gJHlJUL 
VOL. XXVI. NO. j 
WHOLE NO. 1184 
PRICE SIX CENTS. 
S2.50 PER YEAR. 
[ Entered according to Act of Congress, In the 
year 1972, by D. p. T. Mookk. 
He-Clapboarding-.—Iutendlug this Fall 
to put new clapboards on mv house, would 
you oblige me with your advice as to what 
I should do with the old ones. Should they 
be put on again so as to form a “ dead-air” 
space, or should I put them on flat and 
nail the new ones on above?— Inquirer 
in the office of the Librarian of Congress, 
Fu r on the old clapboards flat, forming a 
sheathing, leaving no air chamber, as the 
overlaps of the new will leave enough air 
space bctweou. If you lav the old 
AN AVIARY 
DELAWARE CO. DAIRYING. 
Mr. P. G. North hup of Franklin, Del. 
( o., N. Y„ writes uo concerning the yield 
of certain oows in that section. He soys: 
My neighbor, Otis White, sold from one 
cow, iu addition to milk used in the family, 
305 pounds of butter during last season! 
Mr. McFarlan of Bovina, Del. Co., has a 
cow that has made 500 pounds of butter 
per year for the last live years. Mr. Thos. 
Miller of the same plaoe, made from two 
3-yeur old heifers (Ayrshires) 20 pounds 
aud 0 ounces of butter iu seven days, their 
feed being nothing but gross. From an im¬ 
ported Ayrshire, four years old, pounds 
of butter in seven days. Abram Van 
Dyke of Roxbury has averaged about 250 
pounds of butter per cow during the year 
from a dairy of twenty oows for the last 
ten years. 
He says the Ayrshires sell more readily 
and for more money than any other breed 
offered for sale in his immediate vicinity. 
Iteferriug to the last census ho remarks 
that Delaware Co. has 42,371 cows, produ¬ 
cing 6,052,295 pounds of butter, and 35,519 
pouuds of cheese, averaging 119 pounds of 
butter and jjj of a pound of cheese per cow. 
Otsego Co., 11,226 cows, which produced 
2,811,179 pouuds of butter, and 3,335,144 
pounds of cheese, averaging 08 pouuds of 
butter and 80 pouuds cheese to the cow. 
In conclusion he adds as follows._“I 
think oows in this county are troubled 
more with abortion than formerly. A few 
mouths ago Sylvester Wheat brought 
into this towu a quantity or ‘pure bone 
lust,' ‘ bone filings ’ or * bone meal ’ to sell 
to farmers at 10 cts. per pound (8200 per 
LAN not you give elevation and plan of an 
ornamental aviary for suburban grounds? 
My children are fond of birds 
t hey are, and am 
them 
; I am glad 
equally delighted with 
1 ho children have beeu iinportun- 
mg me to build the birds a house. They 
are not satisfied that the trees are shelter 
enough. To please the little importuuers I 
propose to build one. Can you help me?— 
S. P. C., near N. V. City. 
Oitortdnrly the American Builder 
(Chicago, Jl].,) for August, gives elevation 
and details of an aviary. We transfer the 
elevation and sectional view to our columns. 
T he detail is thus sufficiently given without 
further text. Modifications limv flO mn/la 
UmicwoRic should never be pointed when 
the bricks are so dry that they will absorb 
the water held by the mortar. If mortar 
of the best quality is employed for pointing 
brickwork when the bricks are dry, the 
nmrtar will bo dried so quickly that the 
lime and sand will not consolidate. In or¬ 
der to solidify, mortar should be several 
days drying. The correct way, therefore, 
to perform a job of pointing brickwork so 
that the work will render satisfactory ser- 
vice, will be to make a mortar of clean, sham 
CHEESE FACTORY BOOKS, 
Wb have a letter from H. & Q. B 
Swezby, 
uiotorymeuof Harmony, Chaut. Co.,N. Y., 
giving a description of some Improvements 
made hi factory acct. books. Many of these 
hooks are ruled in long columns, requiring 
he figures to be added up from top to bpt- 
tom at one operation and embracing trans¬ 
actions of a mouth. Factorymen are not 
dways first-rate accountants; and to avoid 
| die liability of mistakes as well as to lessen 
! die labor of adding up long columns, the 
Messrs. Swezey have adopted an extra 
column of ruling in which everv eight davs 
transactions are lootea up. xney say; 
• We think we have made a decided im- 
p-ovouieut in so arranging a faetorv book 
diat every eignt days me weignts can b« 
tooted up and space left to set it down. In¬ 
dead of one long column, four short ones 
are used for each month, and it makes the 
book iu good proportion.” 
We have submitted the plan of this book 
as auggested above, to several persons who 
are conversant with the arrangement of 
factory books as generally used, and they 
have expressed the opinion that the form 
proposed would be a decided improvement 
over those iu common use. Factory books 
have been very much improved in their ar¬ 
rangement during the past few years, and 
we are glad to see any suggestion by which 
the labor of the factory manager may be 
lessened and errors in the accounts be made 
ess liable than In books of the nresei.r fo™, 
p 
RalpnEvans 
