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WB THE FARM AHB HOME.
Earth 4a the Stable.
Nothing will purify and keep a stable
SO free from odors as the free use of dry
earth, and every one keeping horses or
cattle will find it pays to keep a heap of
It at hand, to be used daily. A few
shovelfuls of earth scattered over the
floor after cleaning will render the air of
the apartments pure and wholesome.
The value of the season’s manure pile
may be largely increased by the free use
of such absorbents. The strength of the
gasses and liquids absorbed is retained,
and is the very essence of good manure.
Scientific American.
The Breeding Hog-
In the breeding animal of whatever
kind, the digestive organs should be a
paramount consideration, for without di
gestion the animal cannot successfully
accomplish the uses for which he is inten
ded. In the hog this is of the utmost
importance. In addition to this, if the
animal possesses the following character
istics, as condensed from the endorse
ment of the National Swine-Breeders’
Association, the ideal standard will have
been secured:
“Such a hog must have a small, short
head, heavy jowl, and thick, short neck;
ear small, thin, and tolerably erect, but
it is not objectionable if it droops slightly
forward. He must be straight on the
bottom, from the neck back to flank, let
well down to the knee in the brisket, and
1 possess good length from head to tail;
back broad and slightly curved, or arched
from the shoulder to the setting of the
tail; ribs rather barrel-shaped; tail
small. The hams should be long from
the back to the letting off at the loin,
and be broad and full; shoulders not so
large, and yet sufficient to give symme
try to the animal; hair smooth and evenly
set on; skin soft and elastic to the touch;
legs short, fine, and set under the body,
and the space between wide. Then a
good depth between the bottom and top
of carcass will give an ideal hog.
Fresh Meat in Winter for Farmeri-
I think fanners ought to form clubs to
supply each other with beef from No
vember to April, at least when the
weather is such that it can be kept fresh
for days or weeks. Eight or ten farmers
could kill a beef occasionally and divide
among them, or probably the better way
would be to form a stock company and
open a meat shop in the village, and sell
to all who would buy, and -then divide
the profits between the stockholders. At
any rate, it is an outrage for farmers to
sell good cuttie at $3.50 per hundred J
and pay 10 cents per pound for neck un<l
plate pieces, and 15 for steaks and roasts,
and there ought to be some way devised
to prevent the extortion. Fanners might:
be independent of butchers through the
winter, at least if they would, and on
Eastview farm we are. We kill pig pork
early in the fall. A well-fed, six months
old pig that will dress from 100 to 150
, pounds makes excellent eating, and we
use it all.fresh but the hams, which are
sugar-cured for spring. About the time
winter sets in we kill a young, fat heifer,
and often wc can keep it fresh for weeks,
but whenever there comes a thaw we put
it down in sweet pickle and think is
as good as fresh beef. To make the
sweet pickle we use to each gallon of
water one and a half pounds of salt and
one pint of molasses, or three-quarter* of
a pound of brown sugar.— National Stocks
\ .man.
Farm •■><! Cardr it Notes.
|fe A farmer thinks he has discovered that
the common larkspur is fatal to the po
tato bug. Ho proposes next year to
plant it numerously among potato vines.
salt is likely to take the place of
lime water for preserving eggs. • Those
Reserved in salt are not affected by that
disagreeable flavor often found in those
from the lime pit.
6<'th Green thinks a profit vaa be de
rived from marshy lands by raising frogs.
He claims that they would destroy many
injects, while in some markets the frogs
•Tv salable nt good prices.
j,. 3 -. Prof. W. J. Beal says that washing the
grain of seed wheat in blue vitriol to pre
rust is no more effectual than smok
ing cigars to euro coms on the feet. Rust
and smut, however, are very different
7? things.
A ton of bran fed with two tons of hay
is worth as much as four tons of hay fed
alone to either horses, cattle or sheep.
The relative prices of bran, compaired
with hay, must be taken into considera
tion, however, as to the economy of feed
ing bran.
The heaviest geese on exhibition at the
Birmingham show was a pair of White
Embden* weighing forty-eight pounds
twelve ounces. The largest pair ever ex
hibited} since the show was organized
Vdghed forty-nine pounds and were of
the above variety,
Chickens to thrive must be comforta
ble day and Bight, and if they are com
fortable they will thrive. Make the
apartments clean, dry and warm, and it :
chicken* are lousy dn wot daub their i
brad* with gNMe, but kerosene their
houses thoroughly.
Com bcheap, and g* a eanseqtrencxj it
does not jsay to send half-fat sheep to
markH The man who would do ro un
. d«» the pnseut < addition of the gnu a and
mutton market mu»t be ixmridrml aome-
what deficient in judgment. Feed' the
thrifty wethers the cheap corn and make
them fat.
Professor Shelton says in last Industri
alist-. We never fully appreciated the
great value of straw to the stock-farmer
until we owned a thresher, and were thus
enabled to thresh often, and thus fre
quently supply the animals wjth good
fresh straw. Our cattle now consume
greedily and without waste all the straw
furnished them.
It is well known that bees kept in one
hive for years are more liable to disease
and the attacks of worms. There was
reason in the old practice of taking up a
portion of the older hives every year,
though with improved hives the bees can
be transferred to new quarters and thus
renew their lease of life.
‘ ‘Prune in winter for wood and in sum
mer for fruit.” But do not prune too
much. Just enough to let in sufficent
light and air to give the leaves their fair
quota is right. A good rule is, when
you see a limb interfering with another,
out with it, whatever the time of year.
When the sap is in full flow wounds will
heal over quickest.
Stone fences are endurable during the
first few years after their construction,
but when they begin to crumble they are
difficult to repair. They are expensive
and never entirely satisfactory. It is de
sirable to have fences, if any, that you
can remove at will; and a stone wall,
whether new or old, is immovable except
at the expenditure of a vast amount of
labor.
A correspondent of the Western Rural
claims to have discovered by .the aid of a
powerful microscope the cause of the
disease known as potato scab. He finds
the liquid portion of a scabby potato
swarming with living organism, microbes,
but whether as cause or effect he is as yet
uncertain. He believes salt a partial pre
ventive and that rank green manures in
vite the disease.
In the horse, a good width between
the eyes, the eyes prominent but placid,
with a good height from the eye to the
ear, indicates intelligence. If the fore
head is prominent and smooth it indicates
a mild, equable temper. A round, rather
long barrel indicates good digestion; a
double loin, strength; and oblique
shoulder, surefootedness. With flat,
hard bones, long in the arm, speed is in
dicated.
Barley (ground into meal) and potatoes
are recommended as a most excellent food
for making sweet and healthful pork; the
potatoes being first boiled and the barley
Wrai lM|ded to the hot water with the
potatoes and all maahed together so as to
make a thick mush. To this might bv.
aaaea as much buttermilk or <kin«md
milk.» can be a »|>ro|m«t,..l ;
able ways of utfTWftg ft.
Fat in an animal is a
sign of disease, and a tendency to take
on fat is not to any great extent an ab
normal one. Yet there is a limit within
which the tendency to take on fat is nor
mal. There is such a thing as fatty de
generacy, by which all the tissues beconuf
impaired and the animal weally and
worthless. Fowls can be made so fat
that they will not lay well, or if they do
lay their eggs will not hatch well.
A chicken, if properly treated, should
continue to grow without interruption
from the time it is hatched until it is
fully matured. The most common cause
of stunted chickens is not want of .food,
as might be supposed, but is usually
owing to unsuitable, quarters in which
they are kept, and which are either filthy,
cold or damp, if not positively wet.
This condition of things produces disease
and lice, which alone would stop their
growth, if indeed, it did not stop their
breath.
Houirhohl Hillis.
A good way to clean mi iron sink is to
rub well with ft cloth wet in kerosene oil.
Glaze the bottom crust of fruit pies
with white of an egg and they will not
get soggy.
Whole cloves are now used to extermi
nate moths, and are better for that pnr
;wise than either tobacco, camphor, or
cedar shavings.
By rubbing with a damp flannel dipped
in the best whiting, the brown discolora
tion may be taken off cups in which cus
tards have l>een baked.
If you have not sunny windows do not
attempt to keep flowering plants. The
west windows may always be a delight if
the plant stand be filled with aspidistra,
ivy, begonias, and varieties of fem which
only require light.
The German method of getting rid of
rats: A mixture of two parts of well
bruised common squills and three parts of
finely chopped bacon is made into a stiff
mass. with as much meal as may bv re
quired, and then baked into small enkes,
which sjtv put down for the rats to ent.
It proves an exterminator.
An authority in laundry matters says
that borax is a valuable adjunct to the
raw starch for collars and cuffs. Too
much should not be used, as it lias a ten
dency to make the linen yellow. Lump
borax may be dissolved in hot water and
bottled for future use. Perfectly etear
gum-arabic water is also an excellent ad
dition. It is well to bear in mind that
Ute polish on cuffs and collars is tbe re
sult of beat, friction and pressure.
Meeipea.
Potatoes Pried in Cream.— Chop cold
bffiled potatoes, season with salt and
pepper. For the cream, one pint of
boiling milk, one tablespoon of butter, i
same of flour. Use just cream enough to I
moisten the potatoes. Make into flat I
cakes and fry brown in hot fat, on all
sides.
Hickory Nuts Maccaroons.— These are i
very easy to make. Two cupfuls of '
hickory nut meats; beat them fine in a :
mortar and add two cups of sugar, four
tablespoonfuls of flour and three eggs.
Mix well together and bake on a well
greased paper. Put only a little of the
mixture in each place.
Fried Apples.— Fried apples make a
nice entree. Cut across the core in slices
and then brown in lard, or butter and
lard mixed, drain and serve them hot.
They make a nice garnish for roast, pork
when prepared in this way. Some cooks
use beef drippings instead of lard and
like the flavor better.
Pickled, Eggs.— Pint strong vinegar, I
half pint cold water, one teaspoon each j
of cinnamon, allspice and mace; boil
the eggs very hard and take off the shell; j
put on the spices in a white muslin bag, j
in the cold water, boil, and if the water I
wastes away, add enough to leave a half- i
pint when done; add the vinegar and,
pour over the eggs, putting in as many
as can be covered. When used, heat the i
mixture and pour over another lot. Or
place eggs in a jar of beet pickles and I
cut in two in serving.
Tea Cakes.—A. very good tea cake is
made by beating to a cream half a cup of
butter and two cups of sugar, with one
cup of milk and a teaspoonful of soda I
dissolved in it. Beat well together, then
add one cup of flour with two teaspoon
fuls of cream of tartar rubbed in it and .
the well-beaten yelks of three eggs.
Beat the whites separately until stiff; i
add them and two more cups of flour to
the other ingredients; beat well, butter
two tins, pour in the cake and bake ;
twenty minutes or half an hour. Care
fulness in baking is important,
Grant on Horseback.
In January, 1862, I went to Cairo. ;
The place was slough without limits, and
the human elements that wiggled in the ]
mud-hole were a bad lot. The regiments j
were mostly of newly enlisted men, dis
cipline had no existence, whisky supplied
the place of water and nearly everybody
was drunk, getting on a drunk, or get
ting over a drunk. There appeared to be
nobody in particular who was in authori- }
ty. Occasionally mention was made of I
Grant, but not exactly as if he were any- [
thing more than a rumor, a myth, or ‘
something of a wholly
I goon after my arrival a body of troops j
commenced crossing tin*-Ohio River, and
the report went forth that it was a move
tsunst Columbus. I cotfld obtain no
rse, and accompanied' W*
foot. The weather was damp and nip
pingly cold, the mud deep, and the route, !
which was mainly through a timbered
country, was obstructed by logs and fallen
trees. I struggled on through the mire, '
and under the dripping branches, till ■
about 3 in the afternoon, when suddenly I
there was a lively commotion a short dis- ,
tance to the front. I saw a mounted
force approaching on a full gallop. The
leader was a short, thick-set man, slightly
bent in the shoulders, with a reddish, ■
close-trimmed beard, tight-set lips, with
eyes that were apparently without expres
sion. He gazed straight ahead into va
cancy as if he were in a dream, and as he
rushed by splashed gallons of mud from
his horse’s feet all over me from hat to
heel. The leader with the trancelike ex
pression, the firm-set lips, and look fixed '
intently upon nothing was Gen. Grant.
It was my first view of the man who as- i
terward rose to the leadership of the ar- ■
mies of the republic. His return was the
signal fora countermarch. There was no
fight. Long after midnight, mud-cov
ered, fagged’ out, and starring, I re
entered Cairo, and the move against Col
umbus was ended.
Many a time and oft after that period
when the future general of the national
armies covered me with Kentucky mud I
saw him. Never during the long jx riod
when I met him almost every day and
night did he in the least vary from the i
mysterious, abstracted, traneelike appari- ‘
tion that dashed out from the murky
depth of the timber and then disap|>eared.
He was always wrapped up in liimself.
When he rrxle through the line* he gazed I
stolidly to the front, looking neither to
the right nor left, and seemingly laying
no more attention ’to the regiments he
was passing than if they were a thousand ‘
miles away. The soldiers would look at;
him curiously, wonderingly, never get
ting a suggestion from the immobile face, !
the inscrutable features. When he rode
along there was in the event and its en
vironment something of the awe, the
solemnity of a funeral procession.— F.
B. Wilkie in Chicago Times.
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