The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-04-26
HONE, FARn AND GARDEN.

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"A lady It Woodstock, Ontario, Can.,
thinks she has succeeded in keeping earth
worms and inaects from plants BY huEying
= rusty nail 4 he earth.
6sapstone hearths should b first
washed in pure water, and then well
sprinkled with powdered marble or soap
stone, and rubbed with piece of the same
stone. II hrfstian linton.
The NNo England Former says that
seed corn on the cob will terminate when
three or four years old but is better when
fresher. Wheat will sprout when very old,
but Winter rye is worthless for seed when
three years old.
lin laying out the garden devote no
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 le' fhe flowers alone and devote the
space t potatoes and onions.-Iosoa STATE
Register.
Lemon Meringue Pie.-Take one cup
of powdered sugar and heaping table
spoonful of butter; best to cream. Add
the yelks of two eggs and the juice of two
or three lemons. Beat the whites to a
stiff meringue with two tablespoonful of
powdered sugar. When the pie is done
take it out of the oven and spread the me-
ringue over the top. Sci it back in the
oven for two or three minutes that it may
brown little. 49,
The Garden advises, instead Of chang
ing the soil containing sickly pot plants,
that the surface be well stirred, and then
so thorough with water at tenn
perature of 1873 to IA degrees Fahrenheit
that it will run freely from the bottom of
the pots. Thus treated, after q few days
the sickly plants recovered their original
heal h and vigor, and began to grow
again.
Baked Halibut. - Clarity three or
four ounces of fresh butter, and pour it
into the dish in which the fish is to be
served; add to it little salt, some cay
enne, a teaspoonful of essence of ancho.
vies and little lemon juice; lay in pieces
of halibut freed from the bones, strew
over them thick layer of fine bread
crumbs, moisten them with clarified but
ter, set the dish in a moderate oven, and
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,
if the boards have shrunk, clean out the
joints well, and with small brush give
a heavy coat of boiled linseed oil; then
putty up solid. Now paint the whole
floor with mixture Of much Oil and lit
tie ocher for the first coat; then, after it
is well dried, give two more coats of
much Ocher and little oil; finally finish
with coat of first-rate copal varnish.
This is an extremely durable paint for
floors, indoors or out, such as verandas,
porticoes and the like. A floor stain is
best 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 the
hogs trough. Almost always the trough
is SO deep and the front side so high that
the feed cannot be reached by either large
hog or pig until the fore. feet are planted
in che middle of the trough Small pigs
are required to mount into the trough
with every foot before they can reach the
feed. These are the reasons why hog
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 and
reach the feed without resting his throat
on the edge of the trough, and he will
stand up TO it as horse stands to his
Manager Western Farm Journal.