The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-07-27

When strawberry picking is finished
is the time to attend to your straw.
berry beds. Clean out the weeds and
mulch them. A good working, followed
by a generous supply of manure, then a
good coating of straw, applied within
the next thirty days, will insure good
crop of berries next year. Next years
berries are formed this year.
Hoard says one of the big losses to
farmers through setting milk in the old
way or using defective new ways to get
cream that is seldom taken note of by
such farmers is, that the skinned milk
is half spoiled (soured to rank acidity,
in waiting to get the cream by the old
processes. Besides such methods do
not extract all the cream for milk
ceases to give up the cream after the
milk sours.
M. Brouardel, the French savant, says
that in eighty cases out of one hundred
typhoid fever is caused by polluted
water. M. Brouardel's opinion is fully
borne out by the experience of Vienna
where typhoid fever has entirely dis
appeared since the town has been sup
piled with pure water.
To polish brass, pulverize sufficient
quantity of sal ammoniac very finely and
moisten it with soft water, rub the paste
on the brass, which should be warmed
meanwhile over some clear Goals of
wood then rub dry with soft leather,
busted with mixture of bran and
Spanish white.
To bronze wood, first stain the parts
black take japanners' gold size with q
little Roman ochre and Prussian blue !;
60 over the black part lightly; then let
it dry till it feels just sticky to the fin.
gers, but not come off then with a
hard ball of cotton dipped in any of the
bronze powders rub those places, and if
you think proper give it thin coat
of japanners' gold size, then with spirits
Of turpentine.
Fir. Theie, of Bissendorf, prepares a
varnish consisting of 100 parts of rosin,
20 parts of crystalized carbonate of soda,
and fifty parts of water, by heating these
substances together and mixing them
with solution of "a parts of strong liq-
uor ammonia in $50 parts of water.
With the mass thus obtained the pig.
ments are levigated without the addition
Of linseed oil or turpentine the paint
dries readily without the aid of a drier,
and looks very~well, especially when
vanished. The paint keeps well, even
under water, and becomes very hard.
The cost is said to be about one-third
that Of ordinary oil paints.
Suppose an oak. panel with a design
inlaid with walnut is wanted. Grain the
panel wholly in oil when the oak is
dry, grain the whole of the panel in dis
temper have paper with the design
drawn thereon, the back of which has
been rubbed with whiting; place it on
the panel, and with a painted stick trace
the design. Then with a brush and
quick varnish trace the whole of the
design. When the varnish is dry, with
sponge and water remove the distem-
per where the varnish has not touched.
This, if well executed, presents most
beautiful imitation of inlaid wood.
Marbles are executed in similar man.
ner.
Alum is said to have power to purify
water and even to deprive it of most OF
the bacteria that it sometimes contains.
That muddy water can be cleared by
alum has long been known but it is a
comparatively recent discovery that a
very small quantity of alum, so small
that it is not injurious to drink the water
that contains If, will rid the water Of
nearly all its bacteria. A Pennsylvania
physician found that the water that was
drawn by the people of a village where
typhoid fever was epidemic was swarm
ing with bacteria. Fifteen drops of it
when spread upon suitable surface
were capable of forming 8,10C colonies
of these microscopic vegetable germs
He added alum, in the proportion o.
half grain to gallon, and found thai
not only were the earthly and vegetable
matters precipitated, but that the colon
les of bacteria were reduced from {, 1O(
to eighty, and these were of large size
l. Master Steam Filter.