The weekly standard., 1869-09-08
HOUSE AND FARM.

Sixteen pounds of grease and the lye
from one barrel of ashes will make barrel
of soap.
DRY copperas strewed about ant nests will
induce them to leave and not to return. So
says one who has tried it.
To cure the mango in calves, the New
England Farmer recommends saturated
solution of carbolic acid, one ounce, in a
pint of water. Apply with soft sponge.
Soil under barns or stables that have been
standing any length of time is usually very
rich in nitre and IS especially valuable in
the compost heap or as top dressing.
In holding produce for higher prices the
loss on shrlnkage is usually under estimated.
Potatoes, for instance, will often shrink one
fifth during winter in the cellar.
A sure remedy for apple tree borers is
said to be to plug up their holes with to-
b2cce The borers come down to the en-
trance to push out their chips and finding
az obstruction attempt to remove it when
the tobacco kills them without fail.
BUGS AND COMMONWEALTH one ounce
'ot pokeroot in one pint of water until the
strength is extracted; mix the decoction
with molasses, and spread it on plates in
the kitchen or other apartments which are
infested by these insects. All that have
lpartaken Of this luxury during the night
will be found "organic remains" the next
morning.
Place q bone in the earth near the root of
a grape, and the vine will send out lead
ing root directly to the bone. In its pas
sage it throws out no fibres-but when it
reaches the bone, the root will entirely cov-
,er it with the most delicates fibres, like
lace, each one seeking pore of the bone.
On this bone the vine Will continue to feed
as long as nutriment remains to be extract
ed.
WORMS IN SwNE-In answer to an in
quiry as to the cause and cure of worms in
pigs, correspondent of the Main Farmer
says: IF the writer will take the pains to
give his pigs handful of good rock salt at
least three times a week, in their food, until
killing time, think his pigs will thrive
provided he gives them enough to eat. The
cause of pigs having worms is, think, the
want of the preventiye-salt. Pigs hardly
ever get any salt, except what they can get
from the slops of the kitchen.
How TO PEEL PEACHES. the time for
putting up peaches is at hand, we have pro
cured from lady friend the following recipe
for peeling peaches which we confidently
recommend to our lady readers: Take a
kettle of very strong lye, and heat to boil
ing; take wile cage-similar to corn
popper-fll it with peaches and dip into the
lye for moment, and then into cold water
With a coarse towel wipe each peach, and
the rind will peel of smoothly; then drop
into fresh cold water and the operation is
complete You need have no fear of inju-
ing the flavor of the peach.
THE CHEAPEST FooD.-The cheapest and
most nutritious vegetable used for food is
beams Professor Liebig says that pork and
beans form compound of substances pc
culiarly adapted to furnish all that is neces-
sary to support life A quart of beans
pork ten cents. This, as every house keep
er knows, will feed a small family for day
with good Strengthening food. Four quarts
OF beans and two pounds of corned beef,
boiled to rags, in fifty quarts of water, will
furnish good meal to forty men at a cost
of one dollar-two cents and half meal
How TURNIPs CAN BE RAISED CHEAPLY.
= By sowing the Purple Top turnip seed at
the last dressing of the corn, and covering
with light harrow, a couple of hundred
bushels of the best turnips can be raised
with very little trouble. The early sowing
will be compensated for by the shade afford
ed by the growing corn. This crop will
take the place of the weeds and will not be
in the way of harvesting the corn, as it will
do the turnips little harm to treat them as
though you did not know the crop was there.
There will be enough left uninjured to pay
all the expense dozen times over.-Ger-
mant0~n Telegraph.
A GREAT RELIEF-Since the papers have
so widely circulated the story that the to-
mato worm is fatally poisonous, great anx-
icty has been felt by old maids and nervous
housewives lest terrible calamity befal
them, and they have not only carefully
avoided tomato patches, but have cautioned
the gardener, the kitchen girl, and all the
children to keep at safe distance from
these ugly green worms with poisonous
stings. But here comes comfort from man
of science.
Mr.. Walsh, practical entomologist, who
has studied worms most thoroughly, says
Il scarcely supposed that anybody would
Tor moment believe such silly nonsense
but as find that great many do actually
believe it, take this opportunity to state
that the whole story is fabricated out oil
whole cloth. The horn in tomato worms
tail is not sting, neither can it penetrate
the human flesh, and even if it did there is
no poison bag attached to it, so that the
result would be no more serious than a
wound from a needle"
TRAINING HoRsEs.-Colts re left entirely
A too dong before they are takh in hand for
ereaEing in. tFEit-ir future 'ife should be
part of their earliest educatioa; instead of,
as now, lett to go as they list until the time
arrives for the professional breaker" to
practice on them. 1t is Just as easy, while
commencing to fondle and pet with them,
to learn them to be obedient to the halter
and other things; and they would then be
brought to work more easily, and with a
better spirit than they now often are. VIZ
saw at the close of the war seven year old
which had hitherto known service only as
cavalry horse, "broken i'm to go In heav!
wagon. The cruelty-it was nothing else
necessary" though it seemed to be, wa
shameful. The owner had bought him i, TO
that purpose, and he "would not pull.
Two men with green clubs beat hlm 10
nearly an hour during which time n, ne aaa Drok
the wagon and the gears nearly all to piece
IN his rearings and layings down. d
learned at last that all this meant that h
had to pull forwards, and he ever afterward
Sade an excellent driving horse. But q
eAat suffering might have been avoided b
saproper training when young. There al
o soMe horses like some men, whose nature
ocasentially vicious, and with whom the ro
cbHS SbiihSt be spared without spelling. tn
cnIt cnItuii but with proper training OF th
cS;I. cSiI .hxould be found in horse raising as
cntIil cl,Fa raising, the old rules of kicking an
brna viii be oftencr more honored in tt
Pre.. Paeh than in the observance. Philade!ph'