Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-06-27
NO34
AGRICULTURAL.

600, 200 tons of hay, 90, 600, 900 bushels of
corrmeal, 2I5, 900, 600 bushels of oats, O.
000,000 bushels Of bran and 80, 600, 600
of corn. at cost of $450. 600.
The value of any kind of fodder is not in
the quantity. but in the amount that is d.
gestible The quality largely depends on
the stage Of growth when it is cut and cur
ed
\ drain that is stopped up is one that is
not only unservieeable but menace to
health. When foul there is always dis
agreeable stencil therefrom, and being al
ways damp, substances decompose quickly.
Nothing is more important than to fire.
quently examine the outlets of drain pipes
and bitches in order to have free flow Of
water in them.
Experiments with burnt clay demon
strate it to be fertilizer. Its value con-
ssts Of its affinity for the plant forming
clements in the soil. 1t extracts ammonia
from the atmosphere and yields it to plants,
as well as affording potash that is set free
from the clay itself. 1t is the opinion of
the leading agriculturists that the burning
of mari will render it more available to
plants, and that burnt clay will be fertis-
er of the future
How WOMEN CAN DRESS WELL.-There
is no reason in the world why anybody
should have an unbecoming costume this
season In fabrics and in colors all sorts
and conditions of women are catered to.
and all tones, from the faintest to the deep
est, and deity wrought out so that the
particular shade, that the wise woman
finds becoming to her, can be gotten with
out any trouble. There are spots big and
little, plaids bias and straight, and stripes
of all widths and kinds. Be little care
ful in choosing your colors, and remember,
that because somebody tells you how well
you look in a costume of navy blue you
must not conclude that every blue shade
is suited to you, for that extremely trying,
but very beautiful one, known as army,
makes she average woman's complexion
look as yellow as lemon. Because scar
let makes your hair look warmer and gives
deeper color to your eyes, it does not
follow that magenta is suited to you. Gen.
eral rules do not apply to women, who are
nothing if not individual. Somebody saws
that small bonnets are universally becom-
ing, and you, whose face is rather broad,
whose nose is a bit retrousse, put one
on and believe you look well. A bonnet,
more than anything else, needs to be tried
on. and although one may generalize and
say bonnets are ladylike it can no more be
asserted that bonnets are always becoming
| than it could be that all women are good
figures. So just think out things before
you choose them.-Ladies' Home Journal.
The DIsIYFECTING SRAsoN.-Chloride of
lime is the safest as well as one of the best
| of disinfectants. 1t owes its merit to the
free chlorine gas which it contains when
fresh and gives off slowly when in the air.
When used in sufficient quantity in
room or chosen space it combats much of
its impurities. AS for the germs OF dis
ease, this agent is something of an enemy
to them, altho not powerful one. 1t is
custom airy in contagious to lay the chlor-
ide of lime about in saucers Some good
is certainly done in that way, but it is meas
ured by the quantity of lime used, which,
in order to have very decisive effect,
must be considerable. 1t acts exceeding
ly well in solution with water as a disin-
fectant of washing clothing" which has
been within the atmosphere of sick room
containing patient i'll with an infectious
disease. Some use it in solution in disin-
fecting water closets and bath pipes, but it
is scarcely fit for that purpose, as the chlo-
ride corrodes lead and iron. The fact
| should be remembered that in using chic
ride of lime it must be confined in order to
render it effcacious as disinfectant. We
occa sionally see it sprinkled about in foul
places, such as open drains, on heaps of
filth ETC., places freely exposed to the air.
In such situations it is absolutely power
less to do good. 1t must be in a practical
ly closed space, where the gases arising
from it can be confined until they can do
their work-Boston Herald.
To PREVENT FoRGING.-There is no dri-
yer of horse but that has felt the annoy
ance that results FROM forging, or the strik-
ing of the forward shoes by the hind ones
in travelling, and yet this can be prevented
The cause is, the hind feet are thrown for
ward and strike the front feet before they
get out of the way, result of the action
of the horse, which must be corrected,
| which is explained in "Artistic Horse
Shoeing," and which is accomplish by u.s.
ing heavy e-weight shoe on the front
\ feet to make the horse reach further Af-
ter the front shoe has been nailed on, take
a rule and measure the distance from the
coronet to the bottom part of the toe, OBJ
serving the slant of the foot. Measuring :
the hind foot in the same way in most
cases it will he from one-quarter to one
inch the shortest, and the shorter the foot
the quicker it can be raised. Now by plac-
ing the shoe upon the hind foot so that
the toe will project enough to make the
distance from the coronet to the bottom of
the toe the same as in the forward foot
and then let the shoe project well behind,
making it little heavy, the foot will not
be raised as high, it will not be thrown as
far forward, and 50 forging will be pre-
vented. This is very simple procedure,
and one that can be ordered by any farmer
who is troubled with forging in bis horses,
ana if found successful, will save an un-
necessary annoyance.
THE H1RsEsHoER 'Never let your
blacksmith corch, scar and burn the hoof
to fit the shoe, or in repeated observations
to see if the shoe will. It's not necessary
TO touch the foot with hot shoe" Own.
ers of horses should to the shoeing them
selves, and see that the feet are not injured.
Continuing, the writer well says: n have
seen q smith shoe horse by fitting one
shoe at time, and when he was done the
horse had four different shaped feet Have
the shoes just alike in shape, weight and
width between heel calks, then put them
on. Then shoe the hind feet in the same
alway remembering that steel
shoes are the best and in the end the
cheapest.