The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-02-03
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.



water add a tenspoonful of glycerine.
The best treatment for slight burns is
TO apply cotton batting soaked with
liniment made of equal parts Of linseed
oil aud lime water. Be careful not to
break the blisters, should any form.
The finest quality of indigo has the
least specific gravity, and floats upon
water. .. -
To prevent the skin discloring after o
bruise, take little dry starch or arrow
root, merely moisten it with cold water,
and place it on the injured part. This
is best done immediately, so as to pre-
vent the action of the air upon the skin.
Invaluable for black eyes. ..
The cause of streaked butter is the
imperfect working of the butter after it
is salted. Salt in butter sets the color,
or deepens aud brightens it so that if
the salt is worked into the butter and
not so fully worked MS to salt every part,
then the fresh butter retains the color it
had when it came from the churn, and
the salt butter grows 80 much darker
that it ia decidedly streaked. The
remedy is to work the streaked butter
more thoroughly. ... b..
Leather pump packing requiring to
be very tight, for small work, should
not be more than thirty second of
m inch thick, and not be bent up
round the bore or sides of the barrel
moro than one-sixteenth Of an inch.
Black lead well mixed with white of
egg is a good stove blacking Lay on
with paint brush, and hen dry polish
with o hard brush.
TO prevent fiat irons from rusting,
melt ole-quarter of an ounce of camphor
and one-half of a pound of fresh
hogs lard over slow fire, take off the
scum, aud mix as much black lead with
the composition rs will bring it to the
color of iron. Spread this over the arti-
cles for which it is intended. Let it lie
for twenty-four hours, and then rub it
well with e. dry linen cloth. Or smear
the irons over with melted suet, and
dust thereon some pounded unslaked
lime from a muslin bag. Cover the
irons with baize in dry place when not
i'll use.-Scientifc american.
How Much Corn TO an Acre.
Experience proves that, as rule, the
larger the yield is per acre the less is the
cost of production per bushel. 1t is
therefore important not only to be able
to get uniformly large yields, without
impoverishing the soil, but also to know
how large yield one may aim to pro
duce with a reasonable prospect of sue
cess. How much corn is it possible tt
grow on an acre As was remarked il
the Era a short time ago, on our fertile
Michigan lands eighty to one hundred
bushels of shelled corn ought to be al
ordinary crop, and it ought not to cos
over thirty cents per bushel exclusive O
interest on the capital invested in the
land. But the yield which by judici
GUS system of high farming it is posi- nl,
to obtain with tolerable degree of Ger
taiuty is probably far in excess Of on,
hundred bushels. Tho results of
series of experiments conducted by mem
bers OF the Elmira IN. - farmers
club seem to hint at the possibilities o
the case. In one experiment the yielt
from single grain was twenty-fou
ounces, equivalent to a bushel from
thirty-seven grains, and this rate of pro
ductlon for an entire acre, allowing t.
each grain four square feet of soil, woult
give 294 bushels of shelled corn. 1,
another experiment the yield from
single grain was thirty-one and one-hal
ounces, which would give bushel from
twenty y-eight grains, or 388 bushels pc
acre. In another the yield was thirty
seven and one-half ounces, equivalent t
a bushel from twenty-four grains, or 45
bushels per acre. In the most success
ful experiment of the series the yiel
from single grain was forty-three an,
one-half ounces, which is at the rate @
hI1G - tua fu-n Ex-
hundred bushels per acre. What ha
been done can be done again. Wha
one grain of corn has been made to pre-
duce, every grain of ten thousand lik,
it, allowing a reasonable margin for acci
dents, may be made to produce. Wha
a field has been made to produce in
favorable season, it and every other fiel
like it may be made to produce in ever
favorable season. AS yet we have scarce
ly begun to realize the possibilities c
high farming.-NelO Era.
Advantages Of HOeing.
Too many persons who use the no
suppose that the chief benefit derive
from it is to kill the weeds. That Gel
tainly is an important work, and on
greatly neglected. Weeds are not opl
in the way of cultivating the crop
which we plant, but they rob them @
much of the nutriment which they need
Hoeing, then, is an essential service i
respect to destroying the weeds. Their
are other advantages, however, whic
are commonly overlooked. Let us see
The loosening of the soil in the opera
iion of hoeing is beneficial to th
plants, as much rs the destruction of th
weeds or more so. Moisture abound
i'll the atmosphere during the hotties
months, and is absorbed and retaine,
most abundantly by a soil which is il
the most friable state. Then, again, plll
gerizing soil enables it better to retail
the moisture absorbed. The soil, i
order to be healthy and active, mus
breathe. A light porous soil admits tn
air, and thus it is invigorated hy the at
mosphere. The suns rays heat har,
soil much more quickly than loos
one, and the hotter the soil is, 30 mucl
greater will be the evaporation from il
So that the hard soil is deprived of it
moisture much sooner than one of
loose texture. The soil that has beel
kept loose near the surface by the &C
tion of the hoe will receive and hold th
rain water that falls, while hard sol
will allow most of it to run off into tn
valleys and streams as it falls.
Lime Water.
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