The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-09-11
Farm and Garden Notes.


Destroy tomato worms.
Mulch newly-planted trees.
Eradicate weeds by hand picking.
Oucumbers of slow growth are bitter.
Provide good pure water for live
stock.
Sprinkle air-slaked lime on turnips to
destroy the turnip flea.
The temperature of stable should be
sixty five degrees, and free from mois-
ture.
1t is asserted that tomatoes as food
for COWS improve both the quantity and
quality of the milk, and give the cream
and butter rich golden color.
It is said in the NJ e. Farmer, that
water may be drawn on stoneboat or
cart with very little if any sloping over,
by simply laying on the water a round
board, about two inches less in diameter
than the inside of the vessel.
Top dressing moving fields as soon as
possible after the hay is removed is at
tended with excellent results. The stub.
BILE and roots are protected from exces-
sive drying by the hot sun, and the
grass is stimulated to vigorous growth.
For some sorts of vegetables, as let
tuce, cress, radishes and onions, the
Chinese system of keeping the soil con-
tinuously wet is the best that can be
adopted. It produces a crispiness in
the vegetables that is obtained only
when there has been no check in the
growth.
Professor Lazenby, latter numerous
experiments and very careful trials,
coIdmends the following as "safe, cheap
and effective applications for the cab
bage worm-using either two or three
times during the season: /. A pound of
whale-oil soap in about six gallons of
water. 2. A few quarts of tar in barrel
of water.
It is a foreign journal which makes
the novel announcement that if a live
crab is placed in heap of infested
grain 30 that it can't get out, the vermin
will enter its shell; and if removed
twenty-four hours later it will be found
to contain worms instead of crab flesh.
Throw it in the fire and enter another
animated trap, and another, till the
grain is cleared.
Household Hints.
To RENoVATE BLACK MERINo.-Rip
the dress apart; then soak the goods in
warm soapsuds two hours; dissolve one
ounce of extract of logwood in bowl OF
warm water; add sufficient warm water
to cover the goods, which is to be taken
from the suds without wringing; let the
dress stand in the logwood water all
: night; in the morning rinse in several
W. ters without wringing IN the last
water; add one pint of sweet mil (; iron
while damp; it will look like new.
To Blow OUT KEROSENE LAMP. -
| Raise the fame until it Just does moi
! smoke, and then blow sharply across the
top of the chimney. The light will bt
instantly extinguished. The philosophy
of the action is simple and interesting
t, Blowing over the top of the lamp causes
a rarefcation of the air which the air o.
the chimney rushes up to fill, thus being
lifted, as it were, away from the flame
, which of course must cease to burn
. Blowing down into the chimney is thu
4 avoided.
{ POLISH FOR FLOORS. pound o
q beeswax, one quart of benzine-th'
@ beeswax melted soft, to which add tn
!, benzine; put them over a range or stove
8 the fire closely covered, as benzine
j highly inhammable; stir together til
Q well mixed. These are the proportions
the quantity must depend upon tn
space to be covered. Apply TO the floor
7 first making it clean, and rub i
= thoroughly. 1t shows the grain of tn
70 wood, and makes a permanent polish
= growing better by use and rubbing IN
d It is free of dust, and clean, and is nc
a = laborious to take care of, twice a yea
! - rubbing, and sweeping, 80 to say, wit
broom In a flannel cover.