Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1879 — HOME, FARM AND GARDEN. [ARTICLE]

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—Ashes or saltpeter if applied in time will -hold £Bo onion maggot in check. —Dissolve glue in whisky, and you have it “ prepared” and ready to bottle and use. —Exterminate totally the first crop_ of potato bugs, and there will be no second crop. —To clean ivory ornaments rub them well with fresh butter, i. e., without salt, and place them thus in full sunshine. —When your hens havo the run in sumner they will find considerable lime; but it is just as well to have it near the hen house. —Ah Eastern farmer has used the following bone compost for twenty years with the best results, and states it is made as follows: Take one ton of dried bono (the finer the better), onefourth of an ox-cart load of good friable soil, free from sods and stones, and no matter how wet. Place a layer of soil and a layer of bone of about equal thickness upon each other (soil at the bottom) on a floor under oover, leaving a bushel or two of soil to cover; the heap. In forty-eight hours it will be too not to hold your hand in. T*et it remain to cool, which will begin in a week or ten* 1 days. Then shovel over the heap, thoroughly mixing bone and ’ soil. In a day or two it vv ill heat again. , Let it remain until it cools, then tnrow it over in the same manner as before. Throw over every ten days until all the moisture in the heap is exhausted and does not ferment. It is then ready for use. —The following bits of agricultural wisdom are taken from the lowa State Register: Do not plow or hoe beans when they are wet. In building, give free ventilation through the foundation walls. To raise corn—“ Plow deep, harrow well, plant early, then harrow till the corn is big enough to cultivate.” Chinch bugs have been observed this spring in some sections in considerable numbers. If the season should be dry they may prove injurious, at least to corn. Sweet cream should never be mixed with sour cream just before churning, as sweet cream is much longer in coming, and hence likely to lose itself in the buttermilk. Horses should be watered in the morning before they are*fed. A full drink of water immediately after being fed is a sure way of producing indigestion, if not inflammation. The earliest matured steer is the most profitable for the feeder, butcher and consumer, and the development and most rapid growtn of young cattle should be encouraged.