The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-07-16
Farm, Garden and Household.



a recipe for hard soap, which is ex.
cellent and economical Nearly every
family eccummulates through the win.
, Yer drlppings from beef and mutton.
these can be utilized for the grease Inv
polling in water, allowing it to cool.
Then removing from the water and boil.
ing till all the water is expelled. OF
course the whittier the grease the nicer
the soap. Take six pounds sal soda.
SIX pounds grease, three and a half
pounds new stone lime, four gallons
soft water, half pound borax. Put soda,
lime and water into an iron boiler, boil
tlll all is dissolved. When we'll settled
pour off the clear lye, wash out the ket.
tie and pour in the lye, grease and
borax, boil till it comes to soap. pour
into a tub to cool, and when hard cut
INTO bars and put on boards to drv.
Ihls is very nice for washing white
hannels and calico.
Purifying Rancid Butter.
A correspondent of the Country Gen.
0en'dn gives recipe in that paper for
restoring rancid butter to its original
navor. We do not believe it can be
done. Undoubtedly the rancidity may
De removed, but the original flavor, il
II was good one, cannot be restored to
~ after it is destroyed, any more than
NE can be restored to dead body.
But here is the recipe: "To one quart
OF water, add fifty-fve drops of the
nquor OF chloride of lime then wash
thoroughly in this mixture five pounds
OF rancid butter. 1t must remain in
the mixture two hours. Then wash
twice in pure water, and once in sweet
milk; add salt. This preparation of
lIme contains nothing Injurious. "
Chiorlde of lime has nearly as disagree
able ar odor as rancid butter. besides
oeinS much more powerful.
Transpianting Beets.
Make a hole in the ground two or
three inches deep, fill it with water Gf
cold all the better), put the beet into 1T
as tar as you wish it to go, then fill in
with dirt, pressing it firmly around the
plant. That is all so much and no
more. This method might be too ex-
penslve and slow where the plants were
started IN hot bed but where they
are sowed in the bed in which they are
TO grow, there is no way so good. They
can be transplanted in this manner in a
clear, hot, sunshiny day, with no loss.
A garden trowel is the best tool to use
in transplanting.
Vigorous Lie.
There is going the rounds of the pa
pers a statement that "by roofing q
limb of a peach, and then cutting it
from the body of the tree, thus making
the sap run backward, the fruit will be
stoneless. 1t states it will take abo ut
three years to root the branches. 1t
takes about three years, too, for this
story, and the like of it, to 90 the
rounds. 1t has been circulating for at
least a century, and the fact that there
is no truth in it does not in the least
affect its vitality.
TranspIanting Beets.
Beets may be transplanted success
fully. The proper time to transplant
is when the root is an inch or more in
diameter. The tap root should be cut
OIL and the leaves at the top. This will
insure growth. The leaves, if left upon
the root, would draw all the moisture
from it, and the plant would die. When
the leaves are cut off half an inch
above the crown the evaporation can
not take place, and the growth of root
and new leaves are simultaneous.