The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-12
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Do NOT pillow ground for Indian corn
until the surface has become 20 warm that
the seed will germinate and come up In q
few days.
Do NOT feel discouraged about raisinga
fair crop Of American potatoes, because
the Colorado potato beetle damaged your
potatoes last season. A small quantity OF
Paris green will repel those pests.
6Pors from sperm candles, stearine,
and the like, should be softened and re-
moved by ninety-five per cent. alcohol,
then sponged off with . weaker alcohol
and small quantity of ammonia added
to it.
THE disagreeable smell made by cab
bagc when cooking may be aunihilated by
putting . tiny piece of washing soda, not
larger than the top of q lea6-pencil, in the
pot. This is great discovery, and should
be heralded from Maine to California
Exchange.
HoLDNa white cotton or linen over the
fumes Of burning sulphur, and wetting in
warm chlorine water. win take out wine
or fruit stains. The sooner the remedy is
applied after any of these spots or stains
are discovered the more effectual the res.
toration.
ASIDE from the consideration of loca-
ton, the value of farm consists In its
ability to produce. Farmers often want
to increase the number of acres, when
they might about double the produce from
from what they have. They are too eager
to enlarge their farms.
THERE is nothing in the routine of
common management and treatment worse
than to bring team In, sweaty and tired,
from the road or fields, when the spring
air is cool and damp, and put 1t into .
stable where current of wind strikes and
chills the flesh and muscles.
YOU'VE growing animals now need food
which contains large portion of albumi-
nOids or heterogeneous food for the forma-
ton of bone and muscles; and if>>they do
not have it they will be weak and of small
frame. One of the best foods is wheat
bran. Mixed with corn lakes q be tier
feed still.-Detyoit Tribune.
CoLORED cottons or woolens stained
with wine or fruit should be wet in alco-
hol and ammonia. then sponged off gently
not rubbed-with alcohol; after that,
if the material will warrant it, washed in
tcpid soap-sude. Silks may be wet with
this preparation when injured by these
stains.
A WRITER in the Farm Journal recon-
mends those preparing for flower gar
den, to depend mainly on old standard
varieties, which are always reliable. He
recommends dozen kinds, and here are
the names of them: Asters, balsams,
dianthus, petunias, phlox, calliopsis, YER
bcnas, sweet peas, mignonette, cinnias,
marigolds and portulaccas.
WHEN the soil is thin and the subsoil
is lacking in fertility, it is better to pillow
shallow, unless one has access to gener.
GUS supply of muck and barnyard ma
nure. But, when the soil is deep and
rich and the subsoil is full of mineral or
inorganic elements which must be ex-
posed to the influences of frost, rain and
sunshine before they can be available to
growing plants, then pillow deep. Sue
cessful nurserymen, who know that q
deep, well-prepared soil is best for trees,
often furnish some of the finest speci-
mems Of large, profitable farming in the
crops which they obtain from the vacant
portions of their land, which should en-
courage farmers 70 discard superficial and
adopt thorough culture, provided always
they have manure sufficient to fertilize
oil the soil that is turned up by the pillow.
IN. T. Herald.