The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-11-01

The less tenderness man has in his
nature, the more he requires from others.
1t is not SO honorable to descend from
a high ancestry as to ascend from low
one.
Renzin or naphtha will remove grease
from paint without removing the latter,
If used quickly and carefully.
A new process in shot-making does
away with tall towers. A strong current
OF air Is forced on the lead as it falls into
the water.
Pigs can be reared 80 as to have rs per
cent OF lean meat in them by feeding
bran and midGlings. Skim milk may
also be fed.
1t is stated that the roadside fences are
being rapidly removed in the vicinity of
Boston, adding much to the rural beauty
of the suburbs.
Let your horse stand loose if possible.
without being tied up in the manger.
Pain and WEAKNESS from confined posi-
ton induce bad habits.
Half of the wear to tools, on some
farms, comes from unnecessary exposure
to sun and wind and rain. A convenient
shelter is far cheaper and looks less shift
less.
Feed the poultry all they will eat few
days before they are marketed. This is
applicable to all kinds. Much of the
poultry sent to market is not in condition
to be of the best quality. They need
fattening.
The horse-troughs and barn-lofts are
no places for the hens. If hens are al
lowed to make nests in the stables they
may not only create filth therein, but also
carry lice with them, as nearly all kinds
Of fowls are afflicted with lice at this sea-
son.
Where rag weeds have taker possess
sion the crab grass has been kept down.
The crab grass grows best in very warm
weather, and on ground that has been
cultivated. 1t throws utlarge roots, and
does more damage to young plants than
weeds.
A pound of saltpetre to each square rod
of ground is recommended as an excellent
quick-acting manure for hower-beds, and
it is also excellent for strawberry plants
AS it is easily soluble in winter it is soon
appropriated by plants and gives imme-
diate results.
AS cheap homemade paint for barn
roofs, make a mixture of red oxide of
iron and fish oil. 1t is not as durable as
good paint, but serves well to give a
bright color to oil roofs and buildings,
and will last two or three years. It
should not cost over so cents gallon.
The new sugar produced from coal,
called sacharine, has been condemned by
Paris doctors; because it seriously i'm
pairs digestion. They recommend that
it's use as an article of diet be forbidden
by law. and an ordinance to that effect
is said to have been enacted. The good
old cane sugar seems likely to retain it's
place for while yet, in spite Of new in
ventions and artifcially high prices.
Dalmation insect powder as remedy
for the cabbage worm has been tried this
season with success. 1t is busted over
box or blown from small bellows. A
solution of teaspoonful of saltpetre in a
gallon of warm water sprinkled over the
cabbages once week has also been
valuable remedy, and the WORK of apply
ing it is not laborious, as watering-pot
can be used.
When chicks of different ages are rum
ming together and older birds are about,
the food for the little ones should be
thrown under Slated coops into which
only such can enter. This will save the
your gest and the delicate from being
trampled upon and crowded out and will
give them a chance to eat their fill at
their leisure. They will soon find out
what it means, and more often than not
will be found waiting in the pens for tie
food to be thrown to them.
The Rolling Pin.-From the depths Of
the culinary past has been unearthed an
oblong club of wood with handle on
either end. The use of this article by
the ancient housewives seems to have
been misinterpreted by the Young and
frivolous of the present day. 1t can now
be found encased with purple or scarlet
of small brass hooks inserted into the
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hang up keys, watches, purses and other
little bric-a-brac. The most thorough in
vestigation fails to reveal such use of
the rolling pin among the ancients. In
those good old dsys it was employed in
slamming and jamming and rolling
dough to state Of thinness in order that
it might be used as an encasement for a
heterogeneous compound known as pie.
But, alas, the rolling pin has reached an
effete stage of civilization. 1t has grad
uated from the practicabilities OF the
kitchen to the o-namentatiOn OF the par
lor, and is henceforth OF no real value.
Husking Before Shocking.-In some
sections the corn is cut and shocked in
the fields, the work of husking being
done after the winter sets in by handling
the stalks in the shocks. 1t is not only
a laborious operation, but one that ex-
poses the fvrmer in winter, and the prac-
tice belongs to former generations rather
than to this. Much of such labor may be
saved by cutting down stalks so as to
make roads through the corn for the pur-
pose of using wagons. The corn so cut
should be carried to the barn and used,
grain and stalks, as an early supply.
i The corn should then be pulled from the
stalks and thrown In heaps to be loaded
in the wagons. 1t can then be husked In
the barn during rainy weather or other
leisure time. The pulling off of the
ears can be done so easily and quickly
that large field can be gone over in a
day. After the corn is hauld off only the
stalks and fodder will reman to be stacked
or shocked, and all work in the field, ex.
cept hauling the fodder to the barn, will
be avoided in winter, while the damage
that usually happens to the grain from
fallen shocks, dampness, mice, birds