The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-03-18
HOME. FARM AND GARDEN.

TO clean TASKS which have contained
resinous solutions, wash with caustic al
| kaline Ives and rinse with alcohol; if
they have held essential oils, wash with
sulphuric acid and rinse with water.
-Bituminous coal ashes from two to
four inches thick will make nearly as
hard and as lasting q floor in q cow
stable as plank, and, besides, it is not as
slippery and does not afford q harbor for
rats and mice.
DO not use martingales ON working
teams. See that the names are buckled
tight enough at the top to bring the
draft iron near the center of the collar.
If too low, it not only interferes with the
action of the shoulder, but gives the
collar an uneven MISUNDERSTANDING
american.
"A waterproofing stuff, said to be ex-
cellent for leather and felted and textile
fabrics, is prepared by melting paraffine
and adding gradually suitable drying
oil; the compound must be stirred we'll
to produce a thorough mixture, and then
poured into molds and allowed to cool.
The fabric, to be waterproof, is first
rubbed gently with the block and after
ward ironed with warm iron.
The price of corn in this country is
governed by the quantity grown, the
abundance or scarcity of other feeding
material having light modifying infiu-
ence. The foreign demand, averaging
between and 2 per cent, and reaching
in recent years 3 per cent, is too small
to be disturbing element in the market.
The commercial assertion that the for
eign value of an exported article fixes
its home price, while partially true of
wheat, fails utterly in its application to
corn.-C0untsy Gentleman.
Every farmer should keep book in
which to paste agricultural scraps. Every.
one in reading a paper will see things
which he will wish to remember. He
will perhaps see suggestions the value of
which he will desire to test, or hints
which he will want to be governed by in
future operations. And yet, after read
ing the paper, he will throw it down and
will probably never see it again. In
such case all the valuable articles will
be lost. To prevent such loss every
reader should clip from the papers such
articles as he desires to preserve and
paste them in a scrap-book. Such a
book ut the end of year or two will be
interesting and valuable.
Mos: of our plants are injured by too
much heat. For general collection of
house plants it is not best to allow the
thermometer to be above seventy, and if
they could be kept in room where the
thermometer would usually not range
much above sixty-flve it would be the
better. In the night time fifty is high
enough. Give q little fresh air every
fine day, and all the sunlight attainable.
Cleanliness is as necessary to plants as
to other bodies, therefore secure them
from dust, if possible. Sweeping carpets
is almost enough to kill both plants and
sweepers. 1t will be a happy day for
our lungs, as we'll as for the lungs of
plants, when we get good substitute for
carpets, something that will not raise q
cloud of dust every time step is taken.
Until this good time comes, give the
whole plant good Swinging occasional
ly, or bath in a pail of water. A little
moisture in the air of a room is pleasant
and healthy. would not say that
greenhouse or a mushroom house would
be good place to live in, but we do say
that room that will keep few plants
in good health, other things being favora-
BILE, will keep family in the same de-
sirable condition. The family can breathe
the confined, dusty, dry, over-heated air
of a room and live, because they are out
in the air good portion of the time, but
those who are confined to the air of our
living rooms the greatest number of
hours are the most delicate, and the
plants having to remain in those over
heated, ill-ventilated and dusty rooms,
without moments relief, must droop and
die. Cleanliness, fresh air, moderate
heat and moist atmosphere will secure
healthy plants.