The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-06-19
HOUSE, FARM AND GARDEN.

uhnu-DFusn or a garden-SYr1nge. When |
sifted on dry, the wind too often carries !
1t away. By mixing it with water to
apply it, the lower parts of the bushes
are reached, where the little pests begin |
their depredations. By this method we
cleaned them all of from several thou
sand bushes, two years ago; and have
not been troubled with them since
This, too, is a sure remedy for the in
sects and bugs that infest rose-bushes.
SAVE THE BEST Fowls FOR BREEDING.
1t is the worst possible policy to kill all
the best and handsomest fowls, and save
only the mean and scraggy ones to breed
from. This is precisely the way to run
out your stock for the like tends to
breed like, and the result is, that by
continually taking away the best birds,
and using the eggs of the poorest, your
flock will grow poorer and poorer every
succeeding year. 1t would seem as
though this was too plain to be insisted
upon, but, in fact, " line upon line" is
needed. 1t is the crying want of the
poultry upon the farms the country
through, this careful and intelligent Sc
lection of the best for breeding. Moth
ing is lost by little self-denial to start
with. The extra pound or two of poult-
ny flesh that you leave on its legs, in
stead Of sending it to the market, is as
good seed, and will bring forth ten-fold
and twenty-fold in your future broods.
Save your best stock for breeding
Poultry World.
CHAP WAY TO MAKE VnEGAR.-I
take quite quantity of common Irish
potatoes, and wash them until they are
thoroughly clean, then place them in
large vessel and boil them until done.
now drain off carefully the water that
cooked them in, straining it if neces-
Bary, in order to remove every particle
of the potato. Then put this potato
water into jug or key, which I place
near the stove, or in some place where
1T will be kept warm, and add one pound
of sugar to about two and one-half gal
Ions of the water, some hop yeast, or a
small portion of whisky. Prepared in
this way, and letting it stand three or
four weeks, you will have most excel
lent vinegar. Indeed, it is the only
vinegar that will preserve cucumbers
cut fresh from the vines without the aid
of salt. If Ihave not plenty,of potatoes,
when am boiling them for family use,
/ put ON more water than is necessa-
ny to cook them, and drain off the water
and treat it as above described, dimin-
ishing the ingredients to suit the
amount of potato water. The whole
cost of really superior vinegar in this
way does not exceed six or seven cents
per gallon. Cincinnati Gazette.
How TO CULTIVATE RosEs.-There is
n great deal of unnecessary mystery
thrown around the operation of prepar-
ing soil for roses. We unhesitatingly
advise our readers TO select q good fri
able loan, and incorporate therein plen-
ty of well-rotted stable manure. The
old-fashioned idea of planting singIy
upon the lawn, dotting them here and
there, does not produce a good effect.
A cirole-or ellipse, filed with the va
rious colors, will invariably give the
most satisfaction. New soil, highly en-.
riched, will yield splendid results but
old garden soil does not prove suitable,
no matter how much good manure we
incorporate therein. As to varieties,
tastes differ. A few of the most relia.
BILE boomers among the hybrid perpetu,
ais, such as La Refine, Baron Provost
Nine Charles Wood, Gen. Washington
etc, and then the Bourbon and Bengal
classes will give succession and variety
of colors that should satisfy the most
fastidious. Keep each plant neatly TIED
TO stake, and occasionally give them {
small portion of the weak mnnure-w water
through the summer. We prefer to cut
the plants down to within a few inche,
of the ground upon the approach o
winter, and cover very lightly will
rough, coarse manure, not to keep then
warm, but for preserving them from th,
direct rays of the sun, fruitful causu
of injury during the winter months
In warm, sheltered situations tn,
Noisette class may be used for climbers
but for general purposes, such as GOV
ering unsightly buildings, nothing car
possibly excel the hardy prairie roses
CULTURE OF MELONS. Melons can b.
grown so cheaply that every famil,
should have Mt least a small patch de
voted to their culture, and they will b.
found decided addition to their bill
of fare in summer and autumn. Al
soon as the soil is warm enough the seet
can be planted, and the soil for eacl
hill shonld, unless tho ground is darl
and rich, be mixed with a fork-full o
old, decomposed horse or COW manure
Then drop five or six seeds into a hill
and cover them about an inch with soil
Scatter q handful of wood-ashes, plaste
or bone-dust upon the top of the seed
10 keep away the bugs. Wood-ashe
are an excellent preventative agains
both grubs and bugs, and for the frs
month of the growth of the plants it i
we'll 10 apply them once a week TO eac
hill Lime or plaster is also good t
scatter over the vines, and if apphe
early in the morning, while they are We
wet with dew, viii be an effectual RENE
dy for melon-bugs aud their like.
one application does not drive off tn
marauders, try another, because tn
lime or plaster viii be beneficial for tn
plants, even If it does not keep away tn
bugs entirely. Water-melons are usual
~ planted in hills about eight fee
apart musk-melOns only six feet dis
tance. If all seeds come up, when the
have formed the second and third leaves
it r. better 10 thin them ont two or thre
ina hill /: yet when the melon-bugs ar
around, il is well TO defer the thinnin
ofethe vines until they have futile
their mission of destruction, and the
take out those that are the most eater
USEFUL HRyrs Prof. Wilder {
Cornell university gives the followin
short rules for action in cases of acc