Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1882 — A Strawberry Patch in a Barrel. [ARTICLE]

A Strawberry Patch in a Barrel.

Persons who live in cities, and only have a small yard where the snn shines, can have nice berries enough for family use without being troubled by weeds. Take a hogshead, or cask, and commence six inches from the bottom, and with a two-inch augur bore it full of holes six inches apart. Then fill up by degrees with rich dirt, and as you fill up set a strawberry root in the dirt, with the crown or leaves out of the augur hole, and when it is filled to the top you can set a row around the top; but leave a hollow in the center, so that when yon wish you can pour in soapsuds or liquid manure, so that you can force them to grow very large, and they will be nice and clean. It would be more durable to have two or three iron hoops on the hogshead. Parsley can be raised the same way. The above is more useful than a rustic stump in the yard.—Farming World. A German-American citizen entered it drug store in Germantown, Pa., and asked for “ something for mine teeth, dey’s much bad.” This young man in attendance sold him a box of tooth-pow-der. The next day he excitedly told the druggist that though he had swallowed the whole of it atone dose it hadn’t done his toothache a bit of good. -