Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1870-05-27
FARM AND FIRESIDE.


HINTS TO CoNsUMpT1vEs. Consumption
is not disease Of the lungs, but one of
system, showing itself in the lungs Ifyou
fully comprehend this you are ready for the
common sense treatment. Avoiding all To-.
cal treatment by inhalation, all the panaceas,
including whisky and cod liver oil-fashion-
able to-day, exploded -morrow-employ
| those natural methods about which wise doc
tors never differ.
| l. Walk in all kinds of weather two or
three times day If two weak for this,
begin with the saddle.
2. Hanging by the hands, in rings sus-
pended from the ceiling, six feet from the
floor, swing back and forward, sideways and
in circle. The effect upon the walls of the
chest is very remarkable. I have known
such swinging to reduce the pulse very SEN
sbly in week. In each exercise continue
until slightly fatigued ..-..
g. Wash the entire skin in tepid water
and good neutral soap every morning, on
returning from the first wrlk, and rub the
skin to redness every night, on going to bed,
with sharp hair gloves. Lawrence's Eng
fish patent gloves are best. All druggists
sell them
4. Sleep much retiring before nine, ad-
ding nap in the middle of the day New
CT forget that good ventilation during the
hours of sleep is vital in every case of dis
eased lungs.
5. Eat for breakfast and dinner oat meal,
cracked wheat, beef, mutton, plain bread,
potatoes, and other vegetables, except toma-
toes. Use no pastry or other trash. Eat
no supper.
6. Cultivate jovial people. Laughter is
the most precious of all possible exercises
for chronic lung affections. Dio Lewis.
New METHOD OF Corn Growing, An
intelligent and reliable neighbor, of ours,
who has for many years been making expo
riments with corn, has discovered an impor-
tant thing in replanting corn which is quite
novel, and worth publication. We have al
ways thought replanted corn was of very
little consequence, but this gentleman says
cit is Of so much consequence that he re-
plants whether it is needed or not or rath-
er, he plants, two Or three weeks after the
crop is planted, hill about every fifteenth
row each way" He says:
eff the weather becomes very dry during
the filling time, the silk and tassel both be-
come dry and dead. In this condition, if it
should become seasonable, the silk revives
and renews its growth, but the tassel does
not recover. Then, for want of pollen, the
new silk is unable to fill the office for which
it was designed. The pollen from the re-
planted corn is then ready to supply the
silk, and the filing is completed" He says
nearly all the abortive ears, so common in
all crops are caused by want of pollen, and
that he has known ears to double their size
in the second lling.-Eachange
FEED THE FRUIT TREEs.-It must be ap-
parent to every rejecting person that the
material round about fruit tree, which
renders important aid in the production of
fine fruit of any kind, must necessarily be
more or less exhausted after vine, bush or
tree has produced abundant crops for sever
al successive seasons. For example: A
large pear tree or apple tree will frequently
yield from ten to sixteen bushels of fruit an
nually. Many trees have produced more
than twice these quantities at one crop.
A few seasons, the material that the roots
must be supplied with, in order to develop
fruit, will be more or less exhausted. For
this reason fruit begins to fail and the fail
ure is often attributed to an east wind or
some mysterious atmospheric influence, when
in reality, the sole cause is starvation, aris-
ing from an impoverished soil.
The remedy is to feed the roots Of all
r. of I'll
gypsum. chip dirt, bones, fishes, and any
thing that will renovate an impoverished
soil. It is evident that fruit trees cannot
produce fine fruit out of nothing, or out of
such material as may be desirable for other
purposes.-Hearth and Home
FEEDING WnEAT.-A writer in the St.
Louis Journal of Agriculture gives his rea.
son for feeding wheat, instead of corn, oats,
barley etc. He says: II am feeding wheat
this year in preference to corn The wheat
is thoroughly cooked in common cast-iron
cauldron, and fed when cool. First I have
two reasons for feeding wheat: 1 believe it
will make more flesh OF muscle, and still, fat
OR lard enough, than corn. The second
reason is the price. I have the choice be-
tween barley and oats, corn and wheat
My home market affords them at these rates:
4o pounds of barley, for 81 80 pounds of
oats, 45 cents Sc pounds of corn, 80 cents;
80 pounds of wheat, IS cents; which, re-
duced to 100 pounds of each. will give the
cost of barley at $2,0S oats, 81 Al wheat,
81 ,25; and considering that the hull is the
thinnest in wheat, therefore less COMPARE
tive loss of weight, wheat would be the
cheapest at even few cents above corn.
anu farming with the steady view of making
the most money Of what l have in hand;
and finding that barley brings me double
the price Of the same weight of wheat. sell
braley, and buy wheat to feed to hogs (and
horses, too.) .
HORSE RADIsH SAUcE.-A dessert spoon
full of oil or cream, the same quantity of
powdered mustard, tablespoonful Of vim
egar, little salt, with two heaping table
spoonfu!s Of scraped horse radish, we'll mixed
together make delicious sauce. 1t will
keep two or three days if only oil is used.
A French gardener finding a piece of
wooden cloth, which had lodged in tree
covered with catterpillers, acted upon the
idea suggested, and placed wooden rags in
several trees. Every morning he found
them covered with catterpillers, which lie
easily removed. .- ,~. a...a.
F1RE.pRooF MoRTAR.-Take two-thirds
of the best lime and one-third of black
smiths dust, and mix with the necessary
ouantity of water. This will form mortar
that will set nearly as hard as iron, and is
.ho hoct IN nse for setting the firehricks in or