The Hillsborough recorder., 1870-05-04
PlRH-YlRD SCRAPS.

would have good milk.
A bushel Of plaster per acre, sowL broad
cast over clover, will add from 20 to 100
percent.
GARDENING FOR LADIES.
Make up your beds early in the morning.
Sou buttons on your husbands shirts.
Do not rake up any grievances; protect
the young and dteader branches Of your fam
lily.
Plant smile Of good temper in your face ;
and carefully root o,d all angry feelings, and
expect good crop Of happiness.
USEFUL HINTS.
If you are buying a carpet for durability
choose small figures.
Scotch snuff in holes where crickets come
out will destroy them.
Alum or vinegar is good to set colors Of
red, green or yellow.
A bit Of glue dissolved in skim milk and
water will restore old Grape.
A hot shovel held over vanished furni-
ture will take out white spots.
Ribbons Of any kind should be washed
in cold soapsuds, and not rinsed.
Wash your tea.rays with cold suds, pol
ISL with little -four, and rub dry.
Frozen potatoes make more starch than
fresh ones; they also make nice cake.
Sal Soda will bleach very white; one
spoonful is enough for kettle Of clothes.
A gallon Of strong lie put in a barrel o.
hard water will make il as soft as rainwater.
III yonr fat irons are rough. rub them
well with fnc salt, and it viii make them
smooth.
Stir Poland starch with common can
die. and it win not stick to the iron aud
will be much nicer.
Woodashes and common silt, wet with
water, will stop the eracks Of n stove and
prevent the smoke from escaping.
Warm turpcntine poured on wound will
cure lockiaw; il win relieve imuediately.
Turpentine viii relieve Group. II is good
for fresh cuts.
Irun rust il removed By salt mixed With
lemon Juice. Mildcw, BY dipping in sour
butterniIk and laying in the sun. Ink, by
snlearing with hot tallow, left on when the
stained article goes to wash.
4 correspondent in the Bee Keeper !
Journal xys: Buckwheat may be sown
from the middle Of june TO the middle o.
july il ATTITUDES north of forty degrees. i
runs tie risk Of being injured BY early frosts
| IL sown much after the lth Of July. Il ].
usually crt with the cradle. and, to avoid
los ii grain by shelling. when very ripe, i
NAV be cut when damp, as in the morning
or II evening. Being slow 10 dry out. il
should never be stacked or moved away in
| large quantities together, il i can bc posi-
bly be avoided. A better way i 70 thrash
as Il Is drawn in. or soon after. on a dry
warm day. The average yield y fron
twenty to thirty bushels per acre. Under
favorable circumstances and IN favorable
seasons from thirty 70 forty-fvc, and even
CITY bushels have been obtained.
A correspondent in the American dgri.
cultnrid says; Salt Is necessary 10 the best
development Of the cabbage. especially IN
places far from the coast. ne hnds then
moro crisp, d. better favor, and 70 kccl
better when salt Is used, than without. llS
uses Il as follows: "a few days after sct-
ting out elephants. and when they are damp,
either after rain or when the dew Is on.
take 4 small dish Of fine Salt and wall
among The rows springling little pinch Q
salt on the centre leaves Of each plant
when the leaves begin to grow. repeat tli'
sailing. and when the centre leaves begin q
form the head, apply salt again, scatter
inp Il over the leaves after this | locl
them over occasionally. and if End an.
plants that do not head we'll Or appear de
cased | sprinkle tie salt over freely thi
will ave oil such plants. A quart Of sal
Il sufficient Cor 900 plants IN scason, al
though more can be used with safety.
Experiments have recently tended Z
prove that roots and grains BY being plant
cd much further apart thsn Is usual, vii
actually yield larger crops than arc now %
tanned. This has been shown 70 be th
case with potatoes, and more recently will
wheat. II Is fonud that the wheat plan
increases above the ground IN proportion y
IL roots have room 70 develop without an
interference with those Of is neighbors. l
ono experiment, wheat thus treated furnish
ed ears containing over one hundred an
twenty grains. Il was found. in The oours
of The amcoxpcrimcnts, that on every full
, developed ccrcal plant there is ono ear 81
perior 10 the rest aud that each car has on
grain which, when planted, will be mar
! productive than any other. BY selecting
therefore, the best grain Of the best ear
and continuing 10 experiment through scye
raj generations, point will be reached b.
yond which further Improvement L impol
sible, and fixed aud permanent type r'
mains rs tho final result.