The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1878-08-22

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she hath done what she could" short her
life's little day.
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pray.
User.l Information.
A good way to test the purity Of milk:
Dip we'll polished knitting needle into
the fluid; if the milk is pure some oft
will adhere to the needle, but if water
has been added it will not.
It is estimated that there is invested in
the dairy industry in this country. a tota:
capital of 1,450, 000O 900. Of that amount
$45O, 00O,0O0 i, in cows, 5000, O0O. 900 in
land needed for their support. and 800.
100000, in teams, dairy implements
etc.
Cutters cement, Tor fastening the
blades OF dinner knives in :heir ivory
handles, consists of resin, four parts;
beeswax, one part; brick dust, one part.
Fill the hole in the handles with the c.
mont, heat the tang of the blade, and
press in.
Slices OF q iuicy lemon are used with
brlsk rubbing by the Indian jewellers
tor cleaning silver. The article is then
covered with the slices tor 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 stroppiDg 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
it you begin with the point in shaving.
then strop it from heel to point.
Dingy dresses can be bleached and
made into something serviceable 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 because they are faded, but
they may be made to render good service
10y 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 halt; apply the
cut half to the marks, rubbing for mo.
ment quite hard; then wash them off with
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.
To Make Good Cof%.-French cooks are
famous for the excellence ef their coffee.
which they make so strong that one part
OF the liquor requires the addition of two
parts to reduce 1t to the proper strength.
This addition is made with not milk.
The large proportion of hot milk, in the
place of so much warm water, gives the
coffee a richness like that made bv the
addition of cream in the ordinary way.
BY this means any housekceper DESTROYS
of making good coffee can have it with
out cream.
Every piece of horse radish grows; if
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, short piece will come
to the surface and form crown, and an
other portion will descend and probably
work to form root; but instead of that,
if we make hole foot or so deep in the
ground with dibble and let the little
pieces of root drop to the bottom, a clean
straight sprout will come up to the sur
face and this will in time make as clean
and thrifty market piece as could be
desired.
1t may be better to cut hay for mixinS
with grain when feeding the latter to
cows or other stock, but we doubt very
much whether it will be enough better to
pay for the extra work. Good clover
rowen is about as good food as it can be
without cutting. Our own practice is to
moisten the meal and shorts and feed it
in tubs or boxes. If the managers are
tight and can he kept perfectly clean,
there should be no objection to feeding
meal dry. A few men claim that meal
is always better digested if fed with cut
hay than when fed alone; but every one
must have noticed that, however the meal
is fed, it always makes the animal look
better. The main point with them is to
get it-how it is given is of minor inn
portance.-Neo England Farmer.
Nieture for Sketetonizing Leaues.--
Four ounces common washing soda dis
solved in one quart of Boiling water: add
two ounces Stacked quick-lime; boil fit
teen minutes; cool solution and pour of
clear liquid into saucepan. Put over
the fire, and, when at boiling point, put
in leaves and boil for an hour; add b ill
ing water occasionally to replace the loss
by evaporation. When the leaves are re-
moved, if the cellular tissue does not rub
off IN cold water, boil agsin When skel-
etons are exposed they are not white. To
bleach them, put them in weak solution.
of chloride Of lilne-onc large table,
spoonful of chloride of lime to one quart
water, and few drops Of vinegar; let
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 to