Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-02-15
HOUSE AND rAnH NOTES.

Putting cream on onions. instead Of butter,
removes much Of the strong flavor, and rem
ders them less likely to affect weak stomachs
unpleasantly.
A pail Of milk standing ten minutes where
| it is exposed to the scent Of a strong-smelling
stable or any other offensive odor. will imbihe
faint that will never leave it.
A French horticultural society recommends
a novel mode Of insuring the luNuriant growth
Of genniums and pelargoniums. It is simply
| to water the plants once week with a solu-
! ton Of $50 grains Of glue to abouttwo gallons
Of water.
! Not one in twenty of all the kid gloves in
| the world are made from the skins Of kids
| where there is one kid glove worn there are
about fourteen made from the skins Of rats
and nine from the skins Of lambs. In France
attention is now being paid to the missing of
rats, which are cared for and fattod and killed
in large quantities for their skins One man
in Paris raised and killed on his premises dur
ing the year 1867. nearly 30, 600 rats He ex-
poets his crop for 1877 will be nearly double
that.
Pure milk is the highest type of human
food. being equal to flesh and more easily di-
gested; the necessity Of pure milk for chill
dren is apparent TO all. Cheese is twice as
nutritious as beef four pounds OF milk is
equal to one pound Of cooked beef Double
the quantity Of milk is required to grow one
half pound of veal or beef than to produce
one pound of cheese. English laborcrs. Lav-
ing their choice for dinner, one-quarter pound
of cheese or one-half pound of meat. general
~ prefer the cheese
Small holes in white walls can be easily re-
paired without sending for a mason Equal
parts of plaster of Paris aud white sand
such as is used in most families for securing
purposes-mixed with water to n paste. ap-
piled Immediately and smoothed with a knife
or flat piece of wood. will make the broken
place las good as new The mixture harlcns
quickly, so it is best to prepare but small
quantity at time
The impurities that make water injurious
to health are organic matters such as are
abundantly supplied 10y barnyarls drains and
cemeteries, where the decay of animal and
vegetable substance is going on Some fam
lies who live on farms. and who fancy they
are drinking the best of water. are in fact.
constantly imbibing poison that will appear.
perhaps in the dreaded form of diphtheria or
typhoid fever.-Scjetgc Imercu.
Farmers are slow in recognizing the value
of the liquid excrement of CT tile as a fertiliz-
er. and careless about saving it. 1t is ostiinat-
ed that the liquid manure of one COW for
year, if properly saved and composted with
absorbents, is worth sal Allowing that on
ly half can be saved. that is during the six
months when cattle are housed. the loss by its
waste in q dairy will be seen TO be great and
well worth attention. 1t may be conducted
in troughs to tanks from the stalls or allowed
TO fall into muck loan or solid manure in the
barn cellar.
In England they are adopting horse shoe
made of COW hide. and known as the Yates
shoe. 1t is composed of three thickuesses of
COW hide compressed into a steel mould. and
then subjected to a chemical preparation II
is claimed for it that it lasts longer and weighs
only one-fourth as much as the common iron
shoe that it will never cause the hoof TO
split, nor have the least injurious influence
on the foot 1t requires no calkS even on
asphalt the horse never slips. The shoe is so
elastic that the horses step is lighter and
surer. 1t adheres so closely to the foot that
neither dust nor water can penetrate between
the shoe and hoof. The idea is not a new one
At the time of the Roman and Carthastuean
wars 1t was frequent practice among cavalry
officers to bind the feet of their horses with
raw COW hide. to protect them from injury
during an engagement.
Nothing is more remarkable III the history
of the human race, with all the development
of science, than the bad quality of the bread
II Is content to consume. 1t might be shown
that most of our bad legislation, our crime.
our divorces, our dyspepsia, our family jars
our irritated stomachs and consequent gloomy
views of the present and the future. come from
bad bread. The people who habtually eat
good wholesome bread are comparatively
few, and they have no doubt inherited bad
stomachs from long line of feeders on bad
bread. We have not ut hand the statistics.
but it is true the race would not have suffer
ed so much damage if it had been cannonaded
with balls of lead equalinp in number the
loaves of bread it has eaten. as it has suffered
from eating the sort of bread it has consumed.
and is still trying to live on. Bread is called
the staff of life. And yet ourAntelligent wo-
men, the leaders of society. the explorers of
Rome, the expounders of Chaucer. leave the
manufacture of this stuff to ignorant domes-
tics, and to persons who have not when they
take service, intelligence enough to boil po-
tato.--Harttord Courant