The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-07-31
FARM AND HOU SEHOLD.

To DESTROY BUGS, ANTS, ETc.-No
insect which crawls can live under the
application of hot alum water. In will
destroy red and black ants, cockroach-
es, spiders, chinch bugs and all the
myriads of crawling pests which infest
our houses during the heated term.
Take two pounds of alum and dissolve
it in three or four quarts of boiling wa
ter let it stand on the stove until the
alum is all melted ; then apply with a
brush while nearly boiling hot, to every
joint and c~revice in your closet, bed
steads, pantry-shelves, and the like.
Brush the ~crevices in the floor of the
mop-boards, if you suspect that they
harbor vermin.
CosT OF CROPS. - A Delaware county
(Ohio) correspondent of the Rural NeW
Yorker estimates the cost of growing
the different crops on land worth sixty
dollars an acre to be-corn, so bushel
per acre, 90 cents per bushel /; 60 bush
els per acre, 25 cents 40 bushels per
acre, 81 to 35 cents ; 80 bushelsper acre,
81 to 40 cents. Wheat, average cost,
one dollar per bushel. Oats. at least 80
cents at 80 bushels per acre. Potatoes,
at 100 bushels per acre, 90 cents. These
estimates include manure, blowing,
narrowing, drilling, planting, thorough,
good cultivation and the stalks and
straw of corn and grain to pay for husk-
ing or threshing, and five dollars per
acre for interest and taxes on land.
LONG FURRows.-A German agricult-
ural journal prints a plea for long fur
rows. The turning of the pillow and the
commencing of a new furrow require
more exertion in the plowman and the
team than continued work on a straight
line and how great may be the loss Of
time from frequent Interruptions in
short turns may be shown in the follow
ing calculations In field 225 feet long,
FIVE and a half hours out of ten are used
in redirecting the pillow with a length
of 575 feet, four hours are sufficient for
the purposes; and when the pillow can
proceed without interruption for 800
feet, only one and a half hours of the
daily working time are consumed.-Ru-
raj Register.
HOUSEHOLD MEAsUREs.-As all fami-
lies are not provided with scales and
weights, referring to ingredients in gen.
eral use by every housewife. the follow
ing information may be useful
Wheat -four. n pound is n quart.
Indian meal, one pound two ounces is
one quart.
Butter, when soft, one pound one
ounce is N quart.
Loaf-sugar, broken, one pound is one
quart.
White sugar, powdered, n pound
one ounce is one quart.
Best brown sugar, n pound two
ounces is one quart.
Eggs, average size, ten eggs are one
pound.
Sixteen large tablespoonfuls are half
a pint, eight are a gill, four half a gill,
etc.
WET PAsTUREs.-A writer in the Lon
don Field relates his experience in re-
claiming wet pastures. He has found
shallow draining themost advantageous,
and that the tile may be safely laid
either nearer the surface or further
apart than in draining arabic land.
Having tried lime and barn.yard ma
nure as top dressings after drainage, he
was led to substitute bone-dust, and
found it much more beneficial than
either or both of the former. On a
thin, light soil, 1000 pounds of bones
produced a fine, rich, thick heritage, in
place of the coarse grasses and sedges
that grew previous to the draining. On
heavier clay the quantity of bones was
increased with good effect. An outlay
of $40 per acre in bones, he found was
returned in a very short period, while
the benefit was still apparent after the
expiration of twenty years.
LEARNING FARMING.-The New York
World says: Again and again-and
especially at this season of the year-fo
young men ask advice of agricultural
editors as to the best way to learn farm
ing. The answer in all cases is simple
and brief: GO to work on the best
farm and under the direction of the best
f.rpoar vou CON find who will accapt