Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1871-08-04
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FARM AND FIRESIDE.
ADVERTISING RATES.

HINTS TO FARMERS. -All permanent i'm
provements of land, look to lime for their
basis.
Periodical application of ashes tends to
keep up the integrity of the soil.
All grain crops should be harvested be-
fore perfectly ripe.
To manure or lime wet land, is to throw
manure, lime and labor away.
Glover as well as grasses intended for hay,
should be moved when in bloom.
| Shallow blowing operates to impoverish
the soil, while it decreases in production.
Punctuality in engagements is as necessa-
| ry to the agriculturist as it to the merchant.
Deep blowing greatly improves the pro-
| ductive powers of every variety of soil that
| is not wet.
Subsoiling sound land that is not wet, is
eminently conducive to increased produc-
| ton
Always jrovide an equivalent for the SUBJ
stance carried off the land to the products
grown thereon.
The chopping Or grinding Of grain to be
! fed to the stock operates as a saving of at
least twenty-five per cent.
To REVIVE FADED BLACK CLOTHES
Boil three ounces of logwood in quart of
vinegar, and when the color is extracted,
drop in piece of carbonate iron the size of
large chestnut; let it boil five minutes
Have the articles to be restored well sponged
with soap and hot water, laying them on
the table, and brush the nap down with
sponge. Then take the dye upon tho table
and sponge them all over with it, taking
care to keep them smooth, and brush down.
ward.
When completely wet with the dye, dis
solve teaspoonful of saleratus in teacup
Of warm water, and sponge over again with
this, which sets the color SO completely that
nothing rubs off. They must not be wrung
or wrinkled, but carefully hung up to drain.
The brownest cloth may be made q perfect
black in this simple manner.
SMALL FARMs.-Stick 70 your farms. Ii
farmer has but forty to eighty acres to
cultivate, and has a stock-yard or barn to
which he draws all his grain to thrash, and
there lets his stock live through the VIM
ter, converting all his straw into manure,
he can make manure enough to keep the
forty to eighty acres in good condition for
growing good crops from generation to gen.
Grafton. Also, small farm thus managed
Is much more profitable, in proportion to
large farm managed in the usual way. There
are fewer acres to pay taxes upon; there Is
less money invested; there is less fencing to
make and keep in repair, leaving much less
expense, and greater profit, according to
the capital invested and expended.
APPLES FOR CATTLE.-For cattle, sweet
apples are found to be an excellent substi-
tute for roots promoting both growth and
health. For swine nothing equals an ap-
pie, either for relish or fattening power
The pig is not very dainty about his pie,
however. If you merely cook the apples,
and stir in little bran, he won't refuse the
| dish substitute shorts, Or corn meal, or
ground oats, or buckwheat, and it will suit
his palate, and pile on the fat amazingly
And for finishing up piece Of pork, an ap-
pie pudding, thickened with good corn meal,
| is far ahead of corn, as the corn is Of raw
pumpkins. Pork made with apples is sweet,
and quite as free from shrinking as the
'scorn fed"
| Poison ANT1DoTEs A standing antidote
for poison by dew, poison oak, ivy, etc.. is
| to take handful of quicklime, dissolved in
| water, let it stand in water half an hour,
thon paint the poisoned parts with it. Three
or four applications will never fail to cure
the most aggravated cases. Poison from
bees, hornets, spider bites, etc., is Instant
ly arrested by the application of equal parts
Of common salt and bicarbonate of soda,
well rubbed in on the place bitten or
stung.
MINCED BEEF.-Three and half pounds
Of lean beef, chopped as sausage meat; six
crackers, rolled fine; three we'll beaten eggs,
four tablespoonful of cream, butter the
size of an egg mix all together lsalt and
pepper) and make in loaf, and. bake in
dripping pan one and half hours. Cut
cold, in slices, for relish. .'.
70 KEEP IRON FROM RUsr1Ne. -Kerosene
applied by means of moisted cloth to
stoves, will efectually keep them from rust
ing during the Summer. 1t is also an ex'
ceilllent material to apply to all iron utensils
used about the farm. Give plows, cultiva.
tors and the like coating before they are
put away in the Fall.
To CLEAN CANE BoTroM CHAIRS. -Turr
Nm the chair bottom, and with hotlwater anc
sponge wash the cane work so that it may
be thoroughly soaked. Should it be dirty
use little soap. Let it dry in the air, ane
it will be as tight and firm as when new
provided the cane is not broken.
To DRIVE RED ANTS FROM THE HOUSE.
Drop some quicklime at the mouth OF thel
nest, and wash it with boiling water i; or dis
solve some camphor in spirits of wine, thel
mix water. Camphor will prevent their in
! Testing cupboard, or sponge saturate'
with creosote.
To RELIEVE NEURALGIA. Take two larg
table.spoonfuls of cologne and two teaspoon
fuls Of fine salt mix them together in 7
small bottle every time you have an
: acute election of the facial nerves, or neu
ralgia, simply breathe the fumes in you
nose from the bottle.
Projection FROM DAMP WALLs.-Bo
= = one pound of powdered sulphur in iw
: quarts of water for half an hour. App!l;
with brush while still warm and you VII
). prevent the damp and unwholesomee oozlng
g from the brick walls of your workshops.
SORE TuRoAT.-Take the whites Of tw
~ ooos and beat them in with two spoonfuls q
7 va - nrate in a little nutmeg, an