Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1874 — FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. [ARTICLE]

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

—lt is said that, one or two geranium leaves, bruised, bound upon a cut or abrasion, will heal it at once. —A weak solution of the permanganate of potassa is recommended to deodorize your breath. —The Rural Messenger says a correspondent checked pear blight by digging down to the roots of his trees and throwing a quantity of scrap iron and covering all over. —Snow, or Bride’s, Cake.—A pound each of flour and sugar, half a pound of butter, and the whites of sixteen eggs beaten to a stiff froth. Flavor it with rose. —Cranberry Marmalade.—Sweet and insipid apples and those which are past their prime and need to be cut up on account of decay may be made very acceptable by stewing an<j mixing with stewed cranberries in the proportions, say, of one part cranberries to two parts apple. Not quite so much sugar will be required as for the cranberries alone, unless the apples are sour. Strain through a colander, mix evenly and serve at any meal —A bushel of wheat in New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana. Wisconsin, lowa, Illinois, Michigan, Massachusetts, Kentucky, New Jersey, Vermont, Missouri and Canada is sixty pounds. In Connecticut it is fifty-six pounds. Rye is fifty-six pounds to the bushel in all the_ States named but Illinois, where it is fifty-four. Com Is fifty-six pounds to the bushel in all the States named but New York, where it is fifty-eight, and Missouri, where it is fifty-two. Barley is forty-eight pounds to the bushel in New York, Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, lowa, Michigan, Kentucky, New Jersey and Canada. In Pennsylvania it is fortyseven; in Illinois forty-four; in Massachusetts and Vermont forty-six. —A Good Fertilizer.—Take 1,000 pounds of good mold, sieve and screen it to get the gravel out, and make it as fine as possible; then spread on a floor, add 100 pounds sulphate ammonia, 100 pounds common salt, and mix with a rake; when thoroughly mixed add twenty-five pounds of pearl ash and twenty-two pounds sulphate of soda; mix well; then add 400 pounds ground bone, twenty-five pounds best Peruvian guano, ana 150 pounds ground plaster. Mix the whole thoroughly, throw in a pile for forty-eight hours, and it is fit for use. If it is to be used for potatoes in districts where potato bugs are numerous, five gallons sulphuric acid may be sprinkled over the mass. The caution is added that the acid must not be used in a confined place, as the fumes are injurious to health, and that if it is spilled on the floor water must be thrown on it, as the mixture generates great heat. —Scientific American.