consistent one part with another and
well balanced"