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Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 4154, 6 December 1870, Page 7

Maxims for Farmers.— Don't buy a pian • for your daughters while your sons need a plough. Don t let your horses be seen stando ing much at the beer saloons : it don't look right. Don't give the merchant or printer a, chance to dun you ; prompt payments mako independent men. Keep good fences, especially line fences; they promote good feelings between neighbours. Decent, substantial clothing for your children make* them think better of themselves, and keep 3 the doctors away. Don't become security for him who waits for the sheriff. Buy afarm wagon before a tine carriage. If you have a yoke of oxen don't be ashamed ot them and give your note for a span of horses. Teach your boys to look up and forward, never down and backwards. Don't leave to memory what should be written : it makes lawsuits. Cultivate the habit of giving, but never give up. When the labours of the day are past, take good books and newspapers, and the youngsters, and go to the sittingroom. . „..__ To preserve the skins of animals it is first necessary to stretch them on a board or tree, the fur" or hair being inside. Then, with a blunt knife or piece of iron, carefully scrapo away remnants of flesh, &c. Sprinkle a moderate quantity of salt daily on the skin, and occasionaly wash it with a solution of alum. When it is dry take it from the board, and rub the inside gently with sandstone or bath brick. Then brush it again with alum. Continue this until it becomes soft and pliable. To preserve the skins of birds a solution of arsenic is used, all flesh and decomposing substance being of course firsS removed. Skins of large birds, if tenderly handled, may be treated in the same way as those of rabbits, opossums, &c.