The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-06-17
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.

HUNGARIAN grass seeu should be
sown, for hay, at about the rate OF
three pecks per acre; many use u
bushel, others not over one. half a
bushel. Sow from the first of June to
the fifteenth, and even TO the first OF
July in ordinary seasons.
HEN.MANuRE, mixed with loan and
spread broad cast, or scattered in the
drills, is an excellent dressing for pota-
toes, and for almost any farm or garden
crop. II very much concentrated, it
must not be placed in large quantities
very ne r the seed, as it will destroy
the life of the young sprouts,
HUNDREDS of children have falling
victims to scarlet fever in this city dur
ing the past three months, Concerning
the treatment of this disease, nn cmi.
nent physician says that he does not
fail in effec'ipg cure more than once
in hundred cases by giving the patient
warm lemonade with gum arabic dis
solved in it. A cloth rung out of hot
water and laid upon the stomach should
be renewed as rapidly Ms it becomes
cool. This simple treatment the most
obstinate cases seldom fail to succumb.
- GermantOwn Y6Iegraph.
WATER PROOF VARNIsH. Here is an.
other way to prevent water from getting
through shoes. The composition also
makes good harness dressing. Take
neats-foot. oil, Il pints beeswax, l
ounce spirits of turpentine, 4 ounces,
and stir until cold. Spread and rub
this composition over the leather while
it is damp leather will absorb oil and
grease better when damp than when
dry. For the soles, take pine-tar and
rub it in before the fire until the soles
will absorb no more. Three or four
applications will be needed The dura-
bility of the soles will be much in
creased.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Country
Gentleman, writing of the advantages
of short rotation of crops, says !:
"Clover is at its best for pasture or
hay the second year after seeding. If
allowed to grow through that year its
roots extend as far rs they ever will,
and the ley is in best condition for
plowing. II kept longer the clover
runs out and its place is left vacant,
or filed by weeds or inferior grasses.
If timothy is mixed with clover
at seeding, it will partially occupy the
ground AZ the clover retires, but never
so fully as ii the original seeding was
timothy. In short, keeping clover sod
over the second or third year, at most,
is generally bad policy, and should be
discouraged. For one or two years
land in clover increases in fertility,
after that the advantage is less until
another seeding is had.
SALT FOR CABBAGE. A New jersey
gardener considers salt necessary to the
development of cabbage, especially III
places far from the coast. He finds
them more crisp, of better flavor, and
to keep better when salt is used than
without. He used it as follows: "a
few days aft setting ont the plants,
and when they are damp, either after n
rain or when the dew Is on, / take n
small dish of fine salt and walking
among the rows, sprinkle little pinch
of salt on the center of each plant when
the leaves begin to grow. [ repeat the
sailing, and when thecenter of the leaves
begin to form the mead, | apply salt
again, scattering it over the leaves
after this look them over occasionally,
and if find plants that do not head well
and appear diseased, Isprinkle the salt
over freely; this will save all such
plants. A quart of salt is sufficient for
five hundred plants in season, although
more can be used with safety
To PREVENT DISEASE 1t may be ns.
sumed, says the Herald of Health, with
ont hesitation, that whenever a pro-
nounced case of typhoid fever breaks
ont in an isolated country house, or
when any form of low fever occurs,
though it may fail to assume distinct
typhoid character, there IS in that
house, or about 1t, or in connection
with its supply of drinking-cellar, some
overflow from barn-water, some ac-
cumulation of neglected filth, some pile
of rotten vegetables in the yard, some
spot of earth saturated with the slops
OF the kitchen or some other form Of
impurity to which the origin of the dis
ease may be distinctly traced. This
being the case, it lies perfectly within
the province of every household to re-
move any source of infection to which
the house may be liable. Vegetables
in any considerable amount should not
be kept in the house-cellar and at least
once week the floor of the cellar
should be swept and every shred OF
waste vegetables removed. Even when
this is done, the cellar should be ven
tilated by window or other small open
ing toward the quarter least exposed to
cold winds (and in summer on every
side). The privy, if a privy is used,
should be we'll away from the house,
and especially fur from the well. unless
its contents are received in tight box
and entirely absorbed by dry earth or
ashes, and even then frequently re-
moved the chamber slops OF the house
should never, under any circumstances,
be thrown into the privy vault, nor into
porous cesspool, from which they car
leach into the ground and through thu
ground for long distance into the we'll
or into and around the foundation o
the house. The same disposal Of tn
liquid waste of the kitchen is desirable
but not so absolutely Important. IT i
however, important that this should |
led by an impermeable drain to poi
we'll away from the house and from Il
we'll swill and all manner Of nond
script refuse material, such as
sloughed off by every household in d
ordinary course of its living, should
removed at least daily from the ne
vicinity of the dwelling, and the vesse
, in which it accumulates should be II
auently cleansed and aired manu-
heaps should not be left to fermens ~ a..
! send of their exhalations az a poil
whence frequent winds wait .nem y, I, !.
word and into the dwelling, nor snoul