Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1878 — AGRICULTURAL ANE BOMBSTIG. [ARTICLE]

AGRICULTURAL ANE BOMBS TIG.

' ar*rad th* Fmwajj m Wtehi To xafiKp up a uniform flow of milk tpe yster round, feed cows a couple of qnartr each per day of meal, adding snorts in winter. Your farm is your fixed npftaL The improvements you make oh W ahe investments. 'lf you make than, wisely tbeywilladd to your prifrfits. Harness Polish. —Take df mutton suet two ounces; beeswax, six powdered sugar, six ounoes; lamublack, one dunce; green or yellow>odp£two; ounces, and water, nne-hfjif pint, solve the aokp in the water, add the other solid ingredients, mix well and add turpentine. ‘- Lay on with a sponge and pplish fhf with a Applied Chemistry. Cheap loe-Hot^h*-—Bgrf two or three holes jn a hogshead and |o|ef"witha wire-netting, Thete%hte#aoafe§of iati’ill in with with sawdust. Onenturarea pounds of ice *sa«iy thus be made tetoepfarajreghH amUhis -freufficient ip *npp& faimfc. For those wbtfhfree' neither of theumiarkfewf flg| *is* baa or adulterated/ The dougn made with good flour is very glu£w ductile and elastic, easy to be kneaded, and may be flattened and drawn- in every direction without breaking-

coated with mud, and sluicing him with cold or even tepid water, the mud should be wiped or scraped off so far as practicable, and theu the legs wrapped round till dry. An English veterinary surgeon declares that “ hundreds and thousands of cases of pmd fever (scratches or (grease) might be prevented if this plan fwere used, instead of excessive washing-”

A New York poultry fancier is enedited with the statement that the first egg laid by any kind of domestic bird is (larger than those dropped afterward, and is almost certain to hatch a male of exceptional size and vigor. As a rule, he maintains, cockerels are hatched from large eggs and pullets from small ones. Therefore, to insure “the cock of the walk,” hatch the first lay of the hen that drops the largest egg.

As a consequence of financial depression, the cultivation of the soil has grown in extent and the cultivators in numbers. Stocks may melt away, bonds depreciate, and bank managers and insurance agents skip to Canada, but the man who can see his wheat heading out, his cattle and sheep and swine waxing fat, and his corn crop growing sleek and .silky, like a millionaire •Mth au efesy conscience and a good w.ige celtov has a no ! uncertain promise 61 meat and bread and raiment for the times that are ahead of him. —Boston Post. Salt for "Wheat. —ln answer to the queries, whether salt would be of any benefit to wheat on new land that had never been plowed, when it should be applied, and bow much per acre, Mr. Elliott sends the following : Very much depends upon the soil, whether it be clay, loam, or sand. In 1831, Mr. Mecbi, of England, experimented on the value tof salt, and found that in a dry time salt would attract moisture. A piece Of salt the size of a pea, dropped on the surface at night, would have a foot square of moisture or dampened surface around i-t at daylight. If the land is clay, put on fouT bushels per acre; if a low mold, eight bushels; if sandy with little mold, three bushels per acre. —Ohio Farmer.

About the House. Old paint pails and cans may be thoroughly cleaned with strong, hot lye. It is a good plan for a housekeeper to make a weekly visit to every part of her dwelling, from “garret to cellar.” A solution of copperas or green vitriol, sprinkled over the floor from time to time, makes a good disinfectant. A bottle of flaxseed oil, chalk and vinegar, mixed to the consistency of cream, should be kept in every house for bums, scalds, etc. Quioksilvek beaten up with the white of an egg and applied with a feather to every crack and crevice of a bedstead is the very best bug preventive. Thebe is no part of the year when cellars, in which vegetables are stored, need ventilation oftener than the present. H the cellars cannot be thoroughly aired every day, the vegetables should be removed. To clear cistern water add two ounces borax to a twenty-barrel cistern of rain-; water that is blackened or oily, and in a few hours the sediment will settle, and the water be clarified and fit for washing. Cleaning Smokt Marble. —To clean smoky marble, brush a paste of chloride of lime and water over the entire surface. Grease spots can be removed from marble by applying a paste of crude potash and whiting in this manner. Varnish used in pottery decoration should not be too thin. It will give bettor satisfaction if it is applied warm. It can be heated by placing the jar containing it into one filled with boiling water. By no means set it on the fire. Oatmeal. —For the past forty years, says an Englishman, I have made my breakfast of a pint of oatmeal porridge, with very rare exceptions, and nothing else, fasting for four hours afterward. If, however, I take any other form of breakfast, I find myself very hungry before the next meal, which is* never the case when I have had my porridge. I feel assured if workingmen and their families would but take a basin of oatmeal and milk porridge night and morning, with such other food as they can procure in the interval, we should have a healthier race of men and women than now exist. A few years ago I had a Devonshire girl living with me as a servant. The girl was willing enough to work, bUt had not the stamina to perform it. This I found, on questioning her, arose from the deficient and ill*advised diet on which she had been reared. She shortly began to take her porridge night and morning, and this, > with a daily midday meal of meat, enabled her to perform her duties with ease. It is surprising how much nutrition is contained in this cheap, wholesome food. *