Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-01-03
ADVERTISING RATES
Farm AND PRESIDE.

SertlOn.
FARM AND FIRBsIDE.
HOUSEHOLD HlNTs.-A tablespoonful
of turpentine should be boiled With white
clothes.
A little sperm, or salt, or gum arabic,
should be put in boiled starched.
Beeswax and salt will make rusty flat
irons as smooth as glass.
Blue ointment and kerosene in equal
parts is death to bed bugs.
Kerosene will make teakettles bright as
| new.
Cool rain water and soda will remove
machine grease from washable goods.
Fish may be scaled much easierif dipped
| In boiling water for minute.
Salt fish are quickest and best freshened
| by soaking in sour milk.
In gravies and milk porri1ge the salt
should not be added until the dish is pre-
pared.
Ripe tomatoes will remove ink and other
stains from white cloth.
Finely rubbed bichromate of potassa
mixed with twice its bulk of sulphuric
acid and an equal quantity of water will
clean the dirtiest brass very quickly.
The jelly bag should be made of flannel,
ten inches across the opening and about
half yard deep. 1t can be suspended by
strings between two chairs.
A METHOD OF COOKING OLD Fowls
NOT FIT FOR ROAsTING.-Let the birds
be kept as long as possible hung up where
there is free circulation OF air; and,
when picked and prepared for dressing,
cover the bottom Of a saucepan with slices
of good fresh English bacon, upon which
lay the bird, then add pint of good,
strong, wellseasoned gravy; place the
saucepan upon slow fire, the cover being
on, and let the contents simmer for an
hour and half or tive hours, turning the
bird occasionally and supplying more gra.
Wy, If necessary; when done let the con
tents be put away in dish ocool. Birds
dressed in this manner are good hot, but
they are far better cold. For preparing
poultry for the table M. Soyer invented
plan, by cutting the sinews of bird, it
not only appears plumper and fuller when
cooked, as the heat is liable to contract
the sinews, but it vlso affords facilities for
carving when the sinews are divided; they
are trussed in the usual way, only using
strings instead of skewers.
How TO MAKE Cows GIVE M1LK.-A
writer in the Southern Farmer says that
his cow gives all the milk that is wanted
in family of eight, and that from it, after
taking all that is required for other pur-
poses. 260 pounds of butter were made this
year. This is in part his treatment of the
COW: If you desire to get large yield of
milk, give your csw every day water slight
ly warm and slightly sailed, in which bran
has been stirred at the rate Of one quart to
two gallons Of water. You will find, if
you have not tried this daily practice, that
your COW will give twenty-five per cent.
more milk Immediately under the effect of
it. and she will become so attached to the
diet as to refuse to drink clear water I'm.
less very thirsty. But this mess she will
drink almost any time, and ask for more.
The amount Of this drink necessary is an
ordinary water pailful at time, morning,
noon and night,
RESTORING COLORs INJURED BY.ACID
STArNs.-1 noticed in your last request
for some means of restoring color to gray
linen that has been injured by lemon juice.
1 have always used for all materials in
which the color has seemed to be destroy
ed. solution of common baking soda with
cold water, merely dipping the finger in
the solution and touching the spots often
enough to dampen them thoroughly. In
the case OF worsted goods, rub off with
damp cloth, repeating the experiment till
there Is satisfactory result. In the case
of cotton or linen, apply and dry, then
wash and iron. and the color will be restor-
ed so nearly as nearly as not to attract
ticed.-Letter to Househeeper.
SOFT GINGER BREAD.-One cup of but
ter, one cup of molasses, one cup of sugar,
one cup of sour or buttermilk, half pound
OF raisins seeded and cut, one teaspoonful
of soda dissolved in boiling water, tea.
spoonful OF cinnamon, two eggs, nearly
I'VE cups OF sifted flour, enough for tolera-
Die thick batter. Cream, butter, sugar,
molasses and spice, set the mixture on the
range until lnkewarm; add the milk, then
the beaten eggs. the soda, and at last the
Hour. Beat hard for five minutes; put in
the fruit dredged with -four, beat three
minutes, and bake in small round tins.
Eat warm all that is needed for dessert.
The rest will keep well. The ginger bread
Is uncommonly fine.
A USEFUL CEMENT.-For sto piping
holes In castings, or for covering scars, a
useful cement may, it is said, be made of
equal parts OF gum arabic, plaster of Paris
and iron filings, and if little finely pull
verified white glass be added to che MIX
ture it will make it still harder. This mix
ture forms very hard cement that will
resist the action of fire and water. 1t
should be kept in its dry state, and mixed
with a little water when wanted for use.
CAFE AU LAIT.-Two cups strong made
coffee. fresh and hot; two cups of boiling
milk. Stralu the coffee from the boiler
into the table coffee pot, through thin
muslin. Add the boiling milk and set in
. vessel Of hot water, or "cezey,' with a