The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-07-24

HERE is a japanese recipe for keep
ing meat fresh in hot weather a: "Place
it III clean porcelain bowl, and pour
very hot water over it so as to cover it.
Then pour oil upon the water. The
air Is thus quite excluded and the meat
preserved.
WHEN carriage has been run in the
summer season, use the water freely, so
as TO remove the dust or mud before
using the sponge and chamois skin. We
have seen carriages ruined on the ex-
terror by scratches in the varnish,
caused by carelessness or ignorance in
this particular. Mud should not be
allowed to dry on the varnish if it can
be avoided.
A FEW neat little bird-houses, which
any ingenious boy can make, placed III
the trees and around the buildings, will
induce many pair of sweet singing
birds to locate on your premises, and
you will find them serviceable as well as
pleasant, for they will rid your garden
of many of the pests, in the form Of in
sects, that infest it.
THE following recipe for destroying
bugs on squash and cucumber vines has
been successfully tried for years. 1t is
certainly worth trial : Dissolve q tea
spoonful of saltpeter in a pailful of
water. Put one pint of this around
each hill, shaping the earth so that it
will not spread much, and the thing is
done. Use more saltpeter if you can
afford it. 1t is good for vegetables, but
death to animal life. The bugs burrow
in the earth at night, and fail to rise in
the morning. 1t is also good to kill the
grub in peach trees, only use twice as
much-say quart or two to each tree.
There was not a yellow nor blistered leaf
on twelve or fifteen trees to which it
was applied last season. No danger of
killing vegetables with it. A concen-
trated solution applied to young beans
makes them grow wonderfully.
DoN'T RELY on Corn ALoNE.-The
Western Farmer says: The indications
are decidedly in favor of Il good price
for corn during the summer and next
fall and winter. In view of this it is
especially important that farmers should
make provisions to secure as much
growth and flesh for their stock during
the summer as practicable, and to pro-
vide food that will take the place of
corn to some extent. If there is a good
field of clover for the hogs, this will
save the corn during the summer. We
wish there were more attention paid TO
root growing for stock feeding. Some
farmers have found peas very profit
able crop for feeding from the field,
sown either alone or with oats. A
great growth OF pumpkins can be
secured and they are well worth their
cost. Corn thickly sown i'll drills is not
only valuable for cattle but for hogs in
early fall.
NEW KIND OF OATs.-We have been
shown, says correspondent of the ST.
Al6dns Messenger, sample of "hul-
less oats" by Mr.. Jacob Smith of Mont
pelier, who is introducing them as seed
for field culture in this state. They re
semble the common oat after the hull
is removed. In threshing, the grain
comes out of the hull like wheat. Forty
bushels have been raised to the acre at
the West, and the grain weighs forty
eight pounds per bushel. The seed was
brought to this country few years
since by laborer from Belgium, who
sowed it, but left ii before it was har-
vested, so that nothing further is known
of its history. 1t is claimed that the
grain makes an excellent meal, superior
to that usually obtained from the COM
mon varieties, after hulling, and as this
forms quite an item of food at present
in this country, if this new acquisition
can be raised successfully, it will be
very useful for this purpose, as every
| 60 so. ftpia mt or Ic
own use, at least.-ET.
PoTATo- BEETLES NOT Poisonous
ARSENIC THE BEST REMEDY.-At a late
meeting of the Champaign Co., ILL.,,
Horticultural Society Prof. Burrill, of
the Illinois Industrial University,
stated with respect to the Colorado
potato-beetle that he was now prepared
to disabuse the public mind in regard to
the poisonous properties of this beetle
or its larvae. He had applied plaster
of the crushed insects to his arm, and
had rubbed them into cut on his
hand, had crushed hundreds of them in
his hands, and in one instance the fluid
spirited into one eye-all of which had
on unpleasant results and he did not
believe that they possessed any poison
GUS properties whatever. He could not
say the same of the common potato-hy
Lytta Vittdta, or striped cantharis,-
which was no doubt more or less poison
Gus, and it was possible that this led to
an erroneous opinion in regard to the
Colorado insect.
With respect to prevention of the
ravages of the Colorado beetle, Prof.
Burrill, said that common arsenic, a
tablespoonful to a bucket of water,
sprinkled ON the plants, is an effectual
remedy, better than to apply dry
arsenic or Paris green, as those latter
must be applied when the dew is on the
plants, or must be renewed after a
shower; while the liquid adheres to
the plant for long time and only re-
quires renewal on account of largely
increased growth of the leaf. The leaf
appears to retain the poison without
any change, and as 1T does not seem to
be assimilated by the plant, it in no way
affects its growth. Paris green has the
same effect, but its extra cost is the
objection to it. The Professor thought