The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-09-24
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

ing lamp chimneys ON the ioside, can
be saved by using astick with a sponge
tied to the end.
To clean painted woodwork, put a
teaspoohful of ammonia in quart of
warm water, wash with flannel cloth
and wipe dry.
In making starch add one teaspoonful
of kerosene oil to each pint OF starch.
L gives a fine gloss and never smells Oh
any garment.
When boiling any kind of meat, cab
bage, onions, etc., put in a piece of red
pepper the size of five cent piece, to
destroy the unpleasant odor.
To take out scoIch caused by using q
too hot iron, lay the garment where the
bright sunshine will fall directly upon
it. 1t Will take the scorcL entirely out.
Have you ever observed how much
one tasty-!ooking, well-painted struct-
ure beside the house, even if it be only
the poultry house, adds to the appear
ance of place.
young chick is to simply leave it alone
for the first twenty four hours of its ex-
istence. There will be little difficulty
experienced in getting it to eat after
ward.
a good animal should be q heavy
feeder. It has often been considered
an advantage that an animal eat but
little, but just the opposite should be
desired. 1t takes liberal supply of
food and good appetite to derive the
greatest amount of product.
Do not feed a SOW that has sucking
pigs on too much dry food. She should
have plenty of slop, but it should be
rich and nutritious. A mixture of corn
meal, ground oats and middlings re-
duced to thin consistency with skim
milk is good mess.
Farmers who have sown gypsum or
strawberry plants to promote their Wig
or have met some disappointing results.
The gypsum produced so large a growth
of clover that it became almost .mpos-
sible to keep the rows clean, and in
some instances the bed bad to be aban-
drd.
Catnip is one Of the most valuable
plants for bees. The flowers are rich
in honey, and for several months, COM
mencing with June of each year, yield
it at all hours and in every kind of
weather. A patch may easily be raised
from the seed, sown the latter part OF
summer or early in the spring.
The circulation of sap, says the New
Hampshire Mirror, is like the ciccula-
tion Of the blood in the human body
when the blood is started from the
stomach, where it is made If the
blood is stopped before it reaches the
/ lungs the blood becomes poisoned and
produces disease. So with the potato
vine, in which, il the sap be stopped,
produces disease called rust.
D. A. Jones, of Beeton, Canada, uses
| chloroform in introducing queens. He
is very successful, seldom losing a
, queen when introduced In that way. He
puts few drops Of chloroform on a rag
or sponge in the smoker, and giving a
few puffs in at the entrance, sCupefies
them, and by the time the bees
recover from their stupor they know
nothing of what has happened.
No thrifty farmer will permit coarse
weeds, thistles, briers or bushes of any
kind to grow by the roadside adjoining
| his fields. ODe or two days. work each
year for two or three years with stout
| bush scythe will cause these Improbable
varieties of vegetation to give place to
| valuable grasses. Start the bush scythe
at once where the weeds and bushes are
found, and cut every one of them close
| to the ground.
Charcoal is appreciated by fowls of
! all kinds. The very best is found In
charred grain. Corn roasted like coffee
and fed once a day, would no doubt
pay for the trouble in the increased
product of eggs. In fatteuing the pro-
cess is much fastened by its use, and we
think the meat much more palatable.
There are many epicures who would
willingly pay larger price for poultry
fattened by the use of charTed corn.
The Hessian fly has been attacking
corn In England-crops that It has
heretofore let alone in that country
| The ravages Of the insect (cecido7nuio
deStrUctor) in this country were first no.
ticed in 1776, and, as It was supposed
that it was introduced from Germany
In straw with the Hessian troops dur
| ing the American war, it was called the
"Hessian fly" and 1t was affirmed to be
more formidable than an army Of 30
600 Hessians.''
II the pigs are on clover thew will
need no food except at night, and al
though they may not fatten very fast.
they will grow rapidly. The nights
meal, however, should be composed of
ground oats, four parts (by weight) ;
cornmeal, one port middIiIgs, three
parts; bran, two parts; linseed meal,
one part, with little salt. Feed it az
slop, with skim milk, and if milk is not
procurable scald the mixture, and give
each pig all il can eat.
Look out for the "black knott on the
plum and cherry trees, saws the Far,o
Journal These knots are caused by a
vegetable parasite called ''SphaeIia Nor.
bosa." 1t develops from spores which
/ are waited ab0ut nv the wind No troo