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About Southwest Oregon recorder. (Denmark, Curry County, Or.) 188?-18?? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1884)
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Burning' ol Barn. It is noticeable that a larger number of the burnings of barns is mentioned by "the periodical press in the summer than at any other time. Some of the fires are undoubtedly caused by lightning, the moist vapor from the uncured hay mak ing a favorable conductor for the electric fluid. But there are barn fires which cannot be attributed to lightning, to lighting of matches, to light from lan terns, nor to the invasions of careless tramps. It may be that the spontaneous combustion of hay is as possible as the spontaneous firing of cotton waste. All fibrous material, when moist, and com pressed, and defended from the cooling influences of the outward air, is subjected to a heating similar to that of fermenta tion; and in some instances the degree of heat is sufficient to cause actual, visible combustion. In the case of recently "cured" hay this danger is as great as, in similar circumstances, other materials may be. Frequently the grass is cut in the early morning, while wet with dew; is turned twice during the day, and gath ered and packed in the "mow" or the "bay" before nightfall, with perhaps a flparee sprinkling of salt. Such a com pressed mass of fibrous, moist matter will heat. How far the heat will go toward generating a combustion may be inferred from a foolish trick which the writer wit nessed several years ago. A large mer.dow of hay had been cut, cured, and cocked, previous to removal. A shower threatening, the cocks were covered with caps of canvas and left for the night. While getting the hay in, the next day, one of the working men dropped an un lighted match from his pocket into a cock of hay, and in a few minutes it was ablaze. It afterward was ascertained that he had spoken of the warmth of the hay as he lifted it on his fork, when a companion remarked that it might be hot enough to light a match, on which he put a match into a rick, and before they had passed on five minutes the rick was on fire. Everybody conversant with farm life, where hay is a permanent and important crop, knows that for weeks after get ting in the hay the barn is warm when the doors are opened in the morning. There is an amount of heat that is abso lutely unpleasant when the thermometer outside registers sixty degrees, but which Is quite welcome with the outside tem perature of forty degrees. This barn heat is undoubtedly from the moist hay, com pacted and enclosed. The cure for the possible spontaneous barn burning would seem to be a thorough curing drying of the hay before it is housed. AVe dry all our herbs and some of our vegetables without injuring their peculiar and in dividual qualities. There is no reason why hay or other fodder material stored in large masses should not be rendered equally innoxious to the influences of heat by thorough drying. Scientific American. Farm and Garden Notes. Insure the farm buildings. Turned-under strawberry beds suit fall pinach. Young orchards should always be kept cultivated. The value of manure depends chiefly on the food. Save the best patches of timothy meadows for seed. Turnips and radishes may follow early potatoes and peas. A common cold may be broken up in a horse by giving six drops of aconite every three hours. One important result of tillage is that the soil is beneficially exposed to the air each time it is stirred. Swine in pens will turn a vast quan tity of weeds into manure if given the chance, beside thriving. After the bearing season is over cut out the old canes of raspberries, and later on thin the new shoots to four in number. In packing apples for shipment not one should be placed in the barrel that has the slightest trace of unsoundness, as such apples decay sooner than the others and also affect all in the barrel. Lambs can be safely weaned andsepa rated from their mothers at four months, and should not be allowed to subsist upon the ewes longer than five months, cs they cannot thrive best while raising lambs. It is said that the simplest remedy for worms in cattle, sheep and hogs is" tur- entine mixed with a little feed or given n linseed oil or gruel; two ounces for a cow, and one-fourth or less for smaller animals. The Ohio Agricultural Experimental station calls attention to the fact that in its experiments ' potatoes raised from large, whole seeds, ripened nine days earlier than those from seed cut to the single eyes. Close attention to all the wants of the fowls, and also to the sanitary condition of the house and yard, will do more to ward preventing disease than all the poultry pills, powders, tonics, etc., in the universe. Milk, cream and butter should all be kept as low as sixty-two degrees, at or "below which point, if ever, carbonic acid develops. With pure food, cows rightly treated, with clean vessels and pure air, less difficulty will be experienced in churning than without such precautions. Market gardeners find the growing of small cucumbers for pickles one of their most profitable crops. In most farm neighborhoods a batch of cucumbers for pickles will find market among farmers at better prices than the market gar deners obtain at wholesale for their crop. There is so great difference in the feed -ot cows in various milk tests that the re sult is quite often as much a test of the different kinds of feed and the skill oi the feeder as of the capacity of the cow. Tf all milV anA Vnftr teats were made on grass as feed, their value to most cow E.,,., ..a v.. The great difficulty in applying stable e to onions is thatis f all of manure seeds, making lanre extra expense in wpedinrr. Tt also makes the soil too light. Mineral fertilizers furnish no weed seeds, and their effect is to slightly harden the ground, causing a better set tling and fewer scullions. American farmers find that turnips or ruta-bagas leave the land clean from weeds, but much less fertile than before thev were grown. English farmers say the turnip is a renovating crop, but it is so onlv bv feeding: the crop on the ground . where grown, together with much grain or oil meal. , One advantage in the soilings system is ; the freedom from weeds in the feed, which with cows at pasture in summer J gives a bitter taste to milk and butter. With corn fodder, millet or other culti vated crops suitable for soiling purposes, there is better quality and greater uni formity in the milk product It is a good plan in churning not to ' put in the two or three last messes oi j cream. If churnincr has to be done every day, it should be of the cream gathered In small dairies the cream should be stirred slightly every day, to prevent danger of injury from mould. To prevent grapes from mildewing, the vines should be sprinkled with flour of sulphur three or four times during the season. The mildew is a fungus growth which the sulphur destroys. If the grapes have begun to mildew, all that are affected should be picked ott and burned, or buried where they cannot in jure the remainder. Some farmers only feed grain to horses when hard at work, thinking hay or grass sufficient at other times. This practice is not 60 common as it used to be, and deserves to be less so. Some portion of grain in the feed i3 both cheaper and better than all hay. When horses are not at work, grain and straw will take the place of grain and hay. When grain fields are seeded with clover it is not best to cut the stubble very short, as it is more useful for hold ing snow in winter as protection for the clover than it can be anywhere else. But if the field is to be plowed after harvest cut as close as possible, as the stubble is worse than useless as manure for wheat, making the soil too light and j porous. Fungoid growths on the surface are the chief and probably only cause of scab in potatoes. If coarse manure is used, its rapid decomposition in the soil is liable to make the potatoes scabby and unsalable. A better quality, and. in most cases, a larger quantity, of potatoes can be produced by liberal use of mineral fertilizers, especially those containing potash. Houkeliold Hints and Recipes. For damp closets or cellars, put shal low dishes of slacked lime, and change often. Hold your broom upright; don't dig, but push slightly. Carpet and broom will last twice as long. The best way to boil com is to boil it with part of the husks on it. Remove the silk and the tough outer covering, leaving the white inner leaves. The corn will be much sweeter if cooked in this way. ' If the syrup in which plums are to be preserved is very hot when they are dropped into it, they will cook so quickly that they will not lose their shape, and if put into the cans with care, will well repay one for taking the trouble. Lemon fritters are speciallv delicious after this receipt: Take one cup of flour, one egg, half a tablespoonful of butter, one tablespoonful of sugar, one cup of owPAt. milk and th inWnnrl rrtA ruiln of one lemon. The grated vellow rind may De added to the sauce. The night before a picnic, boil some eggs until they are very hard ; then drop them into a can or jar in which you have some pickled beets. In the morning the eggs will be pink and will be delicately flavored. If possible carry them in a can with the vinegar still on fhem. Willow baskets which have become soiled or discolored may be made very ornamental again by bronzing or gilding them. The powder may be purchased at any drug store. It should be mixed with a little white varnish and be applied with a small and rather soft brush. Tomato pie can be made by peeling and slicing green tomatoes ; to this alio w four tablespoonfuls of vinegar, one of butter and three and a half of sugar; flavor with nutmeg and bake very slowly with two crusts. If the touatoes are first stewed there is then no danger of the pie being too juicy. Whipped cream with gelatine is an ex cellent dish. Take three pints of rich, sweet cream, sweeten to taste and flavor with three teaspoonfuls of vanilla; whip to a perfectly stiff froth; dissolve three- quarters of an ounce of gelatine in a small : teacup of hot water, when cool stir it into j the cream, put into moulds and set in the I icebox. Butter or string beans, if cooked and and pickled according to these direc tions, are delicious: Wash them and steam them until they are tender, but not soft; put them into a jar and pour , hot vinegar over them ; sweeten the vin egar and season highly with cinnamon. Another way equally excellent, but which gives a different flavor to the pickles, is to boil them in salted water until tender ; then pour over them tho hot vinegar which has been sweetened, and in addi tion to the cinnamon has a liberal allow ance of pepper; cayenne or black may be used. The Tear Without a Summer. Thft war 1R1fi wm Irnnvn trtiiifyrtAnt the United States and Europe as the coldest ever experienced br anv nerson I ... -xt . - ' i iw V T" .v. M.JK ana ice were common. Almost every gren thing was killed, fruit nearly all destroyed. Snow fell to the depth of ten inches in Vermont, seven in Maine, three in the interior of New York, and also in Massachusetts. There ware a few warm days. All classes looked for them in that memorable cold summer sixty eight years ago. It was called a dry season. But little rain fell. The wind blew steadily from the north cold and fi prrv "Mritripra Irnit py-fra nnoVa and mit teng for theij. children ia the spring woodpiles that usually disappeared during the warm spell in front of the houses -were speedily built up again. Planting and shivering were done together, and the farmers who worked out their taxes on the country roads wore overcoats and mittens. In a town in Vermont a flock of sheep belonging to a farmer had been sent, as usual, to their pasture. On June 17 a heavy snow fell ; the cold was intense, ana xne owner startea away at noon to look for his sheep. "Better start the neighbors soon, wife," he said in jest before leaving; "being in the middle of June I may get lost in the snow." Night came, the storm increased, and he did not return. The next morn ing the family sent out for help and started in search. One after another of the neighbors turned out to look for the missing man. The snow had covered up all tracks, and not until the end of the third day did they find him on the side of a bill, with both feet frozen, un able to move. A farmer who had a large field of corn in Tewksbury built fires around it to ward off the frost; many an evening he and his men took turns watching it. He was rewarded with the only crop of corn in the neighborhood. Considerable damage was done in New Orleans in consequence of the rapid rise of the Mississippi river; the suburbs were covered with water and the roads were passable only in boats. Fears that the sun was cooling off abounded, and throughout New England all picnics were strictly prohibited. July was accompanied with frost and ice. "On the 5th ice was formed of the thickness of window glass throughout Kew England, New York, and some part3 0f Pennsylvania. Indian corn was TVfi -,StryedJ T? faYOf7l field craned This waq tma . ml luc Iittw rxanuu-vuiucMj uuiiuuiij of the ff fimslf Mac clearly shown the imperfect condi ougust was more cheerless, if'1 of ,the Chinese forces, important of some possible, than the summer months which preceeded it. Ice was formed half an inch in thickness. Indian corn was so frozen that the greater part was cut down and dried for fodder. Almost every green thing was destroyed in this coun try and in Europe. On the 80th snow fell at Barnet, forty miles from London. Papers received from England stated " that . it would be remembered by the present generation that the year 1816 was a year in which there was no sum mer." Very little corn ripened in New England and the Middle States; farmers supplied themselves from corn produced in 1813 for seed in the spring of 1817. It sold at from $4 to $5 per bushel. September furnished about two weeks of the mildest, weather of the season. Soon after the middle, it became cold and frosty; ice formed a quarter cf an inch in thickness. October produced more thau its share of cold weather; frost and ice were common. The sum nier and autumn of 1816, cold, rainy, I and ungeuiai throughout Europe, were 1 peculiarly so in France. Constant rains i fell during the mouths of July, August, j and September. But for- an abundant I potato crop, famine, with all its horror3, would have been her lot. The minister , ? theL interior established granaries j throughout the kingdom, where corn was sold to the destitute at a reduced P"Ce. PriCCS TOSe, however, to lUOrfl I than double, and hundreds perished of I actual want. November was cold and blustering; snow fell so as to make good sleighing. December was mild and com fortable. Boston Transcript. Slaves in Timbnctoo. This girl was being brought in by the Morocco gate, on the road from the city of Morocco. She was comely of face and figure, with large, dreamy, lovely eyes, and streaming long black hair. Her color was of the Olivian type, which shows the red blood coursing in the veins. She was of medium height and aged about sixteen years. Four old Arab "dealers," garbed in all the glitter and tinsel of the Orient, guarded this girl as if she were an Amazon of strength and prowess. One old Arab in a loud voice cried out her merits and nationality as the group passed on to the center of the town. Halting, tho whole party were suddenly surrounded by intending buyers, both Christian and Pagan. They came up to the crouching girl, pulling her arms to and fro, opened her mouth and looked at her teeth, made her stand erect, and then haggled over the price. " She worth $100," say the Arab dealers in one simultaneous cry, " but will let her go for $00 if you take her now." Our dragoman translates and tells us how she will go to Egypt and fetch $200 at a first bid. Baltimore Sun. Business Was DulL A country merchant who doesnt ad vertise caught a thief going through his cash drawer. Hello, there," he sung out, "what do you want in that drawer?" "Oh, nothing," said Jthe man, sheep ishly backing off and trying to get away. "Well, don't let me disturb you. (Just go right ahead, you'll find exactly what you say you want. I've found the same thing here for the past six weeks." Merchant- Traveler. Changes Going: On in China. The Chinaman Is clannish and conser pj wligiougorpatriX e U1 f jL . rui-fl x ' tt' vative. But he is remarkably free from in maueis oi utus-iuic luieresi. xie lias a natural objection to alter his clothes, un- Uke the Japanese, for they suit him'bet- ter than any other. But he has no ob jection to purchasing the article which he judges to be the cheapest and the best, wherever it may come from. He is very sensible in his economy, and if he prefers the home-made article, it is because he finds it cheaper and more enduring. Na tive patterns of cloth, both woolen and cotton, if scrupulously imitated, will find buyers if laid down cheaper than the na tive article. Though the Chinese are conservative, foreign articles are creeping into use. Clocks, watches, matches, lamps, red blankets, are now seen not only everywhere in the seaport towns and near the coast, but far inland. The Chinese, contrary to general opinion.lnave been found to appreciato in a wonderful degree the value of the rapid transmission by wire. The tele graph is being carried from north to south, and from east to west, along the Yangize and Canton rivers. A line is working in Formosa. Begun with such vigor, there is reason to believe that the network will rapidly spread over the land. The telephone and electric light have made their way into China. Al though the first railroad constructed in China, from Shanghai to Woosung, opened and closed in 1876, was not ap proved by the government the line being bought and removed to the shores of Formosa, where it now lies the steam engine is at work. This is on a line to the Kaiping coal mines, a distance of six miles and a half, constructed by Li-Hung-Chang. Machinery has been in troduced not only at the Kaiping mines, but elsewhere. The superstitions re garding shafts dug through the earth, the " dragon's veins," are giving way. Mines are being promoted by the Chinesf in various parts, but with great rashness, the fact that mines are utterly useles without communication not having been grasped. Gas has long been in us at Shanghai. The flotilla of thirty steamers, with a tonnage of some 30,000 tons, started by the China Merchants' company, has not been a pecuniary success as yet, mainly owing, however, to maladministration during the late speculative crisis. Insurance j ntho? AriZ I glf E? companies are at work at Hong Kong while thelate Franco-Chinese difficulty ; , . . , thfl -n(T . d- of men with the breech-loader, the drill ing of Li's force, the establishment of dockyards, the introduction of torpedoes, Krupp guns, transports, and gun-boats on the European models. The fact that the military organization is still wretched and the administration corrupt does not vitiate the fact of progress having been made. The native press has made con siderable strides. Commenced in 1863 with the Shun-Pao, there are now some balf-dozen papers in China. Their influ ence is considerable and is extending rapidly. As a proof of their enterprise nf.nt.ionfA. that th Khun-Pa it may be mentioned- that the Shun-Pao Bent a "special correspondent" to Ton quin to follow the operations, though he very wisely thought discretion the better part of valor and declined to land on his arrival at Haiphong. London Times. The Cost of Royalty. As a sample of what royalty costs the people of Great Britain alone, Whitaker tnves the following annuities to the royal family : Her Majesty Privy purse 60,000 Salaries of household 131.2i50 Expenses of household 172,500 Koyai bounty, etc 13,500 Unappropriated 8,540 S85,000 Prince of Wales 40,000 Princess of Wales 10 000 Crown Princess of Prussia 8,000 Duke of Edinburgh 25,000 rnncess ionstian oi ocmeswig Holstein Princess Louise (Marchioness of Lorne) 6,000 6,000 Duke of Connaught 25,000 Duke of Albany 25.000 Duke of Cambridge 6,000 Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz .... 8,000 Duke of Cambridge 12,000 Duchess of Teck 5,000 ' The Jumping Bean. Mr. Fred. Frelinghuysen, son of Sec retary Frelinghuysen, possesses a num - ber of Mexican jumping beans, which he procured from the United States aErri cultural department. According to Sir. Frelinghuysen these acrobatic beans are very rare. They are certainly considered a great currosity by all those who have see them, and no one yet has explained what they are. Each pod contains three kernels. Each segment is rounded on one side and A shaped on the other, greenish yellow in color, and in circum ference about the size of a silver three cent piece. When placed on a table they roll over and skip about, sometimes jumping a couple of inches. When held between the thumb and forefinger they are felt to beat as strongly as the throbbing of a strong man's pulse. In Alabama is a China tree ten feet in circumference. Its top was torn away by a storm ; but six feet up the trunk two more trees have taken root and grown up as high as the old tree is. Half way up the trunk of the original tree a peach tree stands out. An observer says most of the centena rians in America are from Ireland, though there are many among the col bred people. We have deposited in our savings banks in round "numbers $1,000,000,000. The amount of money invested in rail road corporations in the United Sta tes i upward of $7,000,000,000, and that does not include the land granted by Con gress. A letter started from any point in the United States can be sent over the Sier ras and the Rocky mountains to the most distant point in the country for two cents. It Knocks the Spots," and everything in the nature of eruptions, blotches, pimples, ulcers, scrofulous humors, and incipient consumption, which is nothing more nor less than scrofula of the lungs, com pletely out of the system. It stimulates and invigorates the liver, tones up the stomach, regulates the bowels, purifies the blood, and builds up ths weak places of tho body. It is a purely vegetable compound, and wul do more than is claimed for it. We refer to Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery." Germany expends $30,000 annually for the maintenance of experimental forest stations. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is to be had at the nearest drug store for a dol lar. It is not claimed that this remedy will cure every disease under the sun, but that it does all that it claims to do, thousands of good women know and declare. The New York horse cars last year killed twoaty-four persons and injured eighty-nine. 'AiOnDdniNcnr." are the words used by a lady, who was at one time given up by tho most eminent physicians, and left to die. Reduced to a mere skeleton, pale and haggard, not able to leave her bed, from all those distressiag diseases peculiar to suffering females, such as displacements, lou corrhcea, inflammation, eta, etc. She began taking Dr. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription,w and also using the local treatments recom mended by him, and is now, she says, "as good as new." Price reduced to one "dollar. By druggists. 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The great unanimity with which dairymen ol high reputation have adopted, in preference to anything else, tho Improved Butter Coloi made by AY ells, Richardson & Co., of Burling ton, Vt. , is remarkable. It shows that th claims of imitative colors are baseless; wise dairymen will use no other. The Hope ofllio Nation. Cliildren,slovv in development. puny,scrawny and delicate, use ''Wells' Health Ilenewer." Hay-Fever is a type of catarrh having pe culiar symptoms. It is attended by an in flamed condition of the lining membrane ol the nostrils, tear-du?ts and throat, affecting tho lungs. An acrid mucus is secreted, the discharge is accompanied with a burning sen sation. There are savere spasms of sneezing, frequent attacks of headache, watery and in flamed eyes. Ely's Cream Balm is a remedy founded on a correct diagnosis of this disease, and can be depended upon. 50 cts. at drug gists; CO cts. by mail. Sample bottle by mail 60 cts. Ely Bros., Druggists, Owego, N. Y. A baldheaded man, who has heard that the hairs of a man's head are numbered, wants to know if there is not some place where he can obtain the back numbers. Carboline will supply the demand. Wgtat Sweats. cured by "Wells' Health Renewer." $L ' S3 Cent Will buy a Treatise on the Horse and His l diseases .Book of 100 pages, valuable to j every owner of horses. Postage stamps taken. Rant rmenaiA TJr-ur VrTv ifnnau DAriL- 1 134 Leonard Street, NewJJTork city. Beware of the incipient stages of consump tion. Taka Piso's Cure in time. Nebraska has nearly 2T0,000 acres of planted forests in good condition. 100 Doses One Dollar Can be applied truthfully to Hood'g Smrsaparlll only, and it is an unanswerable and convincing argument a to the strength and real economy of this great medicine. Hood's Sarsaparilla is made of roots, herbs, barks, etc.. 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