Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1875 — AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC. [ARTICLE]

AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

—A' whitewash made of quick-lime and wood-ashes will* destroy the moss on trees. . -AJS&msL *»«» Hf” —Never let tomatoes lie on the ground, if jxwsMlct ffce? tftdre abundantly, last longer and are better-flavored when hushed or trellisnd. • —Scratches in horses may be cured by iMring a wash, twice a day, of a teaspoonftal« powdered blue-vitriol dissolved in half a pint of water. Keep the feet clean. —Prairie Farmer. —The Journal of Applied Chemistry §ays it is asserted that salad oil, promptly applied, is an antidote to strychnia. The remedy has not been tried on men, but on docs a' half-pint of oil is said to be sufficient to prevent fatal results. —To test the soundness of a piece of timber apply the car to the middle of one •f the ends while another person strikes upon the opposite extremity. If the wood is sound ana of good quality the blow is very distinctly heard, however long the beam may be. It the wood is disaggregated by deea/ or otherwise the sound ■trill be for the most part destroyed. —To Make Veal Rolls —Cut thin slices and spread on them a tine seasoning of a ray tew crumbs, a little chopped bacon or scraped ham. and a little suet and parsley, pepper, salt, and a small piece of pounded mace. This shifting may either all up the roll like a sausage or be rolled with the meal. In either case, tie it up ray light and stew it very slowly in gravy. Serve it when tender, alter skimming it nicely. —Paper prepared, after the following recipe is said to render the use of the ra-zor-strop unnecessary. By merely wiping the razor on the paper to remove the lather after shaving a keen edge is maintained without further trouble. The razor must be well sharpened at the outset. First, procure oxide of iron (by the addition of carbonate of soda to a solution of persulphate of iron), well wash the precipitate, and finally leave it of the consistence of cream. Spread this over soft paper very thinly with a soft brush. Cut the paper in pieces two inches square, dry, ana it is ready for use. — Scientific American. —Amateurs are apt, in rejiotting plants, to make the soil too rich, under die impression that, because the roots are confined within a small compass, necessarily the soil must "lie very fat. Bucli is not the fact. Flowering plants should not have the soil oaer-rich. They da better in pure •oil, free from an excessive quantity of manure. What is used should be" the most thoroughly digested compost. The successful florist understands that the soil

requires only to lie in the normal state to insure perfect and continuous growth; and therefore* instead of making the soil in tlie pots over rich, he depends upon stimulating. when wanted, by means of liquid manure. A mistake generally made in shifting from one pot to another is the U9e of too large the plants increase in size. In changing, use pots only one size larger than do (his in thc.best itwuper, npt. in the 1 Kgt<«ti hjf the pots, say Ipifi im inch of broken flower pbtafor fwtT-ntefc%ize. Ifoing careful to close the hole in the bottom by laying a piece thereon; on this place a little rich compost, mixed with one-lialf its bulk of sharp sand. Then place a pot one size less than the one containing the plant to be moved. Fill in around this with tlie •ame material pretty finely packed. Lift out the pot and fill with soil, just so that the ball of earth in which the plant is contained will reach to about half an inch of the rim of the new pot. Now set the plant in and cave the earth about it from the illite up .level with more soil.—