Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-04-12
Household and Country.

A good method of cleaning lamp
chimneys is to wash them in warm
water and wipe dry with paper
Never put a cold chimney into wa
ter too hot, as it is liable to break
the glass.
Fowls that have been exposed
and had their comb and gills frost
bitten, may be cured by applying to
the parts affected glycerine two or
three times day. In q few days
the comb will assume its natural
color and healthiness.
A piece of Goldfish skin the size Of
a penny, washed thoroughly and
dropped in the boiling coffee will
make it perfectly clear, and requires
less coffee and less boiling than
when egg is used. A very econom-
ical way of settling coffee with egg
is to brown a pound at once; immc-
diately on taking it from the oven,
break on the hot coffee one egg,
stir rapidly until every kernel
becomes moistened with the egg;-
the heat from the coffee will soon
dry it, when it is ready for use.
A lady from Deer Mills, Pa,
wanted remedy for moths, which
ate her carpets and woolcns. Prof.
Cotton said a preparation of sui
phurous acid in alcohol has been
lately used with the best effects to
destroy moths and other eggs, but
it must be used on articles which
can be closely wrapped up, SO that
no evaporation can take place. A.
S. Fuller says spices, snuff, tobacco
and red pepper are useful as pre-
servatives.
Sulphur mixed with the soft food
and given to fowls two or three
times a month, has very beneficial
effect. 1t seems to penetrate through
the system of the fowl, promoting
health aud preventing disease
We know, from our own experience,
that it has tendency to rid poultry
of vermin. Mix with the feed in
tended for ten or a dozen fowls,
abou, two dessert spoonfuls of pull
verified sulphur and give as direct
ed, and the beneficial results will be
seen in a very short time.
A practical breeder gives the
following advice, which, in the
main, we think sound, for those
whose herd is not too large, and
who are engaged in mixed husban-
dry: "To handle hogs to the best
advantage, pasture is needed, Of
mixed grasses, clover, bluegrass
and timothy, and it is best if there
is no running water or stock ponds
in the lot. Hogs do better where
there are no branches or stock
ponds to wallow in. In place there.
of, have good well water pumped
for them. Have troughs made and
nail strips across, eight inches
apart, to keep the hogs from lying
down in the water, and let these be
put upon floors, to keep them from
digging up wallowing holes. Il
any feed be given, it should be
soaked in swill barrels for twelve
hours before fecding-no longer
and fed them as drink
The editor Of the Practical Far
mer says: "Having on our premis
es, planted by former owners, prob
ably twenty-five years ago, half +:
dozen old grape vines with large
weathcr-beatcn trunks or stems
which made annually but little new
wood and yielded but very few
poor grapes; two seasons ago W.
cut off the branches, covering tn,
ground around with about foot o
fresh earth. Vigorous and frcsl
shoots sprung up in a great abun
dance, the weak ones Of which wer'
broken off, and leading ones at tn
proper distances trained to the ar
Dor. The new growths are yer,
clean, healthy and strong, sufficien
entirely to cover the large arbor tn
present season; we took four bush
els of fruit from the new bcarin!
wood. We see old grape vines CIV
crywhcre, doing no good, and which
could be made young and thrifty b,
this process.
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