Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-07-26
Farm and Garden.

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used. An infusion of the flowers is .ex-
cellent for bruises, cuts and other
wounds.
IT Is estimated that within a radius of
thirty miles from New York CITY S1e.-
OO0,OOO are invested in Horticulture. and
that the annual sales, exclusive of cut
flowers, amounts TO two millions annu-
ally. The trade in cut flowers is very
large
The Journal of Chemistry says that hot
alum water IS the best insect destroyer
known. Put the alum into hot water
and let it boil till all the alum is dissolv-
ed; then apply 1t hot with brush to all
cracks, closets, bedsteads, and other
places, where many insects are found.
Ants, bed-bugs, eockroaches and creep
ing things are killed by it; while there is
no danger of poisoning the family or in
Jurlng property.
STEALING PLANTs.-A Londol naner
mentions that a reward of 60 is offered
Tor information. respecting stolen cut
ting OF valuable new seeding. Gerani-
um, also $50 for the conviction of the
guilty person and the return of the stock.
Our lawmakers are as a rule too busy
with welghtler matters to bother with
making it a prisonable offence to steal
such paltry things as Towering plants.
What care they for the rights of gar
dener who has spent Years of patient
labor IN obtaining something new and
desirable? But over the water they take
a different view.-N. y Tribune.
Do NOT forget that milk is one of the
best articles of food for young chickens
sweet milk. Sour milk or buttermilk
Is devoured with equal relish by them
and either is good. 1t makes them
grow, gives them an appetite for other
food, and assist such breeds as Ham
burgs, Leghorns, and Games that fedge
rapidly, to support the drain on the sys-
tenn that is required by early. flying
Give it to them to drink, mix their soft
feed with it instead of water, and see
how much better they will eat it, and
how much faster they will grow
DISEASES OF FowLs.-The topic which
will furnish most discussion and the sub
ject which will give most trouble to
poultrymen for the next few years will
be the ailments or diseases incident to
the fowls. These troubles arise from a
want OF proper management. Poultry
keeping is so small and rudimentary a
business in the popular estimation that
1t is a matter Of some difficulty to get
people to understand that it requires
careful and intelligent effort to succeed
satisfactorily. People will learn, how
ever, after while, that they must either
do this or abandon poultry-raising-
". Y. Tribune.
FEEDING SOFT CORN.-Feed the soft
ears of corn to mich COWS; a gain in the
flow of milk follows. Now stop feeding
these soft ears, and give them the big
ears, set with hard kernels, and it will at
once be seen how much more good the
soft corn does them. If the COWS are
over-fed, or perhaps should they have
but little of the hard corn, the kernel
will be found in the manure, unutilized
by the animals. In feeding herd of
COWS on hard corn, some COWS will be
always found not digesting completely
the kernels 1t is also observed that
when corn is sent to mill before it is
sufficiently dry to grind fine with the
cob, it is an unsatisfactory feed. 1t does
the COWS less good than we should ex-
pect, thus clearl betraying the fact that
at this time the meal is less nutritious,
in itself and is less digestible than meal
made from old corn-Scientifc american.
CELERY is the greatest food in the world
for nerves. Persons doing much brain
work find it invaluable. In cities, where
the brain and nerves are called to severe
exercise, people hunger for it, and the
demand for it grows so that ignorant
people cannot understand why it should
be so. 1t seems as though nature, in
her quiet way, finds and materializes
out of herself food or recuperation for
all parts of the system that are exhaust
ed in the demand for progress. Where
people work their muscles more than
their brains, beans, corn, meat, and such
food is most in demand, and celery is
not in much demand. But in cities,
where brain and nerves are overworked,
appetite clamors for something that will
repair the waste and do the weary parts
the most and quickest good Selected.
KEEPING BUTTER OvER-A report read
at meeting of the Illinois dairymen,
gives the following experience in keep
butter from year to year: During our
nine years residence in Iowa it was our
practice to buy (about the first week of
June) butter sufficient to last year.
My wife would pack it in stone jars with
a little brine on top of the butter The
bottom of our cellar was gravel, and [
used to set them down in the gravel so
that the top of the jars was but little
above the cellar bottom, and we never
had jar of poor butter. One spring
we had jar left over, and | sold it to
the merchant bought it of-buying at
10 and selling at 80 cents. And one
season. we summered over a surplus jar,
and used it the second winter in Febru-
airy and March, and it was good The
fact that summer butter has been kept
fresh and sweet for winter use is positive
proof that it can be SO kept The four
are: 1t must be well made.
1t must be sailed with pure salt. It
must be so packed as to entirely exclude
the air. 1t must be kept at a low tenn
perature. IL any one of these four con-
ditions are wanting, it will not keep.
Yet, after all, / believe the best way to
keep summer butter for winter use is to
keep it in the grasses and grains you
provide for your dairy stock, until near
the time you wish TO market it. Keep
in this way and it will never become
strong"
Secret Passes Of the Balkans.
From the Bucharest Letter to the London Times
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