Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-03-28
FARM AND FIRESIDE.
ADVERTISING RATES.

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long communication upon the subject of
poultry. Mr.. E. Dwight, of Hudson. Mich, ,
considers the uestion, How to get plenty
of good favored fresh eggs with little, trou-
ble,' and thinks if there is any secret in il
he has discovered it, and makes the same
public for the benefit of all Interested He
says: Once, thirty years ago, was trou-
bled just as my neighbor now is. l fed my
hens with plenty of corn, and got but few
eggs | reasoned upon the matter. and
happened to think that the constituent parts
of milk and the whites of eggs we're much
alike Now, it has long been known to
milkmen that wheat middlings and bran are
about the best of any food to make COW
give milk; why not then the best to make
the hens lay eggs? l tried it. and since
then have had no trouble. My mode of
preparing the feed is to mix about five parts
of bran to one Of middlings. I'm the morn
ing I wet up with water about four quarts
of the mixture in a large pan, taking pains
| to have it rather dry, though all damp.
This set In warm, sunny spot, south of
their shed, and they walk up, take few
dips, don't seem to fancy it like corr, and
start off on hunt for something better, but
always coming round in short time for
few more dips from the dish Of bran. There
is little time during the whole day but
what one or more are standing by the pan
and helping themselves I am careful to
mix for them just as much as they will con.
sumo during the day. At night, just before
they repair to the roost, usually throw
them about pint of shelled corn. we'll scat
tered, SO that each one can get few kerr
nels. If your hens decline to eat this feed
at first, sprinkle little Indian meal on it
[ would like all who complain of not getting
eggs to try my plan, and think they will
never be sorry.
PAPERING RooMs.-Don't try to paper
with a carpet down. Make paste. cut bor-
dering and the paper the day before. If
the wall has been whitewashed, it must be
washed in vinegar to neutraize the alkali
in the lime. If papered before, and you
wish the paper removed sop with water and
it will peel off. If convenient, provide
long board wide as the paper, though ia
BILE or two will do. The paper must be
measured, placed right side down on the
board; then with brush proceed to lay on
the paste, not too thickly, but over every
part, and be careful that the edges receive
their share. When completed, double with
in three inches of the top, the paste sides
being together; carry to the wall, mount
your chair, and stick your three inches of
pasted paper on the wall at the top. That
holds it; now strip down the other end and
see that it fits just right; if not, peel down,
make right then press to the wall from the
center right and left Leave no air under,
or when warm it will expand, bursting the
paper.
Of course the paper must be matched
it will not do to measure by lines unless the
walls are perfectly plumb. Small figures
make less waste, and make small room
look larger Stripes make low room look
higher, and if there are no figures between,
or in the stripe, to match, there is no waste,
and no trouble in putting on. If a narrow
border is the STYLE. let it be bright if the
paper be neutral but that be bright, the
border had better be dark and neutral. Ii
the paste be made too thick, the paper will
be apt to crack and peel off; if too thin. it
will saturate the paper too quickly, and
make it tender 10 putting it on. A counter.
duster brussels brush) is nice to brush the
paper to the wall.
SoIL1NG AND MILK FARMING. At gath
ering of the farmers at Lowell. Mr. II.
Sedgwick. of Cornwall, Conn, referring to
the short feed eff the Fall of 1871, said -
Our farmers all declare they will not go
back to the old way of feeding stock We
cut up our straw and everything available.
Many Of us have adopted the plan of steam
ing the food for our cattle, and we are sat-
ished from the experiments we have made,
that we save third of our provender by
steaming it. AS a sample of what this man
ner of feeding stock will do, I will relate an
instance of young man who, a year ago
this last Spring bought farm of so acres
of land for $1l 900. The farm then kept
eleven COWS, four or fvs yearlings. and a
horse or two. The young man took hold of
that farm and Immediately put in fourteen
acres Of sowed corn. He increased the
stock to twenty five cows, and kept them on
twelve acres, feeding them the sowed corn,
and also cutting his oats green for food His
receipts the first year were over $4,000.
This year he has summered on the same
farm twenty-seven COWS, and he told me the
other day that his twenty-seven cows
would average him $500 each frow profit
on milk
WORTH KNOWING. One pouGd of cop.
peras, costing seven cents, dissolved in a
one quart of water, will effectually conoen-
trate and destroy the foul smells about
hotels and other public places there is
nothing so nice to purify the air. Copperas
dissolved under the bed in anything that
will hold water will render an hospital or
any other place for the sick, free from un-
pleasant smells. In fish markets, slaugh-
ter houses. sinks, and wherever there are
offensive putrid gases, dissolve coppcras
and sprinkle it about, and in few days the
smell will pass away If rats or mice die
about the house and send forth an offensive
gas, place some dissolved copperas in an
open vessel near the place where the NUS
ance is, and it will purify the atmo.
sphere.
CHICKEN AND HAM P1E.-Cut two chick.
ems into joints, season them with salt, black
and Cayenne pepper, little powdered mace