Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-10-23
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Household Hints.

lime and left for an hour in a closed
room will remove the smell of new paint.
When acid has been dropped on any
article of clothing, apply liquid ammonia
to kill the acid /; then apply chloroform
to restore the color.
Before laying the carpet, If moths are
suspected, it is well to rub the boards
over with turpentine sprinkling with
very dilute carbolic acid, about tea
spoonful to gallon of water, is also
good precaution. The last should be
rubbed over the walls before the paper
is put on.
Herbs intended for drying should be
picked just before the plant blossoms.
Wash them until they are entirely free
from dust, and place them on a sieve to
drain. Then put them in the oven and
let them remain until they are perfectly
dry. Afterward rub from the stalks,
put in glass jars and cover closely.
There is good reason to believe that
contagious diseases are often communi-
Gated by dogs, cats, and other house
hold pets. A case of scarlet fever re-
Gently occurred in England in which a
dog conveyed the disease. He had been
the constant companion of a fever
patient, anil his hair doubtless became
impregnated with the malaria.
Curry has been discovered to be bad
for the complexion. DR.. Henderson,
writing to an Indian paper, says that all
curries are colored with turmeric, and
that if habitually eaten they will in
course of years affect the feshy tissue,
and ultimately the skin. The iaundiced
hue of many Anglo Indians is not due to
sun-burning or any affection of the liver,
but results solely from the constant con-
sumption of curries containing turmeric.
To make crullers Mix well together
half pint of sour milk, or buttermilk,
two teacupfuls of sugar, one teacupful
of butter, and three eggs well beaten !;
add to this teaspoonful of saleratus
dissolved in hot water, teaspoonful of
salt, half a nutmeg grated, and tea
spoonful of powdered cinnamon sift in
flour enough to make a smooth dough !;
roll it out not quite quarter of an inch
thick cut in small oblong pieces; di-
vide one end in three Or four parts like
fingers, and twist or plat them over
each other. Fry them in boiling lard.
These cakes may be cut in strips and
the ends joined, to make a ring, or in
any other shape.
Wintering Cattle.
1t is well-settled principle in physi-
ology that all animal life is supported or
sustained by the combustion of food in
the stomach, chiefly through the action
of oxygen, and that the colder the eli
mate or the greater the exposure of the
animal to cold, the greater the amount
OF combustible matter required to keep
up the heat of the animal. Hence we
see, as we proceed northward, that dur
ing summer the animals, such as bears,
wolves, and other inhabitants of the Arc
tic regions, lay on immense quantities of
fat which is during the winter season
absorbed into their system and acts as
fuel to keep them alive. The human
inhabitants of these regions live mainly
on fat and train oil, which, digested in
their stomachs, acts precisely in sustain
ing life as it does in furnishing heat when
burnt in their lamps.
just in proportion to the exposure to
the cold, is the amount of fuel-food re-
quired; hence there is no more rapid
way of losing money, than for farmer
to neglect keeping the cattle warm and
dry by proper housing and protection
during the severe weather of our winter.
Animals left out in barnyards or open
cattle sheds during the winter seas on
invariably lose flesh, as it is almost i'm
possible for them to eat enough to sup.
ply the heat needed to keep them com
Portable, in good condition, or in 6
healthy state. Yet nothing is more com
mon throughout many parts of our coun
try than to see stock thus treated, ex.
posed to rain, snow, sleet and frost dur
ing the whole winter-their penurioul
owner mistakingly surprising that til,
corn and hay which he stints from
them and sells is SO much profit t.
him.
Apart from the cruelty of such treat
ment, which, in its moral aspect, vii
probably receive its appropriate punish
mont hereafter, nature takes care to pun
lsh here all violations of her great lay
OF compensation, so that he who steal
from his animals that which prepefl
belongs to them and which it is his dut
to give, eventually finds that he loses o.
he steals and compound interest be
sides. We therefore advise all sue
hard-hearted, close-fsted farmers, fo
their own profit, as the winter seaso
will soon be upon us, to close in the
cattle sheds, line them with matche
boards, and put up nice, comfortabl
sheds for their accommodation, givin
them plenty of good, dry bedding an
grain with their hay; not forgetting
very cold weather to temper their drinl
ing water with warm water. Benev
lence and self-interest alike require tn,
animals should be we'll treated.
Top-DressIng Meadows. =
The results of single top-dressing
eight plots of nearly half an acre each