The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-03-24
FARM, HOUSE AND GARDEN.

FARM, HOUSE AND GARDEN.
We sent last year to Europe 1,5oO,-
900 hides.
THE rain annually pours into the soil
quantity of nitrate Of ammonia fully
equivalent to three pounds per acre.
EIGHT bushels Of good lime, sixteen
bushels Of sand, and one bushel of hair
will make enough mortar to plaster 100
square yards.
SOILS which are heavy and contain
much inert vegetable matter are in En-
gland called deaf, which is good and
poetic Characterization. ~
DAMAGED corn is exceedingly iniu-
rious as food for horses, because il
brings on inflammation of the bowels
and skin diseases. r.
To CURE hoarseness, beat the whites
OF two eggs, add pint of lukewarm
water, stir well and drink often. It is
very simple, cannot hurt any one, and
sometimes acts upon the throat like a
charm, banishing all hoarseness.
BETTER Stock MUsT BE KEpT.-The
right stock, too, must be kept in the right
place. The choice and management of
animals require an accurate knowledge
which must come from outside of his
own farm practice. A farmer cannot
test these things for himself and run
the risk of losses that would be ruinous
to him. All this has been done and re-
corded in books and agricultural papers.
YOUNG CHICKENS. EARLY chickens
which can be reared easily if proper
care is given, may be kept in glass
covered coop protected at night by COW
ering with straw. If severe cold is
feared, heat a couple of bricks hot in
the oven, wrap them in piece Of car
pet, and put them in the coop. A large
can or Jug of hot water is also yerv
good warmer.
To REVIVE FADED BLACK CLoTHEs-
Boil three ounces of logwood in quart
of vinegar, and, when the color is ex-
tracted, drop in piece of carbonate Of
iron the size of large chestnut; let it
boil five minutes. Have the articles to
be restored well sponged with soap and
hot water, laying them Oh the table,
and brush the nap down with sponge.
Then take the dye upon the table, and
sponge them all over with it, taking
care to keep them smooth, and brush
downward. When completely wet with
dye, dissolve teaspoonful Of saleratus
in teacup of warm water, and sponge
over again with this, which sets the
color SO completely that nothing rubs
off. They must not be wrung or wrinkled,
but carefully hung up to drain. It is
said that brownest cloth may be made
q perfect black in this simple manner.
WHY GAN Nor We Grow LARGER
CRcPs.-There are localities where it
may pay to grow small crops cheaply,
where one may skin the land for few
years and leave it, just as in some places
cattle are or have been killed for their
hides and the carcasses left to decay.
But every year these localities are
growing more and more distant in the
West, and in time land will be too val
liable to be used in so wasteful man.
ner. In Central and Eastern localities
the future prosperity of the farmers will
depend upon the growth of larger crops
by the expenditure of more labor on the
land. To reach this end will be work
of time, but it will never be reached
unless beginning is made, and there
was never amore propitious time to be-
gin than now. "A
TREATMENT OF SORE THRoAT.-Great
relief is obtained by wearing all night q
nice soft bran poultice Well REDEEM
ing the breast with turpentine takes
away the harsh, dry pain of common
cold. A dram and half of dried alum,
with two and half drains of capsicum
tincture, a little sirup, and eight ounces
OF rose-water, form a nice gargle for the
relief of hoarseness and that trouble
some complaint known as falling of the
uvula. Again, for sore throat, what
can be better than gargle Of the fol-
lowing? Three drains of laudanum,
half that quantity of tincture of bella
donna, and eight ounces of camphor-
water. Lastly, I may mention this
fact, not known to every one: In pain
full inRammations of the throat and in
cases of gum-boi, a dose of EPSON salts
cannot fail to do positive good,
especially if the patient is at all
plethoric.-Cassell's Magazine.
USEFUL H1Nrs.-Sprinkle Persian
insect powder in the feathers of your
chickens to rid them of lice. Where
boraz and insect powder have failed to
exterminate cockroaches, sprinkle the
floor with powdered white hellebore;
they will eat it, and are poisoned by it.
When lettuce shows signs of running
to seed, if q knife be passed through
one-half of the stem Of the shooting
head, the plant may be preserved good
for an additional week. You can get
stain of oil off any carpet or wooden
stuff by applying dry buckwheat plen-
tifully and faithfully. Never put wa
ter to such grease spot, or liquid of
any kind. For chicken cholera, there
is nothing better than .carbeic acid,
one drachm with two gallons of water.
Let the fowls have free access to it as q
drink, and mix it with their food once
day To VentilatA q stack nao a sack