Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-06-19
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

DON'T Do IT.-DOnt turn your stock
into the road for your neighbors to
waite h.
Don't say you have no time to build
fences, while you patronize every place of
amusement you can hear of.
DON'T allow your stock to forage on your
neighbors, when it is the result of your
own shiftlessness.
Don't turn your horses loose in the high
way to exercise, thereby troubling and en-
dangering travellers.
Don't use the highway as store house
for farming tools.
Don't buy blooded stock if you can't
make natives a success, unless you want
to patronize the tannery
Don't whip that heifer you are trying to
break, for by so doing you will make your
self the bigger brute of the two. Treat
her kindly and she will soon enjoy being
MIXED.
Don't hold the pail between the knees in
milking, place it directly under the bag
and squeeze the milk instead of pulling it
out.
Don't work your team from morning till
night without feeding, for merciful men
will class you with the brutes.
Don compel people who pass your place
to hold their breath because of the stencil
of your hog pen.
Don't patronize every canvasser you
meet with, for they will consume all of
your time and money.
Don't engage in large enterprise unless
qualified to succeed in a small one.
Don't spend $40 a year for tobacco and
say you can't afford to, take paper.
Don't take a paper without paying in ad-
vance for you will enjoy reading it ever so
much better. That's so.-Cor. Choatou-
qua Farmer.
GILT-EDGED BUTTER.-In making fam
cy butter there are three essentials-color,
texture and flavor. The color must be a
rich golden the texture firm, tenacious,
wAXy; and that nutty flavor and smell
which impart so high high a degree of
pleasure when eating it. Butter of the
very highest quality will bring 81 pound
readily. A Philadelphia maker who re-
ceives this price gave Mr.. J. B. Lyman
these facts as to his management He
feeds on clover early mown OF hay; cuts
fine, moistens and mixes in corn meal and
wheaton shorts, feeds often and a little at
a time uses no roots except carrots; keeps
his pasture free from weeds; keeps the
temperature of the room at about fifty
eight degrees skins clean; stirs the cream
in the cream pot; churns once week; just
before the butter gathers he puts in buc-
ket Of ice cold water in the churn, in work.
ing he works out all the butter milk with
out the use of the hand, absorbing the
drops with fine linen cloth wrung from
cold water, and at the second working
handles delicately, with fingers as cold as
may be; salts nearly an ounce to the pound;
packs in one-half pound balls-Erchanqe
HYGIENE EFFECT OF APPLE FRUIT. =
Mr.. Garfield, who is eminently practical
and observant of everything, remarked to
lis that bilious fevers sometimes prevail
here in the spring season, when there was
a scarcity of apples, that we required more
fruit in the spring months than we now
have for family use, which superseded the
use of all medicines, and prevented attacks
of bilious fever; that when he had plenty
of apples he had no sickness. and no use
for medicine, but when the fruit gave out
he had to take little medicine in order to
keep in health; he, therefore, advocates
the raising of more keeping fruit-in all of
which suggestions we fully occur, as they
contain, as we think, practical lessons of
Importance for the welfare of all in our
county.-Fairtar Neaos.
COLO IN HORSES. Having noticed in
your last issue a cure for the collie i'm
horses, will give you a simple, sure rem
edy if tried thoroughly. Take single
handful Of salt and rub it or the back
right over the kidneys. Rub it until the
salt dissolves, and longer if necessary, and
if it is the wind collie, and the horses does
not get over it in fifteen to thirty minutes
then say know nothing about it. For
thirty-fve years have never known it to
fail. I first learned it from teamster in
Illinois. have seen it tried in numerous
cases and have never known it to fail
Ohio Farmer.