Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1861-04-19
Shiftless Tricks.

To. let the cattle fodder themselves at
the stack; they pull out and trample more
than they eat. They eat till the elge of
APPETITE is gone and then dainily pick the
choice parts the residue, being coarse and
refus', they win not afterwards touch.
To sell half stack of hay and leave the
lower half open to rain and snow. In feed
ing out, hay knife should be used on the
stack in selling, either dispose of the whole,
or remove that which is left TO shed or
barn.
1t is shifiless trick to lie about stores
and groceries, arguing with men that You
have no time, in new country, for nice
farming; for making good fences; for
smooth meadows without stump; for
draining wei patches which disfignre fine
fields.
To raise your own frogs in your own
yard; to permit, year after year, dirty,
sinking, mantled puddle, to stand before
youi iEhSe IA tne SiFGCt.
To plaat orchards, and allow your cattle
to eat the trees up. When gnawed down,
TO save your money, by trying to nurse the
stubs into good trees, instead of getting
fresh ones from the nursery.
To alloa an orchard to have blank spaces.
where trees have died, and when the living
trees begin to bear, to wake up and put
young whips in the vacant spots.
1t is very shiftles5 10 build your barnyard
so that every rain shall drain it. to build
your privy aud dig your we'll close together
TO build priyy more than seven feet square
some shittless folks have it the size Of the
whole yard TO set il in the most exposed
spot on the premises TO set it at the very
far end of the garden, for the pleasure Of
iraversing mud-puddles and labyrinths OF
wet weeds il rainy days.
II is dirty trick to make bread without
washing ones hands after cleaning fish or
chickens to use an aproa for handker-
chief; to use veteran handkerchief Just
from the wars for an apron; to use milk
pans alternately for wash-bowl ana milk
To wash dishes and baby linen in tie same
tub either alternately or altogether; to chew
snuff while you are cooking. for sometimes
food will chance to beio highly spiced. We
have q distinct and unutterabe remem-
branee of cud Of tobacco in dish of
hashed pork; bur it was before we were
married
a lady of our acquaintance, at a board
ing house, excited some fears among her
friends, by ioaming at be mouth, of mad.
ness. In eating hash (made, doubtless,
OF every scrap from the table not consumed
the day beiore,) she found herself blessed
with mauthful of bard soap, which only
iathered the more, the more she washed at
IT. II Is filthy thing 10 comb ones hair
IN snail kitchen in the intervals of cook
my the breakfast; TO use the bread-tr5urh
for cradle, Thing which we have un-
doaolediy seen toput trunks, boxes, bas-
kets, and other sundry utensils, under the
bed where you keep the cake for company
We have seen daxterous housewife, whip
tue osd-spread aside, and bring forth. no,
what we ieared, but loafca
1t Is dirty trick 10 wash chiIdren's eyes
IN the pudding dish not that the sore ewes
but subsequent padding will not be bene-
iiied; to wrap warm bread in a dirty table
cloth; to make aqI mo!I bread on table
innocent OF washing far three weeks: Ia
use dirty tsble-eo,lls for sheets, a practice
OF which we have had experimental knowl.
edge, once AZ least in our lives.
The staining pea Of an sla,,erns a,d
sioyens IS. that everybody must eat a peck
OF dir, before they die 4 peck thaI
wonld he mercy, a mere nlsutLfil. in com.
parison OF cooked cart-lolds OF dirt viii j
. 10 be eiten in steamboats,, canalboats
tayerns, M lnsions- butts, and novels.
Tobacco IrieIs.-It Is a filthy trick :,
use IT at all aud it puts an end to all on,
affected expenditures at the Chinese taste
IN eating rats, cats. and birt's-nests. II /
a filthy trick 70 let the exquisite Juice 0
tObac irieAle down the corners of one
mouth; or lie In splashes on ones coat. q
bosom; 10 squirt the juice all over a clea