Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-06-08
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

TO DRIVE AWAY RAIs.-A lady wri-
ter, in recent number of New York
journal, discourses in the following style
concerning her treatment of rats and mice.
''We cleared our premises of these de-
testable vermin by making white-wash
| yellow with copperas, and covering the
| stones and rafters of the cellar with thick
coating of it. In every crevice where a
rat might tread we put crystals of cop
peras, and scattered the same in the cor
ners of the floor. The result was perfect
stampede of the rats and mice. Since
that time not a football of either rat or
mouse has been heard about the house.
Every spring coat of the yellow wash is
given to the cellar, as a purifier as well as
rat exterminator, and no typhoid, dys-
EMERY, or fever. attacks the family.-Ma-
ny persons deliberately attract all the rats
in the neighborhood by leaving fruits and
vegetables uncovered in the cellar; and
| sometimes even the soap scrapes are left
open for their regalement. Cover up every
thing eatable in the cellar and pantry, and
you will soon starve them out. These pre-
cat, will prove as COOL rat-exterminator
as the chemist can provide.-We never
would allow rats to be poisoned in our
dwelling; they are so liable to die in the
walls, and produce much annoyance"
WHAT TO Do WHEN BADLY STUNG.-
1t is not an unknown thing, by any means
for bees to attack man and so sting him
that he dies from the effect of their venom
Mr.. Dadant writes to the ''American Bee
journal :" EVERY bee-keeper should re-
member that when person has received
many stings the best thing to do is to re-
move the stlngs by slipping the edge of q
knife on the skin. Pinching the sting
with fingers would empty the venom bag
into the wound. The BEST way to prevent
evil consequences is to entirely envelop the
patient in thick wet CLOTH and to cover
him with blankets in order to stimulate
the perspiratory organs. A tablespoonful
of common salt should be dissolved in the
water to be used, then two or three spoon
fuls of ammonia should be added and
mixed. Care should be taken that the
'patient breaths not too freely re vapors
of ammonia. To drink one CT Two drops
of ammonia in glass of water or tea would
greatly prevent the swelling from spread
ing on the parts of the body that have not
been stung Southern Farmer.
FRICAssEED TOMATOES Place the to-
matoes in stone jar, and put it into a
steamer. When they are tender, beat them
to a pulp and put them into stewpan
with little onion (which has been minced
and stewed in butter until it is tender, a
seasoning of pepper and salt, and some
chopped parsley; simmer the mixture for a
few minutes, and serve it very hot. 1t is
good either alone or served in dish with
chops, or other meat, sausages, or fish Of
any kind. Tomatoes and sausages are
capital. Fry the sausages and arrange
them in the dish in front of the fire. CUT
the tomatoes into slices with some onion
thinly sliced; fry them, season them with
pepper and salt, place them among the
sausages, and serve them hot. In the same
manner they are excellent with ANYTHING
warmed second time-chicken, rabbit,
game or poultry, cold meat in slices, Oh
fish of any kind.
KILL THE BUGs.-To destroy bugs on
squash and cucumber vines, desolve a ia
BILE spoonful of saltpetre in pailful of wa
ter, put pint of this around each hill
shaping the earth so that it will not spread
much and the thing is done. Use more
saltpetre, if you can affordit-itis good for
vegetable but death to animal life. The
bugs burrOW in the earth at night and fail
to rise in the morning. 1t is also good to
Kill the grub in peach trees-only use
twice as much, say a quart on each tree.
There was not yellow or blistered leaf on
twelve or fifteen trees to which it was ap-
piled last season. No danger of killing
any vegetable with it-a concentrated So
luton applied to beans make them grow
wonderfully.
ter in the American Grocer" says that
glycerine is not used in the right way.
She says that to preserve the smoothness
and softness of the hands, you should keep
a small bottle of glycerine near the place
where you habitually wash them, and
whenever you have finished washing them
and before wiping them, put one or two
drops of the glycerine on the palm, and
rub the hands thoroughly with it, as if it
were soap, then dry lightly with towl.-
Household work and bad weather will not
prevent your skin from being smooth and
soft, if this plan of using glycerine is fol-
lowed.
FLY Poison Take four ounces Of
quassia chips, boil for half hour in l pint
of water; when cold, strain, and add wa
ter to make pint; also alcohol, 2 fluid
ounces. Place this decoction in shallow
dishes, where the insects are troublesome,
adding to each dish teasroonful of mo-
lasses. This is sure death to flies, and per-
fectly harmless to persons: quassia, as all
know, being an old-fashioned tonic.
To MEND CHINA.-Take very thick
solution of gum arabic in water, and stir
into it plaster of Paris, until the mixture
becomes of the proper consistency. Apply
it with brush to the fractured edges of
the china, and stick them together. In
three days the article cannot be broken in
the same place. The whiteness of the &C.
ment renders it doubly valuable.
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