River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-05-09
HOME AND EARN.

Use plenty of seed in sowing grass,
whether it is lawn, meadow or pasture.
BY keeping the cattle off the past
ure one day in the spring, you may
keep them upon it two days longer in
the fall.
Applying kerosene with a rag
when you are about to put your stoves
away for the summer viii prevent them
from rusting.
1t is said that daubing common tar
around rat holes viii cause the fastidi-
Gus rodents, rs soon as they get it on
them, to leave the place, rarely to re-
turn.
Keep a few panes of window glass
and paper of tacks or some putty on
hand. When the window pane is
broken, doust make-shift; replace it
American Agriculturist.
If steamed meat is left in the
liquor to cool of. it will be found TO
have absorbed back much of the good
ness of the soup, and will be so much
more nutritious as food.
"A new rival to coffee is '.AIussa-
cuda, or wild orange, a plant produc-
ing a purple fruit About twenty-four
thousand acres of this plant are now
being cultivated in the Island of Re
union.
New Hampshire farming property
is not very valuable nowadays. \ farm
OF fifty acres, in Springfield, with de-
cent house and barn in good repair,
with meadow land that cuts enough
hay for two cows and horse, and with
a good wool lot, was lately sold for
$3.50
-Copperas dissolved in water, a
spoonful of the crystals to a pint.
makes about the cheapest and best
disinfectant and deodorizer for closet
pans and chamber utensils. This is a
most destructive internal poison;
therefore, never allow it to remain
about so that ignorant persons or chill
dren can get at it.
DO not allow tho birds to be de-
stroyed. They are of too much bene-
fit in destroying insects, worms and
pests, that prey upon the fruit and
trees. The cat-bird eats and destroys
pear bugs; the woodpecker digs in
and destroys the borer, while the jay
bird, chickadee, wren, thrush, robin
and bluebird all do good work in the
orchard.
TT Baked pudding: Chop two cups
RI ,,II Erh
fine. Make custard of one quart Of
milk and six eggs, add teaspoonful
of salt (unless ham is used, when less
will be needed). Mix meat and Gus
tard together. pour into a deep dish,
put little bits of butter over the sur
| face and bake. -Housewife
"A fruit now found in the market is
the bitter, acid grape fruit. 1t is ex-
celent for people of bilious habit, and
many people learn to like it after eat
ing it a few times. In eating it every
particle of the skin should be removed
from the sections of the pulp, as the
inner white skin is very bitter and
quite unwholesome.
The efforts of seedsmen TO breed a
| type Of field corn that shall prove val
liable when widely distributed is futile.
There is a more universal opportunity
for effective enterprise. livery farm
should he an experiment station to i'm
prove the native sort. This duty can
not be delegated to some person over
the line in another county even, but
must be an individual enterprise for
individual use. To grow good seed
corn, plant fewer kernels to the hill,
and do every thing on you; part which
nature seems to demand, and leave the
breeding to the forces of nature, that
always act consistently with the sur
roundings. Rural New Yorker.