The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-06-11
HONE, FARM AND GARDEN.

-An0 pUAsOue COus1l0eU IN WU0SCU
smoke find . ready exit from the system;
when exhaled during period Of lasting
their injurious effect on the heart 10 to be
apprehended.-Lsaest.
"A California medical amateur pub.
fishes the discovery that If you get your
face infamed by the poison.ivy the appli-
cation of . good strong mustard-plaster
will speedily make you forget oil about
the smarting caused by the irritating
vine.
TO Cook Asparagus.--Skint the white
part, turn the points together, and tie in
punches. Have the water boiling; add
salt; lay in the asparagus and boil briskly
half an hour. Toast slices Of light bread,
and pour over little of the asparagus
water; butter it we'll; put on the aspara-
gus and serve hot Or serve with. drawn
butter and parsley, emitting the toast
Most housekeepers have felt the need
Of . recipe for mending knives, or rather
for fastening knives and FORKS to their
handles. The following mixture 10 rec.
commended for this purpose in the Scssn.
tt6c american: Mix together one pound
of rosin and eight ounces of sulphur, and
keep it either in bars or reduced to pow
der. Mix one part of this powder with
half part of iron filings, 1ine sand or
brickdust, and the cavity of the handle 10
to be filled with the mixture. Heat the
stem of the knife or fork and insert it
hot, and when cold it will be found tight.
The exclusion of damp from brick
work has long been an important prob
lem. One of the most effective methods
of accomplishing this object is the fol.
lowing: ee-Quarters of . pound OF
mottled soap are dissolved in one gallon
of boiling water, and the hot solution
spread steadily with fiat brush over the
outer surface OF the brickwork, care be-
ing taken that It does not lather; this IL
allowed to dry for twenty.four hours,
when solution, formed of 3 quarter of .
pound Of alum dissolved in two gallons
Of water, il applied in . similar manner.
over the coating of soap. The soap and
alum form an ins0luble varnish, which
the rain is unable TO penetrate, and this
cause of dampness is thus said to be eff.
fectually removed. The operation should
be performed in dry, settled weather. An
other method 10 to use eight parts Of lin.
seed oil and one part of sulphur, heated
together to 278e, in an iron vessel.
Western Rural.
"A horse will consume eighteen
pounds of hay and twelve quarts of mixed
oats and corn, ground into coarse meal,
per day. A COW will need eighteen
pounds of hay and six quarts of meal if
she is milking. If at pasture three quarts
of meal may be probably fed per day.
One hundred hens will require 100 BUSH
els of corn in year, in addition to what
they can pick up on their range. They
will need very little corn in the summer,
but at least q quarter of pint day in
winter. The quantity of corn needed by
hog depends much upon it's size, breed,
and appetite, in all of which hogs differ
very much. 1t would be safe 70 allow
half bushel of corn, ground into meal, .
week for q hog of 100 to $50 pounds, and
more In proportion for larger ones. At
fattening time there can be no limit given;
the hog should have all it can be in
duced to eat or made to digest.-American
Agriculsurist.