Year: 1875

HUNGARIAN grass seeG should be
sown, for hay, at about the rate of
| three pecks per acre; many use
bushel, others not over One-haf a
bushel. Sow from the first of june to
the fifteenth, and even to the first OF
| July in ordinary seasons.


HRN-MANURE, mixed with loan and
| spread broad cast, or scattered in the
| drills, is an excellent dressing for pota-
| toes, and for almost any farm or garden
| crop. If very much concentrated, 1t
must not be placed in large quantities
very ne r the seed, as it will destroy
the life OF the young sprouts.


HUNDREDS of children have falling
| victims to scarlet fever in this city dur
| ing the past three months. Concerning
| the treatment of this disease, sn emil
nent physician says that he does not
| fail in effecting a cure more than once
| in a hundred cases by giving the patient
warm lemonade with gum arabic dis
| solved IN it. A cloth rung out Of hot
| water and laid upon the stomach should


be renewed as rapidly as it becomes
| cool. This simple treatment the most
| obstinate cases seldom fail to sUccumb.
| - Germantown Telegraph.


WATERPROOF VARNIsH.-Here is an
other way to prevent water from getting
through shoes. The composition also
makes a good harness dressing. Take
meats s-foot-o oil, II pints !; beeswax, 1
| ounce spirits of turpentine, ounces,


and stir until cold. Spread and rub
| this composition over the leather while
| it is damp leather will absorb oil and
| grease better when damp than when
! dry. For the sOles, take pine-tar and
rub it In before the fire until the sOles


will absorb no more. Three or four
| applications Will be needed. The dura-
| biIity of the sOles will be much in
creased.


| A CORRESPONDENT of the Country
| Gentleman, writing of the advantages
| of a short rotation of crops, says ::


"ClOver is at its best for pasture or
| hay the second year after seeding. If
allowed to grow through that year its
roots extend as far as they ever Will,


and the ley Is in best condition for
| plOwing, If kept longer the clover


runs ont and its place is left vacant,


or filed by weeds or inferior grasses.


If timothy is mixed with clover


at seeding, it will partially occupy the
ground as the clover retires, but never


so fully as if the original seeding was


timothy. In short, keeping clover sod


over the second or third year, at most,


is generally bad policy, and should be
discouraged. For one or two years


land in clover increases in fertility,


after that the advantage is less until


another seeding is had"


Salt FOR CABBAGE.-A New Jersey
! gardener considers salt necessary to the


development of cabbage, especially in


places far from the coast. He finds


them more crisp, of better flavor, and


to keep better when salt is used than


without. He used it as follows CA


few DAYS aft.r setting out the plants,


and when they are damp, either after g


rain or when the dew Is on, ] take q


small dish of fine salt and walking


among the rows, sprinkle a little pinch


of salt on the center of each plant when


the leaves begin to grow. 1 repeat the


sailing, and when the center of the leaves


begin to form the mead, apply salt


again, scattering it over the leaves


after this look them over occasionally,


and if find plants that do not head well


and appear diseased, L sprinkle the salt


over freely; this will save all such


plants. A quart of salt is sufficient for


FIVE hundred plants in a season, although


more can be used with safety"


To PREVENT DISEASE. 1t may be as


sumed, says the Herald of Health, with


out hesitation, that whenever a pro-


nounced case of typhoid fever breaks


out in an isolated country house, or


when any form of low fever occurs,


though it may fail to assume a distinct


typhoid character, there is In that


house, or about 1t, or in connection


with its supply of drinking g-cellar, some


overflow from barn-water, some ac-


cumulation of neglected filth, some pile


of rotten vegetables in the yaTd, some


spot of earth saturated with the slOps


OF the kitchen or some other form of


impurity to which the origin of the dis


ease may be distinctly traced. This


being the case, it lies perfectly within


the province of every household TO re-
move any source of infection to which


the house may be liable. Vegetables


in any considerable amount should not


be kept in the hOuse-cellar and at Least
once a week the floor of the cellal
! should be swept and every shred o
/; waste vegetables removed. Even whe1
; this is done, the cellar should be ven
! tilated by a window or other small open
. ing toward the quarter least exposed t.
cold winds (and in summer on ever


side). The privy, If privy is used
. should be we'll away from the house


and especially far from the well, miles
4 its contents are received in a tight bo


and entirely absorbed by dry earth o
:, ashes, and even then frequently re
g moved the chamber slops of the hoUs
!. should never, under any circumstances
: be thrown into the privy vault, nor int
. a porous cesspeol, from which they ca
= leach into the ground and through th
= ground for a long distance into the vel
>. or into and around the foundation {
- the house. The same disposal of th
- LIQUID waste of the kitchen is desirable
= but not so absolutely Important. It II
~ however, important that this should b
- led by an impermeable drain to pOiI
we'll away from the house and from tn
y we'll swill and all manner Of nond'
q script refuse material, such as
p sloughed of by every household IN II
- ordinary course of its living, should
= removed at least daily from the ne'
= vicinity of the dwelling, and the vesse
~ in which It acoumulates should be fl
~ ouentIv cIeansed and aired manu-


heaps should not be left TO ferment al
70 eend off their exhalations at a poi
~ whence frequent winds watt them


ward and into the dwelling, nor shou


the barn-yard be allowed to drai
ia either over the surface or through
I'd porous soil, toward the house or We
ty If all these precautions are taken I
5ir we'll will be tOlerably safe; but if the
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