Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-04-26

a lady at Woodstock, Ontario, Can,
thinks she has succeeded in keeping earth
worms and insects from plants by buryine
rusty nail in the earth
-Soapstone hearths should be first
washed in pure water. and then well
sprlnkled with powdered marble or soap
stone, and rubbed with piece of the same
Standardization Union.
In laying out the garden devote nc
more to flowers than you intend to take
care of, and to do it we'll and scientific.
ally. And if you do not know what that
means let the flowers alone and devote the
space to potatoes and onions.-Ioaoa Stat.
Register.
Lemon Meringue Pie.-Take one cur
OF powdered sugar and a heaping table,
spoonful OF butter; beat TO cream. Add
the yelks OF two eggs and the juice of two
or three lemons. Beat the whites to 8
sun merlngue with two tablespoonfuls OF
powdered sugar. When the pie is done
take 1t out OF the oven and spread the me-
rlngue over the top. Set it back in the
oven for two or three minutes that it NAV
brown a little.
The Garden advises, instead of chang.
ing the soil containing sickly pot plants,
that the surface be well stirred, and then
so tEorough-sOaked with water at a TEN.
perature OF 133 to IA degrees Fahrenheit
that it will run freely from the bottom OF
the pots. Thus treated, after few DAYS
the sickly plants recovered their original
health and ylgor, and began to grow
again.
Baked Halibut. = Clarity three OF
of
into the dish in which the fish is to bt
served; add to it little salt, some cav
enne, a teaSpoOnful of essence of ancho
vies and little lemon juice; lay in pieces
of halibut freed from the bones, stren
over them a thick layer of fine bread
crumbs, mOisten them with clarified but.
ter, set the dish in moderate oven, anG
bake the fish thirty minutes. Minced
parsley may be mixed with the bread,
crumbs.
There is but one paint suitable for
floors, and this is French Ocher. First,
II the boards have Shrunk, clean out the
joints well, and with small brush give
d heavy coat of boiled linseed oil; theu
putty up solid. Now paint the whole
floor with mixture Of much oil and lit
tie ocher for the first coat; then, after il
10 "CA NltSu, give tNO 1OI6 COATS OF
much Ocher and little oil; finally finish
with coat of first-rate copal varnish
This is an extremely durable paint fol
floors, indoors or out, such as verandas.
porticoes and the like. A floor stain is
Oest mixed with oil and finally vanished
"A hog is no more inclined to put his
forward feet in the trough than horse is
wont to put his feet into his manger. The
great fault is in the construction of tn,
hog's trough. Almost always the trough
is so deep and the front side SO high thai
the feed cannot be reached by either large
hog or PIG until the fore-feet are planteC
in che middle of the trough Small pigs
are required to mount into the trougl
with every foot before they can reach tn,
feed. These are the reasons why a no,
puts his fore-feet in the trough. Let the
front side of the trough be made so low
that the animal can walk up to it ant
reach the feed without resting his throa
on the edge of the trough, and he vii
stand up to it as horse stands to his
manger.-Weste17a Farm Journal.