The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1882-07-22
HOUSE, FARM AND FIRESIDE.

HOUSEHOLD HINTS. Wild mint
will keep rats and mice out of your
house.
Flowers and shrubs should be exclud-
ed from bed-chamber.
Lime sprinkled in freplaces during
summer months is healthful.
Vinegar will remove the disagreeable
odor of kerosene from tinyare.
To remove blood stains from cloth
saturate with kerosene, and after stand
ing little, wash in warm water.
1t is said that the juice Of matured
cucumbers will kill bed bugs. Wash
the bedstead once week for two or
three weeks, and the thing is accom-
plished.
In baking, get the oven sufficiently
heated, and have the stove contain
enough fuel to conclude the operation.
Added fuel reduces the temperature
and checks the process at precisely the
time when it should not be checked.
1t is sometimes necessary to take a
little distasteful medicine. To do this
without tasting it, put the required
number of drops on teaspoouful ofsu-
gar, and hold the head back little,
when the sugar will be dropped far down
on the tongue, then take little water,
and the loathsome mixture will pass
down the throat.
WRANINa YOUNG Pres. The time
of weaving may depend on the dispo-
sition to be made of the dams. Ifthey
are to be bred again for fael filters, the
pigs may be weaned when eight or ten
weeks old. In this case it is best to
wean gradually. Withhold the sow's
feed altogether, and let her DO shut
away from the pigs. Let them be TO-
gether at first twice and then once a
day for few days, when they may be
permanently separated; or, if this is too
much trouble, take the larger pigs away
and let one or two of the smaller ones
run with the SOW a few days. If the
sows are to be fatted in the fall or fall
filters are not wanted, they and the pigs
may be safely left to settle the question.
It will however, save the SOW and pigs
some worrying if they are separated.
At three months is very good time to
do this.
WATERING HORSES. There is a
certain want of common sense and
humanity in the habit many persons
have of watering horses three times
daily. The only reasonable and
sensible or prudent plan to pursue, is
10 give the animals water according
to their real wants. This is a differ
ent matter from giving to them ca
priciously or according to their fancy.
If we give way to the latter, we will
find the animal becomes as cunning
as monkey, and will play the old
soldier at every opportunity, pre-
tending to drink and making believe,
SO as to gain time and shirk work.
But it is simply cruel to to compel
a team to pillow or work from morn
ing until noon, or from noon until
night, without allowing it the priv
lege of refreshing draught. 1t is
announcement, many times, to water
the team during the forenoon or after
noon, and we are apt to think the
time thus taken lost, but when the
farmers millennium comes, there will
probably be drinking in every field,
supplied from some elevated spring,
or from running stream. In the
meanwhile time ''lost'' in doing good
even though it may be in behalf of
the dumb animals, is well "lost"
may be regained Could they speak
it might be TO say that they would
like to be treated, in the matter of
time for food and drink, somewhat as
we-their wise masters-are accus-
toned to treat ourselves.
How TO FEED PoULTRY.-Attention
must be paid to the quantity and quail
ity of the food given to your fowls if
you want to keep them in thrift and
good health. While it is most essential
to be carefulnot to overfeed the extreme
of under-feeding must be avoided. 1t
should be borne in mind that it is not
the gross amount or quantity OF FOOD
that we give our fowl stock, but the
mode in which it is distributed to them
that tells to the best and most econom-
ical advantage.
A variety of diet for fowls or other
live stock is very important matter to
be remembered by poultry keepers,
both on the score of economy and for
the best good of the fowls themselves.
Upon any one kind or regular supply Of
food alone, poultry will very soon get
cloyed and lose their appetite for it. II
you scatter over large quantities of food
among the focks, or more then they
need at a feeding, they gorge them
selves, and will very quickly become
cloyed, however choice may be the food
you afford them. 1t, therefore, becomes
necessary that ways and means be pro-
vided to vary the sustenance we furnish
our poultry with, and this can be done
upon system to good advantage.