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FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
To Restore Rancid Butter.

! To Restore Rancid Butter.
There is no need of either selling or
using rancid butter, owing to the fact
that itmay be easily restored to as good,
and perhaps O better condition than
that which characterized it when entirely
fresh. No matter how strong, proper
management in the plan we are now 60
ing to set forth will make it all right
every time:
Place in clean barrel three pounds
of fresh, unslacked lime, and pour over
it twenty gallons Of pure cold water.
Letit remain one day, stirring occasion
ally then let stand ten or twelve hours,
without stirring, to give it chance to
settle. At the end of this time pour or
draw off the clear liquid, and strain
through three thicknesses of fine domes-
tic Or muslin. Place into clean barrel,
and it is ready for the rancid butter.
| Cut tile butter into thin slices-as
thin as You can cut it conveniently-and
place it directly into the lime water.
Put in as much as the water will cover,
then over it place clean, floating lid,
and weight down sufficiently to prevent
any butter from being exposed to the
air. Keep it in this condition about
forty-eight hours, stirring three times q
day with clean stick.
At the end of this time the butter will
have entirely lost its rancid condition,
the lime having completely neutralized
the acid. The solution should now be
drawn from the barrel, and its place sup
piled with pure cold water, to stand un.
disturbed for six hours. Next take out
the butter, let drain an hour or 80, then
rework and resalt exactly after the
manner of managing new butter.
This process will leave the butter
quite white, and therefore, if for the
market, you will need to color it, which
you can do with preparation of annatto,
now sold for the purpose in most drug
| stores.
If you desire to convert the butter re-
stored as above into frst-class article,
| fully ND to the best Goshen, you will
take say fifty pounds Of it, which you
will place in q revolving churn with six
gallons of new milk, and pint of the
Juice pressed from carrots. No other than
q revolving chrrn will answer, for the
harshness of the butter will prevent the
motion of a dasher. Start the churn
briskly, and keep it going for half an
hour, after which take out and handle
the same as new butter. No other color
ing will be needed-the carrot Juice will
have impaired to it rich yellow color.
It will have also added to it's flavor,
making the flavor resemble that of new
butterin every particular. The Journal
Of Progress.
Household Notes.
To CLEANSE COLLARS AND WRIST
BANDs.-Grease the soiled parts before
wetting, with any kind of fat or dripping;
let them remain q few hours, or over
night; wash with soap in hot water.
They will become wonderfully clean.
To REMOVE Mr1DEw.-Take equal
parts of lemon juice, salt, starch and
soft soap rub on thickly, lay Oh the
grass in the hot SUD. Renew the appi-
cation two or three times day.
To KEEP KN1FEHANDLEs FROM Dis
co1oR1NG.-Ivory handle knives should
never be put in hot or greasy water. If
servants will do such careless things, the
only remedy, then, is to scrape the han
dies with glass or sand paper.
VARS1sH FOR WHITE WooDs.-Dis-
solve three pounds of bleached shellac
in one gallon of spirits of wine; strain,
and add one and a half more gallons of
spirits. II the shellac is pure and white,
this will make beautifully clear cover
ing for white wooden articles.
To DESTROY MoTHs.-Get two or
three pounds of powdered borax if
necessary untack the carpets around the
edges; sprinkle plenty of borax all
around the outer edge Of the carpet, and
with feather or brush try to shove as
much as possible under the surbase !;
let the borax remain there, it will not
injure the carpet.
REGULATING THE KITCHEN. - The
healthfulness of house largely depends
upon it's cleanliness !; and, above all
things, cleanliness must prevail in the
kitchen. Watch the drains, to see that
no imperfection in them permits the
passage of tea and coffee-grounds, scraps
of meat, and vegetable-paring, all of
which will choke the traps and attract
rats. Have the pipes flooded once a
week with common washing soda dis
solved in hot water, and then with a
solution of the chloride of lime, in order
to overcome unpleasant and unhealthy
odors. Use only good soap for cleaning
and washing. It will dissolve COM
pletely in hot water, producing solution
nearly clear and free from disagreeable
smell.
Corn for seed.
In selecting corn for seed, it is often
the practice to merely choose large ears
from the general crop. 1t is suggested
that this is not the best method, for,
while the plant may be strong and vigor-
ous and bear large ears, the corn may
have been fertilized by pollen from fee
bic or stunted plants near it, and the
seed may retain and repeat these ad-
verse qualities in spite of the rigor Of
the plant on which it grew. It is said
that q better plan would be to plant
some of the seed in small plot by it.
self, at distance from the main crop,
and to give this patch plenty of room
and high culture. When the tassels ap-
pear in this seed bed every plant should
be examined, and all feeble stalks
should be pulled out or cut off below the
tassel before it has an opportunity to
bloom. BY this arrangement both the
plant Oh which the ears grow, and the
pollen scattered from it's own and neigh
boring tassels, will be alike strong and
vigorous, and the seed will partake of
the strength of both its parents.