Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1878 — HOME, FARM AND HARDEN. [ARTICLE]

HOME, FARM AND HARDEN.

—Deeay.ed fruits and wilted vegetables arefnot wholesome food. —A lady has discovered that aqua' ammonia is almost an instantaneous cure for a scald. -One of the most beautiful of Nature’s provisions is that while one crop exhausts the soil of that element which enters most largely into its composition, by the operation of some mysterious law it prepares that same soil for some other crop of a different character.—State. Register. —To remove ink spots, apply spirits of salts made into a solution with tive time its weight of water; then wash it off in a minute or two with clear water. A solution of citric acid or oxalic 'will answer the same purpose, and neither of them will efface the printing, but they will rot the paper if not washed off in pure water. -wTp have the genuine roasted green corn is to turn back the husks, remove the silk, then replace the husks as closely as possible, and bury the corn in the hot ashes of a wood nre. This is the very best way in the world to cook green corn, but to be thoroughly enjoyable it should be eaten in the woods or on the sea shore, and will need to be salted and buttered. — lowa State Register. —Ono of the cheapest and* best preserves in use may be made of ripe watermelon rinds. Cut out all the core, and trim off the green outside rind. Soak the white interior rind in salt water for several days, frequently changing it. Boil in white sugar, pound for pound, greened with fresh grape leaves, and flavored with tartaric acid and oil of lemon to suit the taste. Properly prepared, this is a real luxury, far superior to imported citron, and costing less than half the price. Now is the season to prepare it. —Many farmers who find that their “ medders kinder run out” forget how much a crop of grass exhausts the soil. A crop of English hay that weighs two tons removes from the soil about sixtytwo pounds of nitrogen, seventy pounds of potash and eighteen pounds of phosphoric acid. From an acre a crop of clover hay, weighing two and a quarter tons, abstracts about 175 pounds of nitrogen, 110 pounds of potash and 32 pounds of phosphoric acid. Two or three crops in succession, without manure, would almost exhaust the best land.— Exchange.