The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-07-13
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

-Ceilings that look very rough and
manifest a tend eney to peel should be
gone over with solution Of one ounce
alum % one quart water. This will re-
move the supertluous lime and render the
ceiling white.
To utilize corn-beef fat pare several
potatoes, slice thin, throw them in the fat
that has been saved in boiling corn beef.
an hour, skimming carefully and strain
off from the sediment The fat will be
sweet and solid, suitable for ordinary cook
ing purposes.
For current jelly, to one peck of ripe
ctirrants add one quart Of cold water; put
into the preserving kettle, s!5tt1s and oil;
boil when it commences to boil-fifteen
minutes-strain through crash bag. To
every pint of juice pound of granulated
or the whitest coffee crushed sugar; boil;
after boiling six minutes pour into jelly
Jars.
Mo business occupation OF employ
ment is So sure to be rem,tnerative as
farming; if the necessary conditions to
success are complied WITH Out Of moth
ing nothing comes, and this is as true in
agriculture as in any other pursuit. Hun
dreds of farmers are complaining about
poor success they are expecting something
| to grG;WNi 0jit of nothing: Their fathers and
| grandfathers have been taking off the
| cream of the land, and they expect to do
| the same, when, in fact, the supply is ex
hausted. Plant-food has been carried off
from the farm so long that there is little if
any left to manure crops. Tender plants
spring up and grow on air and moisture;
they thrive in early spring, but there being
no strength in the soil, the s.orching sun
bakes the ground and dries them up so
| that there is small return for all the
labor The soil is not to blame. Nature
| is not to blame. But the farmer is to
| blame who expects something to come
! from nothing Making the soil rich in
| plant food with thorough culture will
| make farming remuneratiYe employ
ment.-Ohio Farmer:
we believe that the sprirk1ibg, of
| no good but is injurious. When from
| using the watering pot, it seems as if the
earth were wet, VIC shall find that it has
| penetrated scarcely half an inch. This
can have little effect upon the roots, while
evaporation carries it away at once upon
receiving the first rays Of the sun. The
surface earth is made, by artificial sprlnk-
| ling, hard aid close, thtts excluding the
air-forming reader conductor of heat
and offering barrier to the ready alb
sorption of moisture and rain when show
ers come-as they sometimes do-to miti.
gate the killing effects Of drouths long
continued. If we would preserve the
freshness of our flower: beds, and are will
ing to take the TIME and pains, they should
be watered after shutdown until the water
is about to run off. Then wait for this to
soak in and water again and again: FL
nally spread freshly cut grass over the en-
tire surfase ar iuei thiek. This does not
mar, as one would SUPPOSE; The appear
ance of the bed after few hours, as the
color of dried grass is nearly that of dry
earth, and consisting of short and fine
blades as it will be if cut with the lawn
mower, it very soon resembles the
earth itself. A covering like this sup
prcssts weeds and, the urouth must be Sc
we're indeed to seriously affect plants thus
treated. We recommend the same for
fruit and ornamental trees transplantcd
this spring.-Rurol New Yorker.