Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-03-11
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Domestic Hints and Helps.

aloes. 1t is sure cure for thumb suck
ing and may be for nail biting.
To CLEAN CARPETs.-To take grease
out of carpets, if ingram, spread buck
wheat batter on it. Will scrape of
when dry and grease is absorbed.
To CLEAN BLACK CASHMERE. Brush
tho article to be cleaned, and chen wash
III clear, cold water and handful of
common washing soda dissolved; use no
soap or warm water. Iron on the wrong
side while damp.
SALMAGUNDI.-Taket the bones out Of
one dozen salt herring or shad, cut fine,
wash two or three times in cold water,
squeeze the water well out; slice thin
eight onions, put fish and onions to-
gether and Put on cold vinegar and pep
per.
POPCORN BAILs.-To six quarts of
popped corn, boil one pint of molasses
about fifteen minutes; then put the corn
into large pan, pour the boiled molass-
es over it, stirring briskly until thor
oughly mixed. Then, with clean hands,
make into balls of the desired size.
APPLE SAUCE WITH CDER.-Take a
clean brass kettle, fill it with rich sweet
cider; boil more than half away, then
empty in stone pot and clean the ket-
tie. Have ready sweet apples pared and
quartered; fill the kettle with them,
pour on part of the cider, cover and let
them stew until the apples are done;
add the rest of the cider and little
sugar, and stir until quite thick. 1t is
better to boil it several hours, as the
longer it is boiled the longer it can be
kept; while boiling add spice to suit
taste.
What he Saw Forty Years Ago.
An old writer nearly forty years ago
related what he then saw. If he were
around at the present time he could still
see much the same thing:
L have seen farmer wade up to his
knees, winter after winter, through ma
nure, in going to his stable, when for
years his garden has been unproductive
for the want of tho article so much in
his way in the yard. I have seen a
farmer pass fifty times by break in his
fence, aud never stop to right it, always
putting it off till another day, until the
greater part of his crop was destroyed.
L have seen farmer blowing around
punches of briers until his field was SO
taken up with them that he was COM
PEELED to abandon and give it up to the
neighbors around him as a blackberry
patch in common. have seen farmer
put up his stock fodder in so careless q
manner that the first winds would blow
down the stacks, in which condition
they would remain until the fodder was
80 spoiled that his half starved cattle
would refuse to eat it, and he wonder
why his cattle were so much poorer than
his neighbors'. [ have seen a farmer
who took great care of his fodder, but in
feeding it to his cattle would let in the
hogs, or not separate them from the cat
tie, and before they could masticate hall
their allowance the remainder was sc
rooted about and so filthy that they
must be more than half starved to eat
it; he, too, is one of the wondering
class"
81 have seen farmer feed his horses
in hollow tree with both ends open
and hole in the middle. "Oh," says
he, the pigs will get what falls out ,
yet, strange to tell, he never could &C
count for his horses always being SC
poor. 81 wonder"
1 have seen farmer who seldom went
where his boys were blowing, and wher
he did it was the same thing, for they
would merely skim the earth, cut anG
cover, and wonder" I have seen {
farmer (and he good rough carpenter
who had not door to his stables. HI
would stop up the entrances with rail-
laid crosswise, leaving hole at the bot
tom to creep in and out when feeding
The labor lost in the course of the yea
in pulling down and putting up thi
abominable substitute, applied to th,
making of doors, would have furnishe,
him for lifetime. He is always "won
dering" how some folks have time to d,
such things.
What to Do with the Straw.
Many farmers in "the West" an,
some in what we call "tha East" ar
troubled as to what to do with the pile
of straw which lie about the fields. TIL
solution is easy where considerabl
stock is kept. Some poles should b
set in the ground, and rails or othe
poles laid upon them SO as to form
sloping roof This is made near O
around the place chosen for thrashin
the grain. The straw from the thrash
ing machine is heaped upon the rails
making long stack, which forms thre
sides OF square, with the open sid
toward the south and 1eavino q opoo