The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-05-19

Strong brine may be used to advantage in
washing bedsteads. Hot alum water Is also
good for this purpose. Oil of lavender will
drive away heas.
The presence OF borers is known by the
sawdust they make. The only etfectual
method of reaching them is by probing with
q wire, cutting the tree with knife as little
as may be found necessary.
Drain pipes and all places that are sour or
impure may be cleansed with lime water,
copperas water or carbolic acid. Copperas
mixed with the whitewash put upon the
cellar walls will keep vermin away.
Hellebore sprlnkled on the floor at night
destroys cockroaches; they eat it and are
poisoned. Cayenne pepper blown into the
cracks where ants congregate will drive
them away. The same remedy is good also
for mice.
Curculio of the plum stings the fruit while
it is quite small. The trees should be Jared
in early morning, beginning when they are
Just passing out of flower, and the sluggish
beetles caught on sheet opened beneath the
tree for the purpose. Afterward those
caught on the sheet should be burned.
In preraung fruit for the market. provide
all the appliances of quick aud proper mar
keting before the fruit is ready. So much
depends upon the appearance of the fruit at
the market that neatness and care in 80 pack
ing il that it will show at its best will pay.
Caution should be given to the pickers that
no over ripe fruit be put into the basket or
crates. III the distance to market is consid
cradle, the fruit should be in less mature
state than when the market is but short
distance away. Watch the market.
There are at present more calls for the
names OF raisers of blood sheep than
for a long time. A short time ago, a gentle
ma Wfanad IN KnnU wtnra ha a0nld
chase several carloads of the best Merinos
mostly rams, for shipment to the South
west. Not only Is there revival as regards
the number of sheep to be raised, but q
strong tendency to grow only those OF the
best breeds. The boom in sheep-raising
as the slang of the day has it, is a healthy
one, aud one to be encouraged, moreover 1t
seems likely to last for an indefinite period
OF time.
PLANTING IN ORCHARDS There is q general
reluctance to give up the soil of the orchard
entirely to the trees. While the orchard is
young it is best to cultivate it thoroughly,
and hoed crops, like potatoes, roots, etc,
can be grown as q present pay for the
trouble, but as the trees get older and shade
the ground, nothing else but fruit should
be expected from the orchard. 1t is a good
practice to pasture hogs in the orchard in
clover sown for the purpose, as it is one of
the best methods OF enriching the soil and O.
the came time destroying the insects.
Other things being equal. that land which
is titled with the least expense. is the best
land. II Is the not the size of the crop that
determines the profit in farming, but the
excess of the income over the outgo. If it
costs more to keep a corn field perfectly
clear from weeds than the value of the in
crease OF the crop caused by that culture
amounts to, then, so far as the corn crop il
-a1 ~ t. L.. D,,S
the influence of the care bestowed on one
crop upon those that follow 1t must not be
overlooked. 1t may be the best system that
grows q certain crop at a loss in order to
raise succeeding ones at profit. The value
and cost of tillage, in a well established sys-
tenn, depends very largely on the time and
place that is done.
Household knowledge.
SPoNGE CAKE Fifteen eggs, one-fourtt
pound -four, one pound sugar.
RICE MUFFlEs One pint of rice, one.fourtt
pound OF butter, six eggs, one pint swee
milk, flour to make stiff batter.
EGG BREAD One quart of buttermilk
three eggs, three tablespoons -four, lump Of
butter size OF an egg, half teaspoon soda, corr
meal enough to make thin batter.
MUsTARD.-One cup Of vinegar, two table
spoons sugar, one tablespoon butter, hal
tablespoon celery seed. Mix we'll; let 1t com,
to good boil, then stir in two tablespoon
mustard.
To WASH LAVENDER ORGANDIE OR LACE
Put tablespoonful of sugar of lead into tn,
water. and let Ii soak an hour before wash
ing Ii. Wash carefully, and hang 1t in thu
shade to dry.
| To CLEAN BLACK CHIP HAT.--A blaci
chip hat may be renovated thus: Add to on,
pint of cold wster q teaspoonful Of spirit