Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-06-13
Farm, Garden and Household.

ut each time.
In breeding from aged and diseased
animals the foals are injured before they
see the light--so that when the young
colt, at less than year old, has ring
bones on all his feet-as we have actually
seen-the farmer thinks he is peculiarly
unfortunate in raising colts.
TEA BIsoUIT,-Six potatoes boiled and
grated in half milk-pan of flour. One
tablespoon of salt, three tumblers of milk,
and two ounces of butter, warmed in the
milk,one cup of yeast. Beat the whites of
three eggsto froth and put in before
kneading. Mix not quite as stiff as bread
dough, and put to rise.
VALUABLE HINTS. Salt stimulates di-
gestion. Onions are the best vegetable
known to correct bad blood Ice cream
produces acute dyspepsia in consumptive
patients. Cracked wheat, boiled or cook
ed as rice, is good diet for dyspeptics.
Ice held in the mouth will quench thirst
in cholera, cholera morbus and fever.
DESTROYING STRIPED BUGs.-A writer
in the Maine Farmer says that at the
first time of hoein9 corn he puts hoe
full of fine earth on the young pumpkin
plants, covering them completely. The
bugs leave, and before the plants come
through the earth, are gone past The
pumpkins are not checked in growth by
this process.
BRooMs. When broom begins to sue
cumb to wear and tear, place it in pan
Of boiling water for few seconds, shak-
ing it we'll, and drying it quickly in the
sun or near the stove. II the bottom
edge is wearing unevenly, tie string
around it until it is dry, and trim off
the uneven edge carefully. Whisk-
brooms should be treated in the same
way.
WooL,-Wool is now commanding
high pnce says an exchange, and one
which, it is believed, cannot long be
maintained. The Ohio article is held in
Boston at from 70 to S0cents very little
is offered below rs cents, and buyers are
not inclined to pay more than GO or 65
cents. California has 5000, 900 pounds,
and the holders are DESTROYS of keeping
it till fall, while Eastern buyers who
have canvassed Western markets will not
purchase at present rates. The Toledo
Commercial prophesies slight stagnation
OF the market till after shearing time, and
then probable decline in the price
WEEDs.-I believe that weeds do not
spring spontaneously from the earth.
They are produced from rootsand seeds.
If we could kill all the roots, and get all
the seeds to terminate and then kill the
plants, the soil would then he free from
weeds. This is a simple truism. But l
do not believe that there is any practicable
method of making soil absolutely free
from weeds. I think it is possible to
cause all the weeds to terminate in say
eight inches Of the surface soil, but if
when this was attained the pillow should
run half an inch deeper, we should
probably the next season have a plentiful
crop of weeds Let these go to seed, and
relax al efforts to kill the plants for
few years, and the land would soon be
overrun with weeds, but what of all this
The only sensible plan for farmer to
adopt is to fight the weeds, and keep
fighting them. Exchange.
CLEANING PA1NT.-To clean paint use
but little water at time keep it warm
and clean by changing often. A flannel
cloth is better than cotton. Be careful |
of soap. But put little soap or skim
milk in the water and soap to the cloth
when needed. A sharp piece of soft
wood is indispensable for the corners
the point will become like paint brush.
A saucer of sifted ashes, used where
paint is badly smoked OF fly specks are
thick, is better than soap; wipe last
with clean wet towel, and don't spill a
drop Of water. Never put soap on glass
unless it can be well rinsed, which can
never be the case with windows wash
off dirt in clean warm water and dry 4
then with paste of whiting and water,
and with a little cloth, place little in
the centre of each pane. With another
cloth rinse over the glass next rub off
with a dry cloth till the window shines
like crystal,
KILLING GRASS. The way the most of
the Western New York farmers manage
to kill quack grass, is as follows, viz. -
AS soon as corn planting is over, pillow
the field that you wish to rid of the pest.
about four or five inches deep, and then
harrow the ground thoroughly three or
four times over ; after which rake the
field with steel wire-tooth horse rake
and you will be surprised when you col
lect the roots that have been pulled out
by the rake. Where q field has been
long seeded down, and there is any quack |
grass in it, 1t will be found matted only
about four or five inches below the sur
face this is why I do not advocate plow-
ing any deeper the first time. When the
roots are dry, gather them together and
burn them and pillow the field again,
going through the same operation as at
first, but one or two inches deeper every
p'owing. and my word for it quack grass
will not be as abundant as it was before.
WASHES FOR FRUIT TREES. -Twice
year, at least, every fruit tree in the or
chard should be washed with some liquid,
strong enough to destroy the eggs and
pup@ of insects, and the roots and spores
of moses and fungi. In using caustic
I've for the destruction of bark lice, sever
al persons have killed their trees, as
sometimes the bark turns black and peels
off after the application of this wash, and
the death of the tree follows. Lime
whitewash is recommended by some per-
sons, but it is disapproved Of by the most
experienced fruit growers soapsuds are
harmless, but are too mild for the purpose
for which the application is required.
The most suitable wash is q solution of
sal-soda in The proportion of one pound
of soda to gallon of water Rain water