Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1885-12-31
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.
There are produced annually n
this country about Is. 600, 600 lambs.
II you wish to produce glue that
will resist water, boil one pound of glue
in two quarts of skinned milk.-Ex-
change.
For sore eyes, dissolve fifteen grains
of acetate of zinc in half a pint Of soft
water (rose water is the best) and apply
it to the eyes several times day.-T0-
ledo Blade.
"A New Jersey lady took the late
clippings from her lawn. pressed them
into tight box, covered and weighted
the same, making a miniature silo.
The silage is for her hens this winter,
when they will be laundering after green
food.
1t will be profitable to keep a sup
ply of fine. flexible wire, Irvine, tacks,
brads, different sized nails, screws, ETC.,
for the purpose of making immediate
repairs. The lack of five cents worth
OF material has often caused q dollars
expense.-N. Y. Times.
"A Colorado paper says that 1.-the
cow may be a queen, the horse king.
and the sheep away up in royal hOnOrs,
but it is an indisputable fact that the
hog. under the impetus of alfalfa and
pea food. is approaching dangerously
near the throne"
"A New Hampshire man keeps five
hundred fowls, all healthy and good
layers. He scatters them over his farm,
h, III, -
in tiocks of twenty-five to fifty. provid-
ing for each cheap house 9x1S feet.
Their broad range is the secret of his
success.
There are 2S5, 100000 acres of inn
proved land in the United States, $780,
DOC, 900 of forest, and 730. DOC. 900 acres
of unimprOved and waste untimbered
land. Forests are disappearing at the
rate of 25,OO0,OOO acres each year. The
forest product during the last CEN
sus year was $4,000, 100000 feet board
measure; year ago it was 2S,OO0, OOO,-
600 feet.
To Trap Rats: Set steel trap in
the place where the rodents most do
cOngregate and spread over it a piece of
thin white muslin about two feet square;
over the muslin spread cake and cheese
crumbs. Having no fear of evil from q
white cloth, in eating the crumbs the
rats are sure to get into the trap, and
the cloth does not prevent the the trap
from holding them. -Rural NeV Yorker.
AN agricultural college which has
been experimenting with poultry, says:
In seeking to improve the common
barn-yard fowls of the country by cross
ing with the pure races, great mistake
was made, the crosses or grades proving
inferior to either parent. Common
fowls may be vastly improved by care
full selection in breeding, and the pure
races can be kept up to the standard by
avoiding in-and-in breeding, but the at
tempt to improve by crossing has never
been satisfactory.-Chieago Tribune.
Cracker Pudding: Three eggs, one
half cracker crumbs. one-half cup of
sugar, one tablespoonful butter. one cup
of milk, onc-half of a lemon-juice and
grated peel, three tablespoOnfuls of
jam. Heat milk and crumbs together
until scalding. Turn out to cool, while
you rub butter and sugar to q cream,
adding the lemon. Stir i'm beaten yOlks,
soaked cracker and milk. at last the
whites. Butter bake dish, put jam at
the bottom, fill up with the mixture and
bake, covered. One-half hour. then
brown. Eat cold with sifted sugar ON
top, or, if you like, put meringue over
it before taking from oven.-The House
hold