Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1878 — HOME, FARM AND GARDEN. [ARTICLE]

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—lt is a dangerous thine, from a hygienic point, to dig a collar in ir wet soil. Better not have a cellar if you can’t be certajil that It will be dry. —ls you have stockings with heel and toe out, and good between, cut the ifMTStft Shir knit a;newTjne;'jußVaßyou“ did at first. When done, take up the stitches, then turn right side out, and join the Ircol and foot by knitting thcrti together. Then cut off the toes as far as thin, take up the stitches and knit off as at first. If neatly done, it can hardly be told from the original heel or toe. —The Journal of Health gives the following: There is scarcely an ache to which children are subject so hard to bear and difficult to cure as tho earache. But there is a remedy never known to fail. Take a bit of cotton batting, put upon it a pinch of black pepper, gather it up ana tic it, dip in sweet oil and insert into the ear. Put a flannel bandage over the head—to keep it warm. It will give immediate relief. —At the late meeting of the Western New York Horticultural Society, E. Ruhlman, of Niagara County, explained his method of raising celery. He employs a collar, made of a strip of tin two or three inches wide and nine inches long. This is bent into a circular* collar and put around the celeryplant when it is first planted, and a little manure is placed outside of the collar. As the plant grows the collar is raised up and kept up in position around the crown of the plant, and is still retained in place after the celery is dug in the fall. —A correspondent of the Germantown Telegraph says: A very simple relief for neuralgia is to boil a small handful of lobelia in half a pint of water till the strength is out of the herb, then strain it off and add a teaspoonful of fine salt. Wring cloths out of the liquid as hot as possible, and spread over the part affected. It acts like a charm. Change the cloths as soon as cold till the pain is all gone; then cover the place with a soft, dry covering till perspiration is over, to prevent taking cold. Rheumatism can often be relieved by application to the painful parts of cloths wet in a weak solution of sal soda water. If there is inflammation in the joints, the cure is very quick. The wash should be lukewarm.

—The old heathen habit of beating tin pans, firing guns, and throwing sticks, dirt, etc., to make swarming bees alight, still prevails in some sections of the country. One would suppose that, with the amount of information before the public on this subject, every man, woman and child would, by this time, have learned to know that bees are as deaf as posts, and all the beating of pans in two counties would not affect them. They are not blind or dumb, and their sense of feeling and smelling is very fine. We have always found that our bees settled once before starting to run away, but this is not infallible—they do sometimes start right away. Where practicable, water may be thrown among them, or the sun’s rays be thrown in the swarming mass by means of a looking-glass. We have never known the latter to fail, and it is said to be infallible. Every City Council ought to pass an ordinance forbidding the use of tin pans on the occasion of bees swarming; and every farmer who does not know better than to alarm the whole neighborhood should be compelled to read some book on bee-culture. —Cor. Chicago Tribune.