The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1879-06-26
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NcW Yorker.
UOuse-tOp Gardening.

4 really serious effort is being made
to establish housc-top gardening in our
ri;v. SAYS Il New York letter. All the
sanitary objections which have been
made to it ut one time or another have
been easily waved aside by our skillful
inventors in styles of roofing. Having
seen these hlossomipq upper surfaces
arranged in Europe with many pleasant
consequences, # is impossible not to look
forward to the possibility of their
general uses with cagcrnCss. 1t is pro-
posed to have one part of the roof
glaSScl over. and the other part covered
with wire netting to keep the mischirv-
Gus sparrow from daspoiling the tender
vegetation. and also to prcvcnta needless
foot from trcading upon nothing at all
over the caves \ summer evening,
with easy garden chairs. tea-trays, with
glasses and unmcntionablc dclicacics of
cooling liquids standing in readiness
upon them, are said TO be as certain 4
luxury awaiting the future New Yorker
Is is 4 new moon once II month or II
Black Friday once in II dozen years.
OF course, the garden summit to q
home will protect scuttlcs down which
the burglar lately finds IN easy and u-
disturbed opportunity to enter Il house.
Incredible as ii may appear. in our own
block nine huge trunks were lifted up
through this necessary aperture to Il
neighhoring roof. where every article of
value in Il whole family wardrobe for
summer uses was removed unnOticcd
and carried away, nobody has yet
learned where, and the trunks Lnt r :
selves were lett to be returned to the
attic, to be again rctillcd with costly
marketable iincrics for future roof
burglars.
a KcIishfor Farm Stock.
The Importance of an occasional relish
of salt and wood ashes for all kinds of
stock, says the New York World, cannot
be too highly appreciated. The most
convenient form in which these materials
are offered. according to feeders of wide
cxpcrirncc. is in Il solid mass, which adj
mils of diligrnt licking on the part of
the animal without gaining more of the
mixture than is desirable. In order 10
mix these ingredients SO that Il solid mass
may br formed, take salt and pure wood
ashes in the proportion of pound for
hound, with water sufficient to hold the
mixture together. ToprcScrve the mix
turc in solid state place it in troughs
or boxes sheltered sufficiently to keep
rain md snow from reaching it and con-
vcrting it into an alkaline pickle. These
troughs with their tempting contents
prove efficient as bats for alluring ami
mails. turned out on long runs during
the day, home ut night.
When cattle chew leather, wood and
old homes remember that it indicates q
lack of phosphate of lime in their food,
which is required TO supply bone ma.
trrial. 4 tcaSpoonful of bone meal
given daily with their grain will correct
the habit and supply the deficiency
which induces it. If the disposition TO
eat homes is indulgcd in when COWS are
on grass, the deficiency evidently exists
in the soil, and the pasture will be
greatly benefited by top dressing OF
bone dust. Two or three, hundred
pounds to the acre. sown broadcast; will
repay attending expenses in Il better
yield and quality of milk and butter.