The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-05-24
HOUSEHOLD AND FARM.

To REMOVE PAINTS AND PUTTY
FROM WINDOW GLASS.-Put sufficient
saleratus into hot water to make s
solution, then saturate the paint which
Is on the glass. Let it remain until
nearly dry, then rub it # with wool
en- cloth.
ROLL THE WALKS AND ROADS 1t
IS good plan to roll the pathways
from time to time, during TIE winter.
IL assists greatly in packing and MAX
ing tnem hrm, and is especially bene-
hcial Immediately after a rain and be-
lore severe frost again sets in, as well
as all times when the frost is out two
inches or more. Itmatters little wheth-
er the path is travelled upon or not:
the rolling is at this season more efIec-
tive and essential toward forming q
hard track for the coming season than
double the labor expended in July and
August. Decorate your front grounds
and make your Uttered flower beds al.
tractive during the winter, by covering
the beds with the branches of ever
greens and by sticking small trees IN
groups all around.
To CLEAN PAINTS. Use but little
water at tine; keep it warm and
clean by changing often. A flannel
cloth IS better than cotton. Be care
full of soap. Put but little soap or skim
milk in the water; and soap to the
cloth when needed. A sharp piece of
wood is indispensable for the corners.
The point will become like a paint
brush. A saucer of sifted ashes, used
where the paint is badly smoked or fly
specks are thick, Is towel, and don't
spill drop of water. Never put SOAP
on grass unless it can be well rinsed,
which can never be the case with win.
dOws; wash off dirt in clean warm wa
ter, and dry; then with a paste of
whiting and water, and with a little
cloth, place a little in the center of
each pane. With another cloth, rinse
over the glass; next rub off with a dry
cloth till the window shines like crys-
tai.
How TO REDUCE BONES FOR AGRI-
CULTURAL USES "A writer in the -H0y,-
ticatItttrist says he buys bones of the
butcher at dollar the hundred pounds,
and considers them the cheapest fertiIi-
ger he can obtain. He transforms them
into meal by the following simple and
effective process: I have a large water
tight hOgshead standing outdoors, near
the kitchen. In the spring | cover the
bottom about six inches deep with dry
soil. On this [ put layer of bones
about the same depth, and cover them
entirely with unleached ashes. On
these another layer of bones, then ashes
and so on until the hOgshead is full.
l leave it then exposed to the sun and
rain all summer and winter until the
next spring. Then, on removing the
contents of the hOgshead, / find nearly
all the bones so soft that they will
cEIImble to powder under a very slight
pressure, and, mixed with the ashes
and soil, they give nice little pile of
manure, ready for immediate use. Any
of the bones not sufficiently subdued, I
return to the hOgshead again for anoth-
er years slumber.
NEW ENGLAND AGRICULTURE
leading Philadelphia journal has re-
marked that "there is no use in deny
ing that the whole interior of Nv
England has been pretty much exhaus-
ted for agricultural purposes by its orig
inal pOpulatiOn.n This is not true
Poor as is our land, we can produce
more bushels of wheat, corn and other
cereal grains to the acre than any 9TH
er section of the country. There is no
difficulty in raising on fair land, prop
erly cultivated, rs or even 100 bushels
of corn, and 80 OF. 40 bushels of wheat
to the acre. We are now busy in blast
ing rocks, extracting Stumps and drain
ing meadows; and soon, if mechanical
and trade pursuits do not by the pros
poets of extraordinary profits entice
away from our rugged soils all the
young men, we will have New Eng
lands fields correspond in productive
ness with those of Old England. We
have pluck here, and are not frighten-
ed by a granite boulder or q messy
swamp; we can tear in pieces the one,
ahd dry and pulyeTize the other. New
England may yet become the garden
OF the country. -BOStOn Journal Of
Chemistry.
WASHING CALICOS.-Calico clothes,
before they are put in water; should
have the grease spots rubbed out, as
they cannot be seen when the whole of
the garment is wet. They should new
er be washed in very hot soap-suds;
that which is mildly warm will cleanse
them quite as well, and will not ex-
tract the cOlOrs SO much. Soft soap
should never be used for calicOs, eX-
cepting for the various shades of yell
low, which look the best washed with
soft soap, and not riGsed in fair water
Other c0lOrs should be rinsed in fair
water and dried i'm the shade. When
warm water, beefs gall in the proper
ton of a teacupful to four five gallons
Of water should be used. Rinse them
in fair water; no soap is necessary I'M
less the clothes are very dirty. If so,
wash them in luke warm suds, after
they have been first rubbed out in
beers gall water. The beeFs gall can
be kept several months by squeezing
it out of the skin in which it is enclosed
adding salt to it, and bottIing and
cOrking it tight. a little vinegar in
the rinsing water of pink, red and
green calicos is good to brighten the
colors and keep them from mixing.