The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-10-08
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

lies are not provided with scales and
weights referring to ingredients in gen.
eral use by every housewife. the follow
ing information may be useful: i
Wheat flour, one quart is one pound;
Indian meal, one quart is one pound
and two ounces.
Butter, when soft, one quart is one
pound one ounce.
Loaf sugar, broken, one quart is one
pound.
White sugar; powdered, one quart is
one pound one ounce.
Best brown sugar, one quart is one
pound two ounces.
Eggs. average size, ten eggs are one
pound. II
Sixteen large tablespoonful are halt
a pint, eight are gill, four are a half
gill, etc.
EXPERIMENTATION OF BED-BUGs.-A
correspondent of the Country Gentleman
says: "We moved into frame house,
about two years old, and my con-
sternation was very great to find it
thoroughly stocked with these pests;
there was not crack or crevice that
was free; they were under the base
boards and over them. After fighting
them eight years / learned from girl
who had served as a chambermaid in a
large clearinghouse that bugs can be
entirely exterminated for all time. l
Immediately followed her direction,
which was to take grease that was
cooked out of salt pork, to melt it, and
so keep it melted (the vessel can be kept
in pan of coals), and to put it with
the feather end of quill in every place
| could find bug 1t is necessary to see
that the bed cords are entirely free from
the pests, and will warrant there will be
no more trouble. ut is more than thirty
years since bug has been seen in my
house."
WORKING Too HARD.-All over the
land the cry is from farmers wives, "Pm
so tired; my work is so hard, do not
think farming pays, there is SO much
hard labor connected with it," l wish /
could say to every one of them, don't
work all the time. Let something 60
undone if you can not do it without
overtaxing your strength. Constant
labor, from sunrise to sunset, makes a
joyless life. remember, in my early
married life, when my husband and |
first started on a new farm, that / worked
just as hard as / could all the time for
week at time. / haye washed, and
churned, and baked (for small family,
to be sure), Mondays, besides doing the
inevitable work that comes every day in
house. l look back now with regret
on the waste of strength was guilty of
by so doing. Big days work breaks down
men and women both, prematurely.
Have moral courage enough to be called
lazy rather than ruin your health by con-
tinuous hard labor. Do not consider the
time thrown away that you spend resting
and reading. Feed your mind as well as
your body, if you would olive while
you live"
PLASTER AND AsHEs-Once, while
riding in the cars, we noticed on either
side of the track, for some distance, a
tract of almost barren sand, the only
vegetation seen being, now and then, a
sickly white birch and little sorry
looking sorrel. Two gentlemen, evil
IDENTIFY farmers, were talking of manures,
when one said:
"Do you know what would clothe
those lands with a good crop of clover?"
The other gentleman was incredulous,
and shook his head.
"Well," continued his interrogation,
"plaster and ashes will do it, for l have
tried it on just such land, and at the end
of the third year there was a heavy
sward on it,"
We did not forget the conversation,
but went home and sowed barren knoll
over with plaster and ashes, and to our
establishment a good crop of clover came
in, though we did not put on a grain of
seed. We then tried the experiment on
our pasture lands, with marked success,
so much so that we recommended it to
our neighbors whose pastures were thin,
and in three years the pasture land in
that section would feed nearly double the
stock that fed on them before. Ashes in
the neighboring village rose in price, and
the farmers to-day buy all they can get
at sixty and seventy-fve cents a barrel,
and find it pays well at that. We be-
lieve there is much land now almost
worthless that will one day be made val
liable by'th use of plaster and ashes.--
Farmers Union.
A HANDY GARDEN RoLLER.-Take a
joint of stove pipe, six, seven, or eight
inches in diameter; set one end upon an
inch board, and with scratch awl or
pencil mark around on the inside; re-
verse the pipe and mark the other end.
Then, with q pair of compasses, find the
center of these two wheels and strike
around their circumference, allowing for
the iron. Saw or cut them true and
ronnd bore 81 hole with q bit in their
centers, to receive shaft Of half-inch
round iron about three inches longer
than the length of pipe. Now fit in one
of these heads, and upset the sheet-iron
pipe over it enough to hold it firmly in
place. Put the shaftin and set the whole
end on the ground, taking care that the
shaft stands true; and lastly put in a
quart or two Of dry sand, and lamp it
hard with a suitable rammer, repeating
the operation till the pipe is full to
within one inch of the top. Fit in the
other head with the shaft in place upset
the iron over it, as before, and you have
roller as serviceable as one of all iron,
and at almost no cost. To fit it for use,
make box of inch stuff; fit handle to
it, sloping at an angle of twenty degrees
from its bottom board put a cross head
to the end of it, and for garden or walk
roller this can not be beaten. If wanted
heavier, it can be loaded with brickbats
or earth; and for wheeling stones or rub
bish from garden or lawn, or newly
plowed or spaded grounds, it will be pro
nounced by all who try it "tip-top."
Any man or boy who can use saw,
plane, and hammer, can make one in a
few hours, and, with decent care, it will
last as many years.
Household Helps
To REMOVE Fly SPoTs.-Dip camePs
hair brush into spirits of wine, and apply
it to the spots.
NEURALGIC HEADACHE.-The appli-
cat;on IF tovala wruno ont in hot water