Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1882-03-18
HOME AND FARM.

"A mississippi farmer says that the
great trouble with the people in his
country is that everybody is trying to
make an "easy" living.
Less than fifty years ago all the hops
in the country were imported; but In
1879 our crop aggregated 10000 bales.
and last year it reached 10000 bales.
The most convenient fertilizer for
sweet potatoes is wood ashes. If some
superphosphate could be added, all the
better, and if little guano were added
it would be still better. Sweet potatoes
do not want heavy manuring, or thew
run too much to vine.
In some parts of Southern EUROPE n
Hour IS made from chestnuts which is
said not only to be cheaper, but fullv
equal to wheat flour bread. In soma
places wheat flour and corn meal are
entirely superseded by this product.
which is very nourishing, and can be
preserved two years longer without in
jury.
Flour is like butter in this respect:
it absorbs smells readily. 1t should not
be kept in a place where there are on
ions, fish, vegetables or other odorous
substances, nor in damp room or eel.
lar, but it should be kept in cool, dry,
airy room, where not exposed to freez-
ing temperature, nor to any above 20
deg, and always sift before using.
A CHEAP curtain, and quite a pretty
one, is width of cheese cloth, trimmed
at the top and down one side with one
row, or three, two narrow and one wide,
as best suits the taste of the maker, of
red oil calico. Such curtain is to be
furnished with large rings at the top to
be run over rod. A broom handle
stained with burnt lumber makes very
pretty rod. When the curtain is drawn
to one side and tied with scarlet rib
bon 1t makes very pretty drapery.-
HouSekeeper.
"A horse that has O voracious appe-
lite and is yet thin, whose legs swell
and which turns up his lips and ticks
and gnaws the stall, is not in good con-
dition. The stocking of the legs indi-
Gates disorder of the kidneys, and the
weekly dose of saltpeter given to the
horse may cause this trouble. Diuretics
should never be given to horse except
as needed remedy for some disorder,
and then should be given very cautious
ly. Give the horse dose of II ounces
OF EPSON salts; give no saltpeter, but
twice week one dram each of gentian
and copperas powdered fine.
Almost the only means of ventilat-
ing ordinary clothes-presses or closets is
by opening the door, and this should be
done daily. 1t is we'll also occasionally,
as need requires, to remove wearing an.
parel from the closet and hang it where
the air may circulate freely through it
and the sun shine on it. Coats and
overcoatS and garments that can not be
washed with water can be cleaned only
by this process. Removing spots and
dust from the surface is-well, but the
cleansing should be deeper than that.
The delightful feeling of new clothes is
largely owing to the absence from them
OF all bodily emanations, and this feel
ing can be restored to worn garment
in large measure by letting the fresh air
blow through it. All wooden goods are
ready absorbents of whatever impurities
the air about them or the bodies thew
cover may contain, and as readily part,
under favorable circumstances, with
what they absorb.-N. Y. Tribune.