Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-24

ExTERMINArING HOUSE FLIES

EXTERMINATING HOUSE FLIES
A Vermonter gives to the Farmers
Institute his method of destroying
these posts by means of 4 kind of
net secured in a doorway. He says:
81 am enabled by means of net
made Of proper material and suitable
size, attached slightly to door pass
age in horizontal position, to en-
trap all the flies IN the house in a
few minutes, that flies can be driven
out of room through doorway
with facility, and net attached to
the passageway receives all the flies,
| care not how numerous, that are
driven from the room. The net be-
ing light, with open meshes, they
will light on the same and stay there
till you drive all the flies in the room
into the net then quickly remove
the net from the doorway, inclosing
the mouth in your hand shake it,
and the-hie will quickly be gather
ed at the rear end OF the net, just
like swarm of bees, and thon des-
troy them by dipping the bunch
of flies in hot water or soap
suds. A few applications of the net
make the flies very few in number
in and about your house. By using
our continuance once or twice q
week, in any dwelling during fly
time, will give peace and quietude
that such as detest flies and vermin
as | do will fully appreciate"
To KILL FLIEs.-A gentleman who
has tried it, and is willing to swear
that it is just as he says, informs us
that the best hy>killer in the world
is tunbler of whisky, sugar and
water. They will gather about il
in swarms, drink it greedily, get
drunk instantly, tumble in head over
heels Immediately, and die in q jiffy.
Our informant states that this will
kill the pests ten times quicker than
the lighting e. killer, and ten times
more of them than the the old-fash-
toned trap of molasses and water
1t won't cost much to try it, and
and there's lots of flies to experiment
on.
To PRoTEcT GRAIN From RATs.-
An individual of much practical ex-
perience says that green elder, de-
posted in and about mows of hay or
grain, will prove an etfectual pre-
ventive against the depredations OF
mice and rats. These animals are
frequently very destructive in their
ravages, and, if a remedy SO simple
and easy Of attainment be efficacious,
it deserves. to be known and remem
bered by all We have long known
that the stalks of the common mull>
en- will drive rats from their hannts.
Mrs. WILLIAM B. HAzELToN, of
Mahopac Falls, in the Michigan
farmer, says: i take the sweet or
er-green corn before it gets old,
cut it from the cob, fill my cans full,
pressed down, then take a boiler,
lay some sticks in the bottom for
my cans to lay on, i then lay the
covers of the cans on loose, fill the
boiler with water so that it will COW
err half way up tho sides of the cans,
put the cover on the boiler, boil for
three hours briskly, take out and
press the covers on tight. Will keep
well and have all tho flavor of green
corn.
BUTTER MAKING.-A farmers
wife in the Western Rural says: -
Washing butter, in my opinion, des,
troys that rich flavor that good butt
ter should have and 1 find that the
particles of water left in it will turn
sour and rancid quicker than the
milk will if no water is used. The
greatest difficulty in making sweet
butter is in keeping the cream too
long, in order to get "big churn-
ing" have been repeatedly asked
what made my butter taste so rich
and sweet. | answer, q skim my
milk at proper time, churn often
and never wash my, butter, but work
it twice and sometimes three times
before packing it away. / have been
making butter for my own family
for twenty-five years, and have
found this way preferable to any 9th.