Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-08-29
Farm, Garden and Household.
A substItute for Paris Green.

having regard to the terrible results
supposed to have attended the use of
Paris green as lethal agent, are peril
nent. 1t says:
No insect which crawls can live under
the application of hot alum water. 1t
will destroy red and black ants, cock
reaches, spiders, ohintz-bugs, and all
the crawling pests which infest our
houses. Take two pounds of alum and
dissolve 1t in three or four quarts of
boiling water let it stand on the fire
until the alum is all melted; then ap-
ply 1t with brush while nearly boiling
hot to every joint and crevice in your
closets, bedsteads, pantry shelves, and
the like. Brush the crevices in the
floor OF the skirting or mop boards, if
you suspect that they harbor vermin.
Ii, In whitewashing ceiling, plenty of
aium is added to the lime, it will also
serve to keep insects at a distance.
Cockroaches will flee the paint which
has been washed in cool alum water.
Sugar barrels and boxes can be freed
from ants by drawing a wide chalk
mark just round the edge of the top of
them. The mark must be unbroken or
they will creep over it but continu-
GUS chalk mark half an inch in width
will set their depredations at naught
Powdered alum or borax will keep the
chintz- bug at respectful distance, and
travellers should always carry bundle
4 in hnfr L -
and under their pillows in hotels, etc.
While staying at a hotel once with g
party most of whom complained sadly
of the nightly attacks of these disgust
ing insects, was able to keep them en-
tirely at bay by it's use, and 1 distribu-
ted the contents of my bundle among
the party, to their great relief.
Cucumbers for Pickles.
First get good kind of cucumber
then proceed as follows: Be careful
in picking not to bruise them wash
them clean pack them in stone jars
as they are far the best, with ons quart
of salt to every peck of pickles and one
and half gallons of water to every
five gallons of pickles also lump Of
five gallons of pickles. When your jal
is full put clean flannel cloth ovel
them, with weight heavy enough tc
keep them under the brine, and keen
the cloth clean and free from mold
Now, in soaking them for use, the
quicker it is done the better YOU
pickles will be. When freshening keer
plenty of fresh water on them.
Now scald in brass or copper kettle
using weak vinegar for the purpose, ant
about enough to cover your pickles
adding a lump of alum as large as
quaiPs egg to every gallon of pickles
Scald slowly until they get scaldine
hot, but do not let them boil takt
them out and lay them in a stone jar
using cinnamon or cloves, to suit tn,
taste. Spread one large coffee-cup O.
sugar to one gallon of pickles owe
them; then pour vinegar (net to-
strong) also over them. This vinega
will do for use again. If made in thi
way they will keep for months and b.
as plump and sweet as the day the,
were put up. Your vinegar should no
be too strong, as that would make then
sour and destroy the taste of tn
sugar.
Care of Sheep.
"Flock Master" of Lancaster Coun
ty, Penn, writes the Germantown Tele
graph as follows : "I send you tn
following seasonable hints in regard t.
the care of sheep During the white
and early spring sheep are often affecte'
with colds these, if neglected, fire
quently become SO deeply seated as t
be incurable, and end in phthisic o
consumption. The best remedy for
cold is, first, place your sheep in
well-ventilated, dry stable, comfortabl
Uttered (; and second, give it any slight
~ purg1ng medicine, with moderat
allowance of hay, and bran mash
one-fifth of which should be oil-mea
Colds and catarrhs are not only epide
mic, but endemic; be careful, there
fore, where you winter your sheep, ths
there is no predisposing cause in thei
locality and when they are attacked
remove them instantly from the fool
BY following these precautions, an
keeping them we'll fed, sheltered, airet
watered, and sailed, one may bid d.
fiance to disease among his flock"
How to Make GfIt-Edged Butter.
At the recent exhibition of the Che
ter County (Pa.) Agricultural Societ
Isaac Acker received the first prize
butter. His mode of management is
follows: He feeds ten quarts of COZ
meal and bran to each COW, per da
with hay. Does not think that col
fodder makes good butter. The ter
perature of the cream at churning W
81 degrees, and it was churned fro
twelve to twenty minutes. Uses s
ounces of salt and three ounces of viii
sugar to twenty pounds of butter us
an Embree butter-worker, with
sponge and cloth, and does not was
the butter with water. Mr.. Acker b
lieves that the essentials to make Il
dairy business pay are good COWS, W.
fed and well taken care of good al
convenient dairy houses and appliance
and then produce good article OIL
sell it at high price. Last year,
COWS averaged $50 pounds each.
Cattle stanchions.
Three years ago I built barn, an
LulHhlnB L WOulu no meTCllul 10
COWS, I had the platform on which t
COWS had to stand built four feet a.
nine inches long, with only two inch
drop. I tried this almost two yea
but I found the COWS got very dir
especially in the spring and fall.
then took it up, made the platform fc
feet six inches in length and six inch
drop. I found this quite an impro,