Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-08-22
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A good way to test the purity of milk
Dip a we'll polished knitting needle into
the fluid if the milk is pure some oft
will adhere to the needle, but if waite
has been added it will not, y,
1t is estimated that there is invested in
the dairy industry in this country, totaI
capital of 81 ,45O, 100000. Of that amount
$3.50, 100000 is in cows, 100000, 900 in
land needed for their support, and 800,
100000, in teams, dairy implements
etc.
1. Cutters cement, for fastening the
blades Of dinner knives in their ivory
handles, consists of resin. four parts
beeswax, one part; brick, dust. one part.
Fill the hole in tho handles with the &c.
mont, heat the tang OF the blade, and
press in. T..
Slices of Juicy lemon arc used with
brisk rubbing by the Indian jewellers
tor cleaning silver. The article is then
covered with the slices for few hours,
swilled in water, stirred in hot soapsuds,
and brushed; washed and dried; no waste
of silver results from this treatment.
The practice of pressing on the edge Of
a razor in stropping soon rounds it, the
pressure should be directed to the back
which should never be raised from the
strop. Ifyou shave from heel to point of
the razor, strop it from point to heel, but
if you begin with the point in shaving,
then strop it from heel to point.
Dingy dresses can be bleached and
made into something seryiceable and
pretty. Let them be washed and boiled in
hot suds until all the color possible is ex
tracted, then finish the job by sca]ding in
lye and washing in suds and laying out
on the first young grass. Good prints
| and other articles of dress are frequently
cast aside becadse they are faded, but
| they may be made to render good service
by this mode of bleaching.
To clean off the ugly scratches left on
paint by lighting matches upon it, cut a
sour orange or lemon IN half; apply the
cut half to the marks, rubbing for, mo-
ment quite hard; then wash them off with
a clean rag, dipped first in water to mois-
ten it, and then in whitening. Rub we'll
with this rag, dry thoroughly, and nine
times out of ten the ugly marks will van.
ish. Of course, sometimes they are
burned in so deeply that they cannot be
eradicated.
1vMake Good Jefss:-French cooks afe
famous for the excellence Ct their coffee,
which they make so strong that one part
Of the liquor requires the addition of two
parts to reduce it to the proper strength
This addition is made with hot milk
The large proportion of hot milk, in the
place of so much warm water, gives the
coffee a richness like that made by the
addition of cream in the ordinary way
By this means any housekeeper DESTROYS
of making good coffee can have it with.
out cream. :
Every piece of horse radish grows; il
we take piece of root about an inch in
length; about the size of large bean, and
put it an inch below the surface of the
prepared ground, a short piece will come
to the surface and form crown, and an
other portion will descend and probably
work to form a root; but instead of that,
if we make a hole foot or so deep in the
ground with a dibble and let the little
pieces of root drop to the bottom, clear
straight sprout will come up to the sur
face and this will in time make as cleal
and thrifty market piece as could bt
desired. "
It faay be better to cut hay for mixins
with grain when feeding the latter t.
COWS or other stock, but we doubt yer,
much whether it will be enough better t.
pay for the extra work; Good blove
rowe. is about as good food as it can b.
without cutting. Our own practice is t.
moisten the meal and shorts and feed j
in tubs or boxes. If the managers arr
tight and can be kept perfectly clean
there should be no objection to feeding
meal dry. A few men claim that mea
is always better digested if fed with GU
hay than when fed alone; but every ont
must have notised that, however the inca
is fed, it always makes the animal lool
better. The main point with them is K
get it--ho# it is si3eh il Of thinor ith
pottance.-Ne,o England Farmer.
Migture for Skeletonizing Leabes.-
-Four ounces common washing soda dis
solved in one quart Of boiling water; ado
two ounces Stacked quick-lime; boil IF
teen minutes; cool solution and pour of
clear liquid into a saucepan. Put ove1
the fire, and, when at boiling point, pu
in leaves and boil for an hour; add boil
ing water occasionally to replace the LOST
by evaporation. When the leaves are re.
moved, If the cellu]ar tissue does not rut
off in cold water; boil again Wheh skel
etons are exposed they are not white. *
bleach them, put them in weak solution
of chloride of lime-ooe large table
spoonful of chloride of lime to one quar-
water, and few drops Of vinegar; lei
leaves remain, in bleaching fifteen min
utes; if leaves remain in the bleaching
mixture too long they become brittle
A soft tooth brush is better to clear skele
tons with rather'than the finger. Gather
specimens Of matured leaves in July t.
September, never in damp weather. DR.,
specimens in white blotting paper, unde
gentle pressure.