The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-03-20
Farm. GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Household Hints.

on Or OF WooLEN. You can get
bottle or barrel of oil off any carpet or
wooden stuff, by applying dry buckwheat
plentifully and faithfully. Never put
water to such a grease spot, or liqui d o
any kind.
To PREVENT MILDEw ON PRESERVES.
Take the white of au egg and wet
slightly both sides of a piece of letter
paper sufficiently large to cover over the
top of the preserves snugly. / have
kept them free from mould and spelling
two years.
To CLEAN KID GLovEs.-A good way
to clean black kid gloves, says the
Scientific american, is to take a tea
spoonful of salad oil (sweet oiD, drop a
few drops of ink in it and rub it over
the gloves with the tip of feather; then
let them dry in the sun.
SALT ON STEAK.-It is much better to
broil or fry the steak without sailing,
adding the salt after the meat is on the
platter, as the salt draws the juice out of
the meat if put on before it is cooked,
thereby making it dry and indigestible.
In cooking steak the object is to keep in
the juice as much as possible, hence the
meat should be scared over as quickly as
possible on both sides, and frequently
turned while cooking over very hot
fire.
SoAP.-A young lady who makes all
the family soap give the following recipe
for good cheap article; Add to ten
quarts of water six pounds of quick lime
(shell lime is best) and six pounds of
common washing soda. Put altogether
and boil for half an hour, and let it stand
all night to clear. Draw off the lye and
add to it one pound of common resin and
seven pounds of fat (any fat will do).
Boil this for half an hour, and let it stand
till cool, and cut into bars.
Cheap Poultry House, and How to Use IL.
A house for fifty hens should be 16x24
feet inside. Set up 3x4 posts, eight
feet long, so as to inclose that space,
and outside of that another row, four
feet off. Nail boards, 1x4 inches,
around the outside and inside - one
board even with the top of the posts,
one six inches from the bottom, and one
in the middle. Let the posts be about
five feet apart. Nail common plastering
lath upright from the top strip down to
the bottom strip, and about six inches
apart. Lay for the roof 3x4 from post
to post across the room, not the crib
work sopport these by central pests,
and cover with long, straight willows,
laid quite close. The door and windows
mutt now be provided for. use three
hot-bed sashes on one end, and the light
is ample. The frame of the house is
now finished. Fill in the walls with
straw, old hay or any light material,
packed down tight; cover the whole
with straw or hay, stacked on, and you
have cheap, warm house.
Now if, in building this, it is made i'll
bents, it can be taken down read lily re-
moved to q new site. the old straw
thrown away and replaced with new in n
few hours, and you have new, clean
house. Every spring and fall, burn a
pound of birthstone i'll the house, and
vermin will be very scarce. Hoe out the
droppings once week, keep the floor
dry, remove the whole building once in
three years, and pip, Group, cholera and
all such will give place to robust health
and vigor. Never build palace for
poultry.
Hntching and Rearing Chickens.
think thirteen eggs is sufficient for
a large hen and fewer for small one l
never allow two hens to sit together, nor
even near each other, for they either
exchange nests or fight. I always place
the coops for the young chicks in sun
ny spot, where the rays of the sun will
be sure to reach them. / keep the hens,
with their broods, confined for several
days, for, if running at large, the chicks
are exposed to the morning dews, which
are very unwholesome for them. In q
day or two after the chicks are Matched,
I prepare mixture of meal and black
pepper with small quantity of soda
and some mustard, which I feed to them
twice week, and occasionally after they
are of frying size I find the mixture
beneficial. When the chicks are about
six weeks old, if the hen does not seem
inclined to wean them, / separate them
from her for o week and then they are
able to take care of themselves; but
give them little feed night and morn
ing. The chicks grow much faster after
being weaned than before. [ never
allow more than three hens to carry
broods at one time. I have given as
many as thirty chicks to one hen, and
never saw chicks grow faster or seem
more healthy than they were. This
plan I do not practice in early spring
but when the weather is warm l invari
ably do so, and discontinue it in the fall
for in cold weather the mother canno
warm so large brood properly. = Tran
sactions Georgia Grange.
A New York Herald man had rheuma
tism and in inst one-half an hour h,