National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-09-29
Farm, Garden and Household.

then in -four, and fry in butter.
To REMOVE GREASE FROM FLooRs. -
Apply paste of wood ashes, keep it Oh
several days, and then wash of.
To CLEAN LAMP-sHApEs. -Lamp-shade
may he cleansed with soap or pearlash
these will not injure or discolor them
To KEEP KNIVES FROM RUsTINo -Scou
them on a board. crosswise, with som,
dry brick, after having wiped them per
fectly dry. and put them away withou
wiping off the brick-dust
DOVER CAKE. One cup of sugar, one
half cup each OF butter and milk, two
cups -four, two eggs, one teaspoonfu
cream tartar, one-half teaspoonful soda
and salt and spice to suit the taste
To Written STRAW HATS. - Scrapt
stick sulphur with knife, mix the pow
der to a mush with water, plaster il
thickly over the straw, aud place ia the
hot sun several hours brush off when
dry.
CLEANING TINwARE. The best thing
tor cleaning tinware is common soda.
Dampen cloth and dip in soda and rub
TIE ware briskly, after which wipe dry.
Any blackened ware can be made to look
rs well as new.
RIBBONS RENEWED, Wash in cool suds
made of soap, and iron when damp
Cover the ribbon with clean cloth, and
pass the iron over that. If you wish to
stiffen the ribbon, dip it, while drying,
into gum arabic water
,HARRowING Grass LAND causes a
good many weed seeds to terminate,
and when the land is plowed next spring
the plants will be destroyed. In some
cases, especially on light land, this is a
better plan than fall blowing
To CLEANSE THE INSIDE OF JARS. Fill
them with hot water and stir in a spoon.
full or more of pearlash empty them in
an hour, and if not perfectly clean, fill
again and let them stand few hours.
For large vessels I've may be used.
GERMAN PUFFs Melt quarter of a
pound of butter, and mix it well with
half pound of -four; add one quart Of
milk, eight eggs well beaten, some grated
nutmeg and some cinnamon. Beat the
ingredients well together, and bake the
mixture in cups. Fill your cups but
half full, as the puff rises very high.
AN ANT TRAP.-- Procure a large sponge,
wash it well and press it dry, which will
leave the cells quite open Then sprin-
kle over it some fine white sugar. and
place it near where the ants are most
troublesome. They will soon collect upon
the sponge and take up their abode in
the cells 1T is then only necessary to
dip the sponge in scalding water, which
will wash them ont dead Put on more
sugar and set the trap for new haul.
DRY SEPTEMBER affords an excellent
opportunity for digging bitches in low
LAND, and for cleaning out and deepen
ing those already cut. 1t is also CAPT
tai time to throw up muck, and get it
ready for hauling in the winter. Any
of our readers who have some land they
think too low to drain, if they will com
mence at the stream, and dig ditch
through their land, mak1ng tie ,cotey
fo'4or Them, they will probably be aston
ished at the result.
Corn HUsKs. The husks of corn are
very well worth the trouble of saving.
When dried and torn into strips they
make excellent mattresses, clean and
sweet, and very soft and elastic. Plated
into rope and wound round n central
point, they make serviceable door-mats.
the manufacture of which will furnish
pleasing and useful fl lilo employment
for many n stormy day when outside work
is impossible, or for the long evenings
Of winter. They are worth saving for
these purposes alone.
KEEP THE TEAMS AT WoRK.-This is
our own rule. We must aim to distri-
butte the work so as not to he crowded
too much at any one time. 1t is not al
ways best to do work ut what may be
absolutely the best time, but to do it
when you can best afford the timc-pro-
vided always that il is never done too
late. Any thing that we have time to
do now that will lessen work in the
spring should be done, even though we
gain nothing except being so much |
ahead with our work.
BRUISES ON FURNITURE. Wet the part
in warm water double piece of brown
paper five or six times, soak in the warm |
wat r, and lay it on the place apply on
that warm, but not hot flat-iron till the |
moisture is evaporated. If the bruise
be not gone, repeat the process. After
two or three applications the dent or
bruise will he raised to the surface. If |
the bruise be small, merely soak It with |
warm water. and hold a red-hot iron |
near the surface. keeping the surface |
wet-the bruises will soon
disappear.
CLOVER WITH Corn. A. G. Kirk, of |
Dickinson Co., Kansas, says he saw in
Columbus county, Ohio last April, a
fine stand of clover in corn stnbble,
and on inquiry found the owner of
NE land was in the habit of sowing
clover seed when he worked the corn
he last time, for the purpose of sup
plying manure for the crop of oats, or
barley, or wheat, which was to follow.
This farmer evidently was one of the
sort, who believes it putting
III he can on the land. We have done
he same, pasturing the clover with
'heep, and had good crop of wheat
after il.
BEE STINos. lady once being asked |
What she thought good remedy for
pee stings, said that she had never found [
lnything better than to keep away from I
he bees. This remedy, however, is not
always attainable by those whose work
,all them into garden and field, or bv /
those whose greatest pleasure is found !
Dat-of-doors among fruits and flowers.
Inc bees have love fer sweet things $
that leads them into our most charming
hooks aud corners in the country. Some I
Of them are polite aud will not sting
inless handled roughly but il is well q
20 knoD plenty OF remedies, as if Won d
ire wounded and have to spend some 9