pieces eight inches square upon each end, 
underside; bore in the center of one end an 
inch hole, in which insert a leg not over 
seven or eight inches long ; two holes, same 
size, on the other end, in which insert two 
legs a little longer than the one in tlie oppo¬ 
site end. Then in the center of one side of 
the stool bore holes and cut out a slit large 
enough to receive the baud, by which the 
stool may he carried. Tills is convenient, 
supports the pail on the lower end, and the 
milker is in no danger of tipping over. Have 
used it fifteen years, and no eow ever knocked 
over a pail for me.” 
Renewing Fences. 
G. Snyder, tells the Rural how to repair 
a bar post aller it is rotted olflevel with the 
ground. Ho says: — “Get a good, solid 
scantling, of any size, drive it into the 
ground beside the post, and spike four feet 
of it to the post.” lie has repaired picket 
twigs, and hung them with scarlet cords. 
Two bamboo chairs with scarlet and white 
tidies we purloined from tlie parlor; a few 
mats, white and scarlet, on the table; a 
mirror cut from a large one we had broken 
we fitted into a gilt frame, and our room was 
done. I could have danced with sheer 
delight it I’d been in my teens instead of a 
matron. If you can’t imagine the charming 
effect of our iavorite “ ivy room ” I hope you 
may sometime enjoy midsummer dreams in 
just such a cool retreat, and then your un¬ 
belief will vanish. Dore Hamilton. 
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CONDUCTED BY MARY A. E. WAGER, 
SUBSOIL PLOW ATTACHMENT, 
LAMPAS IN HORSES 
DUST AND ECONOMIES. 
Allow me to gay to tha Saneca, N. y., 
subscriber, the probable cause of your colts 
trouble is Lumpas. This complaint is liable 
to attack, aud indeed doe# attack, most colts 
more or loss, aud sometimes older horses. 
It is mostly caused by the inflammatory state 
of the gums during teething. The inflamma¬ 
tion may extend throughout tlie whole 
mouth. The bars of the roof of the mouth, 
near the teeth, become greatly enlarged and 
frequently extend below the teeth. The 
colt in the act of swallowing his feed brings 
the lower jaw up (without which he cannot 
swallow liis cud;) the lower loetli then come 
in contact with the inflamed bars; the pain 
being great, ho lets the cud roll from his 
mouth. He may seem to he in pain while 
drinking from tlie same cause. The drink 
is always sucked through the closed teeth ; 
and he may linger over his drink from tho 
fact that the cold water feels good. 
Firing has been recommended for this 
complaint, but do not take the advice of any 
blacksmith who would recommend it; it 
may have to be repeated, and may perman¬ 
ently injure the mouth. Neither would I re¬ 
commend cutting the bars, for this will fail 
in severe cases like this one. I would re¬ 
commend thu following treatment:—Give 
the colt bran mashes and a little coarse 
ground or well bruised oats, but no corn, 
and about a tublespoonful or two of Glauber 
salts once a day to allay the feverish symp¬ 
toms; but when ho can have a run at early 
spring grass, the above may be omitted. 
Use the following wash -.—Take of tincture 
of arnica, tincture of myrrh, tincture of 
rbatany root, each one ounce; mix and apply 
to the gums several times daily with a rag, 
rub it well on, ami dip the hard end of a 
corn-cob in the mixture, and rub the en¬ 
larged bars of the month well with it. Don’t 
be afraid of its hurting him. Jardella. 
Vincennes, I nil, 1870. 
Plowing is recognized as otic of the most 
important modes of soil culture. Its pract ice 
is as old as agriculture itself. Upon whether 
it he well or ill done depends largely the 
available fertility of the soil and, ns a con¬ 
sequence, the value of the crop. Deep 
tillage has become with thinking agricultur¬ 
ists essential in the preparation for crops. 
Subsoil plowing has been much practiced, 
but fails to he generally adopted on account 
of its great expense. It. has required not 
only an extra plow, but the best of extra 
learns and two hands; even at this cost, 
those who have subsoiled the most bear uni¬ 
form testimony of its great value. 
In the line of household trials I think my 
greatest has been dust, aud in my experience 
of ten years in housekeeping, I have exer¬ 
cised my brain upon every side of this many- 
sided evil. I have a deep-seated liking for 
a perfectly clean house; at the same time, I 
don’t approve of wielding the broom and 
mop eternally. I have found that a deal 
may be done by way of prevention. For 
instance, I think I find it an economy ot 
time to observe times and seasons in cutting 
out work ; and then, instead of shoving the 
scraps off the table to stick in the carpet, I 
have a basket in readiness. When my cut¬ 
ting is clone, I roll up the savable pieces and 
dismiss the shreds to the rag hug. When I 
sew, I have a bag hanging near me to hold 
the scraps and threads; this hag, by the 
way, is quite ornamental; it is crocheted of 
scarlet, wool—somewhat pitcher-shaped—is 
lined with white, has a hoop run in the top¬ 
most meshes to keep its mouth open, and is 
suspended by cords and tassels. This bag 
saves me a deal of broom exercise ; for my 
little girls, in all their doll-fitting, have 
learned to gather tip the fragments and save 
littering the floors. We use considerable 
care lu our daily doings, and consequently 
have found 
CONTRIBUTED RECIPES. 
Cooking Rice. 
Rice is binding, and should be combined 
with a marmalade of apples or some other 
wholesome fruit, or curries. Rice and milk 
forms a questionable dish.—w. 
To Color Brown on Cotton. 
For ten pounds goods, boil two pounds of 
catechu (the cheaper quality) in water until 
dissolved; cool down with a bucket of water, 
put in two gills of nitrate of copper, and 
enter the goods; run them hot for two hours; 
cool down, and let the goods remain in the 
dye over night; take out, drain well, and 
prepare a liquor with eight ounces of bichro¬ 
mate of potash; run the goods in this at a 
scalding heat for one hour; take out, air, 
rinse, &c. 
To make Nitrate ol‘Copper. 
Take one half pint of nitric acid dissolve 
in it a copper penny, which forms nitrate of 
8. C. Irish, Oswego Co., N. Y. 
Pounds of Rags for a Yard of Carpel. 
“A Young Housekeeper,” (Rural, March 
2 f>, page 307.) will need from one to one and 
a-lialf pounds of rags for a yard of carpeting, 
according to their size and the proportion of 
cotton and woolen used. Only one kind of 
keep our rooms neat and nice 
it easier to keep things in order than to put | copper, 
them in order. 
Our sitting-room and dining-room are 
swept each day; other rooms less often, save 
the kitchen. I keep a cunning little broom 
and dust-pan in each room for sake of the 
accidents that are liable to occur between 
times. I have used all the wet tilings recom¬ 
mended for carpets, anil find that a simple 
dampening of tlie broom is as good as any¬ 
thing. I have a Carpet-sweeper, and like its 
manner of action exceedingly. I always 
cover sofas. <fcc., before I sweep—it saves 
ami all kinds of post fence without any in¬ 
jury to tlie fence, and found it to be very 
convenient where one has not time and ma¬ 
terial to renew the fence altogether; indeed, 
the fence will last a number of years. 
Whitewash for Out UuildiuKN, «fcc. 
B. 0. Ross sends tin: Rural the following 
in answer to an inquiry by R, A.:—Take 
good, fresh-ground water lime and skimmed 
milk; mix to the consistency of paint. To 
one gallon of the mixture add one pint of 
spirits of turpentine. With a whitewash 
brush apply two coats of the paint. Let the 
first one get thoroughly dry before applying 
the second. I think this compound, or any 
coarse paint, does much the host on unplaned 
hoards. I used paint made as above de¬ 
scribed, on a building fifteen years ago last 
fall, aud for the first ten years it looked well; 
and even now it shows tlie paint. The 
building was covered with unplaned pine. 
Discolored b y Mills. 
In 1800 I purchased a Family Wine and 
Cider Mill, Hutchinson's patent. After 
using it through the apple season, I regarded 
it a satisfactory and necessary appendage to 
a small apple orchard, and am sorry to re¬ 
port that last season the cider made by it, 
was so discolored as t,o be unfit for either 
table use or vinegar. Noticing a similar 
mill on exhibition at a fair in a Northern 
city last September, I related my experience 
to tlie person exhibiting the same, and he 
remarked that others had experienced the 
same result. Can this be remedied, or must 
this class of useful mill be abandoned? As 
probably hundred? of Rural readers bave 
similar mills, a reply may be of advantage.— 
Leighton. 
To lessen the expense and simplify tho 
labor of suhsoiliug, and thus render its prac¬ 
tice among farmers more general, has been 
tho object of many devices. Subsoil attach¬ 
ments to surface plows have been found ef¬ 
ficient and useful. They enable one man to 
do the work of two, aud the work is com¬ 
pleted with just half the time and travel re¬ 
quired in using detached suheoilers. Many 
tanners who have hut three horses fail to 
3 ubsoil when they otherwise would, for want 
of just such an agent as that seen in the ac¬ 
companying illustration. It is the Invention 
of John A. Krake, Alden, N. Y.—a sub¬ 
soil attachment to a common plow, so at¬ 
tached that it may be propelled in the line 
of draft of the common plow to which it is 
attached, and he free to oscillate right., left 
and vertically without throwing It out of 
that line. It will be seen tUg, toole or lifter 
is supported by an upright wrought Iron 
standard, F, which has pin-holes by which 
the depth of suhsoiliug is regulated at will. 
This standard passes through a mortice in 
the supporting bracket, 0, which is securely 
bolted to the plow beam. 
In tlie front end of this mortice is a fric¬ 
tion roller, against which tlie front edge of 
the standard bears when the plow is in oper¬ 
ation. This mortice is deep, and the stan¬ 
dard has a broad bearing which prevents if 
from turning; the friction roller prevents it 
wedging, and yet allows It. to work freely in 
the mortice. Aflat connecting spring clasps 
tlie standard and connects with the mold- 
hoard of the common plow by means of a 
flat fork on t he end of the spring and an ear 
on the mold-hoard. This spring performs 
the office of a draw-rod, aids in bringing the 
subsoil plow hack into the line of draft 
quickly whenever it is thrown out of that 
line by obstructions, and the plow is thus 
permitted to vibrate vertically. 
There is also a flat bent spring (J) having 
mortices through its ends, through which 
the standard passes. The upper end of this 
spring hears against the bracket, and the 
lower end against a pin in the standard. 
This spring permits a vertical movement of 
the subsoil plow, in case it strikes a stone or 
other obstruction, and yet is of sufficient 
strength to keep the plow at work at its 
proper depth. The flexible connections of 
the subsoil to the common plow, as above 
described, will compensate for and ullow 
either plow to meet and pass ordinary ob¬ 
structions without difficulty. In case the 
subsoil plow is thrown out by any obstruc¬ 
tion, the spring will bring it back imme¬ 
diately to its work. For further informa¬ 
tion, see advertisement in this paper. 
WHAT AILS THE COLT? 
I have long been a reader of the Rural, 
but never a contributor. I now feel in duly 
bound to cast in my mite on the question, 
“ What alia the colt; ” also the mule. I have 
it colt coming three years old affected in the 
same way ns described by a former corres¬ 
pondent. Suddenly lame, sometimes iu ono 
leg, sometimes In the other; at times the 
leg twitches like string-halt; at others it 
seems too long, and drags on the toe of the 
hoof. He has been thus affected more than 
a year. 1 have consulted a V. 8. who said 
it was a urinary disease, and recommended 
free use of saltpeter. I used as much as 1 
dared to, without effecting any radical cure. 
Some two mouths since it was worse than 
Oyer before; having been confined in the 
stable through the day while the family were 
at church, it was with the greatest labor I 
got him out of the stable. His leg was stiff 
as a stake; the cords would not relax for an 
hour at least. By constant rubbing and ex¬ 
ercise, finally the cramp relaxed, and ho was 
as well ns ever, full of fun and frolic. 
“ Now,” said 1, “ W illie, doctors don't 
know everything. Let us prescribe." 
So we commenced bathing his legs every 
other day, and a light application on the 
small of the back, with a liniment, tho re¬ 
cipe for which I send for the benefit of 
others in like situation, adding that my colt 
has showed no signs of cramp or lameness 
since: 
JRecipc. —Two ounces oil of spike; two 
ounces origanum; two ounces sweet oil; 
two ounces spirits turpentine; two ounces 
camphor gum; one ounce vinegar; one 
spoonful salt, and five gills good rum or al¬ 
cohol 
annrrs 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
washing out grease spots. It is of domestic 
manufacture, and ought to he published. 
I took some pieces of nearly worn-out rag 
carpet, applied stiff starch to it with a white¬ 
wash brush till the surface was smooth; 
then “ho "gave it two coats of good paint. 
It has been in use for five years, and with 
its yearly painting will doubtless last five 
years longer. You see how bo substantial a 
cloth would work; there’s no cracking or 
wrinkling, and it keeps itself in place with¬ 
out the aid of tacks. 
When I reflect upon all the work and con¬ 
sequent weariness that arises from carpets 
and houses, I sometimes sigh for the days 
when the floors were strewn with rushes and 
leaves. Then I bethink me of the terrible 
noise and the still more terrible moppings 
and scrubbings, and retake my broom with 
renewed courage. I feel just like banishing 
every one of my carpets in tlie summer time, 
but as I can’t very well bring it to pass, I 
content myself with matting in two of my 
rooms where little feet ilo not run their daily 
miles of play. 
I find I can’t resist the impulse to boast of 
one of my bedrooms that was furnished 
out of next to nothing. It required nearly 
twenty-five yards of carpet, curtains for two 
windows, and all the et ceteras. It was in 
the time of the war, and greenbacks were 
uncomfortably scarce, so I set my wits to 
work. First I purchased my paper, the 
ground was a pale cream color, anil over it 
ran graceful sprays of ivy. Then Philander 
painted the floor a trifle darker. He cut 
different sizes of ivy leaves from a sheet of 
tin, and I myself painted a border of them 
around my room stencil plate fashion, also 
painted a group in the center. Then our 
thoughts busied themselves about the furni¬ 
ture. A clever mechanic turned out a bed¬ 
stead, wash stand, ami towel rack, of maple, 
and these merely varnisfled took up their 
appropriate positions. Philander made a 
toilet-table one rainy afternoon, and this 
I draped with the best breadths of a cast off 
dress—white barege with polka spots of 
green. I made shades of cotton, tinting 
them slightly, ornamenting with ivy leaves, 
1 and finishing with a coat of white varnish 
Over these were curtains of muslin. 1 
(v selected from my portfolio half a dozen 
^ bright, warm-tinted water colors, framed 
>. them, some in rye straw, the rest in spruce 
Lull'll 
An Improved Gate 
Seeing W. W. G.’s description, of a gate 
latch in Rural of February It), I think it is 
very good. But 1 am a little ahead. The 
latch should he suspended by two wires put 
on opposite sides, so that the latch will 
swing independent and not rub on the sides 
of the mortice. In opening or closing a 
gate, it is handier, and saves steps to ap¬ 
proach it at the center. The latch is handy 
at any place. Have the latch slant hack; 
when you close the gate the latch will slide 
to its place without touching it, and the gate 
is fastened against all domestic animals. I 
like to have tlie top hinge pass through the 
post of the gate and bolt to the top rail; it 
will last much longer, and not sag.—A sa 
Foot. 
Thai Horrid Milking Moot. 
A young Iowa farmer suggested that the 
upper story of that stool sketched in Rural 
January 8th, he knocked off or not put ou 
and the plank he wide enough in front to cut 
a hole large enough to let the pail in about 
half its depth, (or more as is wished.) Make 
the length of the legs to suit. This will make 
the stool much lighter and the pail will not be 
sis easily tipped over. He adds, the plan of 
the “ Small Fanner’s Wife," is first rate far 
those who can stand it, blit her knees must 
he made of better stuff than mine to hold up 
ten or a dozen pail* of milk and not ache 
dreadfully. 
Uncle Charles, Battle Creek, Mich. 
NOTES FOR HORSEMEN, 
A Pediirree Aaked For. 
I wisn to inquire of the Rural readers if 
any of them can give me the pedigree of a 
horse called the “ Hawkeye.” There was a 
horse of that stock here about ten years ago; 
was here one season and then taken to 
Michigan. He left some very fine stock. I 
should like to know something about this 
stock of horses.— F. m. m. 
To Make u Mnro Own Her Colt. 
Henry Parmale does this by so fastening 
the mare that she cannot hurt the colt. This 
he does by putting a twist on her nose while 
the colt sucks. Then to excite the motherly 
instinct, he leaves the colt as close to the 
dam as possible with safety, taking care not 
to let her have an opportunity to kick the 
colt. In twenty-four hours she becomes an 
excellent mother. 
Wurta on Horses. 
J. Hunter Bell, Owensboro, ICy., writes 
the Rural:— “Trim the wart with a sharp 
knife till it bleeds; apply a few drop? of ni¬ 
tric or sulphuric acid. In a few days the 
warts dry up anil slough off, the hair will grow 
out naturally, leaving an scar where the wart 
has been. 1 have cured several in this way. 
Have tried other remedies, but find none as 
quick and sure as this. One application is 
generally sufficient.” 
ECONOMICAL NOTES. 
Manuring Corn iu tlie llill. 
In answer to W., Rural Hill, I would say: 
Put one part hen manure in a box or barrel, 
slightly dampen, and chop fine with a 
shovel; then four parts ashes,and thorough¬ 
ly mix. Put a half pint in each hill, and 
cover one inch before dropping the seed. 
My brother wished to do a “ big tiling,” and 
dropped the seed upon the manure before 
covering, and his corn was burned up. 
Farmers, wake up! Prepare a pile of lien 
manure and try it at planting time, and if 
you don’t have fuller cribs, my name is not 
—Jones. 
Another Milking Stool. 
E. R., Stone Church, N. Y., thinks he has 
the best stool going, and thus describes it: 
“ Take a strip of inch board, two feet four 
inches long and eight inches wide. Nail 
