The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-03-14
Staenant Water-Bad Milk.

Professor Law, of Cornell University,
caused some COWS to drink for several
days from stagnant pool of water that
existed in a swale, and having examined
the milk found it full of living organ
isms. Then the water from the pool
was examined and the same living
creatures were found Then the cows
were examined, and they were found to
be in feverish condition, the result of
their blood being charged with these
minute organisms. Then some pure
milk was taken and some of this pond
water wss put with it, and these same
creatures multiplied within few hours
so as to take possession of the milk.
After this test no one can dispute that
living organisms may be introduced into
milk BY the use of improper food and
drink. 1t also shows that there is close
relation between good, pure water and
fine, good keeping dairy products. From
sanitary standpoint the lives and health
of the consumers are, to a certain extent,
dependent upon tbe. character of the but
ter and milk. Eadi.rai cleanliness can
alone be tolerated in the dairy of 1888.
-.S0atsern PLanteT.
Mixing Concrete for Stable Floor.
One barrel of cement, two barrels of
clean sharp sand, and five barrels Of
coarse gravel or small broken stone will,
according to the New York Tribnne,
make about eighty square feet of floor
three inches thick. TO lay the floor,
first grade it and level it, then lay on it
a thin layer of the gravel or stone and
ram it down we'll Mix the cement and
sand quite evenly dry; then mix about
a bushel of it with water enough to make
a thin mortar Have the gravel in heap
near by and kept wet with water; then
add the wet gravel and mix it with the
mortar by shoveling it over many times
until every piece of the gravel is covered
with the mortar. Then spread it at
once, beginning at one corner of the
floor and ram it down firmly. While
thisis being laid more should be mixing
so that there is no delay. The soft floor
should not be walked upon, but a wide
board should be laid over it. When the
floor is ali laid, wet it and rub it all over
with a smoothing plank, and finally give
it thin coat of clear cement and sand.
When this is dry saturate it with hot gas
tar and the floor will be dry, durable,
and vermin-proof.
American Farmers at the Head
Probably in no country in the world
is there to be found state of intellectual
advancement among the people who till
the soil equal to that which exists among
our native American farmers. Some
: causes of this are manifest. The tiller
of European soil seldom owns his land,
and it requires constant vigilance and
unremit,ing toll on the part of himself
and his whole family to pay rents and
snake both ends meet" leaving no time
to CRAFTY any wants above the stomach.
, On the other hand, there arc among our
Western native farmers many gentlemen
of comparative leisure who till their own
land and carry en- agricultural industries
with as much ease and far less worrimcnt
of mind than our city men conduct their
business. The farmers sons and daugh-
tiers have all the educational advantages
that are to be had in our entire country.
and it is long since q well-establishel
fact that the ablcst and most successful
business men 10 be found in our cities
are the sons of American farmers. Pick
out of am city 100 young men and
maidens, let me- select an equal number
of the same age among our intelligent
farmers sons and daughters, and I will
guarantee, a. 10 the latter, minds better
Filed with general information. The
chief reason is that the latter spend their
long winter evenings in storing their
minds with useful knowledge, while the
former waste their time in various fash
ionable forms of amusement, where the
highest intellectual achievement is to be
we'll up in small talk.-4merican Naga'
cine.
About Compost.
Doubling the manure heap doubles tht
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