The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-05-27
FOR THE FARMERS HOUSEHOLD.
Dairy Dots.

'hiOuBh thO "lnOoI WIN BIhlus
For a "town COW" it pays to keep only
the very best breeds. Then feed we'll,
and the results are very gratifying.
To prevent absorption in cow give a
tablespoonful twice a week OF a mixture
OF equal parts Of plaster, ashes and salt.
The milk of a Jersey COW, fed on
clover hay, with a portion OF shorts and
apeck OF carrots each day, makes a beau.
tiful yellow butter.
Young COWS should not be taught to
eat at milking time, as it will not always
be found convenient to supply food,
and they will be restless without IL
when accustomed TO it.
Domestic Aids.
Mornings milk is richer than that OF
evening.
Wood ashes form a good lye for soft
ening water.
Apple pips impart a fine favor to tarts
and dumplings.
Green bay leaves allay the inAamma-
ton Of bee stings.
Bricks covered with wool goods serve
to keep open doors.
Biscuits broken, and the crumbs are
good for puddings.
Soap suds and soapy water supply the
manure for garden soils.
Sage leaves in small quantity make
an excellent addition to tea.
Old clothes should be saved, TO weave
into door and floor mats.
All linen pieces should be saved, and
kept for domestic purposes.
Kettles and stew pans should be
washed outside az well as inside.
An oyster she'll put into q teakettle
will prevent its becoming furred.
Gold green tea, well sweatened and
put into saucers, will destroy flies.
Lemon juice will alIay the irritation
caused by the bites of gnats and flies.
Gold potatoes, mashed with peas,
make an excellent and light peas pud-
ding.
Honey and castor oil mixed are excel
lent for the asthmatic. A teaspoonful
night and morning.
Old shoes, with the tops cut of, MAKE
excellent slippers, and If occasionally
polished look very we'll.
Clothes lines should be we'll wiped
and taken down after each wash. Gutta
percha lines are the best.
The white OF n egg, beaten to a
froth with a little butter, is a good sub
stitute for cream in coffee.
Turnip peel, washed clean and tied
mp in q net, imparts a flavor to soups.
Celery leaves and ends serve the same
purpose.
The dishcloth should never be used to
wipe The floor, and napkins are for table
use and not for wiping dishes. 1t is bet
ter not to use silver spoons for scraping
out iron kettles, and no economical and
thoughtful housewife willallow the dish
cloth to be used as a buster, or the new
broom to sweep the back yard, or the
best enameled sauce pan to melt down
snow.
Arrange work to save fuel. Mix bread
at nigh: so that it will be ready to bake
while the oven is hot from the breakfast
fire. If fruit is prepared the night be-
fore, pies may be baked after the bread.
flashes intended for breakfast should he
made ready for cooking the night before.
The kitchen should a'so be in perfect
orderand the kindlings ready for lighting
the FIRE.
A hard wood floor, oiled with linseed
oil, is The best floor in the kitchen. A
floor of pine, I'm ess straight-grained, is
apt to silver" AMI grow rough. Itisim-
possible to oil such u floor with good re.
suits il in the least knotty, as the pitch
prevents the oil from penetrating, and the
floor takes on a grimy look Oilcloth Is
sometimes used, and is preferable to q
carpet, but ie not 30 neat as aplain, Lard
wood floor, made of matched boards
four inches wide and closely laid.
Raising Calves.
Now the calves are beginning to ar
rive. and it is stfe to assume that the
majority of tn Sc dIopped during the
next sixty days will be raistd See to 1t
hat they are well raised. Remember
that every week added to an animals
age ~increasis in proportion the cost oil
every pound added to its weight. Raise
fewer OF them. and raise them better.
Feed literally, but judiciously. Five
dollars expended upon the calf during
its first six months will bring more net
profit than ten after it is three years cd.
The sooner calves learn to lick up a
little bran, or MUNICH a few oats, the bet
ter, and they will do it very early If only
given u chance. No grain is as good as
bats for young, growing animals. A few
finely cut roofs may also be probably
added TO the diet OF calves at an earliey
age Than they generally get them.-
Center DemOcrCt.