The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-06-12


fields and cattle and rent-rolls. Iwant
him to love me a little longer in my
poverty, and some day 1 will give him
my Spanish exercises to read, and it
will be time enough then for him to
find me over and over again a million
airess.-Harper's Bazaar.
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
An English farmer, very success
full during ten years in fattening cattle
and sheep, supplied a ration made as
follows: Eight bushels corn soaked in
ten pals of water two days, then SIM
me: for an hour or so, afterward mix
with fourteen pounds of coarse, cheap
sugar, and commingle with cut straw,
hay or other fodder.
The best soil for beans is q mellow
clay or sandy loan. Prepare the land
as for corn, fitted in the incest manner.
Plant ten days or two weeks after plant
ing corn. Marrow beans require one
and one-eighth bushels seed per acre;
mediums, three-fourths of bushel;
pea beans, one-half bushel; kidney or
other large beans, more, in proportion
to size. A fair crop is twenty bushels
per acre.-Cor. Country Gentleman. ii
One hog, kept to the age of one
year, if furnished with suitable ma
terial, will convert a CARLOAD per
month into fertilizer, which will pro-
duce good crop of corn. Twelve
loads year, multiplied by the number
of hogs usually kept by our farmers,
would make sufficient fertilizing SUBJ
stance to grow the corn used by them;
or in other words, the hog would pay
in manure its keeping. In this way
we can afford to make pork at very
low prices, but in no other wav can it
be done without loss.-Agricultura
Paper.
Chocolate Icing for Cakes.-Put in
to a shallow pan two ounces of choc-
olate, and place it where it will melt
gradually, but not scorch; when melt
ed stir in three tablespoonfuls of milk
or cream, and one of water; mix all
well together, and add one scant tea
cupful of sugar; boil about five min.
utes, and while hot, and when the
cakes are nearly cold, spread some
evenly over the surface of one of the
cakes; put second one on top, alter
mating the mixture and cakes, then
cover top and sides, and set in warm
oven 10 harden.
I'm foreign paper physician sug-
gests an excellent method for preserv-
ing ice in the sick room during hot
nights. A piece of flannel from nine
to ten inches square should be placed
over gOod-sized goblet or lumber,
and it should be allowed to drop down
into the vessel to about half its depth,
and then it should be secured by tying
a cord around the glass over the flan-
mel. In the flannel cup, so formed,
pieces of ice may be preserved many
hours if another piece of flannel, four
or five inches square, be used as a
loose cover to the ice cup.-Foster's
Monthly. sE.
Green wallpaper is not the only
green thing that may poison children
and adults. A glance around many
shops, says contributor to the London
Standard, at once reveals to the eye of
a paper stainer instances of the use of
arsenical green in all manner of allur-
ing forms. The bright-colored label of
the box of sweets, the band around the
piece of muslin, the green figure of the
muslin itself, the cover of the box it is
packed in, the strip of paper round the
packet of envelopes, the backs of play
ing cards, the smartly printed wrappers
of soaps and cosmetics, all say as plain
as print, :" I am emerald green" The
only remedy is said to be to prohibit
the use of emerald green unless mixed
with oil or varnish.-N. ?. Post.
in old soils all the cabbage kind
have tendency to form club roots,
owing to the attacks of the cabbage
grub or Larvae, a small insect belonging
to the beetle tribe. The damage It
causes is often a serious matter for the
gardener; as it nearly destroys whole
crops and makes serious gaps in the
planting. When the grubs first attack
crop there is nothing TO indicate their
presence until the plants begin to turn
an unhealthy color; then they flag in
the sun, and in q few days the crop is
lost. One of the best methods of prevent
ing these inroads is to make each
plant unpalatable to the grubs. In the
spring procure some fresh burnt lime.
and let it become air-slaked, mixing it
with an equal quantity of SCOT. In
planting, the holes are made with the
trowel in the usual way; each plant is
dropped into its hole, an inch or so of
the soil put over the roots, good wa
tering given first, then moderate
handful of the SCOT and lime mixture
thrown in each hole and the remaining
soil filled in. Equal parts of SCOT and
fine garden soil, mixed with water to
the consistency of thin mortar. with
the plants dipped into the mixture up
to the base Of the leaves before plant
ing, is used to prevent clubbing. Wood
ashes mixed with water, put into the
holes after watering, has been tried
with success. -Kansa Farmer,