The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-02-27
HousE. FARM. ANp eARpEN.

lust on the mating, then scatter the
Try meal evenly over the room. Wiring
he mop so that it viii not drip at all,
nd rub hard, one breadth at q time,
llways lengthwise of the straw, and use
lear water for each breadth. When
he mating is dry, the meal can be
swept off easily; it should always be
lone on dry day.
SCREWS INSERTED IN PLASTER WALLS.
When we try to fasten brackets, strips of
wood, ETC., to plaster walls by means
Of screws, it is often found impossible
to make screws hold firmly. When we
turn them in, the plaster breaks out and
our labor is in vain. And yet screw
well set into plaster wall viii hold
very firmly. The best plan is to en-
large the hole to about twice the diane
ter Of the screw, fill it with plaster Of
Faster, such as is used for fastening the |
tops of lamps etc., and bed the screw in
the soft plaster. When the plaster has
set, the screw viii be held yerystropgly. |
BUYING AT WHOLESALE, SO far as is
practicable, will make quite a reduction
In the yearly household expense bill of
even a small family. Though the saw
ing of "a cents on a six-pound box of
starch may seem but small economy
considered by itself, yet the saving in
the aggregate on the articles of tea,
ooffoo, sugar, starch, soda, cream of
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ings, the finer kinds of soap, ETC., used
during the year by family, viii make
an appreciable item. In buying ginps,
ribbons, braids, trimming-laees, and the
like, it often costs less to get a piece of
- or 10 yards, to get six or seven yards
at retail. Thread, tapes, pins, buttons,
needles, nothing is so small but it is
not economy to buy it by the quantity,
especially if one or two families will
unite in making such purchases.
GUINEA PIes.-A writer of distinction
says those little plump, clean animals
should be used for food. A mistaken
notion is entertained generally that
they are kind of rat, and therefore an
unjust prejudice ought to be overcome,
since they are excellent eating. Guinea
pigs are not pigs. They are harmless,
timid, vegetable feeders. Their flesh is
nutritious and delicate. If once re-
ceived into our markets, being easily
raised, they would soon be priced for
their many desirable dietetic properties.
Being prolific, too, they might be raised
in vast abundance, their food being an
item of no expense, a few cabbage
leaves, roots, or waste parings being all
they would require to grow into proper
tions to fill vacancies in a gourmand's
stomach.
COOKING FooD FOR STooK.-The da-
vantage of cooking food for stock, es-
pecially mich COWS and young stock, is
fast becoming one of the settled ques-
tions in agriculture. We hardly know
a dairyman who does not pour boiling
water over his cut hay and meal or
bran, even if he does not cook it by
steaming. It is found to economic
feed, to increase the flow of milk, and
promote appetite. Cows will eat much
more of cut hay and feed steamed or
moistened with boiling water, than they
will of dry food and we hold it is true
policy of the dairyman to induce his
COWS to eat as much as possible, as the
more they take in by the way of food,
the more will be given out in the form
of milk To stint COWS at all in an am
pei supply of proper food to keep up
nutrition, and promote milk secretion,
can only be called e "a penny wise and
pound foolish " policy 1t will not pay.
When roots are also boiled or steamed,
the nutritive matter they contain is
more fully developed, and the same
weight of roots produce larger results,
both in the condition of the COW and in
her milk secretion.
THE BEST WAY TO BREAK HENS OF
Fec EATING is to break their pecks and
restock with birds that have not ae-
CURED the habit. Fowls that are expert
in egg eating first attack the egg with
their bill. If it is thin shell few
strokes will break it, and the rest is an
easy job. If, however, the shell is a
thick one, they generally fail to break
it with their beak then they begin to
scratch in the nest, and, with their feet,
throw the egg against the hard sides OF
the box until it is broken. First of all,
make hens lay hard-shelled eggs, SO
hard that they can not be SO readily
broken by hens bill. This can be done
by feeding freely with Stacked lime,
ground or broken bones, oyster shells,
etc To prevent breaking against the
sides of the box, the nests should be
high and lined upon the sides with
cushions filed with hay or other soft
material. Their only chance then is
that they may throw two eggs forcibly
against each other. To prevent this ]
rob them of the nest egg, and gather
the eggs several times a day. 1t is q
good plan to leave a few China eggs
near the nest for them to work at, which
will make their bills so sore that they
will strike the real egg with less force
OPEN FBEs.-In every home there
should bAat least one open CRATE, o.
some other arrangement for burning
wood or soft or hard coal. A fire which
can be seen as well as felt cheerful
bright, blazing fire, with shovel anG
tongs-and fender, too, if you please
which viii attract the family by it,
social influences, is a grand thing in
home. Those black, grim, tartarear
hues, filed with the stale odors of eel
lar and hot air-chamber and seethine
water-tank, and emitting clouds of pull
verified ashes to cover your furnitur,
Z and stifie your. lungs, are among tn,
greatest banes of family enjoyment ana
comfort. 1t is all well enough to hav,
ones dwelling warmed from top to bot
ON, and to have no Goals to carry be
yond the furnace, but this heating sys
tenn has done immense mischief to tn,
family powers, scattering the member