Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-01-17
FARM AND HOUsEHOLp.

Clearing Moss from Fruit Trees.
The American AgriculturtSt says nothing
is better than carbolic soap and lye
Make common lye of wood ashes, not
strong, and add half q pound of carbulic
soap to three-gallon pail of boiling I've.
Apply hot with swab to old trees. II
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 yetwlth a 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, preparation
may be made as follows: Take eight
ounces of freshly slaked lime, and mix it
in an earthen vessel with three quarts of
ohliiliuCu StDocb nllK. III duObu6T N6SBcl
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 1t 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. - EUe,y Man HIS
Oaon 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 a large flock of young
fowls is astonishing. The question arises,
What is the cheapest food land the best,
all things considered) that can be bought2
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. 1t
would predominate for economy's sake,
but oats, buckwbeat, wheat screenings,
boiled potatoes scraps from the table,
and as many other things as possible,
should be added TO the bill of fare
Dutohess Farmer.
-Coloring Apples. San Jose Mer-
curry, Of December 3, says: "CharleB'
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 fat piles, under
the half shade of the trees. 1t Is desira-
BILE to give them as much sunlight as they
will bear without sunburning 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 sun. 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 reddest
apple on the tree, and equally as fine as
he best"