Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-11-23
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
NOTES fOk the AUTUMN NIGHTS.


prospects for corn-Economy on-the Farm
Winter Flowers In the Window and
How They Grow.
Germantown Telegraph.
According to tho estimate of the depart.
,aert of agriculture the crop of Indian
cOrn in the republic this year will average
close to twenty five bushels per acre,
which is under a medium yield. The az.
gregxte crop is given at one billion six
hundred and eighty millions of bushels.
These statements, which are from official
sources, are compiled from the reports and
estimates of reliable correspondents of the
department ali ever the country, and will
serve perhaps in some degree to explain
tho speculative advance in the prices of
grain at Chicago and other Western grain
markets somo time since. The corn crop
is in all respects by far the greatest and
most thoroughly national Of all the agri-
cultural products of the country. Indian
corn is raised in every state and territory.
However varied in soil or eli mate may be
these sections Of the country, all alike
are equally capable Of being successfully
used for tho cultivation of Indian corn.
If, therefore, the foreign markets were as
much in need of Indian corn as wheat,
American commerce could supply that
demand to an unlimited extent. As it is,
however, only small fraction of all this
great product is exported to foreign
countries, all tho rest being consumed at
home. OF course. wheat bread is always
4 staple article Of food in tho cities and
towns of all parts of the country but in
the vast interior, especially ir the South
and West, corn meal takes the place of
wheat -four as the main article of bread !;
but as a general product of value corn is
the most important of tho earth, and is
used fOr more general purposes for man
and beast than that Of any other.
Economy on the Farm.
On the farm, aud in all tho various dc
tails of rural and domestic life, prudence
and a just economy of time and means are
incumbent in an eminent degree. Tho
earth itself is composed of atoms, and in
tho most gigantic fortunes consist of ag-
gregated items, insignificant in themselves
individually considered, but majestic
when contemplated in unity and rs
whole. In the management of a farm, all
needless expenditure should be sys.emati-
cally avoided, aud tho income made to ex-
ceed the outlay as far as possible. Pecu-
MARY embarrassment should always be
regarded as contingency of evil boding,
and if contended against with energy ard
persevering fortitude, it must soon be
overcome. Debt, with but little hope Of
it's removal, is a milestone dragging us
down and crushing the life-blood out Of
us. lie careful, therefore. in incurring
any pecuniary responsibility which doe:
no, present a clear deliyerence with the
advantages which g wise use Of it Ough:
always to insure.
A farmer who purchases a good farm
and can pay down One-third Of the price,
give a mortgage for the other two-thirds,
and possesses the heart and resolution to
work it faithfully and well. enters upon
the true path to success. He will labor
days exertionS will lessen his indebted
ness and bring him nearer to the gaOl
when he shall be Gisenthralled and becomes
freeholder IN its most cheering sense.
But without due economy in every depart
ment, in the dwelling as we'll as in the
barns aud in the fields, this gratifying
achievement may not be reached until late
in life, or may bc indefinitely postponed.
A prudent oversight, therefore, over all
the operations Of the farm, in order that
everything may be done that ought TO be
done and nothing be wasted, will exert a
powerful influence in placing 2 family on
the high road to an early independence.
Winter Flowers in the Window.
The man or woman who disiikes to SEE
even single pot or stand Of plants OF
flowers in the window when they can No
longer be grown Out-of-doors, we would
not care to be acquainted with. When
we see these thoughtful, modest efforts to
please the eye of the passers-by, We in
haT
only our good wishes, but {: due share OF
natural accomplishment that it did not
even dleam of evoking. While city people
should not omit adorning their front
winds in this way, we think that cOantry
peopie beyond all others can mako theil
homes beautiful at small expense in such
adornments, and would suggest that the
material for this cheap aud beautiful AZ
rangement is particularly abundant at
this time Of the year. There arc not only
living plants in pots for the window
sill, but colored leaves, dried ferns
and grasses, aud skeletonized plants,
out of which innumerable taste
full objects may be made. But among
the cheapest and most interesting Of these
room aud window sdornmcnts is the hang
ing-plants, which may be suspended from
hooks and brackets. aud by which the
whole window can be made to look like a
summer scene in the woods, although VI
are in the midst Of winter. In tho closely
built cities some such window gardening
attempts ars made, but are generally, will
rare, beautiful exceptions utter failures
Some highly ornamental China work, OF
some highly painted Or polished ''rustic'
basket, is employed to hold the plants, but
always evidently to the plants misery
Plants do not seem to admire these elabo-
rate preparations for them. They seem Il
understand that with them they Only Oc-
cupy a very inferior position in the temple
of honor, and hence there is no wonder
they fade away and die. In most of our
country homes We find them in common
pots, shells, stumps, boxes or anything
that can be improvised, and always with
success
We remember that at our great Centen.
nial exposition an exhibitor made for
hanging plants purposes the husk Of the
cocoanut, and We noticed and ascertained
in fact that plants thrived wonderfully in
this to US unique arrangement. 1t re-
minded US of what we had often read in the
English horticultural periodicals, that
cOcoanrt refuse is an excellent material
for the growth of plants. Wo arc all
familiar with the cocoanut, but all do not
know that the nut is enclosed in {:
heavy. spongy covering or husk of
an inch OF more in thickness.
These husks are cut across in the
middle and make two little baskets, and
can he easily suSDended with wire As