Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1880 — HOME, FARM AND GARDEN. [ARTICLE]

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

Meat that has been frozen should be thawed oat before being pat into the barrel, as th# hard-frozen meat does ** * *° d ° a *~ ▲ dot bed (not mod) is good for hogs, and if dnety there is little danger of vermin. A warm, dry hogpen, with a dirt floor, and.banked op so aa to keep oat the wind, is a comparatively safe place for bogs, and can be cheaply iKMiwtraoted Thb Washington Comity (Pa.) farmers, as a general thing, seed down the ground from wUoh a crop of com has Been gathered, which, where it eaa be done, ts heavily manured in the spring for the oorn crop, and then in the fall, with the application of some fertilizer, the field is seeded down and generally produces a good crop of wheat the year Goiokb Ice Cuajc.—Make a costard of a pint of cream and four egg* put to it Cut up in small pieces two ounoes of preserved ginger; add sufficient ground ginger to flavor well, and syrup or sugar to taste. Stir occasionally until cold, and pat it into the freezing-pot. Care shoald be taken to use fresh and good ground ginger, as otherwise it is apt to impart a moldy kind of flavor. These frosty mornings and ohilllng winds are laden with rheumatic pains, which are apparently lavished without stint on aged people. In absence of a better remedy, it will be found that equal quantities of kerosene oil and turpentine applied warm to the afflioted part will do mueh toward ’ relieving pain. All rheumatic people should wear flannels, not only In winter, but all summer, too, if they are then afflioted. —Exchange. Farmers who spread on a thin ooat of twelve or fifteen loads of manure to the acre, and expeot to raise a good orop, would be astonished to see the quantities of the best kinds of manure whioh market gardeners often apply to an acre of land near the oities. what would they say to the application of six hundred dollars’ worth of horse manure to a single acre? Two or three hundred dollars’ worth of manure per acre is a oomnon thing among market gardeners, and they find their account m so doing, too. Agricultural societies, if guided by reflection instead of preoedent, would offer to those who, by persevering experiment establish new and valuable varieties of fruits and vegetables, ten times as muoh as they now offer for sleek stallions and pampered geldings and heavy crops from patches of oorn. A new variety of the potato, for example, is generally considered to oontinne in perfection not more than fourteen years. Fresh varieties must therefore be raised—and how few will take the trouble to do itfP He who does, and suooeeds in supplying the place of a declining peach or apple, or potato, is a real Benefactor of his country, and deserves higher reward than the inventor of a new shell for dealing death and destruction to the human race, which, by the by, rarely falls upon the real authors of the mischief that plunges nations into war.— Cincinnati Times. The following rule for computing interest is reoommended: Multiply the principal by the number of days in the entire time, considering thirty days a month, and three hundred and sixty days a year (as is usual in interest rules)* Multiply this produpt by the number expressing the rate per cent. Divide this product by thirty-six andfrom the right of the result point off five plaoes. The dollars will Be found at the left of the point. ’ This rule is always oorreot, and it involves no fractious except when the rate is fractional, as three aud a half per cent. Fractional rates are not common, however. A remark is necessary in explanation of the pointing off. If the principal contains cents, follow the rule; but if the principal contains dollars alone, point off three places from the final result. Although the above rule is, in general, as good as any, it is particularly useful to such as have an elementary knowledge of arithmetic. Educational Weekly.