Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-03-07
Farm, Garden and Household.

To TAKE GREASE OUT OF CARPETS. -
Apply on the greasy spot whiting, and
continue the application until the grease
isremoyed. Three applications will gen.
orally suffice,
How 10 CLEAN LAMP CH1MNEYs.-A
good method Of cleaning lamp chimneys
is to wash them in warm water and wipe
dry with paper Never put cold chin
ney into water too hot, as it is liable to
break the glass.
FRENCH BREAD. Two quarts of -four,
scald one pint OF it, butter half the size
of an egg, mix with cold water, knead if
teen minutes, using as little additional
-four as is possible, rise twelve hours, cut
and work with knife ten minutes before
putting into the pan to bake.
SPRING WHEAT,-We think farmers
will do well, in spring-wheat sections, to
SOW largely this year, But do not SOW
unless the land can be got into good con-
dition. We expect good prices but a
largS crop at moderate price pays far
better than poor crop at high prices.
KEEPING MEAT FREsH.-A good way
to keep it fresh during most of the year
is to cut the meat in strips, pack in jar
and apply small quantity Of pepper and
salt, and then place on top thick piece
of paper or cloth, with salt half an inch
thick. Meat prepared in this way will
keep fresh for three weeks.
WINTER WgEAr.-When the soil is
frozen and comparatively free from snow
a little manure, or straw even, may be
spread ont on the wheat with advantage.
Good prizes for wheat next fall are highly
probable. Everything points this way.
Anything we can do in the way of top
dressing our winter wheat, will pay bet
ter than usual.
MoTHS.-A lady from Deer Mills, Pa,
wanted remedy for moths, which ate
her carpets and woolens. Prof. Cotton
said preparation Of sulphurous acid in
alcohol has been lately used with the
best effects TO destroy moths and their
eggs, but it must be used on articles
which can be closely wrapped up, so that
no evaporation can take place. A. 8.
Fuller said spices, snuff, tobacco, and
red pepper were useful as preservators.
--H5mN and Home.
PLowNG SOP FOR Conn.,. Moore,
West Bangor, N. Y, asked the Farmers
Club if he should pillow his sod for corn,
spread the manure, and cross-plow be-
fore planting? DR.. Trimble said in
Pennsylvania, where large crops of corn
are grown, the sod was plowed and
narrowed several times, bat never cross
plowed. The best practice was to
spread the manure and pillow only in
time enough to head the corn on the
fresh-plow land. Weeds then had no
chance to get start of the corn, as on
earlier plowed land.
PERMANENT WH1rEwAsH.-D. W. C.
can make permanent whitewash for
outdoor work as follows: Stake half
bu.hel Of lime in boiling water, and keep
covered until completely slaked strain
it, and add peck of salt dissolved in
hot water, three pounds of ground rice
boiled to a thin paste, half pound of
Spanish white, and a pound of white
glue, previously dissolved in hot water !;
mix all these materials together, and add
five gallons of hot water, and let the wash
stand for a few days. Thrust be applied
hot with common paint-brush. Color
ing matter, excepting salts and metals,
may be added to produce any desired
shade, Colored earths have no chemical
effect on this wash.
Cows that come in before the first of
April will now, in ordinary diaries, be
allowed to go dry. In the majority of
cases they cease to give milk of their
own accord. With warm stables and
liberal food, some COWS will continue to
give milk nearly or quite up to calving.
But such cases, in our experience, are
rare. 1t requires liberal food and the
best of treatment to keep such COW in
vigorous health. For ten days or two
weeks before calving, it is well to give
laxative food, such as bran mash and lin
seed tea, or, if this is not sufficient, give
a pound of Glauber salts, or haf.pound
of Epson salts, and tablespoonful of
ginger. In case of very fat COWS, it is
well to give this dose once a week for
three weeks or a month before calving,
as preventive of milk-fever.