Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1871-11-10
FAR. AND FIRESIDE.
ADVERTISING RATES

not smart enough to run store, is not smart
enough to farm. Farmers are not to be
n made of what is left after lawyers, doctors,
! ministers and merchants are sorted and pick
ed out And if a man fails on a farm, it is
!, not likely he will succeed in store, for it
requires more talent to be thriving farmer
, than to be an average merchant. The one
cause of great value is the disproportion be-
+ tween a mans farm and his capital A
farmers capital is skill, labor and his mon
ey If he has little cash, he must have no
more land than he can thoroughly manage
by his personal labor Every acre beyond
that is an incumbrance. One acre well
worked is more profitable than twenty acres
skinned over. 1t is this greed of land by
farmers that have not the capital to keep it
that keeps so many poor. Small farms are
better than large ones, simply because they
are better suited to the capital of common
farmers Large farmers with large capital
are better than small ones. Farming is
good business for all men who conduct ii on
proper principles, and have capital accor-
ding to the size Of their farms.
DAT CHAFF FOR FEED. "A year or two ago
1
chaff to few head Of milking COWS, and
were agreeably surprised to find that they
suddenly came up considerably on their
milk. The chaG was discontinued for day
or two, when the COWS fell off to their form.
er quantity but on feeding the chaff again,
the flow again increased. Since then the
value of oat chaff as a milk-producer has
been satisfactorily proved by us. This would
then make it advisable that when oats are
thrashed the chaff should be saved for feed.
1t may be fed in the place of cut chaff, with
the usual wetting, sailing, and mixing OF
the regular allowance of meal. lie years
when hay is as scarce as the present, notion
ly the chaff may be fed, but the oat straw
should be carefully saved for fodder. 1t is
quite as nutritious as timothy that has gone
| to seed. Hearth and Home.
| PEACH LEAF YEAsT.-Take three hand
| fuls of peach leaves, and three medium sized
potatoes boil them in two quarts of water
until the potatoes are done then take out
the leaves and throw them away; peel the
potatoes, and rub them up with pint Of
-four. adding cool water sufficient to make
a paste. Then pour on the hot peach leaf
tea, and scald for about five minutes. If
you add to this little old yeast, it will be
ready for use in three hours. If you add
none it will require to stand day and
night before use. Leaves dried in the shade
are as good as fresh ones. AS this is strong.
err that hop-yeast, less should be used in
making up dough.
CABBAGE FROM THE LEAF.--Take large
head eff cabbage, strip off the outer leaf,
and slip off the bud found at the root of the
leaf. Take this bud and simply set it in
rich dirt. like any other plant. The result
will be growth of early cabbage plants
with heads larger and sounder than can be
raised in the ordinary way. don't know
whether this plan is new to you or not, but
to me it was when first saw it. This plan
OF raising cabbage is much practiced in
Iowa. Let some of your readers try it,
Rural Press
KNEADINa BUTTER.-A great portion of
the fine favor of fresh butter is destroyed by
| the usual mode of washing, and we recon-
mend thorough kneading for the removal of
the butter.milk and subsequent pressing
in linen cloth. Butter thus prepared is
pre-eminent for its sweetness of taste and
favor-qualities which are retained long
time. 10 improve manufactured butter we
are advised to work it thoroughly with fresh
cold milk, and then to wash it in clear wa
ter.
| AN ORNAMENT FOR COLD WEATHER. g.
| Take large turnip and scrape out the in
side, leaving thick wall around. Fill the
cavity with earth, and plant in it some cling
ing vine or morning glory. Suspend the
turnip with cords, and in a little time the
vines Irvine around the strings, and the tur-
nip, sprouting from below, will put forth
leaves and stems that will turn upward and
gracefully curl round the base.
TAKING CARE OF BRooMs. Have a screw
with an eye or ring on its end /; this can be
screwed into the end Of the handle of each
successive new broom 1t is handler to
hang up by than a string, though the latter
will do if always used. 1t is bad for broom
to leave it standing upon the brush. If
not hung up, always set it away with the
stick end down.
To CURE FELoN Take sassafras bark
the inside bark-dry and CRATE fine and wet
in teacup with cold water for poultice.
Apply to the felon, and wet once in FIVE
minutes with cold water This, followed
up, will draw it to head in twenty-four
hours without any pain and without any in
jury to the hand. Use the bark of the
root
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, two teacups
of molasses, one Of butter, two teaspoonsful
of ginger, one even full of bicarbonate of So
da, one teacup of warm water -four enough
to make soft dough. After placed in the
bake tin, -four your hands to pat it into
shape, and with a knife cross-cut the top in
to square or diamonds. Bake until "done."
Coon RUsK Two eggs, one cup sugar,
half cup butter, half teaspoonful soda dis
solved in two tablespoonful Of milk. lit
tie salt, nutmeg and cinnamon, all worked
into a pint of bread dough. Then let it
rise. When light, make them into small
cakes about as large as biscuits. Then let
them rise again before baking.
SIMPLE REMEDY FOR CRoUp.--A lady
correspondent says the following is an efec-
tive remedy for Group: Half teaspoonful
, Of pulverized alum in little molasses 1t
is simple remedy. one almost always at
hand, and one dose seldom fails to give re.
lief. If it should, repeat it after one hour.