Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1878 — HOME, FARM AND HARDEN. [ARTICLE]

HOME, FARM AND HARDEN.

—To keep moths from any kind of fur, scatter powdered camphor on the fur or hair side, wrap up in paper, fur inside, and hitng away In bjtgs or pack in boxes. This is the way they keep them in the stores. —Starch Cake.—The whites of five eggs beaten to a froth, two cups of white sugar, one cup of starch dissolved in a cup of sweet milk, one cup of butter, two cups of flour, one teaspoonful of soda, two of cream-tartar; flavor; add the eggs the last thing. —Of all business men, farmers this year should be the most contented. No matter how- prostrated trade may become, there is a ceaseless demand for the products of the farm. The forge may grow chill, the loom cease its active motion, and the anvil rust for want of use, but there is a profitable market at all times for farm and garden crops.— Germantown Telegraph.

—The calla lily, roots of which may be procured of any florist, is one of our finest plants for house growing when properly treated. The best method we nave tried is to procure an earthen jar, suitably decorated on the outside if desired, by painting or pasting on of frieze or flower pictures, or by a paper open-work covering. In this place rich mould some five or six inches deep, and in this set the calla plant. Now put o_n the top of this mould a layer of'dean coarse sand about two inches deep, and on top of this some small pebbles. Then fill the jar with water and replace as evaporated, so as to always have the water several inches deep above the pebbles. Place in a warm and sunny window, and the plant will throw up large, luxuriant leaVes, to be followed by the magnificent bloom. Whf tis still better, the flower stalks will be sent up in succession so as to afford a nearly continuous series of flowers. A few minnows introduced into the water will usually thrive without further care, and afford a pleasing study.— Scientific Farmer. —New Englands agricultural journals have for a long time urged upon the farmers in that quarter the necessity of growing corn extensively as one of the best means of increasing their wealth. The advice seems, to have been heeded to some extent, and the results have proved equal to anticipations, not only as a source of profit, but as exhibiting the excellence of New England soil for corn raising. The editor of the Journal of Chemistry has also urged upon farmers the necessity of corn culture, and in the December number of the Journal gives an account of a personal expenment that is of interest. He says that upon a hillside originally covered with beeches and rocks, he raised last year, the drought notwithstanding, more than fifty bushels of corn to the acre, and this by the use of home-made fertilizers. He insists that one bushel of sound Northern corn in the ear is worth as much to feed to stock as a bushel of shelled corn such as comes from the South or West. The field under experiment never received any animal excrement, and in 1876 yielded eighty bushels of shelled corn to the acre.