Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-01-16
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.


Clearing Moss from Fruit Trees
The American Agr5cuitu1Tst says nothing
| is better than carbolic seap and lye.
Make common lye of wood ashes, not
strong, and add half pound of carbolic
soap to three-gallon pail of boiling lye.
Apply hot with a swab to old trees. 1t
has been used with entire success on ap-
pie, pear, peach and cherry trees, destroy
ing every particle of moss it touches.
| An English journal says: Few per-
sons are aware of the magnitude to which
the rose may be grown, or the splendid
effect 1t can be made to produce on lawn
or pleasure ground; yet with sufficiently
strong stem, and a system of careful and
| patient training, there can be no reason
able doubt but that the standard roses can
be grown to the size and form of the or
dinary examples of the weeping ash, hav-
ing the branches all produced from the
top of single stem, and flowing down
ward upon all sides-a very ornamental
object for the lawn.
| Milk Paint.-For painting in rooms
where the smell of oil or turpentine
would be Objectionable, a preparation
may be made as follows: Take eight
ounces of freshly slaked lime, and mix it
in an earthen vessel with three quarts of
SKINNED s,ceet milk. In another vessel
three and half pounds of Paris white
with three pints of the milk. When these
mixtures are well stirred up, put them to-
| gether, and add six ounces of linseed oil.
Mix these well, and it will be ready for
use. This preparation is equal to oil
paint, and is excellent for walls and cell
lngs. Any shade may be made by the ad-
dition OF dry pigments.-EreTy Man HIS
Oion Painter.
| The Cheapest Grain for Chickens
Now that chickens raised the past season
have attained the ''hungry age" and the
frost has somewhat diminished insect
forage, the quantity of grain that will be
disposed of by large flock of young
fowls is astonishing. The question arises,
What is the cheapest food land the best,
The reply is, Indian corn. Give cooked
and raw, whole, ground fine, and ground
coarse, for the sake of change. 1t is the
cheapest thing that can be bought, gener-
ally speaking, the amount of nutriment
obtained in it considered. But to give
nothing but corn would be mistake. II
would predominant for economy's sake,
but oats, buckwheat, wheat screenings,
boiled potatoes, scraps from the table,
and as many other things as possible,
should be added to the bill of fare
Dutchess Farmer.
-Coloring Apples.-The San Jose Mer
curry, of December 8, says: "Charles
Caine, who owns an extensive orchard
near this city, has a method of giving
to red, striped and yellow apples high
coloring. The fruit is picked and laid
upon the ground in long fiat piles, under
the half-shade of the trees. 1t IS desira
BILE to give them as much sunlight as they
will bear without sHnburning. In two
or three weeks the apples on top will be
highly colored. These are removed
boxed, and sent to market, and the next
layer exposed to the SUM- His apples
thus colored, especially the Baldwins
Smiths Cider, and Spitzenbergs, chal
lenge the admiration of all who see them
By this process, apples that when picked
from the trees were almost without color
will become as brilliant as the reddes
apple on the tree, and equally as fine as
he best"