Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1879 — HOME, FARM AND GARDEN. [ARTICLE]

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—To relieve casks from mustinoss, turn a little sulphur in the empty onaks, hung, and let tlrtmi stand lor a day. —A farmer ihuat bo something*, beside a laborer. He must be a man of resources, and rise by his own energy to any emergency.— C. F. Clarkson. —As a fanner Slight to know all that is necossary fbr his business, and as chemistry is the key which has unlocked tho door to many a valuable lesson, he should uvail himself of all its aids. —lowa Stale Register. —Poverty Cakes.—One pint of milk, one teaspoonful of saleratps, two eggs. Mako them just stiff enough with Indian moal to work into balls, and boil them - in hot fat. To bo split open and oaten with butter. How to Kill Poke-Root.—ln the spring, when they commence to start out of tho ground, take a sharp hoe and cut tho stalk oft' at the ground. Then tako common salt and put about half a pint on a bunch. It will never start into growing any more.—Exchange.

—To break a horse from pulling on tho halter, tako a common rope or loather halter, place'it on the horse in tho usual way, then run tho rope or strap througli the hole or ring where you hitch, carry tho rope to tho ankle of the hind foot and tio it, then let him try himself, and five minutes’ trial will satisfy him. It will break up tho trick altogether. —Cincinnati Enquirer, —Tho American Agriculturist says: “In parts of Pennsylvania wo have seen a cellar so connected with a well as to considerably lower its temperature. The arrangement might be used to advantage elsewhere. A cellar is dug about three feet from the well, ns deep ii 3 may be convenient, and an opening made between them through a brick arch, the moutli of which is covered with coarse wire netting. A slab of stone is placed near the opening, upon which butter is set to cool.,”

—Sulphur is a good disinfectant in hen houses and pig pens. Sprinkled on bushes and vines, it docs much toward preventing blight and mildew. Mixed with a lime whitewash and applied to the trunks and limbs of fruit trees, it has a similar effect in preserving their health and thrift. Flour of sulphur used with a bellows early in tho spring, when an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, followed by a repetition of the process as circumstances will decide, seems to be the general remedy for the grape mildew. —N. Y. Herald. —Tho stock «f the farm should be looked over carefully and thoroughly weeded, turning off the old and nonpaying animals and keeping only those that are productive. “ I would not take an old cow as a gift,” said a largo milk-producer to us recently. “It costs more to manufacture milk from her than the milk is worth, and as for putting beef on an oldcarcaso, let those do it who like the business; I don’t.” This was putting tho truth pretty strongly, but there was some founder tion for the remark. If it is true that old cows do not pay, much more is it true that old horses, old sheep and old hens are not profitable.

—lt is not all of life *to cultivate a farm well, and to leave lands and piles of money for heirs “we know not whom.” The criterion of successful farming is very different with different persons. Most estimate success by the amount of property accumulated. It was from this standpoint he must have estimated it who said he never knew a professional man to make a successful farmer, and deprecated too much education as detrimental to this calling. If the cultivation of the land is more important than the culture of the mind, if money is more valuable than manhood, then those who have given all their mind to farming and money-mak-ing may be counted most successful. But every wise man knows, or ought to know, that to be a man is more than to be a farmer. It is not worth while to defer to the end of life the consideration of life’s great end.— Cor. N. Y. Times. 1