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Unruly Milkers. — Machine for weighing Coin, Sfc. Vol. VIII. 



appointed in finding a place at tlie ground, 

 the fly sometimes finds a soft place in the 

 forks, at the junction of the branches and 

 body, but these are so {e\v and their depre- 

 dations so lim.ited, that little attention is 

 paid to them. 



" It has been suggested that the zinc 

 plates thus applied, might possibly possess 

 some other sanative power over the peach 

 tree, besides that of its mechanical pro- 

 tection — some galvanic influence, possibly 

 caused by the contact of the two metals, 

 the zinc of the plates and the iron of the 

 tacks. Be that as it may, certainly there 

 never were more healthy trees than those 

 that have been wearing these plates for the 

 last five years. The inventor of this remedy 

 assures me, that he considers the extra 

 quantity of fruit produced every year, by 

 means of these plates, to have far more 

 than paid for the application of them." 



Unruly Milkers. 



Does your cow kick ] Do not fly into a 

 passion and pound her with a handspike, or 

 trim her with a gad or a cow-hide, or vent 

 your spite in kicking her in turn. You will 

 only spill a great deal of vengeance use^ 

 lessly; causing great wear and tear of tem- 

 per; make yourself feel very foolish when 

 you get over it, and set a bad example to 

 your children; while your cow, in seventy 

 cases out of seventy one, will kick as bad 

 as before, or worse. If she is a heifer, you 

 will infallibly teach her to kick ; as her kick- 

 ing, in the first instance, was fi'om pain, or 

 fright, or some such cause, of which she 

 would be cured by simply paying no atten- 

 tion to it. A heifer never kicks from prin- 

 ciple. If she is an old cow, your thrashing 

 will generally be worse than thrown away, 

 Just keep philosophical, and try other means, 

 Make a pen of just such size that the cow 

 can comfortably stand in it, and no more. 

 This you can do in the corner of your yard, 

 by setting down three posts, and boarding 

 them up fence-like, leaving it open at the 

 end to drive in the cow. Let a space be 

 left open at the side where you wish to milk. 

 Put your cow into it and fasten her in by 

 stretching a chain across the end of the pen 

 behind her. Then take a piece of rope, say 

 15 feet long, and tie one end of it to a post 

 behind the cow, and near its length distant 

 from her; tie the other end to the leg of the 

 animal, just above her foot, drawing it back 

 as much as it would naturally be, for her to 

 be milked. Then sit down and milk the 

 cow at your leisure. It will take a man 

 half an hour perhaps, to make the pen ; and 

 when once made, it is very little more trou- 



ble than to milk without. She may object 

 to going into it once or twice, but will after- 

 wards give no trouble. 



This we recommend only however, when 

 a man has an animal, valuable otherwise, 

 which will kick, and which he wishes to 

 keep. A poor cow that will kick, is too 

 great a nuisance to think of keeping at all. 

 If you are afflicted with a kicking cow, try 

 it; and you will not regret it. — Prairie 

 Farmer. 



3Iachine for weighing and assorting 

 Coin. 



Mr. Cotton, who is governor of the Bank 

 of England, has invented this machine for 

 the purpose of weighing sovereigns, and 

 separating the light ones from those of 

 standard weight. It is so delicate, that it 

 detects with precision, a variation of a 

 twelve thousand two hundred and fiftieth 

 part of the weight of a sovereign. The 

 coins are placed in a tube, or hopper, whence 

 they are carried on to a small platform, 

 which is suspended over a delicately poised 

 beam, to the other end of which is appended 

 the standard mint weight. On setting the 

 machine at work, a sovereign is placed on a 

 platform, and if it is full weight, a small 

 tongue advances and strikes it oflf into a till 

 appointed to receive it : but if it is light, 

 the platform sinks, and brings it within the 

 reach of another tongue, at a lower level, 

 which advances at right angles to the former 

 tongue, and pushes the coin into another till. 

 Other coins succeed in rapid rotation, so 

 that the machine can weigh and sort 10,000 

 sovereigns in six hours, while an experi- 

 enced teller, can, at the utmost, only weigh 

 between 3,000 and 4,000 coins by hand 

 scales, in the same time, and even then, the 

 optic nerve by incessant straining, becomes 

 fatigued, and errors occur. — Journal of 

 Franklin Institute. 



Whenever the farmer or planter disco- 

 vers his fields covered with sheep sorrel, he 

 may conclude that the soil needs liming, 

 the presence of the sorrel being unerring 

 evidence of the absence of calcareous mat- 

 ter, and that the soil is too acid for the pur- 

 poses of healthful vegetation. — Farmer's 

 Monthly Yisitor. 



To Clean Kid Gloves. — " Take a piece 

 of flannel, moisten it with a little milk, rub 

 it on a cake of nice hard soap, and then ap- 

 ply it to the soiled part of the glove. As 

 soon as you have removed the dirt, rub the 

 spot with a dry piece of flannel. Care must 

 be taken not to make the glove too wet." 



