Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-13
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lettings.
RIBBONS should be washed in cold
suds and not rinsed.
To CLEAN marble rub first with soda
and soft soap, then wash as usual with
water.
THE fumes of birthstone match will
remove berry stains from a book, paper
or engraving.
- A LITTLE black pepper in some cot
ton dipped in sweet oil is one of the
quickest remedies known for earache.
To REMOVE iron rust from linen apply
lemon juice and salt and expose to the
sun. Make two applications if neces-
sary.
As simple remedy for surface
wounds, such as cuts and abrasions of
the skin, charcoal is highly recon-
mended. Take a coal from the stove,
pulverize it, apply it to the wound and
bind up with cloth. The charcoal
absorbs the fluids secreted by the
wound, resists or corrects putrefaction,
and also prevents the bandage from ir-
ritating the flesh.
0IAkCH.-1u1S Is du eACcl-
lent starch for black calicoes and col
ored linens, much better than that made
with water, for it increases rather than
lessons the depth of the color. Take a
cup of strong coffee, boiling hot, and
turn it upon two tablespoonfuls of
starch mixed with just enough water to
make it into a thin, smooth paste. Let
1t boil for fifteen or twenty minutes,
and stir il around two or three times
with parafine or spermaceti candle.
When nearly cold, starch dark-colored
calicoes, black muslins, and brown
linens with it.
BLACK ASTs.-A chalk mark, at least
half an inch in depth, around the upper
edge OF sugar buckets, barrels, ETC.,
will not admit one ant into their In
terror. The same mark drawn on the
edges OF shelves will also prevent the APP
proach of an ant, as they are not able
to crawl over the chalk. But if they
are numerous among jam and Jelly pots,
take a large sponge, wet 1t IN colo
water, squeeze it nearly dry, and then
sprinkle fine white sugar over it. Place
it on the infested shelf. and next morn
ing dip it quickly and carefully into 6
bowl of boiling water. tried the ex
pertinent in my jelly closet recently
and killed at least hundred in a morn
ing. Have set the trap again, and shall
continue to do so while one ant runs
Red pepper busted over their haunt
will also destroy them, but the spong
is the surest method.
VALUE OF FODDER CoRN.-At meet
ing of the Massachusetts Cheese Fac
tory Association, Addison 81. Holland
Barre farmer, read an essay on fodde
corn. With seventeen cows he expert
producing milk; during the month @
July he turned his cows into goo
pasture, after having fed them wit
fodder corn, and they showed a larg
falling off in milk. he then, throug
August, soiled them in the stable, feet
ing fodder corn, and there was q gal
in the production of milk. In Septen
bsr they were again turned into th
moving full feed) and they fell of
Mr.. Holland cures his corn by spreat
ing it upon the stone walls, and regard
it as valuable feed for mich cow
when well cured. He thinks todd.
corn the best crop there is to bride
over dry time with fed sixty or Sc
enty pounds per COW when they wei
kept in short pasture. Ne
Yorker.
How to Use = Bog Meadow.
Mr.. John B. Sands, of Vailsgate,
Y, read paper on the best method
retaining a bog meadow, before Il
New York Farmers Club:
ga gentleman wants to know how
reclaim or improve bog meade
There are different kinds of soil (
which boys grow, but they grow n
where, except there isan excess OF wat<
They are a nuisance they start gra
early on their hummoeks, but it is so
so coarse and tough that no COW
horse will eat it. The first thing
drain it well, cut main ditch then
there are springs On its border on t
outside, dig your drains so as to c
them all of. If you have your outl