Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1892 — JUST OUT. [ARTICLE]

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Never turn cattle to pasture until the fences are thoroughly repaired, for if cattle once get accustomed to going over a broken-down fence it is often difficult to prevent them from going over the same after it has been repaired.— Chicago Journal. An enterprising farmer near Reading, Pa., has a room fifty feet square, entirely surrounded with ice, in which he stores fruit. In this refrigerator he is able to keep apples and pears until they will bring twice or thrice the same fruit marketed when first picked. Cloveeseed will germinate when 8 or 4 years old, if kept in an even temperature and dry. It is subject to attacks from insects, and consequently deteriorates in quality from that and other causes. It is best to use new seed, but that remaining ov<\r till the second year may be used with safety. Everything depends on the care of keeping. A Western fanner who tried wheat bran as a manure for wheat reports that the effect of an application of one ton of bran to the acre was equal to that obtained from the usual application of a mixture of bone dust, guano, lime and wood ashes, and the difference in yield of the crops that received bran as compared with those not so treated was very great. L. H. Bailey, of South Haven, Mich., and of the oldest fruit-growers of this State, once received a lot of apK’ i trees that in appearance were dead, ey had been delayed two months in reaching him. It was in the pioneer times, and new trees could not be pro cured readily. He therefore set out sB the seemingly dead trees, first letting them lie under the water for two days. Nearly all lived to have their product* take, the first premium at the fairs.— Lansing Republican. According to New York dealers oleo margarine is now as much of a regular market product as butter or cheese. For years it was regarded by the butter merchants as an illegitimate product, and the Mercantile Exchange subscribed many thousand of dollars toward driving the stuff out of the market Agents were employed to make sure that the law regarding the stamping of oleomargarine as such was complied with, every effort was made to influence legislation unfavorable to the oleomargarine makers and dealers. All such failed, and the Mercantile Exchange now numbers -ileomargarine among the staple articles of trade.— Chicago Journvl.

The American Agricultural saysi There are five methods in which Pel* sian insect powder may be applied to destroy insects: As dry powder; as a fume; as an alcoholic extract diluted; by simple stirring of the powder in water; as a tea or decoction. The powder may be diluted with ten times its bulk of flour, or any finely-pulverized material, as wood ashes. It is recommended to mix the powder and other material twenty-four hours before use. In a closed room the fumes from a small quantity will kill or render inactive common flies and mosquitoes. For application to insects on plants the powder mixed with water, and the tea made from the herb dried, are more convenient, and quite as effectual. In a conversation with an experienced chicken raiser he informed us that he had been very successful in conquering that precarious disease in his young fowls by the application of air-slacked lime. As soon as a manifestation of gapes in his fowls appear, he confines his’ chickens in a box, one at a time. Buffc’.entjy large to contain the bird, and places a coarse piece of cotton or linen cloth over the top. Upon this he places the pulverized lime, and taps the screen sufficiently to cause the lime to fall through. This lime dust the fowl inhales and is made to sneeze, and in a short time the cause of the gapes is thrown out in the form of a slimy mass or masse" nf worms, wh’-’h had accumulated in the wrndpqi-

xwhAnge says ■< *• Ijet any one wn» M 3 an n.ttaek of lockjaw take a small quantity of turpentine, -warm it and pom tt on the wound, no matter where fh< wound is, and relief will follow in than a minute. Nothing better car applied to a severe cut or bruise cold turpentine ; it will give certain lief almost instantly. Turpentine if a sovereign remedy for croup. Satr a piece of flannel with it and plac< ftavnel on the throat and chest, an every case three or four drops on a 1 of sugar may be taken inwardly.” Db. Ebrard, of Nimes, states that h, has for many years treated all his cases of sciatic and neuralgic pains with an improvised apparatus, consisting merely of a flat-iron and vinegar, two things that will be found in every house. Ths iron is heated until sufficiently hot to vaporize the vinegar, and is then covered with som > woolen fabric, which is moistened with vinegar, and the apparatus is applied at once to the painful spot The application may be repeated two or three times a day. Dr. Ebrard states that, as a rule, the pain disappear tn twenty-four hours, and recovery ensues at once.

Salt in Diraww. —hi a papes Head at the Medical Society of Victoria Australia, Dr. Day stated that, having fer many years regarded diphtheria, in &s early stage, as a purely local affeo fiton, characterized. by a marked tendency to take on putrefactive decompom toon, he has trusted most to the free one constant application of antiseptics, and, when their employment has been adopted from the first, and been combined with judicious alimentation, he ba* seldom seen blood-poisoning ensue. In consequence of the great power whiob salt possesses in preventing the pretnefantive decomposition of meat ana other organic matter, Dr. Day has often prescribed for diphtheritic patients living fer away from medical aid .the frequ Nit tfee oi a gargle composed of a taa*p<x.> fal or more of sal t dissolved in a tumbles at water, giving children who cannot gargle a teaspoonful or two to drink oeeasionallj. Adults to Me the gygn u a psophjlactie or Asm « tow tuwMfcsdMt wife beside mother?” “No, my boy; What possessed you to ask such a quee tion ? ” “ Because I saw in the old family Bible where you married Anno Domini in 1835, and that isn’t mother, tor her name was Sally Smith."