Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1875 — Items of Experience. [ARTICLE]

Items of Experience.

A correspondent of the Germantown Telegraph says: “It don’t pay to reset thin wheel-tires. There is a great economy in soaking the felloes of business wagon wheels with raw linseed oil; it wjll preserve the wood and save the necessity of frequent tire-setting, an operation to be avoided. When you buy a new fork or hoe good farming requires that you oil the handle. It costs but a trifle, and your tool looks better and will wear longer. Geod harness kept soft with neatsfoot oil is a credit to the owner and a comfort to the animal that wears it. A soft harness is stronger than a dry, hard one. It is slightly elastic and bends without breaking. Horsestalls are usually made too narrow. A tired horse needs room to turn over and stretch his limbs; fatal injuries come from eonfining spirited horses in short, narrow stalls. A friend had the best one of a valuable span kicked by a strange horse in a short stall, which broke a leg. A pair of handsome Western horses were brought to take the place of the bays, and one of them in one year knocked down a hip, perhaps by the narrow stall, and is now of trifling value.” I —A somnambulistic young woman of Carlisle, Pa., got up the other night and built a small bonfire under - her sewing machine. By the merest chance the fire did not spread, and the only signs of a possible disaster when she woke in the morning were a heap of ashes and some charred furniture.