Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1873 — FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. [ARTICLE]

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

—Lime it said to be efficacious in preserving wood. An instance is related of a pine- wood platform, used to mix mortar on, which was found to be in a good state of preservation after being exposed to the elements for a hundred years or more. ~ —Clearing Moss from Fruit Trees.— The American Ayriculturut says nothing is better than carbolic seap and lye. Make common lye of wood ashes, not strong, and add half a pound of carbolic soap to a three-gallon pail of boiling lye. Apply hot with a swab to old trees. It has been used with entire success on apple, pear, peach and cherry trees, destroying every particle of moss it touches. —An English journal says: Few persons are aware of the magnitude to which the rose may be grown, or the splendid effect it can lie made to produce on a lawn or pleasure ground; yet with a sufficiently strong stem, and a system of careful and. patient training, there can be no reasonable doubt but that the standard roses can be grown to the size and form of the ordinary examples of the weeping ash, having the branches all produced from the top of a single stem, and flowing downward upon all sides—a very ornamental object for the lawn. Milk Paint.—For painting in rooms where the smell of oil or turpentine would be objectionable, a preparation may be made as follows: Take eight ounces of freshly slaked lime, and mix it in an earthen vessel with three quarts of skimmed sweet milk. In another vessel three and a half pounds of Paris white with three pints of the milk. When these mixtures are well stirred up, put them together, and add six ounces of linseed oil. Mix these well, and it will be ready for use. This preparation is equal to oil paint, and is excellent for walls and ceilings. Any shade may he made by the addition of dry pigments.— Every Man His Own Painter.

—The Cheapest Grain for Chickens.— Now that chickens raised the past season have attained the “hungry age," and the frost has somewhat diminished insect forage, the quantity of grain that will be disposed of by a large flock of young fowls is astonishing. The question arises, What is the cheapest food (and the best, all things considered) that can be bought ? The reply is, Indian corn. Give cooked and raw, whole, ground fine, and ground coarse, for the sake of change. It is the cheapest thing that can be bought, generally speaking, the amount of nutriment obtained in it considered. But to give nothing but corn would be a mistake. It would predominate for economy’s sake, hut oats, buckwheat, wheat screenings, boiled potatoes, scraps from the table, and as many other things as possible, should be added to the bill of fare. — Dutchess Farmer. —Coloring Apples.—The San Jose Mercury, of December 3, says: “Charles Caine, who owns an extensive orchard near this city, has a method of giving to red, striped and yellow apples a high coloring. The fruit is picked and laid upon the ground in long flat piles, under the half-shade of the trees. It is jfesirable to give them as much sunlight as they will bear without sunburning. In two or three weeks the apples on top will be highly colored. These are removed, boxed, and sent to market, and the nextlayer exposed to the sun. His apples thus colored, especially the Baldwins,. Smith’s Cider, and Spitzenbergs, challenge the admiration of all who see them By this process, apples that when picked from the trees were almost without color, will become as brilliant as the reddest apple on the tree, and equally as fine as he best." There is a woman in Washington who has bvried five husbands. Recently she married a sixth. Upon the day Of the wedding, a man called at the house of the groom, asked for that gentleman, and" then proceeded to measure his body with a tape line. The infatuated groom entertained an idea that this might, perhaps, be a man sent around by his tailor. After the ceremony in church, however, the husband was surprised to observe this same person standing in'the vestibule and winking furiously at the bride as the party came out to the carriages. Just as they were starting off the mysterious being put his head into the carriage window, and whispered to the bride: ‘‘Got a ready-made one that’ll just suit- him 1 Beautiful fit—beautiful!” When the happv man demanded the name of the intruder, the bride blushed, and said she believed he was some kind of an undertaker. Then the man was not so happy, lie was hardly happy at all, and a certain gloom seemed to overcast the honeymoon. Perhaps the undertaker was too prompt. But still, we like to see a man take an interest in bis business. —The lands of the Joplin Mining and Smelting Company, of Missouri, yielded,, for November, 555,890 pounds of lead ore. / ■ Consumption. —For the cure of this distressing disease there has been no medicine yet discovered that can show more evidence of real merit than Allbn’s Lung Balsam. This unequaled expectorant, for curing Consumption and all diseases leading to it, such as affections of the Throat, Lungs, and all diseases of the Pulmonary Organs, Is introduced to the suffering public, after its merits for the positive cum. of such diseases have been thoroiighlj>£Mt\d>iy the medical faculty. The Balsam Is, consequently, recommended by physicians who have become acquainted with its great success. Dyspepsia or indigestion.— Who of our readers has not suffered from the ills and varied forms of this hydra-headed tbrinenter, which originates from loss oftone in the stomach, or morfe particularly in in its muscular or fibjrous coating, which becomes pale and feeble ? It would require pages to describe all the symptoms and varied sympathetic affections of indigestion, and the torture to which the dyspeptic is subjected, but Which may be compressed into one brief, comprehensive sentence: I’etz feel sick, depressed, and unfit for the duties of life. Nevertheless, there is nothing more certain than that dyspepsia, in all its.phases, can be thoroughly eradicated. There is bjjt one way to cure indigestion, viz.: by toning and strengthening the stomach and general system, gently relaxing the bowels if constipated, and regulating the liver if disordered. A remedy for this human peace-destroyeris California Vinegar Bitters, which have the rare merit of containing no alcohol. the virtues of the medicinal Californian Plants, which constitute their healing and curing agencifes, being extracted by a new chemical process. The popular verdict is that they are the most perfect article for the stomach, and are to be taken as circumstances may require, with the fullest confidence, and that by their means can the return of this distressing malady be prevented. We are satisfied fhis remedy is of great value. There Is, probably, no way In which we can benefit our readers more than by recommending to’them for general use Johnson's Anodyne Liniment. It is adapted to almost all the purposes of a family mediein'c; and as a specific for coughs, colds, whooping cough, soreness of the chest, lame stomach, rheumatism, spitting of blood, and all lung difficulties, it has nd" equal that ever we saw .pr "heard of. .' sThe propriety of givftg conditfdn medicine tc horses, cattle and sheep, was discussed and admitted by many of the Agricultural Societies throughput the State last; Fall, and We believe that-tn evgiy-case, bat one they decided in favor of Sheridans ’ Cavalry Condition Doziers, Good judgment.

“A Blight Cold,” Coughs.—Few are aware of the Importance of checking a cough or “slight cold” which would yield to a mild remedy; if neglected, often at tack* thH lungs. “Broom's Bronchial Troches" give sure and almost immediate relief. Cbistadobo’b Excelsior Hair Dym Is the most sure and complete preparation of its kind In the world; its effects are magical, its character its tints natural, its qualities enduring. Likr Lightning are the Miraculous Curer effected with Flagg’s Instant Relief. Aches, Pains. Sprains, Bowel Complaints, etc., cannot‘erist if this great medicine is used. Relief warranted, or money returned Vegetable Pulmonary Balsam, “Doubtless the best Cough Medicine in the werld.”

Arthur’s Illustrated Home Magazine.—The January number is one of great excellence and lntereet,and a promise of the good things to come. It has been greatly enlarged and liberally illustrated. "Pipsey Potts” begins a new series pf her admirable papers. Her "Windows” have been a great feature in the Home. Every subscriber to the magazine for 1878 will receive a copy of “The Christian Graces,” one of the loveliest steel engravings ever issued. Terms, $2.50 a yete, with a reduction for clubs. Address, T. S. Arthur & Box, Philadelphia, Pa. ♦ The Little Corporal.— The January number is full of attractiens for young readers. Speaking of this magazine, the Chicago Evening Mail says in “ Intrinsic value as a magazine for yonth.and with the additional attractions of the two beautiful chromes, * Mother’s Morning Glory’ and * The Little Runaway,’ offered as premiums, is is undoubtedly the most desirable publication of its class now issued.” Send $1.60 to the publisher, John E. Miller, Chicago, and receive the magazine for one year, and the two beautiful chromos. —** -—■ _ •■■■ ♦ The Children’s Hour.— The January number is well filled with good good reading for the little folks, and also contains several very pretty pictures. The publishers say this little magazine for 1873 will be as beautiful, as pure and as full of attractive reading as ever, and that “no effort will be spared in the work of keeping it in the advanced position, maintained from the beginning, as ‘ene of the best magazines for children in the world.’ ’’ $1.25 a year; five copies, $5; ten, and one extra, $lO. T. S, Arthur & Son, Philadelphia, Pa. * What Next?— The January number of this sprightly Juvenile magazine is crowded with excellent things that the young folks will like, and parents will approve. 30 cents a year, with a beautiful SI.OO chromo to each subscriber. A boy or girl is wanted in every neighborhood to raise a club. Specimen 3 cents. John B. ALden, Publisher, Chicago, 111. *