Connecticut western news., 1875-05-14
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Housswork for Spring.

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 Some fine windy day is chosen for the cleansing of all the blankets in the house. With wringer and washer, or what is almost as good, pounding barrel, this task is easily gone through. Two half days given to cleansing blan- kets and quilts win finish the task for year. .2 -r.'.. --'5sf .....
 ..dThen on day of comparative leisure due attention will be given to the bed steads, Thorough dusting, careful wash ing with hot soap-suds, and m applica- tion of the. whites of eggs beaten up with quicksilver (one white to five cents worth of quicksilver, put on with a feather) will insure freedom from night ly visitation of unwelcome guests.
 Then comes the cleaning of paint, the shaking of carpets, the cleansing of curtains, and "putting things to rights. A few drops of ammonia add ed to the water with which white paint is cleaned will render the work easy; whiting also is very useful in removing spots and grime; cold tea is used for cleansing grained wood. After the car pets are thoroughly shaken and tackled down, if then they look soiled, they may be scrubbed with o brush in the same manner that unpainted floors are scrubbed and restored to their original color, or at least be very much improved thereby. Even velvet carpets rejoice under this heroic treatment. The water used in washing them should be ire quentiy changed, and made alkaline with ox-gall or ammonia rather than with soap. The soiled water should be poured on the house plants or around the roots of rose bushes and fruit trees, as it is Q good fertilizer and heightens the color of blooming plants. If white washing, kalsomining, painting, or papering are to be done, the work should be arranged in the above order. Now that paint is sold in all large paint stores ready mixed for use and of every tint, any woman of ordinary mechanical skill can apply it herself, and varnish like wise. With kalsomine and a coat of varnish on the furniture, and paint on the woodwork, room seems as if fur nished anew. The expense, leaving out the labor, is trivial. ....-.. 1t IS neither necessary nor possible that all this work shall be done in one day or in two days. If by easy stages, one thing at time, it is accomplished by the beginning of summer, which falls on the 22d of June, any reasonable am bition should be satisfied.
 Useful Hints.
 Butter will remove tar spots. Soap and water will afterwards take out the grease stain. a-1.G .-. . ,}at
 To prevent moths in carpets, wash the floor before laying them with spirits of iturpentine or benzine. ....-.'s s.,
 Decay of the teeth is really caused by their being dissolved by acids generated in the mouth by the decomposition of small particles of food. It is clear, there fore, that the only method of preventing this is to. apply the brush immediately after every meal. Soap is the best sub stance to use on the brush, though it is advisable occasionally to use rather rough powder of some kind to keep the teeth in brilliant polish. -l..
 Two ounces of common tobacco boiled in a gallon of water is used by dealers for reaovating old clothes. The stuff IS rubbed on with stiff brush. The goods are nicely cleaned, and, strange to add. no tobacco smell remains.
 In Burgundy and Lorraine wild plant grows, on tho root of which are tubers like potatoes but which have the taste of chestuuts; on account of which taste it is called by the people the ground chestnut. It is now proposed to cultivate this for food in place of the potato. ,lsa
 10, Twenty-Five hundred dollars was the remedy given bya British jury for the dam aged. affections of Miss Nightingale. She had never met the gallant captain s ono tN11% rxylo ohnl loo, l1 had sailed for the Cape of Good Hope she wrote her love. Naturally, the captain answered, and SO it went on from letter to letter, till 1t reached the jury as above.
 Yeliows in Peaches.
 The committee of the Michigan State Ponological Society, after careful ex- animation of this subject, makes the fol lowing recommendations :,.,... .-.. ...... .
 The primary cause of the yellows is weakening of the trees by overtaxing the soil, thus depriving them of large DOT tion of the sustenance they should receive from the earth. zle12z-s8 .ai 4 M a .., Fellows may be reproduced by plant ing pits taken from the fruit of the dis eased trees. The disease will be de- veloped sooner or latter, no matter on what sol grown, or how well cared for. 5-'e.l,1 .5 .,..l
 llOrchardists are recommended to de- stroy every peach tree on the premises that shows signs of yellows; not to raise stock from diseased trees, or to bud from them, or to buy trees from a district where the disease is known to prevail. II! The praetics of allowing trees to ripen large crops of fruit for several years in succession will reduce their strength and ability to resist the disease. ...g -is .2s.t 9.ES Cost of House. ..-
 In an old volume of the Horticul- turist we find a valuable hint upon the cost of a house before the details of a plan are arranged. This is quite an i'm portant matter to people in the country who make their own plans and know about how much money they can afford to putinto .. house: , ..s | 4rl no Decide about the style and character of the house you would like, then visit some friend who has built something after your ideal as to orname entation and finish. Ascertain what it cost, and re- duee the amount to cents. Divide this by the cubioal contents of the. house, and you will have unit of cost from which to calculate the expense, of your proposed building. Now make your plan and find cubical measurement and raulhply into the units of cost, and modify the plan to suit the capacity of your pocket book This is very sim pie but quite accurate method of mak- ing an estimate, and is worth preserving. I'''l .3 The Potato Bug.
 The potato beetle can be controlled by due care at the proper time-first by catching and destroying the first brood of bugs that appear on the vines, and next by the use of paris green, or other poisonous substance, sprinkled on the vines when the slug or second brood is l. 1