Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1879 — HOME, FARM AND GARDEN. [ARTICLE]

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

■ —Very weak lime water will kill worms In flower pots. —lt is not oil that gives a horse such a sleek ooat, but a plenty of elbow grease.— lowa State Register, —Window Boxes.—Thoso boxes supply the place of a hot bed or cola frame. Soeds sown in boxes of earth three inches deep, and set in a warm kitchen window, the plants properly watered and thinnod, and, if need be, transplanted to other boxes of earth, will give an abundance of early-tomnto and other plants. —Early Pasturing. —No stock should be allowed to wander over the meadows. This is doubly injurious. It destroys the grass and spoils the appetite of the animals for ary' feed. Nothing is fained but much is lost by this practice. he ground is also “poached,” and quagmires are formed in low, springy spots where the first grass appears. —Coffee Jelly.—Coffee jelly is occasionally very refreshing. Make the coffee precisely as if to drink (not too strong), sweeten a little and add the gelatine in the usual way, only not too much; it is best when just too thin to quite stand- alone. Serve with cream and sugar.—Mrs. Read, in the April number of Dr . Foote's Health Monthly. —Cranberry ' Jelly.—Dissolve one ounce of isinglass in three-quarters of a pint of water; then draw out oyer the fire and press the cranberries, and add the isinglass jellv to a pint and a half of the Juice, a dessertspoonful qf lemon juice, six ounces of sugar, and the whites and crushed shells of four eggs. Simmer ten minutes; then strain through muslin till clear, and fill the mold. —Gems.—One quart of flour, one quart of milk and water, half and half: put flour in basin with little salt, and gradually pour in milk and water, beating up your batter; beat it up light; put your gem pan in your oven overnight; it can’t be too hot; put a small lump of butter as big as the end of your little finger in each of the compartments of the pan; when it is hot till with the batter; bake in a very hot oven fifteen minutes. —The spring work does not all commence with the plowing. Long before the ground is ready to work the thoughtful and intelligent farmer will be busy making plans. In this case, when the season’s work begins, he will know just which fields he wishes to plow, how much manure he is going to apply, where it is coming from, and what crops he can most profitably plant. Careful planning and forethought are important elements of success in farming.— N. Y. Herald. —A writer in the Inter-Ocean at r tributes the hair turning gray to the opiates given to infants in the form of soothing syrups, etc. She says: “To prevent one’s hair fading or turning gray while young, mix and use one-half pint Jamaica rum, one tor-oil, half ounce tincture cantharides. The hair and scalp is to be thoroughly washed with castile soap and water once a week at first, then less often, then the oil mixture applied to the scalp in small quantities, a teaspoonful being sufficient in most cases, and thoroughly rubbed with the hands; apply every other day. This stimulates and nourishes the hair admirably.” —To make a fall for a bracket, shelf or mantel, cut Java - canvas, of any shade desired —drab, or brown, or black—into theform you want Usually it is deepened at the center into a point or scallop, and also at each end. In each scallop embroider a figure, flower or medallion; trim the edge with some bright fringe to correspond to your prevailing color, and have a heading of galoon, or fringe, or embroidery. One made of drab, embroidered in scarlet zephyr, with a flower in each of th# three points, and a scarlet vine for the head, and edged with scarlet furniture fringe, is handsome. Application work is also very effective—several shades of one color, or bright contrasting colors on a sober ground; bright butterflies cut out of flanuel, and chain-stitched on *at the edges, or flowers or designs from the antique. — Western Rural.