The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-30
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.
CLEAN up the premises about the
buildings. 1t is no honor or credit to
have the yards Uttered up with old
sleds, wagons, broken farming tools,
etc.. with thistles, brambles, burdocks
and briers growing up among them.
PARsNIPs contain almost twice as
much dry matter or real food as tur-
nips, and this of a superior quality.
Carrots, again, contain about as much
dry substance as mangolds, but are
richer in sugar and of better feeding
quality.
Mr.. HOFFMAN AYERS: Take two pO-
tatOes exactly alike, cut one and place
the pieces near q warm stove for few
days; cut the other at planting and
plant at the same time, and the dried
pieces will be sure to come up before
the others, and the growth from them
will be stronger.
Fowls, as well as animals and hui
man beings, love occasionally to have
condiments with their food. Cayenne
pepper, mustard, or ginger, increases
the vigor and egg production of fowls.
This apparently artificial diet is needed
to supply that which birds get in their
wild state-spiced berries, buds, etc.
It is these that give wild fowl their pc
culiar "game flavor"
MR.. MILTON BRIGGS bears this strong
testimony in favor of pure water: s. The
most prolific source of disease among
mankind, and especially among do
nestle animals, is doubtless bad water.
l have noticed on different farms, espe-
cially on the Western prairie, where
surface water in stagnant, filthy pools
and dirty wells was the only water
provided, and on the same farm at the
same time noticed typhoid fever among
the people in the house, with the So
called cholera among the swine and
black leg among the cattle, all induced
the by same cause"
EVERY family, says the Germantown
Telegraph, should have its little patch
of "herbs." They are easily gotten
up; some of them are perennial, and
require replanting only once in several
years. The seed can all be found at
our agricultural and horticultural
stores. The list is as follows: Sweet
marjoram, marigold, thyme, winter
and summer savory, sage, coriander,
aniseed, rosemary. lavender, sweet
basil, caraway, fennel. Thyme, winter
savory, fennel, lavender and sage are
perennial; the others require the seed
to be sown annually.
A GOOD way to keep butter cool with
out ice is to set the dish containing it
into an extra large tlower-pot saucer
containing water-Or any other similar
dish will do. Then invert over it a
large porous earthen flower pot that
has never been used for plants, letting
the rim rest in the water, and corking
up the hole in the bottom. Set in as
cool place as convenient, in current
of air if possible, and dash water oc-
casionally over the outside of the pot.
The evaporation of the water will keep
the butter cool and firm. This is SUBJ
stantially the plan adopted in India
and other warm climates.
A CLEAN FLOOR.-The other day
went to see my friend, Mrs. Cook. She
had just finished hopping her kitchen
floor. noticed it looked very nice,
and asked how she kept it SO well.
why" she said, "don't you know 1
oil it about every six months? That is
what makes it so easy to keep clean. "
"Oilr' l said, how do you do that?"
So then she told me as follows: Il
take a quantity of the cheapest and
least offensive oil Qinsecd) l can Sc
cure. and apply smoothly, SO that it
will strike equally all over, and yet not
stand in spots on the surface. do
this at night, after the evenings work
is done, and fix the place ready for use
again next morning. Of course, it
would not injure the oiled surface it.
self to track upon it at once, but
grease is liable to be tracked from it,
at first, to adjacent parts of the house.
A new coat Of oil applied once in six
months, or even once year, some
times is sufficient to keep floor in
perfect order. One may in this way
prepare to great advantage the floor of
kitchens, pantries, summer dining
rooms, porticoes, closets, bathrooms
and labOrers' bedrooms" Household.