Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-09-25
WHOLE NUMBER 335.
Farm and Household Hints.

Earm anu hOuSeHO1u hlutSs
A FARMER can do more work with a
good thinking apparatus than with the
best span of horses ever h1tched to a
wagon.
A WISCONSIN farmer, who keeps a
large flock of sheep, raises twelve bush
els of wheat to the acre more than his
neighbors.
KEEP cattle and sheep in the yards
until the grass has grown sufficiently to
afford some nourishment as well as a
reasonable "fill" for the animal. Watch
ing q spire of grass to see it grow, and
cropping it when the sixteenth of an
inch above the surface, makes a con-
stant but not a satisfactory and much
less delectable employment for a COW
or sheep and yet on no inconsiderable
number of farms the animals are per-
mitted to wear the flesh from their
bones during the early spring days in
doing this hard and reprehensible bust
ness.
A FARMER should never to go to town
without carrying something to sell
butter, eggs, potatoes, poultry, or even
load of wood. By so doing his income
is quite sure to exceed his outgoes.
There is no more miserable and poverty
stricken way than to keep sending to
stores and shops, and having things
charged, with the expectation of paying
for them when special crops come off,
for these crops seldom or never turn out
as well as was expected.
Chatting IN INFANTs.-I will give you
recipe for the benefit of suffering
babes from being chafed and sore,
which you can publish if you think
proper. We had a feshy baby in the
family that got very sore in the wrinkles
of his neck, arms, and legs. We tried
everything we could think of without
relief, until lady friend told US to take
the outside bark of sassafras, shave off
the weather-beaten part, CRATE or pull
the parts affected. We did so, and it
cured it i'll very short time. This sug-
gestion may prove of use to some one.-
Exchange.
To CLEAN SwEETN1EAr JARS OR BoT-
T1Es.-This can be done without scrap
ing them by pouring in the jars hot
water and teaspoonful or two of pearl
ash. The contents which remain stick
ing to the sides and bottom of the jar
will be disengaged by the pearlash and
float loose in the water. Wash bottles
the same way, or kettles or any other
vessels which you wish to purify or
clear from grease. Strong lye poured
off clear hickory ashes will answer near
1y as well for the same purpose, and for
kegs, buckets, and other large cooking
utensils lye from good ashes may always
be used.
If farmers productions are of really
good quality, as they should be, they
will be sought in preference to what
others have. There is the greatest diff.
4. q. IL
middling; between assorted, well-kept
potatoes and haphazard lots; between
grain that is ripe, clean and plump anC
shrunken foul grain, and so on through
the whole list, and when a character il
established there will be always mel
anxious and willing to pay extra prices
WESTERN farmers are proposing tc
use their old implements or hire from
their neighbors, or if they must buy. tC
pay cash, and to make wholesale pur
20 per cent. It is well enough to con
slider that good deal can be saved IL
another direction. When a reaper O.
mower stands in the field or by the sid
of the fence for year after it is used
or plow stands in the furrow all win
} ter, there is a loss of at least 20 pc
: cent, which if saved is just as good a
40 per cent. earned.-NeaO York I1'i6
u1le.
THE Journal of the Farm offers fey
good suggestions upon kitchens. 1t rec
ommends that the housewife, instea
of wearing out her muscle and her TEN
: per scrubbing floors, should resort t
the simple expedient of painting. A
that is necessary is two quarts of oil
three pounds of ochre, and one pint G
Japan, which will paint a floor twelv
, by eighteen feet. The time taken t
: clean painted floor, and the labo
l saved, are equal to ten times the cos
The writer also suggests another col
? six feet long by two and half wide, {
the back; at the top of this sink shoul
! ! be shelf for lamps, vases, ETC.; undt
it place for ironware, and at the enc
two pumps-one for hard and the othe
y for soft water.