The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-06-21
HOUSE AND FARM,
Usefal Hints and sueeostions.

HOUSE AND FARM.
Useful Hints and Suggestions.
A good washing duid IL made of cal
soda, unslacked lime, and borax. Put
one pound Of al soda. half . pound of
unslacked lime, and . small lump of
5orax in five quarts of water, and allow
It to come to boil. Then take it from
the stove and when cold bottle. Use q
teacup Of the mixture for . boiler of
clothes.
A gloss for shirt bosoms OF fine linen
is mace by melting together slowly two
ounces Of spefmaceti and IN ounce of
white wax. Make boiled starch in the
usual way, and while hot put into enough
for dozen shirts piece about half the
size Of hickory nut.
Mildew may be removed by first rub
bling yellow soap on the widowed spots,
then rubbing ON salt; lay in the sun.
Repeat II necessary.
MOTH PATcHn.-Put into pint bottle
ofrum tablespoonful Of -four Of sulphur.
Apply TO the patches once day, and in
two or three weeks they will disappear.
To WHlTEN FLANNEL.-Dissolve two
and one-fourth pounds of Marseilles
soap in seventy-five pounds of soft wa
ter; stir constantly and add one ounce
LIQUOR ammonia. Soak the goods in this.
then wash we'll with water.
Consulate poultice of sharp vim.
egsr and bread crumbs and apply it
over night to the c0rns that trouble, in
the morning the soreness will be gone,
and the corns can be picked out.
CELLARS air of the cellar il the
air of the whole house, even though
walls of stone or brick separate the two,
street gas readily passes through solid
| sucstances, and the poisonous gas of
sewers passes through walls of plaster,
stone and brick. Decaying vegetables,
lara inject the air OF every apartment in
the house, and more or less affect the
health Of the inmates.
Horse Shooting.
Horses which are for hard and heavy
work should be kept constantly shod.
But there is no doubt but large num-
Der Of farm horses are kept shod at IN
necessary expense. The following from
the Massachusetts Ploughman is record.
ed as rare and solitary case of
successfully using horse without
shoes:
The shoe!ess horse now halls from
Bath. The Times says gentleman at
the South End has horse which he has
owned nine years and never had shoe
on his foot. He thinks the advantapes
are viz; that In damp snow the horses
| hoof will not hall up, and he is sure of
bis footing. Second, that the horse
calks himself In deep SHOWS, never
wears out floors by stamping, and is
never lame from having shoes that pinch
his feet. He says that it usually costs
4O q year to shoe family horse like
bis, so that in financial point of view
he saves $40 year. The horse was seen
this morning and was in good order;
the boots were sharp and tough and
| smooth. He says that although having
been in use nine years, he has never
yet met with an accident, not even so
much % stumble.
Kin the Weeds.
When your seeds are sown, you have
nothing more to DO till the weeds begin
to grow. Then you must not neglect
your garden if you make success of it.
find that very many perons start out in
the spring very enthusiastically; their
enthusiasm wanes before the weeds
come, and before they get round to at
tend to what ought to he done promptly,
the poor vegetables have become SO
checked and overrun with weeds that
| they never amount to much. The rule
OF greatest importance in gardening is
this: Do what work is to be done when
it needs doing. Do not wait, and think,
we'll, it's only the garden, I'll get around
to It after more important work is at
tended to. If YOU once have good gar
den, you will not put the garden In the
background after that. You will consider
itofprime importance. The fact is a good
garden To- second to nothing else about
the farm in point of value, so far as the
family is concerned. If proper atten-
ton is given the weeds when they begin
to grow it will be an easy matter to keep
them under all through the season.
Once let them know that you are master
and mean to remain go, and they will
give up; but they are stubborn and per.
severing, and they will keep you fight
ing them all summer if you begin tho
battle in lf-hearted way. The work
of wee ling and keeping the garden beds
clean is not very hard or disagreeable if
you have the proper tools to work with.
You want small hand cultivatOr, which
can be adjusted at any width between
the rows. sharp hoe and q narrow-bla-
ded hoe:, coming to point, hoe
shaped like a ", only rather narrower
or longer, in proportionate width and
length than that letter. About most
farms there are broken hoes from which
g tool of this kind can he fashioned.
1t can be ground down thin and sharp
on the edges. It is of great use in hoe
ing close to vegetables and in cutting
down weeds. With these two articles.
an hours work daily during the early
part of the season will keep a garden
clean.
Why Some Farm FaileFs.
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