Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-04-22
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.


FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD
Useful HIn,s.
To separate honey from wax, put
honeycomb and all in tin pan upon {
moderately warm stove, adding table
spoonful of water TO each pound Of
honey. Stir occasionally with piece
Of wire until the contents Of the par
are in q liquid condition. Dc not allow
boiling TO begin. Remove the pan from
the fire and set IL aside to cool. The
cake of wax, to which all impurities
will adhere, may then be carefully lifted
of with knife.
II wool DO dyed black according to
the following recipe, the dye, 1t is said,
does not rub of, tho fibors remain
loose, and the wool has desirable red
dish cast Boil the thoroughly washed
wool we'll for an hour and half in q
bath composed, for one hundred pounds
OF wool, OF two and one.half pounds of
chromate Of potash, two and one half
pounds Of alum, one-half pound OF blue
vitriol, and two pounds of commercial
sulphuric acid, and dye it, without rims
ing, in fresh water, with twenty pounds
of logwood and twenty pounds OF Brazil
wood. It is advantageous for the color
to allow the wool to remain in the NOR
dant for twelve hours.
A good durable whitewash is made as
follows: Take half bushcl of freshly
burnt lime, slake it with boiling water;
cover it during the process, to keep in
the steam. Strain the liquid through
fine sieve, and add to it seven pounds of
salt previously well dissolved in warm
water three pounds Of ground rice
boiled to q thin paste and stirred in
boiling hot; half pound of powdered
Spanish whiting; one pound of clean
glue, which has been previously dis
solved by soaking it well, and then hang
ing it over slow fire in small kettle,
within large one filed with water. Add
five gallons of hot water to the mixture,
stir it we'll, and let it stand few days
covered from dirt. 1t must be put on
quite hot. For this purpose it can be
kept in kettle on portable furnace.
About pint of this mixture will cover
a square yard.
Washing the face night and morning
in half q pint OF water to which the
juice OF lemon has been added is said
to be a good remedy for freckles.
The secret of raising fine ounces, &C.
cording to correspondent of Inter-
Ocean, is to purchase the orange va.
riety, and set the trees from six to
eight feet apart in rich soil. Bandage
the stem with two or three wrapplngs of
old nl0t1, no for In1up in kbo <,,o,,,,.l mr.,
possible, as the roots start from near the
surface. Let the bandages run six or
eight inches above the ground, then
pack the soil O couple of inches around
the bandages. This should be renewed
every spring.
Waterproof glue may be made by
boiling pound of common glue in two
quarts of skinned milk. This with
stands the action of the weather.
Scientific american.
The Farm Fence.
Three strong boards six inches broad,
the lower six inches from the ground, |
the second foot above it, and the up
per eighteen inches above that, will |
make fence four and one half feet |
high, and will turn any cattle dairy
farmer ought to keep.
l would suggest, says s. Folsom,
building such fence with broader
boards, if this is too low or not strong
enough to meet the owners views) in |
lengths or panels, by using three cross
pieces of inch stuff four to six inches
wide, same length as the desired height
OF the fence when set up-one cross
piece at one end, the second in the cen
ter, and the third four inches from the
end, and in putting it up use this four
inches for a lap at the joints. Use nails
that will barely drive through board and
crosspiece enough to clinch, and drive
them against an iron fiat bar to clinch
them. Put nail near each edge of the
boards, ami when thus nailed together,
turn over and drive nail through the
crOsspiece to clinch on the center of
each board.
Set your posts at such distances as you
like, regardless of panel lengths, mailing
the lap end of each length on to the
crosspiece Of the next, without clinch-
ing, and nail to the posts only with
view OF holding the whole fence thereto,
strong at top, slightly at bottom, with
little or no post fastening in the middle.
This fonce will be handy for moving as q
whole or taking out length or more for
an opening when and where it may be
desired.
By crooking at joints after the manner
of rail fence, these lengths may be made
self-sustaining, and by raising the for
ward end it will match into the next
length in dove-tail fashion and be put
up with few nails or none and without
posts; for, in building, it is easy to
make receiving notches and set both end
crosspieces in from the end to lock to-
gether.
Picket fence, with similar boards for
rails and light stuff-even lath-for the
paling, can be constructed and put up in
the same way.
Permanent posts, or dovetail; such
fence is economical and practical; no
patent; try it.
Trnnspianting Trees.
The people of the United States spend
annually millions of dollars for trees.
Fully one-half of the trees planted an
nually are lost inside of two years. If
tree is carefully dug, with plenty of
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are to be shipped any distance), and ,
shielded from the sun and /,
wind; after it is removed from the box ,,
Or package the roots dipped in sort OF
paste made of soil and water, and if the ,
ground is not in condition for immedi- :
ate planting, "heeled in" with care, so
that the soil comes in contact with the
roots, take my word for it not one tree !
in fifty will die. Nothing is so condu- :
Give to the growth of tree and protect q
ing it from the drouth as mulching. !
Half rotted manure, leaves, sawdust, or ,
something similar, may be used, and !,
should be at least six inches deep. A !
rec thus treated will stand almost any :
amount of drouth. =
Save Your Soapsuds. S
Who would throw away barrelful of !
soft soap or box of hard soap? Were /