The daily gazette., 1879-09-12
USEFUL AND PRACTICAL HINTS.

USEFUL AND PRACTICAL HINTS.
Fish may be scaled much easier by
dipping into boiling water abou' MIN
ute. ++ttr fsaq
Cool rain water and soda will remove
machine grease from washable fabrics.
Ripe tomatoes will remove ink and
other stsins from white cloth; also from
the hands. ..i.....r
A teaspoonful of turpentine boiled
with your white clothes will AID the
whitening process.
Fresh meat, after beginning to sour
will sweoten II placed out Of doors In the
cool over night. r7-t --.
Kerosene will soften boots ard shoes
which have been hardened by water and
render them a. pliable as ever. .
Milk that Is turned or changed may be
sweetehed and rendered fit for use again
BY stirring In little sods. n'
Boiled starch Is improved by the ad-
dition OF little sperm, or little salt, or
both, or little gum arabic dissolved.
Salt will curLle new milk; hence In
preparing milk porridEe, gfavies, etc..
tue salt should not be added until the
dish Is prepared.
Clear boiling water will remove tea
stains and many fruit stains. Pour the
water through the stat and thus prevent
its spread over the fabric.
Harvesting machinery should be
cleaned ana stored away. The bright
p arts may be kept from rusting by coat
ing them with paraffi ne or tallow.
| Kerosene will make the kettle bright
as new. Saturate wooden rag aud rub
with 1t. 1t will also remove STAINS from
the clean vanished furniture.
Blue ointment and kerosene mixed IL
equal proportions, and applied to bed
steads, il AN unfailing bed-bug remedy
and coat Of wbite-wash Is ditto for the
walls Of q Lighthouse.
A Baltimore druggist attributes tn.
great prevalence of Bright's disease II
this country, to the immoderate use o.
Iced drinks. Before Ice cream came int
regular household use, hs asserts tina
the malady was scarcely known.
From maize, it is ascertained that 81,
per pound. More sugar Can be made
from Indian corn than from sugar beet
or sugar cane, and can be m .de as cas-,
as from sorghum.
Buckwheat, being easily injured
should be cut after the first light frost
Low grounds should b. cleared fir.t
upon high ground the crop will not b
touched BY light frost, and here 1t ma
be soft,,lat.r. The gram shells 80 easil
that II should BE- harvested early in th
N orning, when moist with dew. Afte
lying few days to cure it should b
4 raked up when 1t Ii moist.
Smut is poisonous, or at least very in
furious, and care should be taken to prs
ventst from being eaten with fodder.
Is becoming very common in corn. !
might be we'll to pass through the corr
fields with sharp knife aud Q basket
and cut off all the punches of smut an
smutty ears, and carry them out wher
: they may be burned. As one squar
, inch OF surface may contain LOU, 90
spores VI smut, aud every spore capabI
of producing smutty plant, 1t Is impor
ait to destroy every ball Of smut.
To destroy the pear slug, which fortt
nately feeds on the upper side Of tn
leaf, air.slaked lime, or lime CAREFUL
: slaked with lust enough waler to cause
, ed rs the most effective application
Next to this comes wood ashes.
The Rural New Yorker says that to
, acres Of good clover are worth NOR
than SO much wheat, II the value of whs
is left in the ground by the clover is t,
ken into account. When q crop
wheat is taken, the ground is exhauste
of SO much of its fertility, and IL carrie
: away III the wheat; but when crop I
clever Is taken, the soil IL actually
better condition than before, and is goo
d enough to yield a crop Of wheat or cor
b In shocking corn the use of 60,
# bands will save much labor and To-
Some sheSves of handkerchief r,
:, straw, thoroughly we'll wetted, will mai
tough and strong bands. What 10 mu'
vented Is permanent and strong shes
9 band tor this purpose, which will Ia
more than one season, and will serve 4
+ corn and other grain. Osier. willows m,
IT lie pruHta5l grown for sheaf bands.