The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-03-06
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

-LlnSeed Oil for cracked hands is
far better than any sticking salve. APP
ply the oil as convenient; it will make
the hands white and soft as silk; it is
good for farmers girls to use, to re-
move tan and callouses, and keeps their
hands white and soft while helping ma
every day, outdoors and in, sleeves up
or down.-EIcha1qe.
"A correspondent of the Chicago
Tribune states that the hundreds of
farmers who, during the flush times, a
few years since, rented or sold their
farms and moved into the city, are
now returning to the country, many of
them sadder and wiser men. Their
sons and daughters have, no doubt,
during their brief stay in town had bet
ter opportunities for obtaining pol
ished education, butnot one that will be
useful in getting living upon farm.
The number of square feet in an
acre is 43,56O. In order to have this
area the piece of land must be of such
a length and breadth that the two null
tiplied together will produce the above
number. Thus, an acre of land might
be $1,000 feet long by one foot broad;
81, $50 feet long by two feet broad;
14,52O by three feet broad, and
SO on. If the acre of land is to be ex-
actly square, each side must be asnear-
ly as possible 2O8 feet 81 inches. The
nearest you can come to an exactly
square acre with an even number of
feet in the side, is to make it 22O feet
long by 1913 broad.
.-Labor-Saving Soap.-To two bars
OF common hard soap, or two quarts
of lye soap (made of wood ashes),
take two gallons of rain water, two
and one-haf pounds of sal soda, and
one-half pound of rosin; pulverize the
rOsin and dissolve it in the water, with
gentle heat, then put in the soda, and
when it is dissolved, add the soap;
slice up the bars, as it will dissolve
sooner; simmer for half an hour, and
be careful not to let it boil too fast, as
it will run over everything, and cold
water only makes it worse. This is
the best soap ever used to take out
stains; always scald tablecloths in boil
ing water before putting them in the
wash, then use this soap and you will
not fail to have the pride of q good
housekeeper, white Clothes Exchange.
"A successful New York market
gardener states that he uses cotton
cloth, at cost of one-eighth that of
glass, for more than three-fourths of
his hot beds, and, although not so
good for the earliest beds, it is pre-
ferred for all later ones. 1t is prepared
by making the cloth covers a few
inches wider and longer than the
frame, hemmed and provided with
small curtain rings fifteen inches apart
around the border, stoutly sewed on;
and by hooking over nails the cloth is
drawn air-tight over the frame. One
quart of linseed oil, one ounce of pull
verified sugar of lead and four ounces
of pulverized rosin, are heated, dis
solved and thoroughly mixed in an
iron kettle, and one coat applied while
hot to the upper side of the cloth. This
renders it tight and nearly transparent.
An Eastern lady gives the follow
ing recipe for Boston baked beans:
"We pick, wash and put to soak any
kind Of beans we have on hand, early
on Saturday morning. When the bak-
ing of the forenoon is getting nearly
finished we bring the beans to boil, in
a good deal of water, allowing them to
boil gently, until, by lifting some OF
the beans upon a skinner and blow
ing upon them, the skin cracks. Then
skim them into bean pot made for
baking beans in, put in a small table
spoonful of molasses and pinch OF
salt, and, to pint dipperful Of beans
before soaking, piece Of salt pork
about four inches square. Then fill up
with cold water, cover up and bake in
a hot oven until evening. Let them
remain in the oven over night and be
brought to proper degree of holiness
next morning for breakfast. Care
should be taken that the water does
not boil out while baking. BY this
Method the beans will come from the
oven to the table soft, rich, delicious -
in that wonderful state some writer
speaks of as being just where each bean
maintains its own individuality, but
upon the very point of being united tc
its neighbor.