The Newtown bee., 1880-02-18
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Farm Hints.

Warmth saves feed, helps fattening and prevents sickness among live stock.
 Buckwheat flour is recommended for giving the hair of horses a fine, smooth, brilliant appearance.
 Give hens constant access to lime in some form. Hens must have the raw material in order to manufacture shells; !; they cannot make them out of nothing.
 Stagnant and impure water which cows drink while at pasturage is one of the most prominent causes of bad odor in milk.
 Damaged corn is exceedingly injurious as food for horses, because it brings on inflammation of the bowels and skin diseases.
 To utilize feathers of ducks, chickens and turkeys. generally thrown aside as refuse, trim the plumes from the stamp, enclose them in a tight bag, rub the whole as if washing clothes, and you will secure a perfectly uniform and light down, excellent for quitting coverlets and not few other purposes.
 To cure gals on the shoulders of your horses: At morning, noon and night wash the shoulders we'll with water and apply with a feather the following: Six drachms of iodine dissolved in half 8 pint of alcohol. It is a good preparation to keep in the stable at all times.
 Flowing land when it is very dry is nearly as hurtful as when it is very wet. But my experience is with heavy clay, or land in which clay is an important constitution. Such land when plowed dry breaks up lumpy, and subsequent rains do not dissolve the Jumps. IT. is my opinion that there is never more suitable condition for blowing any soil than when it has enough moisture to cause the furrows to fall loosely from | the blow with no appearance of packing and no lumps.- WiIliam Armstro1ag, El- mira, ~. y.
 Prof. l.. B. Arnold advises skimming the milk as soon as sourness is percepti- ble, and to churn at sixty degrees in- stead of seventy, before the cream gets sour. When the butter comes in gran ules, enough cold water or brine should be put in to reduce the mass to about
 
 churning, the granules will become hard and distinct, and the butter be in a con- dition for washing out all the butter milk. The salt should then be worked in with as little labor as possible, and after standing while it will be ready to pack.
 | Hogs when nearly fat are liable to have a disordered stomach through overlooking, refusing their food. The best antidote for this is charcoal. If the charcoal is taken from the stove when cold there will probably be ashes taken up at the same time, these will not hurt the hog should he eat portion of them. | Charcoal is best taken from an open fire place. It would be we'll to have on | hand at all times barrel or two of char coal. Charred corn cobs or charred corn have good effect. There is noth- ing better than these substances when hogs have the sours.
 A farmer says: Four years ago my farm was fearfully infested with rats They were so numerous that I had great fear of my who.e crop being destroyed by them after it was housed; but hay ing two acres of wild peppermint that grew in field ot wheat cut and bound with the wheat it drove the rats from my premises. have not been troubled with them since. while my neighbors have any quantity of them.
 There is no doubt of the hurtful char acter of corn smut, and the cattle should lecte1f w1t6 1t. Where the cattle are worth more than the labor of saving them, this may be done by throwing out smutty stalks by themselves and burning them.
 Household Hints.
 To remove iron-mold, rub the spot with little powdered oxalic acid, or salts of lemon and warm water Let it remain few minutes, and rinse well in clear water.
 A fresh egg has a lime-like surface; stale eggs are glossy and smooth of shell.
 Paint splashes upon window glass can be easily removed by strong solution Of soda.
 It wood for carving is steeped in a solution of copperas it becomes harder and more indestructible.
 To preserve soap-grease, fill a cask half full of good strong lye and drop all your refuse grease therein; stir up tue mixture once week.
 Meat and poultry will lose their flavor and tirmness if left in the water after they are done; as will also fish, which will break to pieces.
 Many soups are better on the day after they are made. provided they are not warmed too quickly, or left too long over the fire after they have become hot.
 Sour apple sauce is greatly improved by the addition of 9 tablespoonful of butter to a quart of sauce, and, more over, there is much less sugar needed. A little lemon peel makes fine flavor. Tea should not be infused for more than seven minutes. Have the water boiling, and use a teaspoonful of tea for each person and one over. Put the tea i'll the pot and pour the boiling water over it and let it stand for seven minutes. If it is allowed to stand, the tannin in the tea is drawn out, and dys- pepsia is the result.
 The reason that cabbage emits such disagreeable smell when boiling is be- cause the process dissolves the essential oil. The water should be changed when the cabbage is half boiled, and ii will thus acquire greater sweetness.
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 A letter from Troy, N. r., to the New York Sun says: This city has been called "The Worlds Mushroom"