Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1879 — HOME, FARM AND GARDEN. [ARTICLE]

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—There i$ as much nourishment in one bushel of beans as in fire' bushels of potatoes. •j-A drop of lukewarm water poured in each nostril will always relieve an infant Of snuffling.— Exchange. —A little ‘4hlt sprinkled in starch while it is boiling tends to prevent It from stioking; it is likewise, good to stir it with a, clean spermaceti candle. —1 never know anyone that was too good or too smart to be a farmer. The blue sky, the balmy breezes and green fields never tainted any pure man r 6 morality, or dwarfed any noble man's intellectual ability.— Lambie. —I find that lime, wood ashes and old iron put round the roots of declining fruit trees have a very beneficial effect. These fertilizers restore the trees to a healthy condition, and also greatly improve the fruit in quality and quantity.— W. A. London. ’ —Raise plenty of sunflowers. The seeds are excellent for chickenß and a valuable medioine for horses. Half a pint of flaxseed or one pint of sunflower seed in a horse's feed, three or four times a week, fall and spring, does much to keep them in good health.— N. Y. Herald. —Nothing will take the various social distempers, which the city and artificial life breed, out of a man like farming, like direct and loving contact with the soil. It draws out the poison. It humbles him, teaches him patience and reverence, and restores the proper tone to his system.— Clarkson. —The lemon syrup bought at stores can be made at home much cheaper. Take a pound of Havana sugar, boil it in water down to a quart, drop in the white of an egg to clarify it, strain it, add one-quarter of an ounce of tartaric or citric acid. If you do not find it sour enough after it has stood two or three days, add more of the acid. A few drops of oil of lemon improves it. —Exchange. —Strawberries—fine luscious, crimson strawberries—look well upon the table at meal time, three times a day, and they taste better than they look, and their fragrance is as captivating as their taste. Farmers’ cows give milk, which furnishes sweet cream, and with a little sugar added to the strawberries and cream, there is a dish that the most favored magnates of earth might relish. Strawberries are as easily raised as potatoes or cabbage, and every farmer’s table ought to be supplied with them in their season.— lowa Stale Register. When a young horse act* badly in harness, it is because he has not been properly taught his business. To whip and ill-use him is to spoil him. A horse is naturally willing and docile, if well used, and much may be done by kindness, patience and judgment in removing the ill effects of wrong treatment A colt should be trained when young, and gradually taught his duties; the greatest care should be taken to avoid 1 frightening or irritating the animal, ] ana much patience should be exercised. If the animal refuses to do what is required, punishment will make matters worse; something should be done to distract its attention, when it will generally become docile.— American Agriculturist. —To wash blankets, take half a cake of soap, cut it into small pieces and dissolve it thoroughly in not water. Pour this into enough cold water to cover the blankets; Md two ounces of borax (pulverized dissolves most readily) and put your blankets to soak all night In the morning take them out and squeeze most of the wafer out of them and rinse thoroughly in cold water, in which a little borax has been dissolved; put them through a second rinsing water and then through the blueing water. Do not wring them or squeeze them this time, but hang them up to drain and dry.* The easiest way is to take them, while in the last water, out under the clothes-line, as it is not convenient to carry them when full of water. It is best not to double them over the line, but hang by one end or side. Of course you want a sunny day for drying them nicely, and if you put them to soak at night and the next day is stormy, it will not hurt them to soak longer. If the wool is very greasy, use more soap and borax. Fine flannels and babies crocheted skirts and sacques are nice when washed in this way, and if you use cold water they will not shrink. Vary the proportions of soap and borax to suit the quantity of water. —Farmand Fireside. -—■ - ■- -