Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-12-14
.SEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

AMONG florists charcoal is reduced to
coarse powder and dug into the ground
like ashes; it is said that it not only &C
CELEBRATES the growth of young and delicate
plants in a marked degree, and induces
cuttings to strike root, buS that it has
powerful influence in heightening the color
OF t1OwerS.-LOndOR Gardeners Chronicle.
Two YEARS ago I bought new barrel
and soaked it in hot water few hours; |
then put the cider ia it, placed it in cell
lar, and in two days after | put in one
pound of white mustard seed (after grind
ing the same in my wife's coffee-milD. /
also added one tablespoonful of salt The
following spring | had just the same tast-
ing cider that l had when / put in the
mustard and salt-Rral World
A LADY writes to the Household how to
make dressing which she pronounces a
treat: Three cupfuls ofgrated bread crumbs
rubbed through cOlander: do not let
drop of water be put in the crumbs, and
take out every bit of crust; add one tea
cupful of very finely chopped beef suet,
two thirds of teacupful of chopped
parsley, good pinch of sweet maioram
and summer savory, the grated rind of one
lemon and some grated nutmeg, pepper
and salt; now bind all these ingredients
together with one or two beaten eggs, stuff
your chickens, boil or roast them
THOSE who are compelled to burn kero-
sene Oil, know how disagreeable it is to
enter a room after a brisk evening walk,
and find it filled with the suffocating
fumes of kerosene oil. In the city, where
gas is universally used, we. escape the
misery; but in the country it is a common
intiiction. The inmates of the room may
be unconscious of it, or have become &C
customed to the unwholesome odor. This
pernicious practice of using lamps filled
with kerosene, and having the wick
turned down too low, is usually the cause
of suftOcating fumes; the gas which
should be consumed by the flame, passes
into the atmosphere. 1t is unnecessary to
say that using kerosene in this way is a
most unhealthy practice Only good oil
should be burned, and the wick should
| always be raised to a proper height
Western Rural.
THE New York Herald saws: It will al
ways be best for farmer to produce wool
of one sort or the other. Wool that is
neither one thing nor the other, neither
long nor short, will not usually command
satisfactory price so readily as if it were
| either the wool clipped from Merino
SuScp VI llOI1 IIIc UdChS VI Ol SOME long
wooded breed. An intelligent dealer in
wool assures us that good delaine wool
| should be at least three inches in length,
| and be round strong staple. The prac-
tice of buying wool at an average price
per pound, without regard to its quality
or condition, is paying premium for and
encouraging the poor and dirty wool, for
grease and filth cost but trife per pound
compared with choice, clean wool. Wool
growers who raise wool above the average
as to quality and condition can do better
than to sell it at an average price by send
ing it to a reliable commission merchant,
where it will be sorted and sold according
| to its merits. This is a safe and salts
factory way to sell very good wool. 1t is
not to be expected that wool buyers will
advise farmers thus to dispose Of their
wool, for it deprives them of all the COM
mission for buying, besides some twelve
cents per pound extra in addition for all
| the delaine wool sorted out by them.