Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-05-10
Farm, Garden and Household.

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en- this modicum Of information.
10 REMOVE SrAISs.-To take the stain
II any fruit from any fabric, put the
fArment in a vessel, pour boiling water
over it, and let it stand till cool, then
vash it and the stain is gone.
TO REMOVE a film from horses eve.
blow, in moderate weather, n little Gallo
mel in his eye through a goose-uuill.
Care should be taken TO keep the horse
rom getting wet for three or four days
after.
IN CASES of kerosene fires, don't try 10
extnguish the flames with water That
viii only spread the fire. Instead smoth-
er the flames with blankets, wooden
clothes, quilts, shawls, or whatever may
be at hand.
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.
BLAcKING FOR LADIES AND CHuDREN's
SHoEs.-Take good black ink, and mix
with dissolved gum arabic. Apply with
brush or sponge. This gives a beauti-
fully new appearance to morocco shoes
that have become little rusty.
TO Written STRAW HATS. - Scrape
stiek sulphur with knife, mix the pow
der to a mush with water, plaster it
thickly over the straw, and place in the
hot sun several hours brush off when
dry An easy and effectual plan.
To KEEP KNIVES FROM RUsTINa. An
excellent way to keep knives from rusting
y 10 scour them on board, crosswise,
With some dry brick, after having wiped
them perfectly dry and put them away
without wiping off the brick dust.
To CLEAN On-CLorHs.- you wish
to have them look new and nice, wash
them with soft flannel and lukewarm
water, and wipe perfectly dry. If you
want them to look extra nice, after they
are wiped, drop q few spoonfuls of milk
over them, and rub them with a dry
cloth.
Objects of wood, stoneware and poree-
lain, picture frames, ETC., may be made
to receive beautiful bronze by apply
ing, by means of a brush, thin layer of
water-glass solution, and then busting it
over with a fine bronze powder. The
excess of the powder is to be removed by
gentle tapping, and the article, if of por.
celain or stoneware, slightly heated
The bronzing may be polished by means
Of an agate stone, thereby assuming a
beautiful effect.
CALF's HEAD, HAsHED. into a
stewpan half a Calls head with water
enough to cover it, knuckle of ham,
onions, herbs, &C. Simmer till the
meat may easily be separated from the
bone; then cut into fillet, and put the
uimmings and half the liquor by in
tnreen to the remaining half add gill
Of white wine, and reduce the whole
one-half by quick boiling, when it should
be poured over the fllet surrounded by
Mushrooms, small white onions, pieces
Of picllled pork, and the tongue in slices,
sirnmered till the whole is fit to serve
up.
The EARTH-SYsTEM FOR STABLES. -
Straw has become too expensive to bed
et0bles with. The best substitute is dry
earth. Any common soil may be collect
Cd when dry and placed under cover,
c0nvenient for use when required
Spread the dry earth over the whole sta
bio floor to the depth of three or four
inches. When this is saturated and mix
ed with the animal excretions, add more
fresh earth until it becomes six or eight
inches deep. When all is we'll saturated
remove to the manure heap. When ever
any offensive smell is observed, add
more fresh earth until all the odor is alb
sorbed. Earth is the natural couch of
animals, and they like it as bedding.
BARBERY HEDGES. -The common Bar
berry (BerberiS ouLgariS,) will grow in
almost any soil or situation. We have
seen it growing vigorously in the sandy
s0llA OF New Jersey, as well as in the
sti6, clayey lands of Northern New York
and canada. 1t is not as rapid growing
3 plant as the Usage Orange, but will
produce shoots one to three feet long in
Is impact many shoots springing from
The base of the main stem, therefore
requiring very little pruning to make it
ea6iciently dense to turn pigs or cattle
From four to six years will be required
n produce good serviceable hedge.
Xhe seed can be obtained of any dealer
IA needs, if ordered early in fall and
they Should be sown before winter, OF at
le44& mixed with sand and put where
4X will freeze during cold weather.
6&ke are several varieties of the Bar
bsE also native species found in the
Shany Mountains but none of them
ar4 Equal to the common sort (the one
nemed above) for hedge.-Rurat Neu
klkNovATING PASTURES. Old pastures
afe often greatly deteriorated in produc.
tlYeness and quality by the incoming Of
moss The lighter the soil the sooner
The moss makes its appearance, and the
wider the area it occupies. We have
kn6xn old pastures made nearly unpro
dlIetye from the growth. Solong as the
soll n abundantly rich with grass food
mQe9 will not come in when that begins
to fa1L class of plants that draw differ
ent eIements from the sofia lower ant
coax1er type of vegetable growth---is pro
duced. The best old pastures, thos,
that seem to improve with age, occup,
soiI that is naturally extremely rich, deeI
and moist enough to favor the grass. Oh
such favored locations pasture improves
NTH age, because the turf thickens, ant
tlIe herbage becomes fine and sweet
This process goes ON for years-for
lilctinne- and people talk Of permanen
pa61ures. But the best will fail wit
a1|f When the store of plant food is ex
ha|zaied, unless it be kept good by art
dclai means. The law of growth, matul
ity and decay holds good with the bet