The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-03-29
The R.ar Rag.

= IIoAoH IueaI CftiiHoG NC properly Sdl6eu.
Corn-fed beef will be scarce for the
next ten months.
Grasses and clover do best on a rather
firm soil having fine surface.
AS a rule it is the late varieties of po-
tatoes that suffer most from the Colo
RADIO beetle.
Farms in New England are increasing
in value. 1t is the dairy business that
is doing it.
A careful observer says the striped
snake eats large numbers of earth or
angle worms.
Massachusetts, farmers pay over $500,
600 per year for Paris green to kill the
potatoe bugs on their $4,000 farms.
Place a few oyster shells in the CRATE
while the fire is burning, and the clink-
ers will become loosened and may be
removed.
The reaping machine came into prac-
tical use about the year 1858, and the
self-binder made its first good record in
1876.
To remove rust from stove-pipe,
rub with linseed oil, little of which
goes long way Build slow fire at
first until it is dry.
The large combed towels are the best
layers, but coming from the warm coun-
tries bordering the Mediterranean they
are not the hardest.
A remedy for a rusting teakettle is to
brown coffee in it. A thorough wash
ing with soap and water will remove all
odor and smoke, and leave the kettle
smooth
The materials for dainty toilet set
are pale blue or pink silesia, dotted
muslin or cheese cloth, and antique
lace with few yards of narrow ribbon
for bows at the corners.
To drive away red ants put one pint
of tar in two quarts of hot water. Put
in earthen vessels in closets, or sprinkle
sand, or strew oyster shells, or red
effective in removing these little nui-
sances.
An old-fashioned washstand can be
made quite genteel by means of burlap.
In piece of the right size make an
opening for the bowl, fringe the front
edge and ornament with bright colored
worsted. For the lower part tidy of
the burlap fringed witha simple pattern
wrought for a border.
White fur that has become soiled can
thus be renovated: Take large tin
pan; put a pint of wheat flour in it; put
the cloak in it; rub it thoroughly with
the hands until the flour looks dark;
then if the fur is not white enough, rub
it again in more clean flour; then rub
it again with pulverized chalk. This
gives it pearly-white look. 1t is also
good to clean knit nubias.
A bag for clothes-closet, made in the
following manner, will so commend it
self that it will never be discarded: Take
two yards of print or cretonne for the
bag, and divide it by third yard, which
is gathered and attached to piece of
wood and fastened to the sides and
across the top of the bag. The open
ings are made lengthwise on each side
1t is suspended by q ring.
Cheese-making on the factory system
is about to be undertaken on large
scale in Canada by Mr.. George Morton,
who is stated to have apportioned out
224 farms into holdings of 196 acres
each, each of which he will stock with
thirty COWS. A narrow gauge railway
will run through the entire estate. A
station will be built on each farm By
these means the whole of the milk can
be carried to one central factory twice q
day. This is the largest undertaking
of the kind which has ever been pro-
jected.
1t is true that figures stand out with
greater distinctness against dark back
ground, and a tine-looking, well dressed
lady is a more beautiful object in room
with rather dark walls than with very
light ones, provided the room is we'll
lighted. But this does not prove that
all rooms with northern exposure are to
be SO papered that twilight prevails in
them large part of a cloudy winters
day. Such rooms need everything that
begets cheerfulness, light papers with
bits of color, gaytinted dadoes, bright
hued rugs, and furnishings that have a
suggestion of sunshine.