The Nevada picayune., 1885-01-15
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Farm aud Preside Items.

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 Never sun feather bed. Air it thoroughly on windy day in a cool place The sun draws oil, and gives the fea hers rancid smell.
 lime slaked in solution of salt in water and then properly thimed with skinned milk makes a per mancnt whitewash for out door work.
 A peice of zinc placed on the live coals in a hot stove ehectu- ally cleans out the stovc-pipe, the vapors produced carrying of the soot by chemical decomposition.
 If a little vinegar or some cider is mixed with stove polish, it will take much rubbing 10 make the stove bright but the backing IS not so likely to fly off in fine dust.
 Either will remove paint from delicate shades of dress goods without soiling the fabric. Fur, pentine or bcnzine leave q grease spot. Never reduce varnish with oil but use turpontine.
 Preventative of Cold Feet Let layer of curlod hair be bast- ed to a piece of cloth and slipped nthe stocking, the hair touching the soles of the feet will titilate fhe skin and draw the blood thither. These hair solos should be placed before the fire at night to keep them dry.
 An authority on poultry says that old lin pans, suspended by stout cords so that come within q few inches of the floor make cx. cellent feed troughS. The idea is not bad one. The food is up out of the dirt, and the hens have to stand up and cat "like folks,' no getting in with thtir feet and mak- ing a muss generally.
 The best way to keep seed DO, tatoeS is to select them now and bury them ia the soil, without :ny other covering or protection deeply enough to secure them from frost. In the sping or as late as July they come cut fresh, succulent without an eye started and Tn the best condition for planting as well as eating.
 When meat is put to smoke, put a tablespoonful of sulphur on the fire and the smudgc of the smoke will penetrate the meat and make the process of smoking a much quicker and more effective one. The smoke leaves no taint or sulphur taste and the time con sumed in smoking is reduced to a minimum compared to the old formula.
 
 Darying when slovenly done is hindrance to profit and vice versa. The difficulty of hiring good farm laborers is another hin- drance; its solution is yet far of. Poor stock and poor implements are bad. bat the greatest hin. Garnce of all is the heavy work re- Guired of women. That their lahors have not been frightened to a great CT extent is a standing reproach to our farmers.
 Bone dust and wood,ashes will supply all that may be lacking for strawberries in any soil, says, NJ. Crawford of Ohio, and these can be obtianel in nearly all parts of the country. Of all the conner cial fertilizers none is safer to buy than pure ground bone. It must however be decomposed before the plants can use it, as they take up all their food in solution. For immediate effect it is sometimes advisable 10 use dissolved hone isuperphosphate of limc) which will be washed down to the roots by the first rain.
 A cheap but good arrangement for smoking meats, hams, or shoul- ders can be made simply by the rse of a box and a barrcn The lox should be eighteen inches high and wide enough fora a barrel 10 set on it when turned bottom side up on the ground. Cut a hole in the bottom near one end: cut door place a foot wide and six inches deep in upper edge of other end ofthe box. Then place It in position OR the ground and set the harrpl from ,vhinb ho,