Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-01-21
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FARM AND FIhEaIDE.

SUCCESSIVE POULTRY RAIs1NG.-In
raising poultry or stock. it should be The
aim OF every one to keep it HEALTHY and
improve 1t. You can do il very easily by
adopting some systematic rules. These
may be summed up in brief as follows:
l. Construct your house good and warm
so as to avoid damp floors, and afford
a flood of sunlight. Sunshine is better
than medicine.
z. Provide busting and scratching
place, where you can bury wheat and corn
and thus induce the fowls to take neeGful
exercise.
3. Provide yourself with some good
healthy chickens, none to be over thee or
four years old. giving one cock to every
twelve hens.
4. Give plenty of fresh water daily, and
never allow the fowls to go thirsty.
5. Feed them systematically two or three
times day, and scatter the food so they
can't eat too fast or without proper exer-
else. DO not feed more than they VIII eat
up clean, or they viii get tired OF that
kind of feed.
+. Give them variety both of dry and
| cooked food; a mixture of cooked meat
and vegetables is an excellent thing for
their morning meal.
7. Give soft feed in the morning, and
the whole grain at night, except little
wheat or cracked corn placed in the
scratching place during the day.
8. Above all things keep the hen house
clean and well ventilated.
8. Do not crowd too many in one house.
Ii you do, look out for diseases.
10. Use carbolic powder in busting bins
occasionally to destroy lice.
II. Wash your roosts and bottom Of law
ing nests with Whitewash once week in
summer and once'a month in winter,
The MILLER's CHOICE WHEATs.-At
late meeting of the Pennsylvania MI
ler's Association the subject for discussion
was the best varieties of wheat for mill
ing. There were many expressions of
opinion, but the long-berry wheats appear
ed to be the favorites. White and red
Wheats had their advocates. A specimen
OF the Hungarian or Thesis wheat WIS
laid on the table by Mr.. Wright, of Kings
ton. 1t did not seem to be very favorably
received. Mr.. Wright said he had set
for eight bushels, for the farmers in this
country to try, but it came too late. A.
ter full discussion, the chairman of tie
committee on grain for milling recon-
mended the following varieties of wheat,
which were adopted as the sense Of tie
convention: Lancaster, Red, Mediterra-
mean, Buffalo and Shoemaker,
How TO GET RID OF STUMPs.-Farna-
ers who desire to get rid of their stumps,
may find something to their advantage in
the following recommendation from tie
Scientific Americana ''In the autumn.
bore hole one or two inches in diameter.
according to the girth Of the stump, YER
tlcally IN the center of the latter, and
about eighteen inches deep. Put into it
one or two ounces of saltpetre; fill the hole
with water and plug it up close. In the
ensuing spring take out the plug and pour
in about half gill of kerosene oil and
ignite it. The stump will shoulder away
without blazing, to the very extremity OF
the roots, leaving nothing but ashes.''
OATMEAL.-GiveJ the children oatmeal
at least once day. 1t is genuine bone
and muscle food and they must thrive.
Could our girls make the morning and
night meals on real nourishment-not pas
to nourish the brain and nerves.
we should have less of the neuralgia
among our women. Indeed, this oatmeal
mush would afford ample food for the last
meal, which should ordinarily be the light
est, simple and easy of digestion, securing
good sleep, while 1t may well form part
of the morning meal. Its extensive use
would do much to promote health among
us.
APPLE CUsTARD. Two eggs, six table
spoonsful sugar, one cup cream; beat the
mixture thoroughly and flavor strongly
with lemon, unlese some other flavoring is
preferred. Then take teacupful of stew
ed apples, mash them and add them to the
other ingredients; make crust and bake
same as egg custard. They are delicious.
Ape CROUTEs.-This simple and dain-
ty little dessert is one taught by a house
keeper: Peel and core the apples and halve
them; take slices of bread, spread thickIy
with butter and sprinkle with sugar, then
lay apple on bread, core side down; sprin-
kle on more sugar and any kind of spice to
taste. Bake.
A SHEET Of paper dipped in chloride Of
cobalt, when the weather is to ue dry and
pleasant, will become blue. When wet
weather approaches it will become pink
The barometer flowers of France are thus
man ufactured.
For damp closet or cupboard, which
is liable to cause mildew, place in it
saucer full of Quick-lime, and it will not
only absorb all apparent dampness, but
,weeten and disinfect the place. Renew
The lime once fortnight or as often as it
becomes Stacked
PUT ONE Or two red peppers, or a few
pieces Of charcoal into q pot where ham.
cabbage. etc., is boiling, and the house
will not be filed with the offensive oder.
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