The Placer herald., 1860-03-17
THE HOUSE AND THE FARM.

SAwDusr FOR ORCnARDs.-,A year last
fall, hauled q load of old votten saw DUST
and threw around my young apple tr, es. My
neighbor over the way is one of those char
acters who plods on, in the same old track
that his father and grandfather did before
him, believing that they know all, and more
too. My neighbor said, if put sawdust
rou d my trees should surely kill them! |
told him would risk it, ANY how l put
fresh stable manure around one row, and
saw-dust, around the next. Around another
row put leached ashes. And the remainder
Of the orchard manured with rotten barn.
yard manure, and in the spring spread it
and well planted the ground with corn and
potatoes. The result WAS, many trees grew
very luxuriantlv, but the trees where the
saw-dust was grew the best, the bark being
smoother, and the trees had healthier ap-
rearance. will state also that that part
Of the orchard planted to potatoes grew
greatly better than that part planted with
corn. The soil was clay loan.
A CHEAP FuMIG AroR.-The following will
he found to he a cheap and pleasant funi'
gator for sick rooms, aud diffu.ing n health
full, agreeable and highly penetrating disin-
fec,ant odor in close apartments, or wherever
the air is deteriorated. Pour common vim
egar on powdered chalk until effervescence
ceases, leave the whole to settle, and pour Oft
the liquid. Dry the sediment, and place ii
in shallow earhen or glass dish, and pour
nn to it surhuric acid until white fumes
commence arising. This vapor quickly
SPREADS, is very agreeahy pungent, and acts
as q powerful purifier of vitialed air. Con
centraed and reduced again to the liquid
state, it constitutes aromatic vinegar of com
merce.-Scienhfc american.
NEEDED BRANCHEs-A writer for the
Virginia Farmers Journal is highly delight
ed with his success in starting branches on
his pear trees wherever he wishes a limb to
grow. He saws careful examination will
show plenty of dormant eyes or curs on the
stock. To produce shoot at any point, a
slit or cash is made over the eye and into
the wood with knife or fine saw, which
by checking the flow Of the sap, starts these
dormant eyes into life, and, in three times
out of four, branch shoots FORTH
LIME IN TRANspLANTING TRees.-An Eng
IISf HutiCdtioi say = tlht n IdIGc piditdtI'ii
of trees has been formed in that country,
within few years past, without the loss of a
single tree, by putting small quantity of
lime in the hole when planting trees. -Four
bushels of lime are said to be sufficient for an
acre. The lime is thoroughly mixed with
the soil, in order that it may be reached by
the roots, with equal facility in every direct
ion, rs its principal effect is to push forward
during the first precarious stages of growth.
PRESERVING EGGs.-Dissolve some gum
shelac in a sufficient quantity Of alcohol to
make a thin varnish, give each coat, and
after they become thoroughly dry, pack
them in saw dust or bran, with their oints
lownwards in such a manner that they can
not shift about. After keeping as long as
YOU desire, wash the varnish carefully Oft, and
they will be in the same state as they Mere
before packing ready either for eating or
hatching-Prairie Farmer.