The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-12-23
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

To CLEAN hair brushes, nothing is
more thoroughly satisfactory than
teaspoonful of liquid ammonia in about
a quart of water, either hot or cold.
Move the brush about in the water
few minutes, and dry quickly.
THE best floor for an ice-house, says
an exchange, is one of boards or plank
laid upon sleepers bedded in gravel. A
gravel or sand foundation is the best,
and the floor should be laid so that no
air can gain access beneath it from
without. There should also be pro-
vided a drain so constructed that the
water from the melted ice can escape
into the ground, but which will net ad-
NIT air to the ice.
IT is not generally known that cut
straw makes a most excellent stutiing
for beds used by children and infants.
Make case of soft tick, obtain some
well-dried straw, cut in chatf-cutter.
fill the case moderately full. 1t makes
an astonishingly comfortable bed, Is
very warm, and much more healthy Tor
infants than feather bed. The idea
is a good one, and the straw beds are
worth the attention of mothers.
THE cobs of Indian corn contain
large amount of potash. Its ashes con-
tain twice the amount of that mineral
| than the ashes of the willow, which
contains more than any other wood.
Potash is one of the minerals for which
the farmer pays, in one shape or anoth-
er, large sums of money; and this fire.
quently when there can be seen lying
| around his premises uneconomized
quantities of this valuable material.
Potato DUCHEssE. - Take half a
dozen potatoes, boil them, pass them
through a sieve, and work into them in a
bowl one gill of cream and the yelks of
| three eggs; add pepper, salt and nutmeg
to taste, and some parsley finely chopped.
| When they are well mixed and smooth
take them up by tablespoonfuls,r roll each
in ball, fiatten it and flour it slightly.
Lay them all in sauce pan with plenty
of butter melted, and cook them slowly.
Turn them over when one side is done,
and serve hot as soon as both sides are
colored.
CoD-FIsH BALI.s.-Cut the cod into
| pieces, soak in luke-warm water for an
hour or longer. Remove the bones and
skin, shred put over the fire in cold
water. AS soon as the water begins to
bubble turn off and pour over cold
water. AS soon as it is hot it is done.
While the fish is cooking make ready
some mashed potatoes. Allow as much
again potato as fish and mix together
while both are hot-thls last is par
tlcular. 1t does not make any differ
ence if the balls are cold when fried,
but they must be hot when the ingre-
dients are put together,
ssHnL-ToP," an observing farmer OF
the Connecticut valley, tells the Boston
CtllttUatOr how he and his father have
for fifty years, always thinned theirpota.
to vines at hoeing time to two stocks in
the hill, with an increase of large,
handsome potatoes. Six or seven pei
cent. all told, of second-rate potatoes
is mentioned as an ordinary proportion,
under this treatment. OF course, the
large, strong vines would be saved
and this looks like genuine bit Of
potato science. coming into print in 6
time of scarcity.
A CORRESPONDENT of the PouItrs
Monthly says that poultry need clear
house well ventilated, but warm il
) winter; roosts kept free from lice by
using coal oil on them once a week; {
varied diet, not all corn, but wheat
buckwheat, boiled potatoes, meat, thicF
milk, etc.; charcoal pounded fine anc
mixed in soft feed occasionally is eX
cellent and cheap; it produces health /
the birds are out sorts or securing; 1t il
also good in small pieces kept in thei
runs; parched corn or wheat is alst
good for q change. Look after th'
poultry personally, and not trust all t.
the boy or man who, in most cases
cares not or has no interest in them