Year: 1879

DIR. BLACKMAN of Geneva, H., had a
fine horse and also a colt nearly ruined
last week from getting stuck in a barb
fence. Colts ought not to be pastured
where there are barb fences. They do
well enough for cattle.-BeIUidere
Standard.


To ''milk potato-hill' - dig down where
the earth is cracked open over potato
hill, and take out the large potato. With
a little experience you can soon learn to
find one or two large potatoes in a hill,
and leave the balance of the hill undis-
turbed, to mature. Practical Farmer


THE list of midding Strawberries is
already so large that no strawberry man
will desire to extend it. New varieties
of fruit, like new developments of hu-
man genius, are expected to push them
selves into notice. A wise world takes
cOgnizance of them when it can no longer
help Connecticut C0atrG7st.


BUILD board fence in sections of about
100 feet, that is, set two posts in one
hole every 100 feet to nail to from each
way, and you win never be troubled
with the nails breaking, and one end of
the boards hanging loose. The posts
can give with the changes of the wealth
er.-WeSteT9 Rural.


CURING BEEF BY INJECTING BRINE.
The infiltration system of salting beef,
by filing the blood-vessels with brine, is
attracting considerable attention in Aus
tralia. In some recent experiments at
Brisbane, bullOcks were treated as fol-
lows: At the instant of killing the ami
mails heart was laid bare, and incisions
were made in both ventricles. Into the
Oriice of the left ventricle a pipe was
inserted, and a stream of weak brine
was forced through the blOOd-vessels,
washing out all the blood. Pressure was
obtained by having the brine in an ele-
waited tank. After the expulsion of the
blood the right ventricle was closed by
a clamp, and stronger brine was forced
in until all the blOod-vessels were full
In this way the distribution of the brine
through every part of the meat is said
to be complete and the curing perfect.
1t is proposed to send to the Sydney
Exhibition a whole bullock thus pre-
served.


VIRGINIA MIXED PICKLEs.-One-half
peck green tomatoes, twenty-five medi-
um-sized cucumber, fifteen large white
onions, One-haf peck small onions, two
large heads cabbage, one pint grated
hOrse-radish, One-half teacup ground
black pepper, One-haf pound ground
mustard, two ounces turmeric, two
ounces cinnamon, two ounces celery
seed. Slice the large onions, cut cab
bage as for coarse slaw, quarter cucum-
bers lengthwise and cut in pieces an inch
long. Mix together and salt (add the
little onions whole) with two quarts of
salt; mix thoroughly and let stand
twenty-fOur hours. Strain off the Juice,
put them in vinegar and water, half and
half. Let stand day or two. Strain
again as dry as possible; add the spices,
pour over it one and a half gallons fresh
apple vinegar boiling hot; do this three
mornings in succession, using the same
vinegar each time. The third morning
add one pound of sugar to the vinegar,
and boil. This is excellent and makes
four gallons.


RAISING RYE WITH CORN.-Although
the practice of sewing rye among corn
for the purpose of affOrding winter pas
turage has increased during the past
few years, it is by no means as general
as it should be. One-half bushel of rye
sOwn at this season of the year to an
acre of land on which crop of corn is
growing, will produce a very large
amount of feed of the most excellent





row or a common cultivatOr. Besides
covering the seed, the harrow or cultiva-
tor will destroy many weeds that would
otherwise mature seed. If stock have
the run of the field for the purpose of
eating up the cOrnstalks, they viii find
Il very desirable change of food in the
green rye. If the season is favorable
for its growth, the rye viii be of great
value to turn under in the spring for
manure. Being of recent growth, it
will decay almost as quickly as stable
manure after it is turned under by the
plOw.-E1chGaqe.


GLASS MILLsToNEs.-The new Ger
man method of combining pieces of glass
in the same way as the French buhr, and
similarly groOved on their surfaces and
which, it is claimed, grind better than
the buhT millstOnes-is regarded by the
Manufacturer and Batilder as an impOr-
tant discovery, in view of the fact that
they work more easily, and do not heat
the flour as much as is the case with the
French buhr stone. The present mode
of producing these stones, which will
doubtless be improved, is to cast blocks
of glass, of from six to twelve inches
wide, in a shape similar to the French
buhrS, but more regular and uniform.
They are connected with cement in the
same way, and dressed and furrow-cut
with picks and pointed hammers, though
it is believed that diamond-dressing ma
chimes might be advantageouslya applied.
The statement is that these millstones,
made thus of Jumps of hard glass, do
not wear away faster than the buhr
stones; the grist is drier, and looser,
and the hull more thoroughly separated
from the kernel, than is the case with
other stones.