Connecticut western news., 1875-03-05
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Medical Department.

PPHS A'olo COGIOn wool, twisted it against the diseased surface four o i've times daily. --
 REMEDY FOR CRouP.-Spirits of tur pentlne IS sovereign remedy for croup oaturate piece of flannel with it anG place 1t on the throat and chest, and send for your family physician. If the case be very urgent, and the child in great distress, and the distance to the doctors residence be very great, drop three drops of the turpentine on lump Of sugar, and give internally. Or good emeticA of tircture of bloodroot, o1 lobella, or both combined, should be given. Every family should keep a bottle of spirits of turpentine in the
 DIsNFEcTANT AND MOUTH very weak solution of permanganate of potash will destroy instantly any taint rom diseased teeth or imperfectly- cleaned plates, and should always be used to rinse the spittoon in hot weather every time it is made use of. It is cheap, satisfactory, almost tasteless. not poisonous, and quite free from smell. It may be satisfactory to some to know that this will remove the taint of smoking from the breath If used as a mouth1 wash. 1Se .aa,--
 CURE OF HYDRoPHoB1A,- Saxon forester named Gastelo, now of the ace of eightY-two, unwilling to take to the grave eAwith him secret of importance, has made public in the Leipsic Journal the means he has used for fifty years, wherewith he af6rms he has saved many hundred human beings and cattle from the fearful death of hydrophobia: Take immediately warm vinegar or tepid water, wash the wound clean with it and wipe dry, then pour on the wound 8 few drops of hydrochloric acid, as mineral acids destroy the poison of the saliva, by which means the latter is neutralized.
 How Much My Potatoes Cost. 7.-
 am induced, says a Tribune writer of Yates county, N. Y, to give the cost per bushef of two kinds-Brownell' Beauty and the Early Rose. They were raised side by side, both treated alike, the soil IS the same, and the land cost $2OO per acre. First I will take one acre of the Rose, planted May 12, 1874:
 Interest on cost of land S14 Oo Flowing and narrowing m Seed, elgnt bushels. ........... 800 Marking ont, cutting seed, and planting
 Two days c1ltivating (twice1 soo Zoo Four days hoeing Ctwice). ).............. 600 ElVe oays ogglng. g..................... f7.50 Two days drawing in and storing ...... 500 Compost of three bushels slacked lime
 (slacked with water), one bushel fine -..
 salt, three bushels wood ashes mixed,
 and one handful put into each hill at A..
 Pianang-eost. ............... 4.50
 TOtal...:::. @ .s57.oo
 l have harvested from this one acre 162 bushels by measure; cost of raising per bushel, thirty five cents. No other fertilizer was used but the one named. The Brownen Beauty I planted about the 18th of May, on a little less than one-quarter of an acre by measure, and treatedu the same as the Rose-no diff ference except in the cost of theseed, but l will here call the cost the same. The Early Rose per acre cost S49,, aside from the seed, so e-quarter of this is S1225. Planted eighty-efght pounds of the Beauty (say one and half bushels), S1.- 5O, making an aggregate of SIS. 75. liar vested from this quarter of an acre of 1 Beauty 149 bushels of potatoes, at a cost of only nine and quarter cents per bushel, and with me 1t is fine table | potato. also raised from one pound of | the Beauty, planted separately, 621 | pounds, and was beat by other competi- tors out of sight and hearing. P.S.- planted one pound of Peerless by the | slde of Beauty, cut the same, treated the same, and I only had from it yield of 2l5 pounds. Some difference.
 The Best Field Beans.
 The 4naericaa Rural Home says that In Western New York the medium and marrow are most planted and the white | kidney and early pea to limited ex- tent. The medium is considered the most reliable, as, from its early ripening 1t IS less affected by the vicissitudes of the seasons. It sells for less, however, than the other varieties named. The | marrow is quite popular variety, and on strong soil is very productive. It IS quoted thirty five cents a bushel higher than medium in the Rochester market now, and the same as kidney, The white kidney has large stalks, requires longer season to be matured in, and is | more liable to be spoiled in ripening. When everything, however, is favorable It will produce large crops. It will, of course, make a difference in what way the beans are planted as to the quantity ef seed required, but farmers generally | use about @ bushel of the marrows and | mediums to the acre, rather more of the
 
 pea bean. a~z
 -.a Smut in Wheat. A California correspondent writes: We have neither rust nor smut ia any of our wheat fields. beg leave to differ from the advice generally given to farm: 1 CTS, wherein they are advised to discard the idea of mixing ingredients with seed wheat to destroy smut. This question has been so well and thoroughly tested In our State as to be no longer even a | matter of doubt. All our seed wheat is soaked from eight to twelve hours in a solution of bluesSone (sulphate of cop per) in the proportion of six ounces to | every hundred pounds of wheat. Smut | belng tungold growth, resulting from diseased grains, the germ or vitality of these diseased grains is killed by the solution of Yitriol, and thus prevented from growing and contaminating the | sound grains. A farmer here would be thought crazy were he to SOW his wheat without subjeeting it to the above pro- cess.
 To Polish Brass or Copper. Owing to irregularities of surface, it often happensthat considerable difficulty | IS encountered in putting q good polish | on articles of brass or copper. If, how ever, they be immersed in a bath com dosed of aquafortis one part, spirits of salt six parts, and water two parts for a | few minutes if small, or twenty or thirty If very large, they will become covered ! with kind of black mud, which on re- moval by rinsing displays beautifully lustrous under surface. Should the | luster be deemed insufficient, the i'm mersion may be repeated, care being l taken fn 1u All