Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-12-03
HOME AND FARM.

II have seen many remedies sug. !
gested for protecting young trees from
rabbits. A simple and effectual one is
to paint the stem eighteen or twenty
inches up from the ground with blood.
This is harmless to the tree and ami.
NAL. Cor. Country Gentleman.
-Unleached wood-ashes contain all
the constituents of plant food that the
ordinary or wornout soil needs, except
nitrogen. They also have good me-
chanical effect upon the soil, especially
heavy clay soils, which are made lighter
and porous, so that air and water cir
culate more freely through them.
If you have Gala lily that is in
bad order, shake it out of its pot and re-
pot it into as small a pot as you can
conveniently get it into, using lots Of
clean drainage, and soil of little pieces
of old sods out of which you have shaken
the loose earth, with some sharp sand
added, something through which water
will percolate as freely as through a
sieve. When this pot is filled with roots
you should shift into larger size and
use richer soil, but always an open one.
Rye Muilins.-Into bowl put one
and half pints of rye, half cupful OF
sugar and a little salt; put into the
sieve half pint of flour, one teaspoon.
full of saleratus and two of cream oil
tartar; or, if desired, three teaspoonfuls
of baking powder may be used instead
of the above; mix thoroughly with the
flour and then sift into the material in
the bowl; mix all thoroughly while dry,
then add two well-beaten eggs and milk
enough to make a batter that will drop
from the spoon readily; fill the muffin
cups about two-thirds full and bake in a
quick oven.
White grubs, as they are commonly
called-the larvae of the May beetle-are
becoming the most formidable of our
insect pests. The worst of it is that no
practical means of destroying them are
known; for we deem the method some-
times advocated-that of destroying
vegetation by frequent blowing and thus
starving the grubs to death-quite i'm
practicable. Upon our strawberry beds
we have applied sulphur, salt and helle-
bore in rs large quantities as we dared ;
nevertheless the grubs are at present
quite as destructive as ever.-Rurat NcW
Yorker.
Whoever has tobacco to manipulate
during the coming winter should pro-
vide a good place in which the work can
be done comfortably and conveniently
The necessary requirements for good
tobacco assorting-room are that it shall
be large, light and warm. The room
should be furnished with tables oil
benches, on which the work of asserting
the leaves can be done conveniently. A
Sky-ight window gives the best possible
light for the work, as the rays of ligh
then fall directly upon the leaves anC
over the shoulders of the assorters
which gives them better opportunity t.
Judge correctly of their qualities. 4
side.light window, with the light shin
ing directly against the face of the work
man, is to be avoided, for it is not onl!
very trying to the eyes, but the worl
can not be accomplished so pleasant.
or so effectually.-Rurut NeO Yorker.
Amber Cane.-Of the thorough eX
periments made with amber cane at tn
, Agricultural Department at Washing
ton, the most favorable result onl
!, showed forty-fve per cent. of sugar, a
{ amount too small to pay for the manu-
!, facture, and private experiments shoN
no better results. This failure to cry:
, tallize rises from impurities or neutrali2
: ing elements in the cane juice, whic
; prevents free capitalization. Droppin
, the sugar feature and growing the can
! for sirup only, will always be attende
= with favorable results, and its growt
will render excellent service in the ecor
! Omy of the farm. AS fodder crop
y will probably excel any other for til
: fall feeding of the dairy, and on con
> bining these two qualities, and leavin
- out the sugar claim. the success of an
L her cane depends.