The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-10-14
FARM AND
Dress with the weather no matter how
often you may change your clothing.

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Dress with the weather no matter how
often you may change your clothing.
Churnins.-In churning butter, if sinai
cranules of butter appear which do not
ssgather'' throw IN a lump of butter, and i,
will forma nucleus, n dthe butter will ''come.'
To prevent wooden bowls from cracking,
either pour sweet hot lard in them or inn
.merse i'm cold water, bring TO the boiling
point, boil IN hour or longer, then let the
water cool gradually, when the bowl may be
taken OUT.
To Relieve a bilious heada che.-Dissolve
and drink two teaspoonsfull of tnely
powdered charcoal in one half a tumbler of
water it will relieve in fifteen minutes.
Cooking eggs.-A teaspoonful of vinegar
put in the " alter will keep eggs from breaking
while being poached.
SCOT falling on the carpet from chimneys'
or from carelessly handled s~tove-pipes, it
covered thiekiy with salt, can be brushed up
without damage to the carpet.
Boiled salt mackerel.-Atter freshening,
wrap in a cloth and simmer for fifteen
minutes; remove; lay on two hard boiled
eggs, sliced, pour on it drawn butter, and
trim with parsley leaves. Boiling salt fish
hardens it.
To wash flannel.-Never rub soap upon it.
Make the suds by dissolving the soap in warm
water. Very cold or hot water will shrink
flannel. Shake it out several minutes before
hanging it to dry. Blankets can be washed
IN the same way.
When lemons are plenty procure "A quantity,
cut them into thin slices, and lay them on
plates to dry in the oven when dry, put them
into IA tight bag, or close vessel, in the store
room, where they are handy and agreeable
for almost anything.
All the starch in potatoes is found very
near the surface the heart contains but little
nutriment. Ignorance of this fact may form
a plausible excuse for those who cut off
thick parings, but none to those who know
better. Circulate the injunction, pare hin
the potato skin"
BY properly checking the growth of a
plant, you can increase the vigor of the leaves
and the size of the fruit. With this view,
gardeners pinch off certain sprouts in beans,
MELONS, cucumber vines, and similar yege-
tables. The entire art of pruning, SO far as it
has any real value or Importance. is based on
this principle.
Bone felon.-The London Lancet suggests
the following simple treatment: As soon as
the disease is felt, put directly over the spot
a fiy-blister, about the size of your thumb
nail, and let it remain for six hours, at the
expiration of which time, directly under the
surface of the blister, may be seen the felon,
which can instantly be taken out with the
point of a needle, or a lancet.
The most important point we wish to i'm
press upon the cattle raiser is that he cannot
afford under any circumstances, to neglect
his calves. One dollars worth of food, given
to a calf under six months old, which has
never been neglected. will produce more
growth than two dallar's worth after that age,
on calves that have been fed poorly when
young.-Iopa State Register.
Horses have an instructive love of soft
water, and refuse hard water, if they can
possibly get the former. Hard water pro-
duces a rough and staring coat on horses,
and renders them liable to gripes. Pigeons
also refuse hard water, ifthey can o~btain
to soft. Cleghorn states that herd water in
Minorca causes diseases in the sys-
tenn of certain animals, especially sheep. $50
much are race-horses influenced by the
quality of water, that il is not unfrequent to
carry a supply OFFS: water to the locality in
which the race is sJke place, least, there
being only hard W 49, he horses sho uld lose
condition..