Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-03-13
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE

To RRLmvE INaRowINa NAILs.-This
with advantage in various ways. The
most successful is to pare down the CEN
ter OF the nail from root to end. Let it
be worked down quite thin, so as to re-
heve the pressure at the sides, which
causes the soreness Keep the end of the
nail well pared down in the center, giving
It the concave form, just the reverse Of
the natural edge.
A NEWSPAPER correspondent calls at
tention to the great convenience that
would follow ii farmers would generally
have their names painted on the gates at
the entrance to their premises. Strangers
often have much difficulty in finding the
residences OF persons of whom they are
In search, which would be obviated by
this course. The name may be neatly
painted on slip of tin six or eight inches
long and two inches wide, which could
be easily tackled on the gate.
A STRONG alum water is sure death to
bugs of any description. Take two pounds
OF pulverized alum, and dissolve in three
quarts of boiling water, allowing it to re-
main over the fire until thoroughly dis
solved. Apply while hot with brush,
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the liquid in the cracks of the walls and
bedstead. Scatter all the powdered alum
freely IN all those places, and you will
soon be rid of these insect nuisances
which fill one with disgust
Tools AND MACHINEs.-Hunt up every
implement that will be wanted for use on
the farm, and see if it is in good order.
Ii it is not SO, it is better time to have
1t repaired now than when the men and
teams are waiting for it. If you have q
bench and tools--and how can you get
along without them?-you may be able to
do the job yourself, and thus save time
in carrying it away and bringing it back,
and save the money required to pay the
mechanic. Besides this, as there always
are broken tools, the mechanic may have
SO many on hand to repair that there may
De week of anxious suspense in waiting
for them.
IRONING SHIRT ,FRoNTs.-In first
class laundry starch is made in the usual
manner; to a pail of starch a whole
sperm candle is used. When the linen is
dry, it is dipped in the cold starch and
ironed in the ordinary way; then it is
dampened with wet cloth, and the pol
lshlng iron pressed over it. This is an
ordinary smoothing-iron, ground off go
that the edges are all rounding. To this
last manipulation the linen is indebted for
the peculiar laundry gloss which all ad-
mire so much, but which many house
keepers have vainly striven to leave upon
the wristbands and bosoms of their hus-
bands shirts.
DRY FooD FOR HoRsRs.-The Spirit of
the Times says: "We never have believed,
and never shall believe, that chopped hay
and corn meal, saturated with water, is
proper for working horse as general
diet. We firmly believe that the food of
working horse who cannot be pastured
should be good. sound oats and sweet hay
Cor at least five times a week. Look at
the South, where the common run of
working horses are fed on corn. What
is found there? Why, the big head,
terrible and almost incurable complaint.
We also think that wet corn meal is the
very worst way of feeding corn to horse
that ever was practised. And the chopped,
wet hay is not half so good as fine,
bright timothy from the NOW. We like
to hear the horse grinding up his good
timothy hay like a grist-mill after he has
finished his oats. A nice mash once in a
while is good, and very different thing
from almost constant soft diet.