Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-09-11
I SeuI Hints.

One OF the most annoying and painful Of
sO-called :. little troubles, is a felon. 4
genuine remedy is worth circulating An
exchange says that a poultice of onions, ap-
Piled morning, noon and night, for three or
four days, viii cure felon No matter how
bad the case, lancing the finger will be I'M
necessary, if this poultice be used the rem
edy Is sure, safe, and speedy one.
Remember-if you ever knew it-that ma
nure, even if long, is an excellent thing t.
keep knobs moist, if spread the surface
In this way grass can be successfully grown
on any upland.
Bake apples without breaking the skin
Bake from three to five hours When the
pulp is perfectly tender, break the skin if
that is sIlken, like the cutce of the hand
YOU have your fruit done. If you break the
sSin baking, the heat and moisture will es
cape, and your apple will dry. The peel pre-
vents evaporation and is good conductor of
heat Bake on paper. and there will be no
dishes spoiled or needed to be washed.
To preserve fruit without sugar for winter
use, in fresh state, put them up in bottles,
fill them up with cold spring water. tie down
with bladder tightly put them in a kettle
OF copper OF cold water, up to the neck of
the bottles, with hay to steady them let
them simmer for quarter of an hour, but
not boil let them cool in the water wipe
the bottles. and put in dry place On no
account open them till their contents are
wanted for eating.
The productive power of the droppings of
the hennery are very great as compared with
ordinary barnyard manure, yet many farm
ers, with a score or two of fowls, take little
or no pains to preserve and apply it to the
purposes of vegetable production. 1t is an
excellent dressing r gardens, and will repay
hundred fold, the care and expense of pre-
serving and applying it.
Experiments have indicated that paint on
surfaces exposed to the sun, will be much
more durable if applied in autumn or spring,
than If put on during hot weather. In cool
weather it dries slowly, forms hard. glossy
coat, tough like glass, while if applied in
warm weather, the oil strikes into the wood,
leaving the paint dry that it is rapidly
beaten off by rains.
Ice HoUsEs--A farmer wrote to the n Y
Formers Club: "A year or two ago 1 had
my attention called to an ice house built by a
farmer near me, which was simply bin made
with rough boards, ten feet square, and rooted
over, leaving large opening at the front and
sides. lie said his ice kept perfectly till the
next winter. lie put on layer of sawdust
about a foot thick on the ground, and then
stacked the ice snugly in the center eighteen
or twenty inches from the walls, and then
filled in with sawdust. and up over the top
foot or more thick. Last winter. before fill
ing my ice house, l determined to try his
method. [ accordingly tore out all the inside
wall, and shoveled out the sawdust: then
filed by stacking it snugly in the center IF
teen or twenty inches from the wall This
space | filed in with pine sawdust, and COW
cred the whole over the top foot or more
[ left out the window before mentioned, and
took down my door and left it all open, so
the sun can shine in there every day. At the
present time have an abundance of ice, and
the cakes seem to come out as square and
perfect as when they went in seemingly
nothing lacking except what is used out. y