Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1890 — THE FARM. [ARTICLE]

THE FARM.

Telephone lor Farmer*. To make a good and serviceable telephone, good from one farm house to another, only requires enohgh wire and two cigar boxes. First select your boxes and make a hole about an inch in diameter in the center of the bottom of each, and then place one in each of the houses you wish to connect; then get five pounds of common iron stove-pipe wire, make a loop in one end and put it through the hole in your cigar box and fasten it with a nail, .then draw it tight to the other box, supporting it, when necessary,-with

stoptcord, Yon can easily run your line into the house by boring a hole through the glass. Support-your boxes at the ends with slats nailed aefoss the window, and your telephone is complete. The writer has one that is 300 yards long and cost 45 cents, that will carry music when the organ is played thirty feet away in another room. For Caked Udder. Take one-half pint of aqua ammonia, one pint of soft water, one or two teaspoons spirits of turpentine, one and onehalf teaspoons of fluid extract of belladonna, one one-half teaspoons of fluid extract of hyptolacca, one and one-half teaspoons of saturated tincture of camphor. Shake well and apply with all the elbow-grease and patience you can muster. Take about a teaspoon at a time in the hollow of the hand, and gently, but with sufficient pressure, rub it into the skin of the udder until the latter gets dry and quite hot; support yourself by putting the other hand, with an occasional patting, across the patient's spine. After having treated both sides, in front and rear (the latter as high up as the udder reaches) two doses of liniment, get down under your cow and gently commence kneading the bag, taking the whole and afterwards part of the udder between the open hands, rolling the former till the formed lumps are crushed, and occasionally milking bag empty. Stop use of liniment as soon as coagulation disappears, but keep rubbing and milk often. By all means avoid graining, feed hay only very sparingly, give plenty of water, and keep the animal from getting cold.— Jersey Bulletin. Boys Stay on the Farm. The disposition of so many young men to leave the farm and go to the cities is not creditable to their intelligence, for every city in the country is overcrowded with this class of helpless young men; they grow up on the farm with no idea of the trials and temptation that beset their class in the largo cities. They think they can live in the cities without toil and drudgery that they say is a part of farm life. There are many ways of living in a city, but there Is but one way, and that has as many trials and hardships as earning one's living on the farm, and that is to earn it honestly. A young man without a trade will find he has to work harder to make both ends meet in the city than on the farm. The young man who thinks the world owes him a living, and expects to find it in the cities without labor, will be sadly disappointed. It must be admitted that trade tries character more severely than any other pursuit in life, and puts to the severest tests honesty, self-ff'enial, justice, and truthfulness, and many young men of business who pass through such trials unstained, are perhaps worthy of as great honor as soldiers who have proved their courage amidst the fire and peril of battle. We once read of a merchant, who on his death bed, divided his hard earnings between his sons, saying, “it is little enough boys, but there is not a dirty shilling in it." Washington and Jefferson were farmers, and two greater statesmen never lived. Cicero was a great admirer of the farmer. He declared that the rearing and feeding of stock was the most important part of agriculture. Washington’s and Jefferson’s experience corroborates the same facts. Labor is the best test of the energies of men, and furnish an admirable training for practical wisdom; for industry, wisely and vigorously applied, never fails of success, as It carries a man onward and upward, and powerfully stimulates actions of others. —Cor. Home and Farm.