Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-11-04
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Honsehold Hints.


PICKLES IN ALooHoL.-To one gallon
OF best vinegar add one pint of alcohol.
Rub the cucumbers clean with a towel.
and put them in.
STAINED KID GLovEs.-The white
spots on kid gloves, from damp, may
generally be removed by wrapping them
up with small Jumps OF gum camphor.
CURING BUNIoNs. These terrible tor
ments can be easily removed by using a
weak solution of carbohc acid on them
for about one month. They will entire
ly disappear.
LEMON JUICE STAINS. the
stains with little aqua ammonia (spirits
hartshorn), applied by means of a
sponge or cloth, well rubbed in, and
they will instantly disappear.
To CAN TOMATOES. -Scald, peel, and
cut the tomatoes into a colander. and let
all the liquor that will drain off do SO.
Stew the tomatoes till well done, and
can. The liquor that drains off may be
boiled down and made into catsup.
reaches. ANY house can be rid of
reaches by free and continuous use of
powdered borax. In crevices where
borax cannot be put, pour in boiling
water. These two things persevered in
will exterminate the pestiferous insect
OYSTER AND OKRA SoUP.-Boil fifty
large oystrrs with their liquor, little
water, white pepper, grated nutmeg,
very little salt end q piece of butter;
when cooked take the oysters out with a
skinner and pass the liquor through a
tine strainer; then put in another sauce
pan two ounces of butter, chopped
onion, two ounces of lean ham cut in
small square pieces; fry slowly for five
minutes; add to it two quarts of veal or
beef broth, the liquor from the oysters,
four tablespoonfuls of rice, eight sliced
raw tomatoes without the skin and seeds,
half green pepper cut fine; boil slowly
for an hour, add the oysters, boil again,
skim well and serve. 1t is also served
with plain boiled rice in q separate dish
and none in the soup.
Taking Care of the Roots.
These include turnips, carrots, beets
and parsnips, and they will keep equally
well when properly pitted out of doors,
and lose less by shrinkage, than if stored
in dry cellar. All of these roots NAV
be harvested at any time in November,
before cold weather sets in. If there is
much of this sort of work to be done it
is better and a great saving of labor to
commence early while the weather is
mild. Topping turnips, beets or carrots
in the garden Or field in frosty weather
is anything but pleasant Within q
few years those who grow roots in q
large way have bit upon method that
is cheap and rapid, reducing the ex-
pense from about seven cents to less
than two cents bushel. The roots are
pulled and placed in rows close to-
gether, the roots all in the same rela-
tive position. Then, with an ordinary
caseknife, man or boy goes along chop
ping off the tops without moving the
roots from their position, doing more
work in day than four men could
possibly do in the cd fashioned way of
pulling the roots and throwing them
lnto heaps, and afterward topping. In
storing for winter consumption, select
high and naturally dry spot of ground,
level off the surface six feet wide. and
as long as needed for the quantity of
roots to be put away. Haul them to this
place, making the heap six feet wide at
the base, and sloping the sides. and
about four feet in heis ht, when it should
come to point In the latitude of
New York to protect such roots from
frost will call for a covering of thirty
inches of soil in thickness. In putting
on this covering conform to the outlines
of the heap.
1t is better to run these "root pits, 1"
as they are commonly called, east and
west, and with very severe weather in
midwinter it may be found necessary to
cover over the north side of the heap
with long manure. All sorts of roots
will keep better when the soil comes in
direct contact with them formerly it
was the general practice to put q cover.
ing of salt hay or straw over the heap
before putting on the soil, -Scra6ner's
Monthly.
Fall Flowing.
When the wheat and rye have been
sown and the corn husked it is too fire.
quently supposed that nothing more re-
mains to be done in the field. But there
is no season in which more useful work
can be done in the field than the fall,
The pillow should be kept going until
frost puts stop to tho work. There
are many reasons why fall blowing is
beneficial. The effect of the weatherins
OF clay soil is such that no implements
can produce it. The repeated frosts
and thaws 80 break up and mellow the
soil that there is in the spring o finer
seed bed than could be obtained with all
the blowing and narrowing that could
be given to it. The work done in the
tall IS not only better done, but so much
is put out of the way in preparation fol
spring crops, the blowing for which
IS often delayed by unfavorable weathe,
SO much so as to endanger the success
OF the crop. The corn stubbles should
by all means be plowed now, so that
oats can be sown as early as the mellow
soil is dried by the first warm suns in
the spring. This early sowing is some.
times the safety of the crop and the
yield upon fall plowed soil is ALWAYS
better than upon the spring plowed.
There are always many insects buried
out OF sight, which would otherwise
harbor in the stubble. This is especi
ally the case with the clinch bug, which
finds hiding place in the cornstalk:
and other rubbish of the stubbles. In
blowing potato fields now we turn ur
the destructive Colorado beetle to the
light from his chosen winter quarters,
and expose him to the birds and small
animals which feed upon him. At this
season, when chilled with the cold, the
beetle is inactive and easily falls a prey
to its enemies. In a newly plowed field