Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1869 — FARM AND HOUSEHOLD [ARTICLE]

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD

USBH)L Moris, KTC. To dbsthov yellow dock, the follow Ing method has been found effective': Dig up all tliat ain.be found early In the spring; llien before the seed matures, go over the farm, and gather and burn them, and again dig up the roots. Boiled Bread Puddino.—Soak a jiint of bread crumbs in milk until perfectly soft, using only enough milk to soften them, add three beaten eggs with salt and 'a little soda; it should be quite stiff; raisins are an agreeable addition; boil in a doth three-quarters of an hour, and serve with hot wine sauce. A Mirwmtri correspondent of the Country Gentleman says that honey locusts, f« >r posts, is aliout as durable as sassafras, not equal to black walnut—one black walnut post is worth three or four of honey, locust, lie thinks that honey locust is much less, durable jn some localities than in others, not lasting half as long in Missouri as in Kentucky. Pear trees growing in grass are seldom productive. The best way of treating them is, to dig away the grass and weeds from a wide space over the roots in the fall, taking care not to damage the roots in so doing, and to cover the ground with old barn yard manure. This should be left undisturbed until spring, and then worked into the soil with a digging fork. Reliable Yeast.—A lady contributes the following recipe to the IreaftTu. Rural: Take ten or a dozen common sized potatoes, and boil and mash them; boil a handful of hops in two quarts of water; scald a quart of flour; add the flour and potatoes together; put in One cup of sugar, one-half cup of ginger, and let it stand until cool enough not to scald; then stir in yeast, and let it rise ; when light put it in ts jug and cork it tightly, and set in a cool place.

The Country Oentleman says: After many years’ trial, we find nothing so cheap, simple, convenient, and durable, as strips of tin for permanent labels on bearing fruit trees. They may be seven or eight inches long, an inch or so wide at the larger end, and tapering nearly to a point at the other. Neither the breadth nor the length requires accuracy. They are cut of scrap tin, and may be made at the rate of a dollar jftr thousand, drat a less cost. To write the name, lay the label on a table or board, and make the letters with the point of an awl or of a file ground to a stout point, pressing firmly while ingThe Canker Worm.—The females which lay the eggs that produce the mischievous worms are wingless. Whatever will prevent these from ascending the tree will save you from their ravages. It sometimes occurs that they ascend in autumn, but they generally leave their chrysalis condition in the ground in early spring. Some obstacle must be interposed to their ascent, and we have in former volumes given several. We cannot commend coal tar directly applied to the tree, as we fear it would prove injurious. The efficacy of all the preventives to the ascent of the parent of the canker worm depends upon frequent—almost dally—personal attention.—American Agriculturist.

Coal Oil fob Bee Stings.—l have a new remedy for a bee sting. A gentleman removing from Southern Illinois, this spring, told me that coal oil would cure the. bite of a rattlesnake, by bathing the bitten spot with it. I applied the oil to a bee sting, and it gave me immediate relief. A few days after I had a little boy stung on his knee. His mother applied coal oil to it, and the boy immediately quit crying. Sometime afterwards, a party removing was detained at my house by high water. Two of the small children went to the bee gums, commenced fighting the bees, and vrere stung al] over. Ido not know how many-beet, stung them; but suppose not less than fifty ; proliably more. We wet every place with coal oil; and as soon as this was done, they ceased crying and did not seem to suffer, nor did any swelling follow. One of my neighbors has also tried it, and reports that it is a perfect success.—Cor. American Bee Journal.

Wbeds.—There appears to be a notion prevalent among the cultivators of the soil that there must be some easy and cheap method of destroying weeds. To ascertain how it is to be done is the rub and just whore the laugh comes in with the itinerant peddlers who sell farmers the secret of-kilMng Canada thistles by cutting them on certain days from June to September, or. at a particular time of the moon. Sorrel ano noxious weeds are disposed of, or supposed to be, in the same, way; but, with all the nostrums and secrets against them, they continue to grow and spread, except where cultivators ot the Soil attack them in a common-sense way—that is, cut them down with hoe, plow, or any other implement that will effectually prevent any leaf or stem appearing above the surface. Canada thistles are the most persistent of all weeds, but they cannot survive this treatment more than two seasons.— Hearth and Home.