Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-11-28
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AGRICULTURAL.
FRUITFUL COMPOST


FRUITFUL Compost
A family with garden, but no stock To
make manure for it, can have sufRciency
without, Tor they throw away enough
every year to enrich plot large 4noneh
to produce home supply of vegetables.
In the most out-ofthe-way place on the
lot cover spot, say ten feet square, with
a broad roof elevated on stakes. Begin
with pile of dirt, upon which throw all
the dishwater, washwater, chamber slops,
vegetable refuse and yard rakings. The
pile can be kept sweet by adding soil, coal
ashes or road-dust when needed. Such q
manure shed can be made thing of beauty
as well as of use by training over it orna.
mental vines which do not seed as weeds
as morning glory would do The largest
squashes ever raised were planted at the
edge of such a heap. One vine went over
the shed and was trained up the side of an
adjoining barn and produced fifteen feet
from the ground a squash as large as q
WATERFALL. This way of making manure
relieves the residence of dirty slopholes
and dangerous sink-drains. Could earth
closets be added and the contents emptied
on the compost heap the premises would
be model of neatness, thrift and health.
All this involves some trouble, but there
are compensating vegetables. and more
important still, an insurance against
typhoid fever, diphtheria androther dis
eases of filth Central Ner Yorker.
OF all the organizations that have thus
far been formed for the Advancement of
the interests of the farmers, the Grange,
which is the oldest, is also the best Its
aims are intelligently directed to the com
mon good of the farming element. It's OBJ
Jects are to promote the intellectual and
financial well being of its members by
educational means, on the principle that
knowledge is power. To know our rights
in this country is more than half the battle.
The Grange is political, and works
within the old parties for the common
good. 1t is beginning to see what it wants
and to ask for it, and it is going to see that
it gets it, too. Those organizations that
form separate party and assume q fight
ing attitude towards the old parties, pro-
woke feelings Of hostility, and get little
or nothing accomplished. The bill to
equalize taxation, which the next Legis-
laturc is almost sure to pass, and other
measures that will benefit the farmers, are
the result of discussions in the Grange.
This organization has won the sympathy
ofboth the leading political parties by its
intelligent and manly methods and by q
steady adherence to its principles, and its
power is thus enormously increased -Er.
THE HOUSEHOLD.
The excellent washerwomen of Holland
and Belgium, who get up their linen SO
beautifully white, use refined borax as
washing powder, in stead of soda, in the
proportion of one large handful of powder
to about ten gallons of boiling water.
Borax being neutral salt does not in the
slightest degree injure the texture of the
linen. Those that try this will be pleased
with the result. 1t is is also nice to wash
blankets or woolen goods.
To take out machine grease use rain
water and soda. To remove oil and var
nsh from silk try benzine, ether and soap
very cautiously. To take out paint mix
equal parts of ammonia and turpentine.
Saturate the spot two or three times, then
wash out in soapsuds. Paint can some
times be rubbed out of wooden goods after
it has dried.
To take iron rust out of white goods
pour a teacupful of boiling water, stretch
the goods tightly cross the top of il. then
pour on a little of the solution of oxalic
acid dissolved in water, and rub it with
the edge of a teaspoon or anything If it
does not come out at once dip it down into
the hot water and rub again.
SELECTING A cow.
A model useful dairy COW may be known
at glance by an expert. She has long,
fine head. broad between the eyes, and
thin, wide muzzle; the eyes are large, and
of mild expression; the neck is thin and
long; the ears are thin and covered within
with a deep yellow skin; the forequarters
are light, and the whole body has much
the shape of wedge, increasing in size to
the rear; the legs are thin with fine bone;
the belly is large and deep, with great ca
paoity for food the back is broad and
straight, and the ribs are well rounded TO-
wards the rear; the tail is long and thin;'
the thighs are thin and are set widely
apart; the udder is large and full, especial
ly behind; the teats are of good size, and
set far apart upon broad, level udder, and
the milk-vein, so-called, which is the
large vein leading from the udder and pass
ing into the abdomen, and which is an in
dication of the amount of blood circulat-
ing through the milk glands, and contri-
buting to the milk secretion, should be full
and tortuous in its short course. A fine
horn, deep, yellow skin,- and a general
elegance of form. without any heaviness or
beefiness in any part, are also important
indications of good quality in q COW for the
dairy.-Americdn Agricnlturist.