Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1876 — HOME, FARM AND GARDEN. [ARTICLE]

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—RUatable Graham bread can be made by making a sponge of white flqur at night, in the morning add two tanlespoonfuls of molasses for each loaf, and make it gs thick with Graham flour as you can stir it with a spoon. Fill your pans half full; let them rise till full; have the oven pretty hot at flrat, and cool it off after the crust has set. A great deal of Graham bread is baked to death. —Hie editor of the Hural World, and who is good authority on such subjects, ■ays: A corn is a bruise of the sole of the foot, producing extravasation of blood, and in a majority of cases is the result of faulty or neglected shoeing. The treatment consists in removing all pressure of the sltoe from off the seat of the corn and its contiguous parts. A bar shoe answers the purpose best when properly adjusted. —The green outer husks of walnuts contain a yellow brown and remarkably fast dye, which is well suited for dyeing woolen or cotton materials, staining wood, etc. Wool thusdyed requiresno mordant, is very soft to handle, and not like that dyed with vitriol. The shades of color obtained are from bright to dark brown. The husks may be simply kept dried till used, or packed moist in tubs, by which means their coloring power is further increased. « —My attention was drawn to notice the amount of corn-cobs that are thrown away daily, from feeding one pair of horses., The cobs looked so clean and nice it does seem as though they were made to do a farmer more good than to add to the bulk of the manure heap. Being of rather a speculative turn of mind I tried a little experiment with a few cobs, by pouring over them a small amount of coal oil, and then put them in the cook-stove to see what the effect Would be. I was entirely satisfied that I had produced an excellent fuel. They furnish a kindling cheaper, and equally as good, than the patented article sold in the cities and towns. Farmers who have to haul wood long distances, and then prepare it for use in the busy seasons of the year, will find this hint of value. I think it would be better to let the cobs lay awhile, after pouring the oil over them, before using.— Cor. Prairie Farmer. —Where all other means have failed to exterminate bedbugs, sulphurous acid gas has succeeded. Take everything out of the infested room, plug up all the windows tightly, close all chimneys, arid empty about one ounce of powdered Sulphur on a pan of hot coals, placed in the middle of the floor. Shut the doors tad cover all cracks; let the sulphur bum as long as it will. : When the room is large it is a good plan to fasten a bit of tin tube to the bottom of the pan, and to this connect enough small rubber pipe to lead out of the nearest door. By blowing into the end of the pipe with the bellows, the sulphur Mill be caused to’burn more quickly by the draft created and to give a denser smoke. After the sulphur has burned out, paint all the cracks in the floor and around the mop-board with a strong solution of corrosive sublimate, and treat the furniture tothe same before replacing It. We liaVe seeji a room frightfully infested completely speed by this plan.— Scientific American.