The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-07-10
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

Cling to the farm, make much of
it, put yourself into it, bestow your
heart and your brain upon it, so that it
shall SAVIOR of you and radiate your vir-
tue after your days work is DONE
IoccG State Register.
Feathers should be very thoroughly
dried before using them. If feather
beds smell badly, or become heavy
from want of proper renovation of the
feathers. or from old age, empty them
and wash the feathers thoroughly in q
tub of suds. spread them in the garnet
to dry, and they will be as light and
good as new. Never lay the pillows or
feather ticks to dry in the sun; lay
them in a shady place, where the wind
can purify them. Heat makes feathers
rancid.
Pot plants that become unthrifty
and sickly may be revived by planting
them in rich mold in sunny spot, after
trimming, after the season becomes
permanently warm. Thus they will
often grow into vigorous state during
July and August, and be ready for re-
potting. Oleanders, oranges, lemons,
camellias, azaleas, among hard-wooded
plants, may be made healthy in this
way. They must, however, be pro-
tected from the effects of sweeping
prairie winds.-Prairie Farmer.
"A good and easy way to manage a
bed of Strawberries for family use: Lay
board, say twelve inches or more
wide, on the edge of your bed, and set
the plants along by the edge of the
board; then put down another board so
that its edge will be two inches from
the plant row; now set another row
along the opposite edge of the board.
So continue until the bed is completed.
The advantages are: No hoeing; run
ners cannot catch between the rows;
berries always clean from dirt; the
earth under the boards gathering food
to feed the plants; the roots always
kept moist, etc. When you desire to
renew the bed, instead of spading it up,
after a crop has been harvested, re-
move the boards and allow the vines to
run over the space formerly occupied
by the boards, and the next spring re-
place the boards by putting them d.
rectly on the row of old vines with
space between as in first setting, and
you will have an annual crop with but
little trouble.-Cor. N. Y. Tribune.
There are as many fluids and pow
ders for the destruction of insects as
there are varieties of insects to be de-
molished. The early application of
any destroyer as soon as the first insect
is discovered is more efficacious than a
barrel full of the most deadly decoction
after the bug, fly or worm has had an
opportunity to take possession of a
bush or plant. Whale oil soap, not too
strong, is as popular as any application
in this country. In England paraffine
is coming into use. One wine-glass-
full to four gallons of cold water is
said to be a mixture that deals death
without injury to plants. Ants are
sometimes very destructive to rose
bushes, especially when they are COM
ing into bloom, and paraffine water is
very thorough in killing them. For
lawns or banks of grass the water used
by the laundress on washing-day,
which contains a percentage of indigo,
may be used with advantage. l. should
never be wasted, for it possesses fertil-
izing properties of great value for
shrubs. Woonsocket r. ~ Patriot.