Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-06-18
FARM AND TIREsIDR.

HINTS TO OUSE-CLEANERS.-We give
below a few hints which may prove useful
to housekeepers:
SCOT falling on the carpet from open
chimneys, or from carelessly handling
Estovepipes, if covered thickly with salt,
can be brushed off without damage to the
carpet.
A little spirits of turpentine added to
the water with which floors are washed
will prevent the ravages of moths.
When carpets are well cleaned, sprinkle
with salt and fold; when laid, strew with 8
slightly moistened bran before sweeping.
This, with the salt, will freshen them
| wonderfully.
Fuller's earth, mixed to stiff paste with
cold water, spread on the carpet and COW
| cred with brown paper, will in a day or
two remove grease spots; perhaps second
application may be necessary. le
!. Spirits Of ammonia diluted with water,
if applied with sponge or flannel cloth
to discolored spots in carpets or garments,
will often restore the color.
A paste made of whiting and benzine
will clean marble, and one made from Will
ting and chloride of soda. spread and left
to dry Tin the sun if possible) on the mar
BILE, will remove spots.
Paint splashed upon window glass can
be easily removed by hot solution of So
da.
Use kerosine and bath-brick or lime to
scour zinc, tin or copper; wash in hot suds,
and polish in dry whiting.
To give glass great brilliancy, wash with
a damp sponge dipped in spirits, then dust
with powdered blue or whiting, tied in
thin muslin bag, and polish with channels
skin.
A flannel cloth dipped in warm soap
suds, then into whiting and applied to
paint, will Instantly remove all grease and
dirt. Wash with clean water, then dry;
the most delicate paint will not be injured,
and will look like new.
One pound of copperas dissolved in enc
quart of boiling water will destroy foul
smells. Powdered borax scattered in their
haunts will dispense cockroaches.
Plaster of Paris mixed with gum arabic
water makes an excellent white cement,
but must be used Immediately. as it hard
ems quickly. A mixture of five parts gela-
tine to one OF acid chromate of lime APP
piled to broken edges, which should be
pressed together and exposed to the sun
light, makes an insoluble cement.
To whiten walls, scrape off all old white
wash and wash the walls with a solution Of
two ounces Of white vitriol to four gallons
of water. Soak a quarter of pound of
white glue in water TO 12 hours; drain and
place in tin pail, cover with fresh water,
and set the pail in kettle of boiling wa
ter. When melted, stir into the glue eight
pounds Of whiting and water enough to
make the mixture as thick as common
whitewash. Apply evenly with a good
brush; If the walls are very yellow, blue
the water slightly by squeezing in it
flannel bag containing some powdered
blue.
To clean mating, wash with solution
Of one pint of salt to four gallons Of wa
ter and wipe dry Immediately.
To clean oilcloths, wash always with
warm milk. Once in six months scrub
with hot soapsuds, dry thoroughly and
apply a coat of varnish. They will last a
long again.
little kerosene applied to stove polish
improves the lustre. Apply while the iron
is warm.
10 remove spots from furniture, take
four ounces of vinegar, two of sweet oil,
and one of turpentine; mix and apply with
flannel cloth.
Gum camphor, wrapped in paper and
laid around sugar barrels, will dispense
ants.
SMALL FLoCKs THE BEsT.-We fire.
quently see statements Of the profit of
wool-growing, says a contemporary, but
almost uniformly the results are given from
small focks Of 100 or less. We are yerv
well aware that the same ratio of profit
does not hold good in sflock of 500. and
that it rapidly decreases as the numbers go
up. In a recent address before the Indi-
ana Sheep Growers Association, Mr.. B. f.
Mageee expressed the following views :
There is one thing about pasturing sheep
that has been overlooked, viz T: The dam
age done to the grass by being run over by
the flock. While believe that one acre OF
good grass would keep five or may be eight
sheep well, 1 do not believe that 100 acres
would keep 500 sheep. Five sheep would
probably do but little damage to one acre.
even though they were confined to it: thev
would make but few tracks over it in q
day, and would easily find fresh grass each
day. But suppose we put 500 sheep on a
100-acre lot; if each five sheep would con
fine themselves to their own particular
acre, they probably would do well in the
summer. But they will not do this, and
right here is where theory and practice
part company. Our five sheep start out to
Craze, and the 1856 go along with Them
Now, sheep is dainty creature and likes
clean food, So the hindermost part Of the
flock keep pushing ahead paying little or
no attention to what has already been run
over, and being in each others way, each
would go over ten times as much ground
before it is filed, as it ought. And having
so much more work to get it's food it does
not do so well as one that can satisfy it,
self with little or no exertion, Going over
he trail too frequently, and picking about
dung and urinefor grass. is doubtless what
makes large aooks SO liable to disease.
| COLD MUTTON DRESSED LIKE VENT
soN.-Cut two pounds of cold mutton in
pieces the size of nut, sprinkle with salt.
add quarter of a pound of butter in small
/! pieces. Juice of half a lemon rcd non,o,