Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1870 — USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE. [ARTICLE]

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Gain gotten with an ill name is a real loss. Never let a day pass without an effort to make some one happier. ~ Brow may be easily purchased, but happiness is a home-made article. Hecli sknebs has its uses. Men, like (rces, must stand far apart to grow large. Never be above your calling, or be afraid to appear dressed in accordance with the business you are performing. Nd man is more nobly born than another unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. An eminent agriculturist says, “I had nit her leave to posterity 1,000 trees than SI,OOO— living groves than decaying mansions.”

The direction in which plants twine is not a direct result of the position of the sun in regard to them ; the French bean turns from right to left; the hop from left to right, and the common bryony either way. Razor Paste.—Take putty powder 1 oz., oxalic acid oz., and honey enough A mix with these so as to make a stiff paste. Apply to the strop, and wrap the remainder in tin foil. Mending Broken China.—Diamond cement for glass and china is made in the following manner : Take isinglass 1 oz., distilled water 0 oZs., alcohol IJJ ozs., warin in a water bath till dissolved, and strain the solution. Add to the clear solution, while hot, milky emulsion of gum ammoniac J-joz alcoholic solution of gum mastic 5 drachms; this possesses great adhesive qualities.— Scientific American. For worms in calves’ windpipes, a disease most prevalent in dry summers, and often occasioning great mortality, V. H. Hubbard, Rochester, Vt., communicates the following remedy: Asafrrllda, three ounces; vinegar, one quart. Give cadi calf a teaspoonful in each nostril every third morning, taking care to hold the ■bead well up to prevent waste,. A writer in an exchange states that he cured a cow that was tiddly afflicted with the scours, by the following remedy: One quart of wheat flour tied tight in a cloth, put into a kettle of boiling water, and boiled three hours. After it was

taken out and cooled, it was pounded fine, and given her to eat dry. By twice feeding her with this she was cured, and n'ever troubled with it again. It is said to have been equally effectual in cases of (Jysentery with persons. Ingrowing Toe Nail.—This painful abnormal condition oi the toe nail may be cured by allowing the nail to continue to grow without paring it. The boot or shoe will depress the nail at the end as it grows longer, which will gradually elevate it at the piniit, where it presses upon and Into the soft tissues of the toerthus removing the irritation, the sore soon heals. This is far preferable to the rash and painful operation of tearing off the toe-nail with forceps.— Jtxchange. In reply to an inquiry the American Agriculturist says: Potatoes, cabbages, beets, rhubarb, and radishes will net mix if planted near each other uuless you raise seed. Corn shows the mixture, the first season. Pumpkins, melons and cucumbers do not mix with one another; the different varieties of each crop mix readily, but the mixture does not generally show itself in the fruit until the next generation. Varieties of beans and peas mix more or less, probably by the agency of insects. A contributor to the Maine Farmer gives the following experience in relieving choked cattle: A year ago last fall, while driving a drove of cattle to Brighton, a heifer got choked with an apple, and was so far gone that she could hardly stand. I got a pint of soft soap at a house nearby, which .was rather thick, and I added a little water, and poured it down her throat. In five minutes she was well. I had never known this to fail of removing the obstruction either up or down in a short time.

Early and Late Planting—Peas may be sown very early, even if the soil is quite cold, as considerable frost or cool nights will not injure them. Beans will rot if the.soil is cold and wet—therefore wait until it is warm. Wheat, oats and barley will do well if sown early, but keep the corn out of cold, wet soil, or it will either rot or grow feeble. Onions, beets, solsify and parsnips should be sown early; carrots later; mejons and cucumbers still later. Plant all kinds of hardy trees and shrubs just as early as the soil is suitable, and the earth will become settled about the roots by the time warm weather commences. A little haste in spring will usually prove of great advantage, before the close of the season, but be sure that it is properly applied.— Hearth and Home. Molasses Candy.—One quart of molasses or sirup, two pounds of coffee sugar, or one pound of brown and the same of crushed. Boil over a slow fire in a brass or porcelain kettle. Try it by putting (some in a cup of cold water; when it. is brittle, it has boiled cnoueli Then take it out into a buttered pan. Put it on ice, or in a cool place. When the edge is cold, the centre will be warm; then bring it in. Have a buttered board to work it on. While you are working is the time to flavor it; work it till it is all of the same degree of heat. Pull it on a hook until it is white. Now, handle it lightly, or it will be dark and hard. Pull it but in a long string before you take it from the hook. Put it on the table, and when cold, break into such sized sticks as you please. You will have to work fast, or it will be dark and hard. Candy made tliis way is cqttal to sugar candy.—Exchange. A Strong Cement for Iron.—To four or five parts of clay, thoroughly dried and pulverized, add two parts of iron filings free from oxide, one part of peroxide ot manganese, one half of sea salt, and one half of borax. Mingle thoroughly, and render as fine as possible ; then reduce to a thick paste with the necessary quantity of water, mixing thoroughly well. It must be used immediately. After applicMion, it should be exposed to warmth, gradually increasing almost to white heat This cement is very hard, and presents complete resistance alike to a red heat and .boiling water. Another cement is to mix equal parts of sifted peroxide of manganese and well-pulver-zied zinc white, add a sufficient quantity of commercial soluble glass to form a thin paste. This mixture, when used immediately, forms a cement quite equal in hardness and resistance to that obtained by ♦he first method.— Scientific American. It is generally supposed in this country that soft water is more healthful than hard. The London City Press remarks that the French savant, when inquiring after water for the supply of Paris, found that more con scrip ts iy® .rejected in soft water, districts, on. of imperfect ' development and sttmwd wrowth, than in the hard; and they coneiwled that .calcareous matter in water; is essential to the formation of tissues. In the British ialantU, it appears that the death rate i*s influenced by the water supply, not only as to its sufficiency and the amount of organic matter suspended in it, but also as to. its relative hardness Glasgow and Manchester are supplied with soft waters, and have high death rates; Birmingham, Bristol,Newcastle and Warwick have hard water and low death rates. It may be arid that in towns supplied With, water, of more than ten degrees of hardness, the average mortality is 23 per 1,000, while jn those supplied with softer water it is alx>U| 26 per I,ooft.-