Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1871-01-06
0lre 9taultton WiuoifaIoi
FARM AND FIRESlDE.

MAKING WINTER BUTTER. A correspon-
dent writes: As prime butter, without fault
or flavor, always commands high price,
and an article made perfect in the dead Of
Winter with all the nutty taste OF tho best
Orange County Summer grass butter, WONT
make an extra high figure, why not produce
such quanty, and make kind oil harvest
at the season of the year when nothing rs
done. or worse than naught, by come itr-s
mers? Some may say, sit cannot be done
in this State ;" but l have done it in the
North and the South, in States fairly repre-
| senting al. the others It can be done, and.
very easy, in any part of the Union. with
no more trouble than is taken in the pros
duction of soapy stuff. Grow some man.
colds and carrots; cut some grass just as il
has come into bloom and give it plenty Of
field room, turning it often that it may dry
uniformly and be sweet, bris ht-looking
article OF hay.
| When Winter commences, begin feeding
tina cows in milk with those ioots and the
beautiful hay, aud if some good corn-meal
is shaken over or mixed with the roots, so
much the better for the cows, the butter
and the manure The corn meal will be
well paid for, though hay alone Of the de.
scription alluded to will make first class
butter. The right kind of food given to the
COW is the first step toward making fine
butter; aun without this being done, the
| best dairy maid in the whole world cannot
manipulate her milk into the desired article
| believe there are soue men who have
an idea that it is kind of extravaganza to
have COWS in milk during the Winter who
think calves cannot be raised which are
dropped in the Autumn, and believe man
ought to do like the squirrels-put every
thing in store for the cold season. Let them
eat the tub and potted butter; bua. while
fresh butter with Others is appreciated, and
SO long as there is market for 6Tst-clas
produce of every kind, allow father seeidg
men to provide tie essentials for supplying
the demand
Salt hutter in England is considered very
little better than hogs lard, and is never
brought ON any respectable persons table.
Tt is used occasionally on toast, and good
deal in making pastry, but fresh butter and :
fresh meat are eaten by everybody IN COM
Portable circumstances, except that cold
boiled ham and rashers of broiled bacon IRE >
very common for the breakfast.
V1RTUEe OF BoRAx-It may no. be gen
orally known how very valuable bofax is in
various purposes of household use. 1t is
the very best cockroach exterminator yet
discovered. One half pound, costing but
fifty cents, has completely cleared a large
house formerly swarming with them, so that
the appearance of one in month is quite
novelty. The various exterminating lowers
pulled and advertised have been found not &
fully effective, tending rather 70 lnl4a ale
reaches crazy than to kill them TheFe i
something peculiar, either in the slaelfoi
touch of borax, which is certain dca'a
them They will flee in terror from X.
never appear again where it has oles
placed.
1t is also great advantage that 9orax
perfectly harmless to human beings heneeS
no danger from poisoning 1t is also yalu
able for laundry purposes Tue washer
woman of Holland aud Belgium, 50 proven
bially clean, and who get up their lined 50
beautifully white, use refined ooray as
washing powder, insteal of soda, in the
proportion of large han lful of borax pow
der to ten gallons of water. They save
soap nearly one~half. All the large wash
ing establishments adopt the same mode;
For laces, cambrics, ects, an extra quality
of the powder is used and for crinolines
requiring to be made stiff q stronger solu-
ton is necessary. Borax, being a neu-s
trail salt, does not in the slightet degree IN
iniure the texture of linen.
Its effect is to soften the hardest water.
and, therefore, it should be kept on tbs
to,let-table. AS way of cleaning the hair,
nothing is better than solution of borax in
water It leaves the scalp in moist, clean
ly condition, and the hair is just sufficiently
stiffened to retain its place. This stiffness,
however, can be readily removed. if Oh
ectionable, by washing the hair. Borax is
also an excellent dentifrice dissolved in
water, it is one of the best tooth washes
In hot countries it is used, in combination
with tartaric acid and bi-carbonate Of soda.
as a cooling beverage.
CURE FOR HYDRopHoBIA Medical science
seems vainly to have exhausted its skill in