The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-12-10
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

To remove tea stains from cups and
saucers. sco1r with ashes,
If the oven is too hot when baking,
place a dish of cold water in it.
Cream sweetened with powdered sugar
will keep for a couple Of days.
Lard, If applied at once. will often
prevent a bruise discoloring.
To prevent fiat-irons from scorching,
wipe them on a cloth vet with kerosene.
For preserving cheese from mold, COW
er with a piece Of linen OF cotton cloth.
Boiling in strong soapsuds will clean
up an old lamp burner and make it good
as new.
OIL cloths can be frightened after
washing, by rubbing hard with flannel
moistened with kerosene.
\ spoonful of vinegar put into the
water IN which meats OF fowls are to be
boiled, will make them tender.
To remove a glass stopper, drop some
gfycerine in the surrounding crevices,
and after an hour or two it will loosen.
Windows should be washed with milk
warm water, using soap only when nee
essary. then dried with linen, and pol
ished with chamois.
FIat-irons that show q disposition to
rust may, while yet a trife warm, be
rubbed on edges and face with little
tallow; When next put to heat they
should. as soon as warm, have the tallow
wiped of with an old cloth, when they
will be found bright and smooth.
1t is stated that if an outside leaf of a
Cabbage plant which is infested with
green worms is broken off and placed fiat
over the top of such plant in the after
noon, nearly all the worms in the cab
bage will be found next morning congre-
gated on this leaf, and can be easily
removed and destroyed. a valuable
remedy if true.
Fanny Field says the white fowl fever
has struck the poultry world, and bids
fair TO rage violently for the next year
OF two at least. During the past season
the demand for white Plymouth and
white Wyandotte eggs far exceeded the
supply, and it looks now as if the same
state of affairs would continue another
season.
It is said that while pea meal is great
butter producing food, it is very danger
GUS to feed it in large quantities. 1t Il
much worse even than finely ground
corn meal for forming into balls in the
stomach. The safest way to feed it il
to mix it well with coarse feed or chatt
and accompany it with plenty of OF
meal, new process.
DistempeI in q colt takes about three
weeks to run its course. AL the medi
cine required is a slight dose of Epson
salts-say four to six ounces-and goOt
nursing. Give warm bran mashes, oa
or linseed meal Cruel, keep the anima
warm, and rub the legs with cloths we
with hot water. a tablespoonful o
mustard in the water would be beneficia
il the legs seem to be weak and numb
An Ohio farmer says that be has tTie
the plan of sowing a narrow strip @
wheat around the field, or one side Of II
late in August OF early in September, t
avert the damage done by the Hessia
hy, and that in every instance the pla
has worked we'll The fly congregate
in this strip, which can be plowed unde
as soon as the eggs are laid, thus destroy
ing them. The whole field can theE b
put into wheat, with comparative I'm
munity from attack.
The Dent varieties of corn aIs almo'
exclusively cultivated at the West an
South, where longer, hotter seasons wi
allow them to ripen. One reason is the
save labor in husking. Thirty huahe
is good days work with our small fir
corn, but sixty and even eighty bushe'
OF ears a day are common with wei
cared cora or the Dent varieties. Th
Dent corn will also yield more grain
the bushel OF ears than any other. Som
of the best crops of Dent corn have bee
grown in New England, though of earl
ripening sorts.