Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-08-31
Farm, Garden and Household.


hot will have the desired effect.
RDDINa SHEEP OF Ticks. Mix sui
phur and salt, seven parts of salt to on
of sui phur, and feed or salt them witt
the mixture, and 1t will drive the tick
from sheep and lambs. Give it to then
several times.
For ScALDs OR BURNS. --Poultices o
ten leaves, moistened in hot water, ar
preferable to all other remedies, in thu
first stage of burns and scalds. Or talk
raw onions, pound or mash fine as pos
sible, and apply at once ; it will give i'm
mediate relief.
GET RID OF FLIES. Take half tea
spoonful of black pepper, ground, on,
tcaSpoonful of brown sugar, and one tea
spoonful of cream, mix them well togeth
cr and place them in the room on n plate
whore the flies are troublesome and they
will soon disappear.
How TO SET CoLoRs. dissolve tea
spoonful of sugar of lead in pail o.
water, in which you soak your coloreC
cambria for Is minutes before washing
If more convenient little vinegar or {
handful of salt thrown into pail Of
water, and the dress soaked will set the
color.
How TO Cook GREEN Corn. Corn
should be allowed to boil (says the Ohio
FarmcD in clear, soft water, and by
itself alone. Not in salt and water, fol
the salt hardens the corn and not, on
any account, boil the ears of corn with
the potatoes, as so many do, for this
greatly Injuries the taste and goodness OF
the corn, and also hardens it. The skin
of the potato contains poison which is
freely given to water, rendering it unfit
that corn should be boiled in it.
To CLEAN KID GLOVES. Have ready
little new milk in one saucer, n piece
of white soap in another, and clean
cloth folded two or three times. On the
cloth spread out the glove smooth and
neat. Take piece of flannel, dip it in
the milk. then rub off good quantity
of soap on the wetted flannel, and com
mcnce to rub the glove towards the fin
gers, holding it firmly with the left hand
Continue this process until the glove, if
white, looks dry and spoiled. Lay it to
dy, and the operator will soon be graft
fed to see that the old glove looks near
ly new. 1t will be soft, glossy, smooth,
and elastic.
PINEAPPLE JELLY.-Take perfectly
ripe and sound pineapples, cut off the
outside, cut in small pieces, bruise them,
and to each pound put teacupful of
water; put in preserving kettle, and
let them boil for twenty minutes then
strain it, and squeeze it through bit
of muslin. For each pound of fruit take
u pound of sugar; put teacupful of
water to each pound set it over the fire
until it is dissolved ; then add the pine
apple juice. For each quart of the syrup
clarity an ounce of the best isinglass,
and stir it in; let it boil until, by taking
some on plate to cool, you find it a stiff
jelly.
SHAD CULTURE.-Shad culture, which
was held somewhat doubtful at first, is
coming on handsomely in Connecticut.
The operations were begun at Hadley
Falls in June, and already the ova taken
exceeds GA, $1,000, from which at least
6O,OOO,OOO of young shad have been pro-
duced These little fish are distributed
all over the waters of the State. The
average length of time required for the
Matching Of the eggs after being placed
in the boxes is four days, varying some
what according to the temperature of the
water. The shad were taken in a seine
at night (ripe fish rarely being found in
the day time), the first haul being made
at about 81 p. M, and the two following
at 0! and 10! p. m. The number of ova
taken per night ranged from 145, 900 to
100000, the average being about
2,920,000.
MICE IN MEADOWS AND ORCHARDS
The ravages of mice are some time suffi-
cient to completely destroy a sod during
one winter. If allowed to increase and
lind shelter, no means of prevention will
avail. There is no plan but to disturb
their haunts, clear out the fence rows of
brush and weeds, remove all pieces of
decaylng rails, pick off all loose stone !;
in fact, leave no places for the vermin to
hide. Their natural enemies, the hawks,
owls, skunks, and cats, will then find
them and devour them. In addition,
leave few small bundles of straw in the
fields scattered about, and when they
have commenced to work at them, put a
small quantity each night of corn-meal
and arsenic under each bundle. This will
help thin them off, and if persevered in
will so reduce their numbers that the sod
and the trees in the orchard will to
great extent be spared the ravages.
STOCK FOR SoUPs.-Buy knuckle of
beef or veal. Have the bone well crack
ed in small pieces. Put it in the soup
dlgester, or if you have none, in a close
Uncovered iron pot. For a medium
knuckle, add five or six quarts of cold
mater (by using cold water you will secure
all the juices, whereas in hot water half
the juice is retained in the meat. Let
it come to boil before you add salt and
pepper then season it to suit your taste,
and if agreeable, put in a small bit of
red pepper. Put the pot on the back
part of the stove after it commences to
boil, and keep it gently simmering all
day then strain it from the bones and
meat, which are now worthless, into
jar kept for the purpose. Never throw
away bones that are left from baked,
boiled, or roast meat of any kind, or
bones such as are left from steak, poul-
try, anything-if they have not been put
on to the plates dried or grisly bits of
meats all may be used to prepare stock
for soup; and, in large family, suffi-
Gent may be CLEANED, that would other
wise be thrown into the swill, to keep
stock on hand for weeks, without buy
ing a bone for that purpose alone. When
the stock is strained, set it in the cellar
to cool. The next morning carefully re-