Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1877 — HOME, FARM AND GARDEN. [ARTICLE]

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—All doubts about crops may now be dismissed from troubled minds. This is to be a year of abundance of the products of the earth.— lowa State Regitter. —To Remove the Odor of Paint.—Set a tub of cold water—if very cold or having toe in It all the better—ln rooms which are freshly painted, and It will absorb much of the disagreeable and unhealthy odor. Renew the water daily. When posslblo, keep such rooms constantly open; if closely shut, even for a day or night, while the paint is drying, especially if the walls are papered, the odor seems to become fixed, and it is very difficult to get rid of it so that it will not be perceived for a long time after, whenever tne rooms are closed. Ice-cold water is an excellent absorbent of impure odors in sick rooms. —Country Gentleman. ~ —Stuffed Onions.—Wash and. skin very large onions; lay them in cold water an hour; then parboil in salted boiling water half an hour; drain, and while-hot extract the hearts, taking care not to break the outer layers; chop the hearts very fine, with a little salt pork, or bacon, breadcrumbs, pepper, salt, mace, and wet with a spoonful of cream; bind with a wellbeaten egg and work Into a smooth paste; stuff the onions with this; put into a drip-ping-pan with a little hot water, and bake until the onions are very tender, meantime basting often with melted butter. When done, take the onions up carefully in a vegetable dlsli; add to the gravy in the dripping-pau- the juice of half a lemon, four tablcspoonfuls of milk, and a little browned flour made smooth in cold milk; boil up once and pour over the onions. Serve very hot.—.Sural New Yorker. —lt is possible to raise calves without giving them fresh milk, for with a little skimmed milk and hay tea they will thrive almost if not quite as well as upon the pure lacteal fluid. Fifty years ago SirJameß Stewart Deoham, of Scotland, instituted experiments in raising calves with hay tea, taking them from their mothers when three days old, and those experiments were eminently successful. Two pounds of hay were steeped in twenty quarts of water, ana then boiled down one-half, and to this was added a quart of skimmed milk. In some instances molasses was added also to give sweetness, and the calves not only thrived upon this diet but preferred it to fresh milk .—.Formers’ Union. —Squash vines are subject to the attacks of a long, slim borer that resembles somewhat the spindle-worm sometimes found in corn-stalks. It is hatched from eggs laid on the vine, but we are not familiar with the parent insect, nor do we know of any sure preventive against its depredations. When discovered in the vine this worm should be destroyed. There is another borer, shorter and thicker, and of a yellowish color, which is quite as destructive as the first, but has not as yet been veiy numerous, so far as we have learned. It should also be destroyed when found in the vines. Squash vines are sometimes found wilting and dying when no insects can be found—certainly not by careless observers. Yet there may be grubs or insects at work under ground on the small roots. Very little seems to be known about this difficulty by squash-growers, the principal remedy being to plant more vines than would be needed if all lived—New England Farmer.