The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-06-12
Farm, Garden and Household.

To REMOVE INK SPoTs FROM LINEN
Saturate the spot with lard, and expose
for day in the hot sun then wash and
boil without soap. Fruit stains should
also be washed without soap.
To MAKE OLD KID GLOVES NEw-
Makea thick mucilage by boiling hand.
full OF faxseed add a little dissolved
soap; then, when the mixture cools,
with piece of white flannel wipe the
gloves, previously fitting to the hand
use only enough OF the cleaner to take
of the dirt, without wetting Though
the glove.
MINCED BEEF.-Three and half
pounds OF lean beef, chopped as sausage
meat six crackers, rolled fine: three
well-beaten eggs, four tablespoonful of
cream, butter the size OF an egg mix
all together salt and pepper and make
in LOAF, and bake in a dripping pan.
one and a half hours. Cut cold, in slices,
for relish.
To DRIVE RED ANTS FROM THE House.
Drop some quicklime ut the mouth of
their nest, and wash it with boiling wa
ter; or dissolve some camphor in spirits
OF wine, then mix water. This has been
found effectual. They are ayerse to
strong scent. Camphor will prevent
their infesting cupboard, or a sponge
saturated with creosote.
CULTIVATION OF THE HoRsERAp1sH.-
The cultivation of this vegetable is as
simple as anything can be. The soil
should be deep aud moist. Cut off slips
from a root with little of the crown
and plant three or four inches deep in
rows, if for field culture, so as to admit
OF handy working. If in garden Il
matters little whether in rows or not. as
It soon sprouts up in every direction.
Unless the whole crop is removed, the
bed will supply itself year after year,
! bed ten feet square will be enough
snu Nrdinary family.
for III. Wing APPLE TRgEs-H
WurrEwAs. ley, n. Y, writes the
Miles. Pine Va. hat he whitewashed
Rural Netc Yorker :. : bark louise, but
his apple trees to kill tn. 'gain; it AZ
thinks he shall never do it = aring he
most killed them. The next =, inch-
dug up the grass and soil about stz :. If
es deep about a foot from the body
the trees, and put in manure from the
barnyard, covered it over with dirt, and !.
then washed his trees with lye from
wood ashes. Now they are very thrifty.
He does not tell us whether he white
washed them in the fall or spring We j
do not recommend whitewashlng trees |
until late in the fall not then in warm 9
climates. - a.
KEEPING OYIoSs.-A correspondent in {
Kentucky asks how to keep onions I
through the winter. A cool, dry place '
is Ill important and in Kentucky we
should select a cool room-perhaps '
tight, warm barn would answer, for it q
will not injure onions to be slightly I
frozen, provided they are not handled
while in that condition, but allowed to I
remain IN the dark until the frost leaves !
them. Gather in the fall and remove the ]
tops then spread upon barn floor or
in any open shed, and allow them to re- !
main there until perfectly dry. Put in.
to barrels or small bins or boxes, and
place in a cool place, and at the approach
OF cold weather cover with straw or chafi,
if the danger is of very severe freezing.
We have known farmers in New York
State TO keep hundreds of bushels OF
onions through the winter, in barrels
placed in one corner of the barn, and
when very severe weather came on the
barrels we're covered and the interstices
between them filed with wheat or oat
cbaff. and no further attention was paid
to them until spring. The onions were
probably frozen during the winter, but
being excluded from air and sudden
changes Of temperature no injury fol-
lowed.
There are very few cellars sufficiently
dry and cool to keep onions, and losses
are pretty sure to occur if such places
are used for storing, especially II In
large quantities.
SOMETHING ABOUT EGGs.-Tbe New
York Poultry Bulletin has an article CIV
ing CORRECTIONS how to destroy the vitality
Of eggs. We are at loss to know how
any honest person can desire any such
information, or how any honest object
can be attained by it, What can any
one wish to destroy the vitality OF an egg
for. Will it keep longer, or be better as
an edible We think not, and so far can
only see one way that such knowledge
can be used, and that not in IN honest
way. There are dealers who advertise
eggs for sale of rare breeds, but it is
notorious fact that but very small per
cent. of any of the eggs they sell ever
hatch-suppose such men when they
have an order for-say-two dozen Hou-
dan eggs at S3-more or less, when com
mon eggs are selling at % cents-hoW
easy il will be. following the instructions
of the Bulletin, to take eighteen or
twenty of the common eggs, destroy
their vitality and send them to the GUS
toner with five or six good Houdan
eggs. When the hen comes of all the
chicks are genuine Houdans, and who is
to tell that the non fertile eggs were not
genuine and attribute their not Matching