The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-01-29
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Farm Notes.

DarR StaOleS are injurious 10 Jne eyes
of horses.
No other animals should be tolerated
in a yard with sheep, for 1t will only re-
suit in vexation and loss.
A bag of hops as large as the two fists,
placed in bin or store of grain, will, it
is said, kill or eradicate all grubs and in
sects from the grain. The dead ones can
be removed by tanning.
Shelter is one of the first objects in
wintering sheep successfully. Farmers
often condemn barns and sheds as un-
healthy places for sheep, when it is a
want OF ventilation that does the injury.
Milk paint for fences or barns is made
by mixing water lime with skim milk
to a proper consistency to apply with
brush. 1t will adhere well to wood
whether smooth or rough, to brick, NOR
tar or stone, where oil has been previ-
ously used.
that wheat was being picked from the
seeds of standing grain, and seeing at the
same time flocks of yellow birds flying
about, shot some OF them. On opening
their crops he found only three grains of
wheat, and by actual count $50 weevils,
Particular care should be used in
cleaning milk pans and cans. Many
cases are on record of diseases in fami-
lies from using milk infected with nox-
ious germs from foul milk cans. Milk
men upon again receiving the cans
should cleanse them with boiling II o
water.
Cattle like change of diet OCCASION
ally, as men do. Keeping cattle on hay
or straw alone is a little like living on
bread or potatoes, or meat alone, with
nothing except that one dish. Therefore
feed some roots, as well as hay and meal
or shorts. If you haven't the roots on
hand, be sure and have n supply next
winter.
Cabbage has superior value for feed
ing purposes. English cattle feeders as
sert that their beasts progress faster on
cabbage, mixed with plenty of fine-cut
wheat straw and cotton cake, than with
one part flesh forming substance to three
OF heat producing, while in potatoes, the
hesh-forming is only one to twenty.
Cabbage is also rich in mineral matter
How to Sweep Room.
To sweep and dust room properly is
an art, and like all fine arts has a right
method. Well done it renovates the
entire room, and the occupant takes
possession feeling that ''all things have
become new" 1t is not merely a per-
formance to be done by the hands, but a
work into which taste and judgment, in
other words, brains, must enter. Are
these closets opening into the room to
be swept? Arrange the shelves, draw
ers OF clothing preparatory to sweeping
day; then let this be the first to be
swept. Cover the bed with soiled
sheets, as also all heavy articles that
cannot be removed; first, however,
having carefully busted and brushed
them. Remove all the furniture that
can easily be set in hall or adjoining
room, having first busted it; then, TAX
ing step ladder, begin to sweep or
brush or wipe the cornice and picture
cords and pictures. Draw the shades
TO the top of the window or, if there arc
inside blinds, dust them carefully.
Open the windows. All the dust left in
the room now is in the carpet or air, and
the current of the windows will soon
settle it.
Now begin to sweep, not toward II
door or corner, but from the outer
dges of the room toward the cent er,
where the dust will be taken up with
small brush and dust-pa Go over the
room once more-this time with a
dampened broom; that removes the
last bit of dust and gives the carpet
new, bright appearance. Replace the
articles of furniture as soon as the air is
entirely free from dust, uncover the rest
and the room is new and clean. All
this seems an easy thing to do, but there
is not one in hundred will follow out the
details. Some will sweep the dust into
the hall, or from one room to another,
and then wonder why their house is so
soon dusty again. Others forget cor
nice and pictures, and thus leave seed
of future annoyance; while third class
will do all but using the damp broom,
which is as the finishing touches to a
picture. Chicago Alliance.
Household Hints.
Soft soap should be kept in dry
place in a cellar, and shou d not be used
for three months after it is made.
A French chemist asserts that if tea
be ground like coffee Immediately be-
fore hot water is poured upon it, it will
yield nearly double the amount of its
exhilarating qualities.
To preserve the aroma of coffee,
add the white of one egg to every pound
OF coffee just before it is quite cold. Stir
it thoroughly into the mass, so that
every berry will be wet with it.
To clean lamp chimneys, hold them
over the nose OF the teakettle when the
kettle is boiling furiously. One or two
'repetitions of this process will make
them beautifully clear. OF course they
must be wiped upon clean cloth.
Table cloths should be but slightly
starched, and folded lengthwise, after
ironing quite dry on the right side, first
down the middle, then putting each sell
wage edge to the center, pressing them
down on the right side; next placing
the two double parts, thus folded, to-
gether, and then doubling the other way
in the same manner.
To wash black and white cotton
dress, have a tub partly filled with hot
water, add one large tablespoonful of
powdered boraX; wet only one part of
the dress at time, the basque first; use
very little soap, and only on the most
soiled places; wash quickly, rinse in
warm water containing a tablespoonful
of table salt; starch on the wrong side,
wiring very dry. shake out well, hang
where it will dry quickly; next wash
the overskirt and then the under-skirt
in the same way.
Health Hints.
Glycerine is excellent to rub on chafes
burns or chapped hands or sun scalds.
Olive or sweet oil mixed with warm
milk and water, and drank plentiful un-
til it acts as an emetic, is an antidote to
poisons in general
Laos of Life says simple remedies are
frequently the best for headache. A