New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-12-31
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
"A little spirits of turpentine added
TO the water with which floors are
washed will prevent the ravages of
moths.-Builder's Journal.
An Ohio lady writes: "When I
went to housekeeping made vow Ito
Myself) that would never use one
drop of liquor in my cooking. l have
kept house for eight years, have been
called a good cook, and have never
broken my VOW"
TO make sweet tomato pickle, take
eight pounds Of green tomatoes, and
chop them fine. Then add four pounds
of brown sugar, and boil three hours.
Add a quart of vinegar, a teaspoon
each of mace, cloves and cinnamon.
Boil again fifteen minutes; let it cool,
and put into jars.
"A farmer says: ''Four years ago
my farm was fearfully infested with
rats. They were 80 numerous that ]
had great, fears Of my whole crop be.
ing destroyed by them after 4 Was
housed; but hating two acres Of Wild
peppermint that grew in = field Of
wheat, cut and bound with the wheat.
drove the rats from my premises.
have not been troubled with them
since, while my neighbors have any
quantity of them -
In curing clover hay our own plan
is IN start the machines in the after
noon and keep cutting until dark. Dew
Or rain will not hurt grass while it is
green. The next morning, after the
dew is off, rake the partially dried
grass into small windows with g steel
FAKE. Turn them Immediately after
dinner, and toward night rake into
larger windrows and put into cock.
Turn or spread out the cocks the next
morning, and draw in the hay in the
afternoon.-loa0a State Register.
1T pays to mulch potatoes; Straw
pretty we'll rotted makes about as good
a general covering as anything. Ii the
ground needs fertility, coarse manure
is preferable. Any coarse material
weeds, swamp grass, unrotted straw
has its good effect. Apply as soon as
the cultivator is withdrawn. The ben
eht is more than IS usually supposed.
1t keeps the ground moist and cool, two
conditions essential to the best success
of this plant. Weeds are also kept
down; the ground retains its mellow
ness, the mulch preventing the rain
from packing it. and the sun from
baking it, and when worked for the
next crop, will be found to be in q de-
cidedly improved condition, the mulch
by that time being decayed and mixing
with the soil. Tue soil will be cleaner,
richer and Country Gentle
man.
The proposed tunnel to connect
Spain and Africa is still the subject of
discussion in scientific circles. This
tunnel, according to the plan which is
at present contemplated, is to extend
from within short distance of Age
ciras on the Spanish side, to between
Tangier and Ccuta on the African side.
The length of submarine tunnel viii! be
nine miles; with an inclination of one
foot per hundred, and the approaches
will have an exteEt of six or seven
miles. The greatest depth of the sea is
found to be some three thousand feet;
and, as it is intended to have q thick
ness of about three hundred feet of
rock LETT between the roof OF the tunnel
and the sea bottom. the greatest depth
of the tunnel will consequently be thir-
ty.three hundred feet below the level
OF the sea. Engineers speak with con-
hdence Of the practicabilitY Of the
project. - Exchange.
mo plant can continue IN bloom II