Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-08-30
Farm, Garden and Household.

them with clean AAut anu NAlt III Ntf
rubbing them with little beeswax while
hot will have the desired effect
RIDDrNl SHEEP or TcKs.-Mix sui
phur and salt, seven parts of salt 10 one
az sulphur, and feed or salt them with
the mixture, and n will drive the ticks
from sheep aud lambs Give IL to them
several times.
FoR ScAIDs or BURNs-Poultiees OF
tea leaves. moistened in hoe water, are
preferable 20 all other remedies, in the
first stage of burns and scalds. Or take
raw onions, pound or mash fine as pos
sible, and apply at once; it will give inn
mediate relief.
GET RID OF FLIEs.-Take half a tea
spoonful Of black pepper, ground, one
teaspOouful Of brown sugar, and one tea
spoonful OF cream, mix them well togeth-
er and place them in the room on plate
where the flies are troublesome and they
will soon disappear.
How To SET CoLoRs.- a tea
spoonful of sugar Of lead in a pail of
water, in which you soak your colored
cambric for 10 minutes before washing
IL more convenient little vinegar or
handful of salt thrown into pail of
water, and the dress soaked will set the
color.
How To Cook GREEN CoRN.-Com
should be allowed TO boil (says the Ohio
Farmer) in clear, soft water, and by
itself alone. Not in salt and water for
the salt hardens the corn and not, on
any account, boil the ears of corn with
the potatoes, as so many do, for this
greatly Injuries the taste and goodness of
the corn, and also hardens it. The skin
of the potato contains poison which is
freely given to water, rendering it unfit
that corn should be boiled in it.
To CLEAN KID GLovEs.-Have ready
little new milk in one saucer, piece
of white soap in another, and clean
cloth folded two or three times. On the
cloth spread out the glove smooth and
neat. Take piece of flannel, dip it in
the milk, then rub off q good quantity
of soap on the wetted flannel, and COM
mence to rub the glove towards the fin
gers, holding it firmly with the left hand.
Continue this process until the glove, if
white, looks dry and spoiled. Lay it to
dry, and the operator will soon be graft
fed to see that the old glove looks near
ly new. 1t will be soft, glossy, smooth,
and elastic.
PINEAPPLE JELLY.-Take perfectly
ripe and sound pineapples, cut off the
outside, cut in small pieces, bruise them,
and to each pound put teacupful of
xuafar mt in,
let them boil for twenty minutes then
strain it, and squeeze it through bit
of muslin. Fo- each pound of fruit take
pound of sugar put teacupful of
water to each pound set it over the fire
until it is dissolved then add the pine
apple juice. For each quart of the syrup
clarity an ounce of the best isinglass,
and stir it in let it boil until, by taking
some on plate to cool, you find it stiff
jelly.
SHAD CULTURE. -Shad culture which
was held somewhat doubtful at first is
coming on handsomely in Connecticut
The operations. were begun at Hadley
Falls in June, and already the ova taken
exceeds 1920, 900, from which at least
10000, 600 of young shad have been pro-
duced. These little fish are distributed
all over the waters of the State. The
average length of time required for the
Matching of the eggs after being placed
IN the boxes is four days, varying some
what according to the temperature of the
water. The shad were taken in seine
at night (ripe fish rarely being found in
the day time), the first haul being made
at about 81 p, M, and the two following
at 8! and 10l p. m. The number of ova
taken per night ranged from 145, 900 to
S,OOO,OO the average being about
2,920,000.
MICE IN MEADOWS AND ORCHARDS
The ravages OF mice are some time sufi-
cient to completely destroy sod during
one winter. If allowed to increase and
Ind shelter, no means of prevention will
avail. There is no plan but to disturb
their haunts, clear out the fence rows of
brush and weeds, remove all pieces of
decaying rails, pick off all loose stone
In fact, leave no places for the vermin to
hide. Their natural enemies, the hawks,
owls, skunks, and cats, will then find
them and devour them. In addition.
leave a few small bundles of straw in the
helds scattered about, and when thew
have commenced to work at them. put n
small quantity each night of corn-meal
. and arsenic under each bundle. This will
help thin them off and if persevered in
will so reduce their numbers that the sod
and the trees in the orchard will to a
great extent be spared the ravages.
Stock FOR SOUPS. Buy knuckle of
beef or veal. Have the bone well crack
ed in small pieces. Put it in the SOUP
digester, or if you have none, in close
Iy-covered iron pot. For a medium
knuckle, add five or six quarts of cold
pater (by using cold water you will secure
all the juices, whereas in hot water half
the juice is retained in the meat. Let
1t come to boil before you add salt and
pepper then season it to suit your taste,
and II agreeable, put in o small bit Of
red pepper. Put the pot on the back
part OF the stove after it commences to
boil, and keep it gently simmering all
DAY then strain it from the bones and
meat, which are now worthless, into a
jar Kept for the purpose. Never throw
away bones that are left from baked.
boiled, or roast meat of any kind. or
bones such as are left from steak. poul-
try, anything-if they have not been put
on to the plates; dried or grisly bits of
meats all may be used to prepare stock
for soup and, in q large family, sufi-
cient may be cleaned, that would other
wise be thrown into the swill, to keep
stock on hand for weeks, without buy
ing bone for that purpose alone. When
the stock is strained, set it in the cellar
to cool, The next morning carefully re-
move all the grease that has risen to the
top and hardened, and you will have a