The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1882-01-07
FAGslK N0gE:S.
--Pansies arc blooming out Of doors in
some parts OF Massachusetts.

--Pansies arc blooming out Of doors in
some parts OF Massachusetts.
As hnors to poultry houses, boards are
iot good, especially if chickens are to be
brought up in them. Nothing is so good
as dcep, well pulverizrd, dry soil, which is
really the enst expensive of anything
"A COW with three rings on her horns is
six years old with four she is seven. No
new rings are formed after the tenth year.
The deeper rings, however, and the worn
appearance of the horns, are pretty sure in
dications of old age.
There is M ivory waste. Even the
powder is sold for making jelly. 1t is said
that one leading cutlery firm in Sheffield
made a calculation that To supply them
selves with the ivory needed for their
business they needed 1880 elephants every
year, and that even with this number the
tusks were each estimated to weigh 232
pounds.
Not a single horse, sheep, cow or hog
should be kept on the farm this winter
shut has not a shelter to render in comfort
able. Ifthis shelter has not been provided
lose no time in making it. Enough food
will be saved in sirgle winter to defray
I the cost Of the shelter Thousands of do .
mrstic animals die every winter that would
surviverif comfortable quarters were pro
vided.
An inventor proposcs to make machine
gear wheels Of raw buffalo hide by cement
ing and pressing together as many layers as
are requied for tine breadth of the wheel.
. The blanks thus prepared are cut to form
the teeth in the usual manner with suit
able tools. The advantages claimed are
smoothe and noiscless action at very high
speeds aud greater durability without lub-
rication.
The best way with all grapes, and es-
Pecially with those not quite hardy, is to
4 prunc in the autumn as soon as practicable
after the fall Of the leaves. IT. the vines are
u pruned and trained upon the renewed sys-
TEN il will be very small matter To lay
. sAS'h 'hN SlbuhA anu XIV ~ NhNtlliS
- OF two or three inches of earth upon the
shortened canes, which covering should be
left IN until all danger OF severe freezing is
passed in the spring.
Mr.. Hamilton, Of Shreveport, La states
that he finds cotton seed meal scarcely in
y feriOr to guano as fertilizer, and invalu.
able as fnod for cattle. IN exchanging meal
for seed one ton of the former is given ioI
two and quarter tons nf the latter. An
other iarn'.r says that be hus demonstratcd
by actual experiment on farm in Con,
necticut that the mea, is the hest fertilizer
+ ever used oH tobacro lands, triplirg theil
i productive capacity in three years and as
cattle roddit is superior to any. Still on.
other authority asserts that he has largely
inceased the production Of cotton ON pool
lands by the use Of cotton-scei meal ss
fertilizer.
-Consdel attention has been recent
ly given to the difference between the rair
Of the city aud the country. The counir,
rain is neutral and is considered the bes
adapted for human consumption of az,
found above the EARTH on the earth, or un
der the earth, The rain that falls in citir
on the other hand, is scia, corr"ding met
ais stones aud bricks aud mortar crumLl
belnre il. Its evil effects are visible OF
every she--in paint, in all decorations and
ia fact, almost everything erected by man
The purest rain is that elected At the Sc
coast more especially at cousiderabl
heights, while organic matter in the al
usually corresponds with the deusly of pop
In New England horses arc adyancin
from Is to 30 per cent, in price. Horse ca
companes IN Bnston three years ago bougl
gnnd rviceuble horses at from SSO to SlO
each, while they now pay us high as slS
for equally gnd animals. Heavy drl
teams are worth $425 tn $3.50, while stylis
well matched .and well bred carriage pal
hiring ali the way from $500 tn $1,000. Dan
cnlors are fashionable here.-A mericua ca
tirdtor.
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