Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-05-04
FARM AND HOUSE,
Erief Farming Notes.

Ifyou are behind in your work, it is
better to hire additional hands and
rush things through than to remain be-
hlnd all summer. Or do you prefer to
be behind?
Maine has forty-nine cheese factories,
with an average of 10Y COWS to each, six
ty being the lowest, 500 the highest
number. The total product of all these
factories during the last year was 56s.-
o34 pounds Of cheese, the average price
received being IL 10 cents per pound.
President L. S. Coffin, of the Iowa
Improved Stock Breeders Association
bears this witness of effect of confer
ence for mutual good: s'The great strides
made in the last decade, especially by
those engaged in the fine and extending
dtlay work OF the west, are to a great ex-
tent due to discussion and exhibition"
If salt is to be sown on wheat, spring
is the right time to apply it. The usual
application is about five bushels per acre.
h effects usually attributed to salt
sown on wheat are that it stitfens the
STRAW, %brlghtens the berry, tends to pre-
vent rust and increases the yield about
four or five bushels per acre.
When the escape of milk is prevent
ed by an obstruction in the teat the op.
ening should be freed by the use of a
tube, known as a milking tube, which is
carefully pushed into the teat and forces
a way through the obstruction. The
tube may be left in the duct and closed
by a small plug, which is removed at
m~llklng-tilne, or the tube itself is re-
moved and the milk drawn in the usual
manner
Good water lime or cement will make
as good a floor for your milk cellar as
any one could desire, and it will have
no effect upon the milk, as we know
from long experience, Put good thick
ness OF broken stone underneath, in or
der to have Il solid foundation upon
which to lay the cement, and Won viii
have q smooth and hard floor that will
last a lifetime or longer.
An excellent coop for young chickens
is made as follows: Make a frame or
box of boards, . feet by 3, close on three
sides, and lathed up and down on one
side; put on a sloping roof hinged at the
front over the laths, which should be
SIX inches higher than the hind part.
Hang : glazed sash in the front 6 inches
from the ground to leave room for the
chicks to go in and out, and to prevent
beating in of rain or cold winds, and ft
a piece of board 6 inches wide below
this to close up the coop at nighta and for
a feeding board by day. This coop AN
be moved from place TO place to furnish
clean ground for the floor; the best floor
is the ground.
To prevent the hair from falling out,
try first wetting the hair at night with
salt and water. Mild sage tea is also ex-
celient. Ii these remedies do not effect
a speedy cure, try this: Get Il little bot
tie of brandy, and put in all the saltthat
that it will absorb; wet the head with
this two or three times a day.
For the commo sitting-room a table,
spread made Of Canton flannel will be
useful; the border made of the figured
or brocaded Canton flannel, which is a
novelty in the stores Just now; or you
may trim it simply with a strip of Gre
tonne.
DR.. Robert H. Blackwell condemnsthe
common practice of keeping lights in
the bedrooms of children. He says it
has an injurious effect upon their ner-
vous system. Instead Of the perfect
rest the optic nerves ought to have, and
which nature provides for by the dark
ness of the night, these nerves are per
petually stimulated, and, of course, the
brain and the rest Of the nervous svs-
TEN suffer. Children thus brought up
are exceedingly timid for years after on
going into the dark.
If the arnica with which bruised limbs
are bathed is heated, its good effects are
%perceptible much earlier than if it is APP
piled while cold. If arnica is TO be TAX
en- az a remedy, as SO many physicians
recommend, in cases of severe spralns,
it should be prepared with water in this
proportion: a t~easpoonful of arnica in a
goblet two-thirds full of water; and of
this a %teaspoonfu] is to be taken once an
hour or once in two hours, as the severi-
ty of the case determines.
Cooking forms part Of the regular edu.
cation of young ladies in Vienna, but
they do not earn the art at cooking
clubs. or at public lectures, as in Eng
land and this country, and they are
rarely taught III their own kitchens. It
is the custom to 90 to some great
house-that of a princess, or some very
rich banker, where there are famous
chefs, who give lessons in cookery.
When a chef engages to cook for a no.
blenan he usually stipulates that he is
to have the pri ilege Of teaching q GER
tain number of young ladies. These
young ladies need not even know the
mistress OF the house, and they make
their arrangements with the cook only,
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