Nebraska advertiser., 1882-02-09
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Beer dripplngS are DeIJeT IMAM ldru
for frying potatoes, mush, etc.
Oriental lace is the new darned lace
that has long stitches like South Ken
sington work.
Tit for tat will not answer for a
kicking COW. "Be gentle with the err
ing"
For turkey breeding, select the very
best and largest, and feed well, particls
larly in March and April.
49," Remember" saws Mr. McAdam,
who invented the road-bed that goes by
his name, remember that If YOU keep
stones out and water off, YOU have a
road"
Markings or spots of indelible ink
can generally be removed by washing
the place first with a solution of salt and
afterward with ammonia water
"A lady writes that she never turns
her window plants, and, as conse-
quence, gets great many more Bios
SONS than when she kept turning them,
trying to keep them in pretty form.
The hardy catalpa is rapid grower,
and the timber is very durable. there
being, says DIR. Warder, many instances
of fence posts of this wood lasting sew
enty-five years. In twenty years, in a
good soil, it will make three railroad ties
per tree.
i'm selling an OK weighing 1000
pounds, only rs much nitrogen is sent
from the farm as would be lost by sell
ing about one and half tons of English
hay. OF phosphoric acid such an ami
NAL would represent an amount found
in five tons of hay, while one-eighth of a
ton of hay would supply all the potash
the OK has in his body.
Prof Riley says that bees naturally
do not injure grapes, but only when
driven to it by a scarcity of their ma
tural food, during drouth, or when
flowers are dried up and wiNherad.
They will then attack sweet fruits and
sometimes rupture perfect skins. When
they have supply of other food they
will leave grapes untouched long time
directly in front of the hives.
Baked fish is apt to be dry, and can
be improved by basting it with little
good fat or olive-oil, or by laying slice
of salt pork over it, or strips of fat in
slashes cut in its upper surface. Blue
fish, bass, shad, carp, red snappers, and
other fish from three to six pounds in
weight, are good for baking; brown
gravy or sauce should be served with
baked fish, and highly seasoned bread
stutfing increases their palatability.
When horse is brought into the
stable, says the Lire Stock Journal, let
him stand short time, particularly if
sweating, then give him three or four
quarts of water, not over cold; then
some uncut hay; after this a feed of
grain or meal and half an hour or so
after that is eaten, all the water he
pleases to drink. Some horses will eat
cut hay with impunity, others cannot,
or at least not till after they have first
eaten some uncut.
The Massachusetts, PiOughRan
reasons that if the potato was the true
seed there would be but little doubt that
planting the best specimens would re-
suit in the Improvement of the quality
of the product. But as they are not the
true seed, are not new life secured
through the principle of reproduction,
but simply continuation of the old life
secured by continuation of vegetable
growth, there is but little more certain
ty of getting large potatoes, by plant
ing large ones for seed, than. there
would be of getting large apples by set
ting large cions.
A good many farmers and country
residents pay one of their heaviest taxes
to the weather They pay this tax by
leaving wagons, plows, harrows, rakes,
trowels, spades, and other implements
exposed to dews and rains and sun, by
which they become weak and useless
twice as quick as they would with good
usage and protection. That is, fifty per
cent. of their actual value is lost. II
cannot be otherwise, unless care is exer-
cised, for dew is very destructive to all
wood, and sun-cracks admit rain and
moisture to the interior fibers to work
injury there. If you do not believe this
try keeping your tools and implement,
under cover and protected from the
weather, and see if they do not last
enough longer to pay for the trouble. A
few boards or "a straw cover is better
than nothinp