The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-02-05
Farm, Garden and Household.
What I Know of Housekeeping.

Do your nuSDandS and brothers
boots let water through themp Then
apply tar and oil after being thoroughly
mixed, and you will have no further
trouble. Patent not applied for.
One cup of sugar, one of buttermilk,
one egg, one-fourth of nutmeg, one
and one-half teaspoons saleratus, three
tablespoonsful of melted lard will make
just as good doughnuts as any Maine
editor ought to eat.
Some cooks are invariably troubled
with saleratus biscuit" By allowing
just one even teaspoonful of saleratus,
the trouble will be obviated.
If birthstone is offensive, use strips
of paper one inch wide, rolled into
lengthy cylinder for lighters. If you
wish to save your papers, bit of split
pine will answer better, and when
stacked in lava vase, make very con-
spicuous ornament.
Why can't house-keepers and home
keepers keep diary? A few moments
after the daily duties are performed,
spent with pen and ink, lifts thought
from the monotonous routine of work
into different channel, that would re-
fresh. In marvelously brief time
they would be able to think and write
something really beneficial, besides be-
ing good example for family of chill
dren, for they ale so observing and i'm
itative it would assist greatly in devel-
oping expression-a talent our schools
are. sadly deficient in. Don't leave
such practices for teachers alone, but
cooperate, and brighten yourself by
helping those around you.
If you are troubled about your tin
ware becoming tarnished soon, give it
q thorough sand-scouriug, then rub it
thoroughly with a dry cloth and whi-
ting. 1t Will not turn it to silver, but
it will make it resemble that metal
very much. Rub it weekly with whi-
ting, and do not doubt that you will
thank me for telling you.
Mothers and older sisters, don't be
penurious of your winter evenings.
Help the boys cipher and get the pars-
ing lesson. Whenever I think of my
experience in learning to parse, 1 get
excited and wish 1 could teach every
boy how to begin. But times have
changed. Teachers have more gump-
tion now, and know how to teach long
division, step by step, till the discour-
aged little fellow fully understands
the four steps, and how to parse by ex-
planning the first step, by learning
names and applying them. Have little
home spelling schools make up ques-
tions involving the rule ciphering un-
der tell story, then each one write
1t out, and then compare how near they
come to the original. Reading one
will do as we'll. Make rhymes try to
stick father and mother with defining
big words; eat apples, popcorn, make
shadow pictures with your hands on
the wall in short, have a real Jolly
time. You will make the room disor.
derly, but that is nothing to disor-
derly, character or reputation that many
acquire because there was no fun at
home. l shall have all sorts of sense
and nonsense carried on by my whistling
fifteen, see if don't.
Fish Pomace for Sheep.
If your correspondent who inquiries
"ln regard to fish pomace as sheep
feed," will turn to page 80 of the 1870
Board of Agriculture Report, he will
learn what, at that date, my experience
and opinion were. Then thought that
"pound for pound, the chum was
worth as much as corn" Now I am de-
cidedly of the opinion that "chum" is
worth the most
1 am feeding chum this winter. No
other provender is given, or needed, for
long before shearing time the sheep
will be butcher fat. Have had no
experience with herring. Let flock of
sheep come to the barn poor, and with
barrel of dried chum, for winter feed,
to three sheep, Ga homeopathic daily
allowance, you see) and at the time of
shearing the sheep will be hog-fat the
lambs will be strong and vigorous, while
the weight of fleece will be increased
one-fifth.
Now, as to the character of the
porgie chum, which by no manner of
means is that sloppy, nasty, horribly
sinking stuff, so often offered in the
market as the simon-pure article, but is
cured in this wise: the residuum, OF
chum, is taken fresh from the oil-press,
evenly spread upon a rack, and sun
dried. For the first twenty-four hours
it requires frequent stirring. With
some three days of good hay-making
weather, it is sufficiently cured to be
barreled, when it will keep for years. -
Samuel IVaSSOn in Maine Farmer.
Roup Remedy.
When turkeys or other poultry are
affected by swelling of the head and O
discharge of matter from the eyes and
nostrils they are suffering from what
is known as roup. 1t is simply catarrh,
and is the consequence of the same
causes which produce colds and infam.
nation of the throat and lungs of Other
animals. If they are kept. dry and
warm, and their roosts are we'll ventila.
ted there will be no catarrh. The rene.
dy is to wash their heads with warm
soap and water, and afterward battle
the eyes and nostrils with solution OF
four grains of sulphate of zinc white
vitrioD in one ounce of water. The food
should be meal scalded and fed warm
with a little ground ginger mixed in it.
Management OF Manure.
The only way to rot manure in the
winter is by frequent turning with re-
peated fermentation and guarded heat
ings. In this way it may be brought tc
a fine condition for use in the spring
Long corn-stalks cannot be rotted by
this process, and by no means should
such corn-stalks be allowed in the ma
nure heap. 1t is preferable to cut then
when fed, as in that state the refuse il
more easily rotted, and if not rotted il
no trouble when the manure is turned
over.
Mormon RatiOns.