The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-06-05
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Farm and Garden Notes.

Farm and Garden Notes.
Sheep and swine in the orchards are
recommended to exterminate the codling
moth.
A flower garden should be sunny; soil,
rich black loan, and sheltered from the
wind.
Interrogate your soil experimentally
and thus learn what is needed in the
form of fertilizers to produce thereon
remunerative crops.
Some gardeners nse willow twigs for
tying raspberry canes, as well as currant,
and gooseberry stems, to stakes.
During the summer the earth of the
flower garden will need an occasional
stirring with the rake or hoe, especially
if the summer is dry.
Instead of bringing the horse in when
coated with mud, and sluicing him with
cold or even tepid water, the mud should
be wiped or scraped off so far as practi-
cable, and then the legs wrapped round
till dry. An English veterinary surgeon
declares that "hundreds and thousands
of cases of mud fever (scratches or
grease) might be prevented if this plan
were used, instead of excessive wash
ing"
Ifyou want to keep your hogs, horses,
cattle and sheep healthy, give them salt
regularly. There is no better vermifuge
than salt. Much of the so-called hog
cholera is due to intestinal worms.
Plenty of salt would prevent the accum-
ulation of these worms. All animals de-
sire salt, showing that it is a want of
their nature, and undoubtedly for wise
purposes.
English authorities reckon potatoes to
be superior to Swede turnips as 200 to
GA, to beet-root as 200 to 105, and to
cabbages as 200 to 70. 200 parts of raw
potatoes and 175 of boiled are equal to
100 parts of hay. An acre of good po-
tatoes yields 600 pounds of gluten, al
bumen and caseine, producing muscle;
1880 pounds Of starch, gum, sugar and
fat, with 20,250 pounds of water. 100
pounds contain 10 of starch, gum and
sugar, q of gluten, ,albumen and caseine
and pound of oil.
The wash used for fruit trees at the
government gardens at Washington is
prepared as follows: Put half bushel
of lime and four pounds of powdered
sulphur in a tight barrel, Stacking the
lime with hot water, the mouth of the
barrel being covered with cloth; this
is reduced to the consistency of ordinary
whitewash; add at the time of applica-
ton half an ounce of carbolic acid to
each gallon of liquid. Mr.. Saunders
says: 81 generally applied it in the
spring before the leaves made their ap-
pearance, but I am convinced that it
would be more effective if applied later;
but then it is difficult to do so when the
tree is in foliage" Mr.. Saunders ap-
plies the wash not only to the stem of
the tree, but to some extent to the main
branches.
Household Hints.
A BEAUTIFUL WHITEwAsH. To five
gallons of whitewash made OF we'll
burned white lime, add a quarter of a
pound of whiting, half pound OF loaf
sugar, one quart and half of rice -four,
made into thin and well cooked paste,
and half pound of white glue dissolved
in water. Apply warm. Previously
scrape off all old scaly whitewash. This
is like kalsomine, and gives a brilliant
and lasting effect.
To RESTORE OLD KID GLOVES. Make
thick mucilage by boiling a handful
of faxseed; add little dissolved soap;
then when the mixture ccols, with a
piece of white flannel whipe the gloves,
previously fitted to the hand. Use only
enough. of the cleaner to take off the
dirt, without wetting through the glove.
A New MUorLAaE.- Journal de
Pharmacie states that if to strong
solution of gum arabic measuring eight
and one-third fluid ounces, solution Of
thirty grains sulphate of aluminium,
dissolved in two-thirds Of an ouLce Of
water be added, very strong mucilaef
10 foInod capable OF fastening wood to-
gether, or Of mending porcelain or glass
To PRESERVE Woop.--The following
method is used in Germany for the
preservation of wood: Mix forty parts
chalk, fifty resin, four linseed oil,
melting them together in an iron pot
then add one part native oxide of cop
per, and afterward one part of sulphuric
acid. Apply with brush. When dry
the varnish is as hard as stone.
CLEANING WALL PAPERS. TO remove
grease from wall papers, mix some full
ler's earth with OK gall and cold water
and spread it on the spot. Pin little
blotting paper over the mixture ant
leave it for three or four hours, ther
brush it off carefully, when in all proba
bility the grease will be removed; if not
renew the operation-the success O.
which, however, depends upon the papel
cleaning nicely.
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