Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1879 — HOME, FARM AND HARDEN. [ARTICLE]

HOME, FARM AND HARDEN.

—Every farm should own a good farmer. —Oranges and lemons keep best when wrapped close in soft paper and laid in a drawer. —Recollect that unskilled treatment of dumb animals is as likely to kill as to cure. —State Register. —lt is said feeding cows with turnips immediately after milking will prevent any offensive flavor to the milk.—Exchange. —To keep cheese that has been cut, tie it in a cloth and put it in a cool place; if mold appears, wipe it off with a cloth. —Boiled onions are prescribed in England-ior a cold in the chest, and onions, either cooked or raw, for chronic rheumatism. —Celery Salt.—Save tho root of the celery plant, dry and grate it, mixing it with one-third as much salt. Keep in a bottle well corked, and it is delicious for soups, oysters, gravies, or hashes. —lntelligent farming is learning to adapt methods to conditions and circumstances. There are fixed principles that apply to each condition. The man who masters principles can become a master in practice. Modify all principles according to location and surroundings.—lowa Stale Register. —Quite a number of horses have been poisoned in Kansas by being fed raw castor beans, as they are ten times more poisonous ttian the oil, because by pressing out the latter most of the acrid substances contained in the seed remain in the oil-cake. A few ounces of raw beans, or castor-bean oil-cake will produce a* fatal diarrhoea in an animal.— Drovers' Journal.

find the following recipe for exterminating rats: It consists of a mixture of two parts of well-bruised common squills and three parts of finelychopped bacon made into a stiff mass, with as much meal as may be required, and then baked into small cakes; these are put down for the rats to eat, and are said to effect their complete extirpation.—N. 7. Times. —The following cure for a felon has bqj£n tested by wide experience among my friends, and is worthy of circulation: Roast or bake thoroughly a large onion; mix the soft, inner pulp with two heaping tablespoonfuls of table salt, and apply the mixture to the affected part as a poultice, keeping the parts well covered. Make fresh applications at least twice a day, morning and evening, and a cure will follow in at least a week. —Cor. Chicago Evening Journal. —When woolens are worn threadbare, as is often the case in the elbows, cuffs, sleeves, etc., of men's coats, the coats must be soaked in cold water for half an hour; then take out of the water and put on a board, and the threadbare parts, of the cloth rubbed with a halfworn hatter's “card,” filled with flocks, or with a prickly thistle, until a sufficient nap is raised. When this is done, hang tke coat up to dry, and with a hard brush lay the nap the right way.— N. 7. Paper.