Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-08-29

A few drops of carbolic acid in n pint Of
water will clean house plants Of lice in very
short time.
Dishes placed on a pie-plant leaf are pro-
tected from ants The leaves should be re-
placed every morning.
A few dried or preserved cherries. with the
stones out, are the very best things possible
to garnish sweet dishes.
In picking beans, boil the beans until half
done for table use. Pack in small jars, and
cover with sailed vinegar.
A small quantity of nitrate of soda put into
the water every time it is changed will pre-
serve cut flowers for more than a fortnight.
When writing has faded, if the paper is
moistened with water and then brushed over
with solution of lphhydric-ammonia 1t
will be restored This article can be obtain
ed of any druggist.
Sweet milk rubbed on the surface of any
pastry, before baking, such as biscuit, gems
short-cakes, or even pastry for fruit pies, will
make them brown nicely and give them a
flaky appearance.
The Troy Times says "a farmer who
has had ten years experience i'll Colorado
claims to have found sure remedy for the
potato bug scourge His plan is simply to
plant one or two fax seeds III each hill of po-
tatoes.
If rats enter the cellar, n little powdered
potash thrown into their holes, or mixed with
meal and scattered i'll their runways never
fails to drive them away. Rats dislike cam
phor, and a few pieces Of green canlphor,
placed near their haunts, will often cause
them to leave.
The United States have 10000 Touring
mills affording employment to more than GO,
600 persons. Their annual product of flour
is more than 20, 600, 600 barrels, some of the
large mills producing 1000 barrels a day. Of
the above amount we send abroad 40, 600, O0O
barrels, besides the large amount of wheat
exported in bulk This is sent chiefly from
California.
Glover fields will be benefited by the ap-
plication of bushel on two of plaster. There
is no better place on the farm to put wood
ashes than on clover. Circumstances are
tending to make clover a more important crop
than we have regarded it as a preparation for
wheat and for green feeding. For this use
some of the annual varieties may be sown.
An observant farmer says he will not allow
partridges to be killed on his place Hc
states that recent investigations made 10y him
prove conclusively that they are the best pro.
lection the wheat crop could have. In the
craw of one he found over a hundred bugs of
the most destructive kind to the wheat crop.
His crop is excellent, while those of his neigh
bors have been ruined 10y bugs,
An Iowa law RENTS certain percentage OF
taxes for five years on every acre of fruit and
for ten years on every acre of forest trees
planted within the State and kept alive. Tn
der this stimulus more than ~, 900 acres Of
forest trees have been planted, and there has
been a remission of State and county taxes tc
| the amount of about 5000, 600.
OF all domestic fowls, the goose is Longest
! lived. One died "A few days ago near Balt
more that was Matched in 1924, on the day
that Lafayette visited that city, and during
the fifty-three years Of its life its owner nov
living at an advanced age, believes that sh,
has realized from feathers md goslngs be
tween $500 and 5000 Although this speci
men was not the fowl that laid the colder
| egg, she produced for her owner pecuniary
reward nearly equal to her weight in gold
A novelty in house decoration is to lay
| pieces of plate glass flint on the floor, and Il
border these mirrors with flowers; the effect
is that of silver lake, which reflects the
| flowers and the palm trees, which stand il hug
| boxes here and there in the halls and CORR
| doris. Upon the branches of these trees, oil
hanging from them, mounted on invisible
wire there are small birds with brilliant plum
| age, and beetles of green and gold baskets
are suspended from the ceiling, and the etfec
| of the whole is like dream of fairyland.
Many good farmers have for years past con
sidered sweet corn fodder to be worth more
| than that from field corn The large quaint
| ty of sugar contained in sweet corn makes il
highly nutritious food, sugar being AS mucl
a nutriment as starch-indeed it is strongl!
believed by some psychologists that thu
starch of the food is changed in great part t.
sugar during digestion. But it will be fount
in.practice that the most valuable fodder il
grown so widely apart that the juices of thu
stalks are matured, and the ears are consid
erably deve Hoped before the crop is cut