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THE SOUTHER 



N PLANTER . 



one and a half runs of yarn, (having been 

 previously soaked in alum water for se- 

 veral hours,) and let it remain five or seven 

 minutes, raising it two or three times to 

 air. Then wring and carefully shake it 

 over your dye kettle (or you will lose 

 much of your madder,) after which rinse 

 it in soft water and pour the water into 

 the dye. This yarn will be almost as 

 bright as scarlet and quite as beautiful in 

 a carpet. Now place the dye where it 

 will keep in a state of simmering, put in 

 it two and a half runs of yam prepared 

 as the former, and color for three hours, 

 and you have another shade of beautiful 

 red. Remove this from the dye, and place 

 in it one-half run more, and let it remain 

 three or four hours; this will be a pale 

 red color, and serves for the purpose of 

 shading. 



For pink, take one ounce of pulverizer] 

 cochineal, tie in a linen bag, and place it 

 in two quarts of soapsuds, (made with 

 fine hard soap.) This will dye one-half 

 run of yarn, which should be divided and 

 a part dipped first, and remain a few min- 

 utes before the other is put in, to give a 

 •different shade. The whole to remain 

 about two hours, with occasional airings. 



Purple. — One run of yarn may be co- 

 lored purple by boiling a handful of log- 

 wood in the remains of the madder dye, 

 and adding the alum water. This will 

 not fade. 



Yellow and Black. — One run of yellow 

 may be colored as directed for the light 

 green. To this add three runs of yarn 

 colored black, in a strong logwood dye 

 set with blue vitriol, a half run of pale 

 blue and the same of white, and you have 

 the chain for a handsome carpet. 



Eight pounds of cotton carpet filling 

 will now be required to complete the whole, 

 which can easily be dyed by throwing 

 the remains of the different dyes into a 

 large kettle and boiling the whole together. 

 Care should be taken in the arrangement 

 of the colors, and the web should be wo- 

 ven at least a yard wide. 



We have just completed a carpet made 

 after the foregoing directions, and although 

 the expense (time and labor included) 

 has been less than twelve dollars, we 



would not now exchange it for any im- 

 ported carpeting for which we should 

 have to pay one dollar per yard. 



Mary. 



North Rochester, O., May, 1847. 



DEAD ANIMALS. 



At all seasons of the year dead animals 

 are to be seen hung upon fences and trees ; 

 and especially is this the case in the 

 spring. On every farm where sheep are 

 kept, dead lambs are suspended in the 

 beautiful, blooming and fruit-bearing or- 

 chards — how shocking? — to annoy the 

 sight and smell, and waste the farmer's 

 means. Dogs and cats, too, are frequently 

 hoisted in view in the same annoying and 

 disgusting manner. If horses, cattle, sheep 

 or hogs die, they are drawn out of sight, 

 but not out of smell, and are still sources 

 of disgust. Why is all this? If the 

 farmer be so unfortunate or so negligent 

 as to lose an animal, should he be so 

 wasteful as to permit the carcass to decay 

 uselessly in the open air, to the great an- 

 noyance of his family and every passer- 

 by ? Does he not know that animal 

 matter is the best and richest of manure ? 

 Animal matter contains every element 

 that is necessary to grow every plant 

 known. In it are phosphate and carbo- 

 nate of lime, ammonia, carbon : in short, 

 in the best form, all the essentials of ve- 

 getable growth. Its nutritive power is 

 great, and if added to the compost heap } 

 hastens fermentation, and adds greatly to 

 the richness. 



Whenever a fowl, cat, dog, sheep, pig, 

 horse or cow dies, let the carcass be cut 

 up, and the bones broken, and the whole 

 added to the manure heap. The carcass 

 of a single horse will turn loads of use- 

 less muck or peat into manure, richer 

 than any ordinary barn yard dung. Why, 

 then, suffer it to decay uselessly and an- 

 noyingly ? It is true it is not lost, for the 

 gases that taint the air are appropriated 

 by plants ; but the farmer who owned the 

 animal, gets but a small portion of what 

 should be all his own, why then will he 

 waste the dead energies of the horse, 

 when he has lost the living ones? 



