The Worthington advance., 1882-08-17
FIELD AND FARM,
ecraps for Farmers.

FIELD AND FAkM.
Scraps for Fsrmers. ..s:s:.
The author Of the book Of Job, which
DR.. Hales says was written 2,3S7 years
before the Christian era, had 90 devoted
an appreciation Of domestic cattle q the
greatest admirer of Shorthorns Of the
present day. Job had thousand yoke
of oxen.
Grass dried before it is cut will never
make hay.
The farmer, of all men, should con-
stantly keep the great truth before him,
that home, with the wife and children.
il the only place ON earth worth enjoy
ing.
J. NJ. Vance writes to the Indian farm.
or giving the yield from hin long.w ool
sheep thisyear. My entire flock Of Lin.
colnshires made On average Of ii pounds
and 8 ounces per fleece, 48 head in al.
The heaviest fleece, weighed Is pounds,
of OF . l-year old eve.
Baron Liebig says: 1.-THE only meth
cd by which you can possibly advance
and develop agriculture is by experi.
ments; that ia the only plan; for there
is no branch of industry 90 completely
built up by experiment as agriculture"
Records, says an English journal, show
that Of live cattle shipped for Europe
from American and Canadian ports last
year, S,72l animals we're thrown over
board, and 49S were landed dead, while
AZ arrived 80 much injured and exhaust
ed that they were killed at the place Of
landing. This makes total of 9,22l ami
mails which, in the space of twelve
months, were either lost or seriously In.
jured in the passage across the Atlantic.
Homo Hints.
A small piece Of salt pork cooked with
string beans adds to the flavor and rich
ness Of the dish.
Six quarts of SCOT to a hogshead of VA
ter makes serviceable manure for VA
tering forced plants, as we'll as for most
bulbs, Towering plantsand shrubs.
DR.. Dio Lewis says cold bathing of the
skin is good, but It is doubtful if flooding
the stomach on going to bed and on ris-
ing is not, on the whole, the most profit
able form Of cold bathing. Costiveness,
piles and indigestion are uniformly re:
lieved by this morning and evening cold
douche. The quantity must be deter.
mined by each one for himself. Two or
three swallows will do to begin with, but
the quantity will soon grow to tumbler-
full; and l have known persons to use
much more with marked benefit. II fad-
vlsedly managed every dyspeptic will be
bath.
About tact in management Of servants
Quiz says: eve knew cook once, =
jewel Of = cook, who made excellent
soup out of q lark's skeleton or some
light and inexpensive material, who
persisted in remaining in q place she
disliked because she had Z feather bed
to sleep on. The taste was peculiar, but
it was her taste, and her employer had
the fine tact to meet it, and enjoy the
services o: an artist at the pay Of q me-
chanic."
A recent medical writer asserts that
for hot-weather drink nothing equals
buttermilk. 1T is" he says, "both
drink and food, and for the laborer is
the best known. 1t supports the sys-
tenn, and even in fever will cool the
stomach admirably. It is also a most
valuable domestic remedy. 1t will cure
dysentary as well as and more quickly
than any other remedy known. Dysen-
terry is really constipation, and Is the
opposite of diarrhea. tits Inflammation
of the bowels, with congestion of the
portal circulation'-the circulation OF
the blood through the bowels and liver.
It is disease always prevalent in the
summer and autumn. From consider
able observation l feel warranted in
saying that buttermilk, drank moder.
ately, will cure every case of it, certain
" when taken in early stages"