The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-11-05
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

"A frst-class salt should be pure
white in color, clean, comparatively
dry, uniform in grain and quite soluble
in water.
| Successful New Jersey gardeners
apply annually about ten tons of we'll
rotted barn-yard manure per acre to
their strawberry fields, putting it on
late in the fail just before a hard
freeze.
--Grass is the natural food of horses
| and they should be provided with it as
often as possible. If they arc kept in
the stable during the summer a liberal
meal of grass should be cut for them FREE
quently. ~ 7. Telegram.
Small fruit culture will ALWAYS be
most successful on the intensive plan.
Plant only a small area at time. and
give that the best culture possible.
Better raise three hundred bushels on
| one acre shan that amount on five or
six. - The South.
-Beef-steak Omelette: Three
pounds raw beef veal is better)
chopped fine. six crackers, rolled fine,
four eggs, two teaspoonfuls melted
butter; mix with the hand Make in a
loaf and put in buttered tin, bastinq
often. Exchange.
To kill bed bugs take ten cents
worth OF corrosive sublimate, put in
one pint Of alcohol; shake and apply
with brush or feather It is poison,
and as soon as through using it, better
bury the bottle in some out-of-the-way
place Chacago Journal
No thrifty farmer will permit
coarse weeds, thistles, briars or bushes
of any kind to grow by the roadside
adjoining his fields. One or two days
work each year for two or. three years
with a stout brush scythe will cause
these Improbable varieties of vegeta-
ton to give place to valuable grasses.
Cincinnati Tones.
Ants in the garden may often be
destroyed in their nests by attacking
them with hot water. Kerosene oil is
sometimes used to drive them out of
their runways, but it is Intellectual in
routing them. They can be trapped
but it requires perseverance, to accom-
pllsh it. Pieces of sponge can be
sprinkled with sugar and laid in their
way, They will enter in numbers into
the sponges, which can be quickly
picked up and dropped into hot water.
IN. 7. Herald.
We find that even some of our
prominent horticulturists are afraid of
planting nut trees on account of the
alleged difficulty met with in trans
planting. We can hardly state emphat-
ically enough that this is a bugbear.
When the trees are properly grown at
the nursery, and transplanted when
one year from the nut-as they should
be-they can be handled as safely as
any of our common fruit trees Thou
sands were transplanted at the nurse
ry here last spring with hardly loss
worth mentioning. Orchard and Gar
den
No one who has home of his own
need ever be idle There is always
something to be done to promote the
convenience or the comfort of the
|. home. and, in the absence of work Civ
ing money remuneration, making the
home more pleasant and comfortable
is the best-paying job which any man
can undertake. 1t is a sign of shift
lessness. if not worse, to see man
idle when days work might be we'll
expended in battening doors and win
dows against winters rude blasts, or
in providing some simple conyeniences
long needed by the good housewife to
tighten her work. Industry always
finds work to do Western Rural.