The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-01-05
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
The Household.

neep pteaQ IN q uncovered DOX, and
1t will keep fresh and good longer than
If left exposed to the air.
Keep cheese in cool, dry place, and
after it is cut, wrap it in linen cloth,
and keep it tight tin box.
Raisens should not be bought in large
Quantities, as they are injured by time.
1t is best to buy the small boxes.
After smoked beef or hams are cut.
hang them in q coarse linen bag in the
cellar, and tie it up to keep out flies.
Cake also should be kept in tight tin
box. Tin boxes made with covers like
trunks, with handles at the ends, are
best for bread and cake.
Goldfish is improved by changing it,
once in a while, back and forth from
garret to cellar. Some dislike to have it
In the house anywhere.
All salted provision must be watched,
and kept under the brine. When the
brine looks bloody, or smells badly, it
must be scalded, and more salt put to it,
and poured over the meat.
Soda should be bought in small ouanti-
ties, then powdered, sifted, and kept tight
corked In a large-mouth glass bottle. It
grows damp If exposed to the air, and
then can not be used properly.
The most easy way of keeping hams
perfectly is to wrap and tie them in pa
per, and pack them in boxes or barrels
with ashes. The ashes must fill all in
terstices, but must not touch the hams,
as 1t absorbs the fat. It keeps them
sweet, and protects from all kinds of in
scots.
Cream tartar, citric and tartaric acids.
bicarbonate of soda, and essences should
be kept in corked glass jars. Sal volatile
must be kept in large-mouth bottle.
with ground glass stopper to make it
air-tight. Use cold water in dissolvinp
it. 1t must be powdered.
Coffee it is best to buy Ivy the BAG. as
It improves by keeping. Let it hang in
q bag in q dry place, and it loses its rank
smell and taste. It is poor ECONOMY TO
buy ground coffee, as it often has other
articles mixed, and loses flavor by keep
ing after it Is ground.
A Stump Fuller.
The most effective stump puller is
readily made by any mechanic. It con-
gsts OF very strong lever made of tough
timber, strengthened with iron plates
where the heaviest strain will come.
The lever should he sixteen or eighteen
feet long. A very strong clevis is fitted
about six inches from the end, and
second foot from the first. These
clevises are double, so that they can be
used on each side of the lever. Two
strong chains, twelve TO twenty feet long,
are procured, and two smaller ones
about eight feet long. The longest
chain ls passed around large stump,
and hooked on to the second clevis. A
enain ls then passed around the nearest
stump and hooked on to the end clevis,
bne ohalns being drawn as tightly as pos
two stumps. A.team of oxen, or steady
horses, Is hitched to a cleyis Mt the free
extremity of the lever, which is drawn
as far as possible. The weaker of the
two stumps is thus started. One of the
short chains, having hook ut each end.
Is then hooked ON to the end clevis, and
70 the chain attached to the first stump
she other short chain, similarly provided
with hooks, is hooked from the second
sclevls to the chain from the first stump.
The team Is then turned about, and the
lever Is drawn back again to where it was
nrss started from, thus making further
naui upon the stump. Then the loose
chaans are hooked up tight, the team
eurned about, and the lever drawn for
ward once more as far as it will 90.
The short chains are hooked tight and
the team again turned. In this mapner.
Few inches at q time, the stump is
torn out OF its place. This machine can
be made by any wagonmaker or black
smith, and can be carried anywhere.
The only objection is that one stump
viii be left In every thirty or forty feet.
because there will be nothing left to
hitch on to to draw it out. But q few
ounces OF blasting powder and long
handled two-inch auger will serve to get
nd OF these. Stumps three feet in diane
ter may thus be drawn out, and one or
two acres day be cleared with a GOOD
team and two men.
Tho Gordius, or Hair Worm.
We have habit, says correspondent.
OF Keeping pail of filtered water with
ice in it, in cool place at the head of
the cellar stairs. Before going to had
my SON took dipper of water from the
pail and discovered o cricket in it. and.
on further examination, something like
the hair snake spoken of, in the bottom
OF the dipper, and one passing away
from the body of the cricket, which was
soon liberated, and was six or seven
inches long and very lively, and with a
distinguishable head and tail. The dip
per was set one side, and Sin the morn
ing the cricket was still there, and five
other snakes four to six inches long and
very lively, three having appeared dur
ing the night. That they came from
tbs body Of the cricket there can be no
mistake. the water being perfectly pure.
Upon consulting the books we find that
Professor Nicholson calls them the Cor
disoaa or hair worm Thau a.o tI,.aaI