Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1879 — HOME, FARM AND GARDEN. [ARTICLE]

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—Hogs may bo kept from measles, trichinosis, etc., by mixing a handful of good wood ashes with their food twioe a weok. —The value of a cow depends much more upon the length of the milking season than upon the quality of milk given for a few weeks. Cincinnati Times. —Small corn cakes to bake on a griddle are excellent made with one pint of buttermilk, one pint of meal, one egg, teaspoonful soda, salt; bake half an nour. —The following rule in plowing is recommended: Never turn up over one or two inches of unfertile subsoil in one season, and when so turned gp, the land should receive a dressing of manure. —WafHea.—To one quart et milk add four beaten eggs, a tablespoonful of melted butter, one large gill of yeast, a little salt, and flour to make them as thick as griddle cakes. Set them to rise, and bake in wafHe irons. —A person who has tried it says that ashandful of tobacco stems placed ifi a box in which the dog sleeps will entirely rid him of fleas, and that a leaf or two of the same weed put in a sitting hen's nest keeps vermin at a respectful distance. Theso are two more things tobacco is good for. —An agricultural exchange says, to kill ticks on sheep, throw in the barnyard a few small, thrifty*/ secondgrowth fir trees. The sheep will eat the leaves and small twigs greedily, and often strip off all the hprk. The ticks will all leave the sheep in a few days, the strong odor from the oil of the fir driving mem away. —The Rural New Yorker says that ten acres of good "Clover are worth more than so much wheat, if the value of what is left in the ground by the clover is taken into account. When a crop of wheat is taken the ground is exhausted of so much of its fertility,, which is carried off in the wheat; but when a crop of clover is taken the soil is actually in better condition than before, and is good enough to yield a crop of wheat or corn. —The Western Rural recommends the growing of cranberries in the garden. A pound of bone-dust to the square yard is the manure. “In April, May or June, or in October and November, set the plants four inches apart in rows six inches asunder in beds four feet wide. Two square rods yield four or five bushels, and require 2,000 plants. The vines will soon cover the ground and require no renewal, as the plant is a perennial shrub.” —Corns are nothing more than thickened condensed scarf-skin, which, rising above the general surface, produce pain and pressure. They are always the result of ah unequal pressure, made by-an ill-fitting boot or shoe. A tight shoe, simply, never produces a corn, provided the shoe fits 'Wefl, is equally tight at all points, so as not to produce unequal pressure. A tight shoe, however, should never be worn, as it impedes circulation and oauses results equally as bad as corns. A shoe or boot too large is productive of corns, especially if the leather is hard and unyielding. Such a shoe will be very apt to produce a corn wherever it touches sensitive parts of the foot The proper way is to have boots and shoos made to tit, neither too large nor too small, but just right—and then bathe the feet frequently in warm water, to remove the scarf-skin. This is the best cure also for corns. Bathe the feet every night in warm water, and remove all the scarf-skin possible, and only wear well-fitting shoes or boots made of soft pliable leather. Ignore fashion, and use common - sense in selecting your shoes or boots, and corns will never trouble you.—Exchange.