Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1885-12-03
A'irginia fire. grrs5.
FARM and HOME.

Mix stove polish with vinegar and tea-
spoonful of sugar.
When cooking beans add oue-half tea
spoon ofsaleratus.
To brighten carpets sprinkle salt before
sweeping
To polish stowe rub With "a newspaper
instead of brush
To remove tea stains from cap, and ~au-
GERS scour with ashes
For burns apply aourwe, with coidwater,
as itQuickly gives relief
When ,pouge-cake becomes dry IL d, nice
90 cut ia thin slices and to-,l
To remove mildew. soak iu bu,termik
and spread on grass iu the,uu
fnutmegs are good, when pricked with
a pin oil will instantly ooze oar.
If the oven is too hot when baking place
q small dish of cool water iu IT,
To prevent mustard plaster from blister
ing. mix with the white Of am egg.
To prevent aat-igon, from ,corching wipe
them on a cloth wet with kerosene.
To brighten or clean silver or uickel-pla-
ted ware. rub with a WOODEN cloth and -four.
When there is crack in the Stove i, can
be meuded by mixing ashes and sait with
water
When cloths are ,corebed remove Che
stain By placing the garment where the sun
can shine on IT,
Starched shirts win iron easier ID you ,et
them dry after starchiug SD you will have
to sprinkle them before ironins.
The wing, Of turkeys. geese and chickens
are good 20 wash and clean windows. as
they leave no dus, nor lint as cloth.
To brighten the inside of coffee or tea-
pot. fin with water. add q snail piece of
soap and let it boil about torty-iye minutes.
To remove grease from wallpaper lay
several folds of bloting paper on The spot
and hold hot iron near it until the grease
is absorbed
It is now estimated chat the present -ea-
sons cotton crop ia thi, country will exceed
that of 1854 by about looooooba.e-.
Experiments have proved that green oak
posts viii last longer iu the ground than
those from the same variety of seasoned
timber
Names potato crop This year is worth
SS.O0O.0 900. The potato crop of the State is
worth six times as much as It's apple crop.
France has agricultural schools for girls.
One of the chief is near Rouen, and has
800 girls from six 20 eighteen years of age.
The farm is over 900 acres.
Isaac Davis, a farmer near Lawrence
Kan. is gathering his corn with ladder
this year. The stalks are said TO be six
teen feet in length. and The ear. twelve feet
from the roots
California is Dragging of raising Bartlett
pears which weigh pound, each, at au
altitude of 1900 feet above Che sea level
but these moustrou- pears have DO more
flavor than a turuip.
Celery may De more cleap'y b.cached Jy
putting "a four-iucb drain dlcoyer Elephant
about foot high, and chem allowing !, 90
grow with only little baking of earth a-
round the tile 20 keep it iu place.
Its not generally known chat the ria set
apple is one Of the very best for cider. Ir
has a very rich juice. and the cuiis of rus-
sets unfit tor barreiug may De more profit
ably utilized for cider than for any other
purpose.
The manufacture of wax !, the most COST
ly item in honey-making, and this 3, e. loss
that can be readily avoided Jy using ardd-
cial combs When the bee, have only TO
provide honey they can produce much
more. aud the new ,warms viii Doe earlier
and more prolific.
The best time Co prone empe-yiues is as
soon as possible after theleave- have fallen.
II left until spring it is app, to- be too .aye
before it is attended to, and there is always
some loss of yigor I'm vine, eucumberej DIN
ring several months with O. large mas, OF
useless wood.
F. Lewis Sturteyant. OF ,hc Ncw York
Agricultural Experiment Station. SAYS at
"the nomenclature of farm seed is in "a state
Of chaos There seems Co beuo authority
which shall settle ,be question Of variety,
and hence the name under which a variety