Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1871-11-24
Fb7hi AND FIRESIDE.


~ FARM RULEs.--Take a gooc
& ''spaper such as the New York Weekly
u News, and read it thoroughly.
2. Keep regular cut of all your farm
operations
8. Perform every operation in the proper
season.
4. Perform every operation III the best
manner.
S. Complete every part of an operation
as you proceed.
6. Finish one job before you begin an
other.
| T. Clean every tool when you leave off
work.
g. Have place for everything, and re-.
turn things to their places when you have
done using them.
9. Repair your buildings, tools, fences
and all else, the moment they require it.
/ 10 Be humane to all animals
IL Give your stock good shelter in Win
ter and none but good food at all times.
/ II. Don't keep lot of snarling dogs and
tribes Of cats round your premises.
| ID. Don't buy anything you don't re.
quire because It's cheap particularly at
auction sales.
| A. Don'trefuse to make correct expert
ments in a small way Of many new things.
Is. Attend to little things-drops of wa
ter make the ocean.
| 16. Attend to your own private business
don't NEEDLE in that of others.
LOOK TO Your WH1TEwAsHINa Good
whitewashing, well applied to the fences,
rough siding and the walls and ceilings of
buildings, has highly sanitary influence,
as we'll as being in the highest degree pre-
servative in its effects. To be durable,
| whitewash should be prepared in the follow.
ing manner Take the very best stone lime,
and slake it in close tub, covered with
cloth to preserve the steam. Salt, as much
as can be dissolved in the water used
for Stacking and reducing the lime, should
be applied, and the whole mass carefully
strained and thickened with small quaint.
ty Of sand, the purer and finer the better
A few pounds of wheat -four, mixed as
paste, may be added, and will give greater
durability to the mass, especially when ap.
piled to the exterior surface of buildings.
With pure lime, properly slaked and
mixed with twice its weight Of fine sand and
sifted wood ashes, in equal portions. almost
any color may be made by the addition of
pigments. Granite, slate, freestone, and
other shades may be initiated. and without
any detriment TO the durability of the wash
This covering is very often applied, and
with good effect, to the underpinning stone.
COFFEE AND TEA.--Take any kind of cof-
fee pot or urn, and suspend bag made Of
felt or very heavy flannel, SO long that it
reaches the bottom. bound on wire just fit
ting the top; put in the fresh ground, pure
coffee, and pour on freshly boiled water
The fluid filters through the bag and may
be used at once needs no settling and re-
tains all the ar. ma. The advantage of this
over the ordinary filter is in it's economy, as
the coffee stands and soaks out the strength,
insteaG of merely letting the water pass
through it, A French chemist asserts that
if tea be ground like coffee before hot wa.
ter is poured upon it. it will yield nearly
double the amount of its exhilarating quail
ties. Another writer says eff you put
piece of lump sugar. the size Of walnut in
to tea pot, you will make tea infuse in half
the time" Persons who have tried this
last experiment say that the result is salts.
isfactory.
To Cook AN OLD FowL.-Dress and stuff
as for roasting; then boil three hours in a
covered pot, with one quart of water, to
which add two tablespoonful of vinegar
then take it from the water, rub it over with
little butter, sprinkle over some -four, and
put the fowl into bake-pan and bake in a
hot oven one hour. Use the liquor in the
pot for gravy, and to haste with. The vine
gar makes it very tender, but does not taste
at ALL
TooTHAcHE. Put piece of quieklime,
as big as a walnut, in pint of water in a
bottle. Clean the teeth with little Of it
every morning, rinsing the mouth with clean
water afterward. IT the teeth are good it
will preserve them and keep away toothache;
if the teeth are gone, it ill harden the gums
so that they will masticate crusts and all.
RICH MINcE Pies. Eight pounds Of
beef, one pound suet, two pounds currants,
two pounds raisins, one-half peck apples,
two ounces ground cloves, two ounces all
spice, one half ounce mace, one ounce nut
megs, three-qua1ter pound citron, one.quar.
ter pound cinnamon, eight pounds sugar.
half gallon sweet cider, six lemons.
How TO SET CoLoRs.-Dissolve a tea
spoonful Of sugar of lead in pail Of water,
in which you soak your colored cambria for
fifteen minutes before washing. If more
convenient, little vinegar or handful of
salt thrown into pail of water, and the
dress soaked, will set the color.
| WATER.-Bits of iron will prevent water
from becoming putrid. Sheet-iron or iron
trimmings are the best. The offensive
smell of water in vases of flowers can be
prevented by putting few small nails il
the bottom of the vases.
DRESSING FOR TuRKEY.-The crumbs
of one large loaf of bread, rubbed up fine,
two eggs. half a teacup Of butter, one tea
cupful Of celery, chopped fine, one teaspoon
full of salt, one 5easpoonful Of ground pep
per. Thls is delicious.
J YEAST THE discovery has been made
that grape leaves make yeast in some res
poets superior to hops, as The bread rises
sooner aud has not the peculiar taste which
many object to in that made of hops.