Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1879 — HOME, FARM AND GARDEN. [ARTICLE]

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—Salt is injurious to a corn-crop, but beneficial to wheat, cabbage and strawberries. It can be applied any time after the wheat is up or the cabbage plants set out. — Exchange. —Mr. L. S. Coffin says: “I would almost as soon think of being without salt, as oil, meal or flax-seed, with a herd of cattle. Then again, I suppose there is no bedding that is equal to flax straw for bogs.” —We advise no one who has but a small lot for a garden to put out a willow hedge or windbreak about. Willow is an intolerable feeder, and in a few years it appropriates all the substance and moisture for two rods on either side. —Farmer Clarkson. —This is the time for whitewashing. A good article of whitewash can be made by slacking two gallons of white lime in five gallons of hot water, in which one pound of rice has been boiled until it has all dissolved. Cover closely while lime is slacking. Add one pound of salt; use hot. —W e would keep cattle as the principal stock of the farm, commencing with the best common breeds, ana grading them up with crosses from the best short horns. There is the most money in raising and feeding, yet if good stock could be Had, buy and feed. —DesMoincs Register. —Treat the family cow to a little oil cake meal every day, and she will quickly respond in more and much nchef milk. Try it. Fresh ground and pure it contains a larger per centage of'gluten, albumen, starch, sugar and fat. Best spring feed for all kinds of stock. —Slate Register. —No man who understands his business would expect to raise wheat in soil in which there is no nitrogen, lime or phosphorus; or make hens profitable on food containing no lime for egg-shells; or keep bees on a desolate island where no flowers would be foundi —lowa State Register. —A good county fair, among all its other merits, is an evidence of thrift on the part of the farmers of the county. A poor farmer cares nothing about the He has nothing to exhibit, and hJMilikes to attend, for he is reminded, by the elegant products which his neighbors display, what failures he and Bis farm are.— Clarkson. —A moist atmosphere of a high temperature acts injuriously upon domestic animals; it relaxes and weakens the organism by exciting the activity of the skin without absorbing the perspiration, and by increasing the functions of the lungs, not seldom to such an extent as to cause the breathing to become more or less difficult, and, in consequence, the decarbonization of the blood imperfect. The effect produced by a humid atmosphere of a high temperature upon an animal organism differs in so far from that produced by a dry atmosphore at a high lemperar ture as the former is unable to absorb the moisture exhaled by the lungs and perspired by the skin.— Cor. Chicago Tribune. ; ■