Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-10

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with tin, or zinc, with filling of saw
dust between it and the wood, and
small pipe inserted for drainage. It
must be kept very clean, and should be
put convenient to the kitchen to save
trips to the cellar. We cool all our drink
ing water by filing bottles and placing
them around the ice.
! We have often received letters from
| farmers wives asking Us to suggest some
| way by which they can make some money
| and help along, and since the only way to
make farming pay is to use every pro-
/ duct and allow no waste whatever, we Will
| tell how one woman does who attends our
! market, although we know of several 9th
ers who do the same way. As each fruit
or vegetable comes in season she prepares
for market all that can be spared from
| family use. The early apples that fall
| before cider time comes she cans for their
own winter use; with the others makes
| apple butter in quantities, which she
bring to market all winter and spring and
| sells for % cents a quart. For Lima
| beans 10 cents. No pumpkin goes to
waste on that farm. They are stewed
and sold through the winter at 5 cents
| bowl. Twice a week she brings great
pans of corn meal mush which she sells in
| slices for frying at cents pound. She
cures and smokes herring and sells them
three for ten cents. Cucumber pickles
bring 10 cents a dozen, pepper sauce
cents bowl. The feathers are all saved
and dried when chickens are picked, and
sold for 10 cents a pound. Her husband
butchers sheep and occasionally beeg.
The suet would bring but few cents a
| pound, SO she makes into candles, for
! II. L. L.. L. W.,
can calculate for yourselves what a per-
centage she has for profit on all these
things. Her goods are put up in good
manner and she has a regular custom for
them. Of course all this entails work,
and many wives think they have enough
of that already, but they could afford to
keep more help, and the interest it would
add 10 their lives to feel they were help
ing to improve their own condition as
well as that of their family, would atone
! for some additional work. All are not
| sufficiently near market to do just in
this way, but might look around them
and see if they cannot produce something
sc good that it will create its own demand.
| We wish we could see the happy, prosper
Gus look of our friend referred to. Her
neice, fine, healthy-looking girl, who
has been her helper is about to be mar
ried, and we have no doubt will carry to
her new home the thrifty ways learned in
her early home and will make true help
mate.
Lima" disagrees with Rose Parks pro-
position that the men shall do the cook
ing on Sundays, as they have been work
ing through the week too, and need rest,
and thinks it is better to do without cook
ing on that day except a little for break
fast and supper, and sugg est instead of
roast and plenty of vegetables to have
bread and butter, jam or jelly, and can
ned fruit, pie, or pudding, and cake. We
disagree with Lima" as we have to vivid
a recollection of certain Sundays in our
experience, and the telling of cold indi-
gestion during the afternoon that follow
ed Just such a dinner as that described
above. We would rather just have some
boiled milk and bread or since there
must be fire for heating water for wash
ing dishes, it will not be much trouble to
boil some potatoes, and broil beefsteak,
or even piece of meat, with some bread
and butter, and perhaps cold slaw or let
tuce, would make an ample meal. very
good desert for Sunday, in summer, is
cold custard made with rennet, as it is SO
easy to make, and is almost as easy to di-
gest.
Not only do I believe hog has an
idea Of time, but I think he has decency
and manners. Ny pen is divided into
three departments-a feeding-room, a
room for necessities, and q sleeping room
And with only the least trouble, train
them to use the several departments for
the purposes they are designed for. Where
Iwant them to sleep, [ select dry place
and sprinkle some straw; in the room for
theis necessities, I take the shovel and
put some manure, and although keep
fifteen to twenty hogs in one lot, they
scrupulously use each one of these de-
partments for what it was intended for.