Year: 1873

set, or before they are preparing to rest
for the night, and on no account allow
them to be hurried to or from the pas
ture, especially when full of milk.


KEEPING HoNEY.-Honey will not
candy if a tablespoonful of creamt tartar,
dissolved in water, be mixed with
gallon of honey when scalding hot.
Care must be taken not to scorch the
honey.


To CLEAN GOLD CHAINS. Put the
chain in a small glass bottle with warm
water, a little tooth powder and some
soap. Cork the bottle and shake it for a
minute violently. The friction against
the glass polishes the gold, and the soap
and chalk extract every particle of
grease and dirt from the interstices of
chain of the most intricate pattern
rinse it in clear cold water, wipe with a
towel, and the polish will surprise you.


MANY farmers have an idea that sheep
do not need water, but this is mistake.
1t is true that they will go without drink
long time in cold weather and on moist
pastures, but in dry weather and on
high land they suffer for want of it.


To Hull Corn. quart of strong
lye, prepared by pouring warm water
upon peck or more of ashes ; add two
quarts of boiling water to it, and put in
the corn ; let it boil until the hulls be-
gin to start, which you can determine
by taking out few kernels and washing
them i'll cold water. Skin out all the
corn rinse it in two or three waters
put it into cold water, and let it boil up;
turn off that water SO as to extract all
the lye; fill up with boiling water, and
cook for four hours slowly add salt to
your taste; let it boil half an hour more,
and serve. 1t must cook great while
to be palatable.


An Indianian says he has cured a
valuable horse of sweeney in this way
Take an old stocking make little bag
out of some part of it, four or five
inches long; fill it with salt sew the
end up; take bucket with some water
in it; dip in the bag with salt; ; now
double up your shirt sleeve and rub the
sunken part for fifteen OF twenty min
utes. Rub freely, occasionally pulling
the skin so as to loosen it after rubin
Grease it fresh butter is best, although
other grease will do. Rub it in also
By so doing several mornings success
siyely no doubt the mare will get we'll.
1t will take two or three months for the
sunken part to grow out even with the
other parts. If the hair rnbs off it will
grow again.


PUMPKINS FOR SrOCK.-The tLfferen
opinions of farmers as to the value of
pumpkins for milch cows and other
stock, is Lelieved to be the result of diff
ferent ways of feeding them, by CORE
spondent of the Germantown Tlle-
1raloh. In a hurry to clean field,
farmers will give their cattle surfeit of
pumpkins for day or two, then for
day or two perhaps none, and thus al
ternate feasts and fasts, and conclude
pumpkins are worthless, OF worse. The
writer says he intends to feed pumpkins
about two Notwithstanding them last
till the snow flies. He feeds regularly,
once day, from one to three pumpkins
per head, never more, and finds them
conducive to the health of stock, besides
greatly increasing the quantity and
quality of the butter made. Pumpkin
made butter will readily pass for
golden " OF "gilt edged" without the
use of "coloring."


Coon MEN MAKE Coon HoRsEs.-A
without direct cause. If horse is
restive or timorous, you may be sure
that these faults arise from defects in
his education. He has been treated
either awkwardly or brutaily. Com
mence the education of Il horse at his
birth; accustom him to the presence,
voice and sight of man; speak and act
gently; caress him, and do not startle
him. al chastisements or cruelty con-
fuse the animal and make him wild.
They are good men who make good
horses.


GARDEN WALKs.-Very solid and
durable walks, either for garden or
street, may be made by mixing melted
asphalt on bitumen with screened gravel
or screened coal-ashes, and spreading
the mixture upon a prepared bed and
rolling it compactly To be more ex-
plicit, we would say, first lay out the
walks level, grade and roll them. Spread
then coating of three inches OF coarse
gravel or finely broken stone mingled
with the melted asphalt, and ram or roll
it down closely. Then add one inch of
finer gravel or coal ashes and spread
evenly, and roll well, spreading sand or
fine ashes at each rolling until the path
becomes dry and hard, and all the as
phalt is absorbed by the sand or ashes.
No weeds will come up through such a
path, nor will moss or grass grow upon
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