The Placer herald., 1870-10-22
HOUSE AND FARM.


inc TO the manner of propagating cuttings,
the Ne,c Erolqnd Farmer says that it has
been ascertained that a cutting will develop
roots much sooner in moist sand than in rich
soil But the sand cannot maintain its growth
for any length of time. To prepare pots for
raising cuttings they should be filed nearly
to the brim with rich garden loan, dark and
porous, not clayey and soggy them pour in
one inch in depth of securing sand; sea sand
will do as well as the yellow sand. Wet
this thoroughly, and place the cuttings from
which all but three or four upper leaves have
been removed, cloce to the side of the pot;
the contact of the ware against the stem OF
the cutting promotes its growth. Press the
wet sand firmly around the tiny stem A
great deal of your chance for success in raic-
ing slips or cuttings depends upon this.
Plant as many cuttings as the pot will hold,
from six to Dozen according to the size Of
your pot; when they are firmly set in the
sand, two or three can be inserted in the
middle of the pot Set them away in dark,
warm place for twenty four or thirty-six hours.
Thus, cuttings will grow quickly in hot
bed, because the temperature is not dry.
Their growth depends great deal upon light
heat and moisture.
If bud is close at the base of cutting
it will strike root more easily--is not so apt
to decay. The roots shoot from bud, and
the lower down it is the surer your success.
When the leaves drop, the plant is com
mencing to grow; if they wither on the stem,
it has begun to decay. BY following these
directions no one can fail to grow all kinds
of house plants. Roses and all the rarest
flowers of the greenhouses are propagated in
this manner.
SWEET On FOR Po1soNs.-A plain farmer
says: 1t is now twenty years since | learned
that sweet oil would cure the bite of a rattle
snake, not knowing that it would cure any
other poison, both on man and beast. !
think no farmer should be without a bottle
of it in the house. The patient must take a
spoonful of it internally, and bathe the
wound for cure. TO cure horse, it re-
quires eight times as much a it does for a
man. Here let me say, of one of the most
extreme cases of snake bites in this neigh
borhood-eleven years ago this Summer
where the case had been thirty days stand
ing, and the patient had been given up by
his physician.
heard of it and carried the oil, and gave
one spoonful, which effected a cure. 1t is an
antidote for arsenic and strychnine. 1t will
cure bloat in cattle caused by eating too freely
Of fresh clover
1t will cure bites of bees, spiders, and
other insects, and will cure persons who
have been poisoned by a low running vine in
,bo voa,1ov-s coIIo1
WATER MELON SYRUP AND BUTrER-A
Writer is the Prairie Farmer says | endeav-
or every year to raise watermelon patch.
They are a healthy and delightful fruit,
think. | cultivate the icing variety. When
the weather becomes cool in September, we
haul quantity of them to the house, split
them open, with a spoon scrape out the pulp
in cullendar, and strain the water into YES
sells We boil it in an iron vessel, then put
in apples or peaches, like making apple but
ter, and boil slowly until the fruit is well
cooked, then spice to taste and you have
somethig that most people prefer to apple
butter, or any kind of preserve. Or the
syrup may be boiled without fruit, down tc
molasses, which will be found to be as fine
as any sugar-house molasses. We have
made in fall as much as ten gallons of the
apple butter, if may so call it and molasses
which kept in fine condition till May.
EeG-BoUND FowLs.-A writer in Moore
Rural gives the following remedy for its diff
guilty. Take feather and strip it until
near the tip, and then dip it in sweet oil, and
let it remain until it becomes thoroughly
saturated, then pass the feather up the egg
passage till it meets the egg, which you will
find will relieve the hen at once, and enable
her to proceed with her duties; if she expert
ences any further difficulty, repeat the opera
ton, getting the feather well filled with oil
whenever you make an application. Do not
attempt to he p nature, in the way of pressure
for in that case the egg may become broken
and prove fatal to the hen After you have
made the application, as directed, let Nature
take her course, and all will be right.
800 REcpE.-The following recipe has
been sold for 500 in several instances, and is
really very valuable one in any family. II
is for the celebrated Washing Fluid Take
one pound of sal-soda and half pound OF
unslacked lime and put them IN gallon o
water, boil twenty minutes, let it stand till
cool, then drain off and put in a small jug Oh
jar, soak your dirty clothes over night, OF
until they are wet through, then wiring them
and rub on plenty of soap, and with water
add one teacupful of the washing fluid; boil
half an hour or more, rinse, and your clothes
will look better than by the old way OF
WASHING twice before boiling This is an
invaluable recipe and and every poor woman
should try it.
THE DOMINIQUE Fowl saw in your
very valuable paper of June ID, an article
on Dominique fowls. They are every way
as good IS represented, if not BETTER and my
advice to all rasers of the Bramahs, Polish
Cochins, Dorkings, and any other variety,
Is TO get the Dominique, or some large game
fowl and pivp them chance. my, word for II