The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-08-22
HOUSE AND FARM.
Sur,mcr Flowers.

Summer Flowers.
IDora Goodale, eleven years of agel
.In spring We note the breathing
OF every baby bud;
In spring We note tue waking
OF wild flowers of the wood,
In summers fuller power,
In summers deeper soul
We watch no single flower,
We see, We breathe, the whOle''
This years wool clip will be about
100 ,OO0, 900 pounds.
The end of tillage is to render the soil
olubie for plant food.
August Is the usual time for farmers
O cut bushes in their pastures.
1t il said that late sowing will cause
all wheat 10 miss the lIessisn fly.
Sweet DO alto culture is likely to prove
uccessiul in the northern States
There il il. the Paris exhibition an ap-
,aratu. for cooking 10y means OF the heat
,f the sun.
A remedy to rid your woody plants OF
,cale-bug Is alcohol, spilled with a cameis
nair brush.
Look out for swindlers OF ali classes
and make an arrangement with no man
unles you know him.
Water charged with oayanne pepper and |
sprinkied over cabbage will protect the |
leaves from the cabbage caterpillar.
Brandy and salt, twO-thirds brandy and
one third salt, Is good for all kinds OF gals,
wounds, bruises anu inhammatory sores on
horses.
In transplanting trees the hole sh ould
not be proportioned TO the extent OF the
roots as they are, but to the extent as they
may be and should be.
Burdocks are rank, grass feeding weeds,
but they are easily killed with stub
hoe" cutting the tap roots three or four
inches below the surface.
what Is Thought East.
Boston Traveller, Isl
II is thought by farmers in the wheat sec
tions that prices will drop lower after new
wheat comes into market than since 1875.
s,.am wagons Not Successful.
kansas Farmer, III
The legislature of Wisconsin offered a
premium of So 900 for a good steam road
wagon. None yet has come up TO the re-
quiremerts.
What IL Costs 10 Feed Rnfs.
Poultry Journal.l
at costs as much TO feed rats and mice
as it does to feed our own paupers." We
think 1t costs more.
Industry Makes Its Own Reward
A sound New Hampshire farmer says no
acre of land ever cheated him when he had
treated it with a liberal hand. Cultivation
and manure will redeem swamp or sand
bank.
Salt Water Bathfng.
Boston Traveller, ISL
Salt water bathing last summer produced
sixty-tive out Of eight hundred Gases of ear
difficulty treated by DR.. Sexton oil New
| York.
Apple Jelly.
Stew one quart OF apples (sourl; when
done strain through 4 coarse towel, and
then through a wooden rag; put one pin,
OF white loaf sugar two OF juice, and boil
one-half hour, then pour in cans to cool
Colts Way Eat Oats.
[American Agriculturist.l
Colts may now get few oats daily as the
grass fails. 4 shelter should be provided
in the pasture where they can find shade
it should be in an airy part OF the field, free
from flies.
ousnins and Chalk for whOopins
Cough.
| ISt. Louis Republican, III
DIR. Mannheimer of Chicago reports nu-
merous cures for whooping cough in from
four to eight days by installations OF equal
parts and quinine and chalk reduced to
powder.
The Price of Success.
Hive stock Journai.l
The old adage, "Get your name up, ther
lie abed till noou," will not answer in but
ter making Eternal vigilance and The
Jersey COW rethe price OF success in fancy
butter making.
Crows VIII Eat Eggs.
Prairie Farmer, I7.l
Crows will eat hens eggs, as we recently
proved on the premises OF MIR. L. B. smith
Temple. y. T., who found crow in hi
hen-house in the act ii destroying the eggs
To Keep a Dogs Ears Free From
Flies.
Prairie Farmer, IL
Apply daily small portion Of mix
ture Of equal parts Of tar and tallow q
a mixture OF one part OF crude carboli'
acid and ten parts Of olive oil.
Di..aso among ;he HOGS.
Prairie Farmer, i7.l
! The hog cholera or sOLle other fatal dis
ease is on the increase IN Green county
VIE. Within the past two weeks from GO
TO 500 have fallen victims, Oae iarme
having lost 2i0, another lis, another %
and so ON. Farmers are pretty 5lEe.
To 1iake SprGce Beer.
TCnr Iuter-JJceau, l7.l
Ten drops oi sassafras, ten drops OF win
tergreen. tel drops OF spruce, three gallon
of hot water, one gallon of col water, hal
pint of molasses and hall pint OF yeas
The above is called spruce beer, and is Ii
for use as soon as it ferments.
, How 10 Keep sweet Cora Tor White
lCor. Inter-Ocean, III
Sweet corn can be kept for winter use b
cutting from the cob, either boiled or raw
and packing in jars and sprinkling littl
salt between the layers and on top, cover
ing with a cloth and board ard weigh
, Soak when used, and boil longer than pori
E String beans can be served the same wa,
7 of course they are not as nice as fresh, bu
do tpr change.
DO not Paint Flower Pots.
ICor. Chicago Tribune, III
Do not panit your flower pots 1t Is necei
r sary for the health OF the plant that th
, pores should be open. / would al
t wise you to take cuttings now from you
e verbenas, which at this season will ro'
easily, and'these make the best for hous'
plants for winterbloomIng. 1t is the youn
wood We have to depend upon. Nerbena
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