Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-03-04
FARM AND PRESIDE.

In That case do not Scald them. a.
3. Salt fish are quickest and best fresh
ened by soaking in sour milk.
4. That milk that is turned or CHANGED
may be sweetened and rendered fit for ust
again by stirring in a little soda:
8. That salt will curdle new milk; henc
in preparing milk porridge, gravies, etc.
the salt should not be added until the dist
lis prepared.
6. That fresh meat, after beginning to
sour, will sweeten if placed out of doors in
the cool over night.
z. That clear boiling water will remove
tea stains and many fruit stains. Pour the
water through the stain and thus prevent
it spreading over the fabric.
8. That ripe tomatoes will remove ink
and other stains from white cloth; also
from the hands. or,
g. That a tablespoonful of turpentine
boiled with your white oloehos will aid che
whitening process.
10. That boiled starch is much improved
by the addition of little sperm, or little
salt, or both, or little gum arabic dissol-
we'd. 81
II. That beeswax and salt will make
your rusty flat-irons as clean and smooth
as glass. Tie lump Of wax in rag and
keep it for that purpose. When the irons
are hot, rub them first with the wax rag,
then scour with paper or cloth sprinkled
with salt.
IL. That blue ointment and kerosene
mixed in equal proportions, and applied
to bedsteads is an unfailing bedpug reme-
dy, and that a coat of whitewash is ditto
for the walls of log house.
IL. That kerosene will soften boots or
shoes which have been hardened by water,
and render them as pliable as new.
IA. That kerosene will make tin tea-ket-
Ties as bright as new. Saturate wooden
rag and rub with it. It will also remove
stains from the clean vanished furniture.
Is. That cool rainwater and soda will
remove machine grease from washable
fairies.
Every one of. these recipes is unfailing.
Cut out this slip and place it IN book for
reference.-Q. x, IN Alexandria Post.
ENsILAGE COMPARED WITH OTHER
PRovENDER.-In all that have read in
the papers regarding ensilage, both for and
against, have not seen nythlng like an
experiment calculated to settle the ques-
tion of its food value (taking cost into con-
sideration) compared with other kinds of
provender. In talk which had recent
ly with an enthusiastic convert to the new
idea l was bold enough to make confess
sion Of some skepticism, and expressed the
belief that if the originators of the ensi-
lage fever could buy corn at the prices we
can get it for, they would abandon the
silos they have, and spend no more time in
digging similar holes in the ground, can
buy corn in the field, including the fodder,
after it has been cut and put up in stocks,
at an average one year with another of
$1so per barrel of ten bushels of ears
Putting the ensilage at $40 per ton, and
Is pounds per day as full ration for a
s eer, his daily feed would cost 9 cents.
For this sum can furnish him with one /.
twentieth of barrel, or 80 big ears of corn
and all the fodder said corn grew upon,
say an average of 80 big stalks of corn
fodder. havn't the least doubt that if
those 80 big cornstalks had been cut off at
the ground before grain of corn had
formed upon them, and been chopped up
into ensilage, they would weigh at least
Is pounds. Now do the advocates of en-
Siege tell US that there is more value in
Is pounds Of green and immature corn
stalks chopped up fine, than in the same
amount of cornstalks allowed to dry in
the usual way, aud fortified by 80 big ears
of corn-14 pounds at least of pure, sound,
dry merchantable corn; nearly one-ffth in
weight Of the whole amount Of green corn
chopped fine. ...-.
for one do not believe the new doctrine.
and for the present at least shall continue
the practice of giving my horse 10 ears of
good sound corn in preference to 10 stalks
of gre fodder, even though it is chop
ped up fine.
Lindone, Va. GRE.
BRAN FOR Mich Cows.-We don't
suppose there is dairyman in the coun-
try but who knows the value of ''bran'' as
food for mich cows. As long as we can
remember anything of cattle-feedlng it is
connected with the use of bran, and the
scalded messes given to COWS for some
time after calving, also, its sprjnkling over
chopped pumpkins, turnips. potatoes, etc.
Bran was, indeed, always regarded as ex-
cellent and profitable food for COWS in
milk. Still there is force in the recon-
mendation OF bran, which we find in an
English journal, that if one desires s'rich
milk, give your cows, every day, water
slightly sailed, in which bran has been
stirred at the rate of one quart to two gall
Ions of water. You will find that your
cows will give twenty-five per cent. more
milk Immediately under the effects Of it,
and will become so accustomed to the diet
as to refuse to drink clear water, unless
very thirsty
DISEASE IN LAMBS.-COnStant reduc-
ton in strength. with cough and Excess
sive appetite, In lambs are symptoms in
dicative Of parasitical worms in the lungs
and intestines. Lambs that have pastured
with older sheep are very often troubled in
this way and take the disease through eggs
Of fly swallowed with the grass. These eggs
are dropped by the older sheep, in which
the worms rarely cause any trouble. The
lambs suffer from diarrhna when the
worms are chiefly in the intestines, and
from cough when they are In the lungs.
The remedy is to give turpentine in small
doses, and one teaspoonful of linseed oil,
given early in the morning before feeding.
every day for ten days.-.N. Y. Times.