Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-08-18
Farm, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD
Household HiHts.

FRUIT STAINS -Toremove fruit stains,
let the spotted part of the cloth imbibe
little water without dipping it, and
hold the part over two or three lighted
birthstone matches at a proper distance.
The sulphurous gas which is discharged
soon causes the spots to disappear. Or
all bright oolored fruit stains can be re-
moved by scalding in clear, boiling
water, before any soap is applied.
To PRESERVE AUTUMN LEAVES, Have
middling hot iron and rub on quickly
little white wax, then quickly press
both sides of the leaves; wax the iron
anew for each side of the leaf; only rub
the iron once over the leaf "Forest
tree leaves for wreaths " are prepared in
the same way,
10 PREVENT FLIES INJURING PICTURE
FRAMES. Boil three or four onions in
one pint of water. Brush your frames
over with the liquid. No fly will touch
them, and it will not injure the frames
To DESTROY VERNIN. some bits
of alum in pint of water, and wash
over the Stats of the bedsteads. Scatter
paris green in the corners of the beds
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the reproach of harboring bedbugs. To
kill and drive away cockroaohes, crickets,
etc., scatter powdered borax plentifully
over all their haunts, and not bug will
be seen. To drive away red and black
ants, obtain a large piece of chalk, and
rub it on the edges of your shelves, the
tops of barrels of sugar, or on firkins,
and it will prove a Rubicon to the
largest army of ants. Scotch snuff will
also kill crickets, cockroaches and ants.
To CLEAN BLACK LAoE.-Black laces
Of all kinds may be cleaned by alcohol.
Throw them boldly into the liquid !;
churn them up and down till they foam !;
If very dusty, use the second dose of al
cohol; squeeze them out, "spat" them,
pull out the edges, lay them between
brown paper, smooth and straight; leave
under weight till dry; do not iron.
COOP USE FOR SoAP-sUDs.-Save your
washing suds for the garden; if they are
poured over the roots of the plum trees,
they will kill the curculio; if turned at
the roots of geraniums, roses, etc., they
will enhance their beauty tenfold.
IRONING. iron smoothly purchase
few cents worth of beeswax, and rub
1t over the leaves of a thin pamphlet,
which have been heated through with
the tlat-iron; keep it with the ironing
sheet and blanket, and when the fat
irons are to be used, run them over the
waxed surface; then wipe gently on
soft cloth. Shirt bosoms can be easily
lroned in this manner.
Earth Pulverizers.
Not the least valuable implement for
farmer or gardener, says the NeaO Eng
tand Farmer, is good drag for smooth
ing and pulverizing fields which are to
be planted or sown. There are several
methods of constructing such @ drag,
but one of the simplest is to take two
pieces of joists, each with the front end
beveled like the front of a sled runner,
and then nail on plank across them, on
the under side, letting the plank run out
by the joists foot or more. They may
be of any size or weight desirable, &C
cording to the amount of team to be
used. Some farmers recommend to nail
on one or two narrow strips upon the
face of the plank to collect the Jumps
and soil, and drag them along till crush
ed, or till all inequalities in the surface
are filed up. We recently received
cut and description of a pulverizer with
half dozen or more cleats nailed upon
the under side of the drag for more
thoroughly pulverizing and leveling the
soil. They are nailed on the outer ends
forward of the middle, and thus tend to
gather the soil toward the middle, and
prevent ridges being left at the sides of
the drag when in use. Either of the
various styles are very useful in their
place, and the cost of making one is SO
small that every farmer should have one
of his own. They are sometimes used
for covering potatoes, fodder corn, or
other crops, and may often pay for
themselves in a single days use. On
land clear from stones they may be used
at seeding time instead of a roller for
fitting fields for the moving machine or
scythe.
Good Cow.
A farmer, POLITICALLY inclined, gives the
following definition Of good COW:
Long in the face, she's fine in the horn,
Quickly gets fat without cake or corn
Clean in the jaws and full in the chine.
Heavy in flank and wide in the loin;
Broad in the ribs and long in the rump,
Straight and fat-backed without Ger q
bump;
Wide in the hips and calm in the eyes,
Fine in the shoulders and thin in the
thighs
Light in the neck and small in the tail,
Wide in the breast and will fill the milk
pail;
Fine of the bone and silky of skin,
Airy without-a meat market within.