Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1877 — HOME, FARM AND GARDEN. [ARTICLE]

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—ln going about the house more quickly and step lightly. Never walk with a heavy dragging step. This advice is worth following. • , —Late suppers are an invention of the enemy. Don’t eat solid food within four or live hours of retiring for the night. This is a rule which no person will ever regret having adopted.— American Cultivator. —There are large quantities of horserad tab used by vinegar factories It is raised to a considerable extent in the Eastern States. When properly managed the crop per acre is worth 1400 to <6OO, and sometimes more.— lowa.State Register. —A. philosophizing gardener says that the oaibles which ripen underground, such as potatoes, carrots and parsnips are heat-producing, while those that ripen above ground, such as asparagus, lettuce,' pease, beaus, tomatoes, corn and all fruits, are cooling. —A writer in the Producer says: Well, if it isn’t “ the fashion ” to have a garden, ’tis time it was. A home without a garden is like a house minus a baby. I always did pity men without gardens and women without babies. They always look lonesome and discontented. —When grain is threshed, it is safe from the majority of its many enemies. It is also ready to sell at a moment’s notice, when the price suits or money is wanted. Perhaps no further reasons than these need be given why it is well to thresh as early as posible.— Cincinnati Timet. —The funerals of those who die cf infectious diseases should be strictly private. Disinfect the clothes, bidding ana room by sprinkling them with a solution of commercial carbolic acid, two parts to one hundred parts Of water, or other disinfectants may be used in a similar way. Let the door be closed for several days. Sulphur may be burned in the room sufficiently to fill it with sulphur four times a day. Continue this for four or more days. Then strip off the paper, scrape the walls and ceiling, and whitewash them. Scrub the woodwork with strong suds and a solu tlon of carbolic acid.— Rural New Yorker. —Trees that have long stems exposed to hot suns or drying winds, become what gardeners call “hide-bound.” That is, the old bark becomes indurated —cannot expand, and the tree suffers much in consequence. Such an evil is usually indicated by gray lichens which feed on the decaying Dark. In these cases a washing of weak lye or of limewater is very useful; indeed, where the bark is healthy, it is beneficial to us to wash the trees, as manv eggs of insects are thereby destroyed. We would, however, again refer to linseed oil as a wash, as far more effective for insects, and would, perhaps, do as well for moss and lichen. After all, these seldom come when trees are well cultivated. It is neglect makes poor growth, ana poor growth, lichens.— Gardener'« Monthly.