Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1879 — HOME, FARM AND GARDEN. [ARTICLE]

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—The Rural New Yorker says the best thing for one to bny, if hq is sure of a good artiole, at a low price, is exEerience. Our contemporary might ave added, and yet of all valuables it is the least salable.— Exchange. —When tho voloe is lost, as is sometimes the case, from the effects of cold, a simple, pleasant remedy, says an exchange, is furnished by beating up the white of one egg, adding to it the juice of one lemon, and sweetening with White sugar to taste. It has been known effectually to cure the ailment. . —Western breeders and raisers are ciphering out a rise in the price of hogs. One of the most observant says: “The farmers all over the country are putting their brood sows, pigs and all they can get into market this winter, seemingly in the belief that thero will be no hogs needed next year. The result will be a snort crop and high prices.” —To cure chapped hands, take of sweet oil three ounces, spermaceti four ounces, pulverized camphor one ounce. Mix together in a clean earthen vessel by the aid of gentle heat, and apply it warm to the hands night and morning. Another very good oifitment may be made with a little fresh, newly-churned butter and honey. Another very valuable remedy is to grease the hands when cracked or chapped with castor oil. It is a sure cure.

—The following recipe is given by an old gentleman of Charlottesville, Va., who states that he has often known it to be used in cases of diphtheria, and has never known it to fail in effecting a cure: Take a handful of alder root, a handful of dogwood root, a handful of the bark of persimmon root, boil with a pint of vinegar down to a half pint; then add a very little water, a small lump of alum and a little honey. Let the patient use it frequently as a gl®—The following is given as a correct rule for measuring corn in the ervb: Multiply the length by the breadth, ana this product by the depth of corn in the pen. Multiply this again by 4j, and point off one decimal place. This result will be the answer in bushels. For instance, we have a pen of corn 48 feet long, 7 \ feet wide, and 8} feet high. Multiplying these three dimensions together, we have 3,060 cubic feet. Now multiplying this by 4J, we have 13,770. Pointing off the one decimal, we have, as the contents of the pen, 1,377 bushels. —A very good and cheap sled can be made out of planks eight to fen inches in width and two inches in thickness. Plank raves, an inch and a quarter in thickness and six inches in width, are better than poles. The outer edge, from the front beam to the end of the runner, or roller, to which the tongue is attached, should be tapered. For a strong sled, three beams will be required. Bore the holes for the stakes through the raves and the beams. In preparing the beams, make a notch on each side, five inches from the end, so that an Inch and a quarter white oak pin can be driven down through the raves each side of the beam into the runners. In preparing the roller for putting in the tongue, make the mortise in it about two by ten inches in front, and two by twelve or thirteen on the back side, and drive in heavy plank wedges also from the back side of the roller, and pin securely. The double tree should be placed not more than twelve or fourteen inches from the roller. Such a sled, with some slight changes, perhaps, will serve a very good purpose, where a home-made one is desired. —Farm and Fireside.