The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-03-04
USEFUL AND sUGGEs TIVE.


For nose-bleeding, battle the face
and neck with cold water.
Broken limbs should be placed in
natural positions and the patient kept
quiet until the surgeon arrives.
1t is said that piece of zinc placed
on the live Goals will effectually clean
out a stove pipe, the vapor thus pro-
duced carrying off the SCOT by chemical
decomposition.
--Linseed oil, well applied with a
white-wash brush, has been recon-
mended by q Kentucky fruit grower as
a reliable remedy for pear blight. He
claims to have effectually checked the
progress of this disease with its use.
The wealthy Holland families of
New York annually import large guam
titles of Dutch potatoes for home use.
They claim that these potatoes are supe-
rior to American grown in flavor and
that their keeping qualities are far better.
Nearly all of the men in prominent
positions in the professions or in Office
started from the farm. There the foun-
dation is laid right. Boys, look up.
The sources of knowledge are as ac-
cessible to you as to any. And we new
er knew farm boy who spent his idle
hours in reading good books, and ac-
curing knowledge, but has made his
mark in the world. Illinois State Reg
iSter
All live stock should be kept clean.
They should not be exposed to the Sc
we're weather of winter, not only be-
cause it is cruel but because it does not
pay. 1t costs money for an animal to
keep itself warm, for it must be done
at the expense of the food it gets or
the flesh it has already gained. An an
imal is in many respects an engine
and its food is the fuel. Any shelter
given to the farm stock saves in food,
Just as a covering to boiler saves fuel.
Flour was formerly made by simply
grinding wheat at one operation to the
finest flour, and then separating by
sleeves the flour from the bran, necessa-
rily grinding in much of the bran with
flour and discoloring it, while much of
the very best material was separated
with the bran and lost. The later COM
mon method is to grind very coarsely
the wheat several times, using strong
blasts of air between each grinding to
separate the bran from the granuated
interior portion and ut last crush it to
the floor, relieved of all the bran. The
new electric method consists in passing
the middlings under revolving hard-rub-
Der cylinders, electrified by contact with
sheepskin. The particles of bran fly up
to meet the rubber, from which they are
turned off in a side channel, the purified
middling, freed from bran, passing
through rollers to become fine flour.
In answer to correspondent the
New York Times discourses in this
way: A cheap, durable, easily applied
roofing material for farm buildings is
very desirable. At present we have
nothing that answers better than pine
or cedar shingles. Hemlock shingles
are not worth the labor of putting them
on, as they are soon rotted A tin roof
kept painted with iron paint, is an ex-
cellent one, but costly. A double board
roof with the joints broken and having
a coat of mineral paint between the
boards and then painted outside is
cheap, tight and durable, and it will re-
quire coat of paint but once in seven
or eight years. The expense is only
a fourth of. that of single roof.
Zinc is the most durable of all suitable
metals, except lead, and is lighter and
cheaper than lead; and for fiat house
roofs is doubtless preferable to any
other. A double board roof put on as
above described would be tight with a
slope OF four feet in twenty.