River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-05-27
Hints and Helps.

Milk which stands too long makes
bitter butter.
Hot, strong lemonade, taken at bed
time will break bad cold.
Tough meat is made tender by living
few minutes in vinegar water.
Well ventilated bedrooms will prevent
morning headaches and lassitude.
Cold tea should be saved for your vine
gar barrel. 1t sours easily and gives
color and flavor.
You can take out spots from wash
goods by rubbing them with the yolk of
eggs before washing
White spots upon vanished furniture
will disappear if you hold hot plate
from the stove over them.
Cream cakes; pint of cream and a
pint of milk, four eggs, salt, soda and
cream of tartar as usual; flour to make
a nice batter. These are a luxury.
Rice cakes; half cup of cold boiled
rice, the same of corn meal, one egg, "A
bit of butter, salt and sugar; milk to
make rather thin batter Grease the
pan well as they are apt to stick.
To drive nails into hard, well-dried
timber, dip the tips in lard and the
nails will not double up under the
hammer.
An expert says the best butter color
is a pailful of corn-meal mush, fed
warm once a day, the corn to be of the
yellow variety; adding that it will in
crease the milk and batter as well as
give good color.
Sweet milk gems; beat one egg, add
a pint of new milk, little salt and
graham flour until it will drop off the
spoon nicely. Have ready your gem
pans, well creased and heated. Bake
in quick oven and send to the table
hot.
Ingram or other carpets, after shak-
ing, are frightened in color by sprink-
ling a pound of salt over the surface
and sweeping carefully.
Cross-bred fowls are generally much
more prolific as egg-producers than
either scrubs or thoroughbreds.
Many persons, especially in suburb
an localities attempt too much in the
way of flowers on the lawn. Large
plants are not admissible, except as
single specimens here and there. i
single small bed filled with low-grow-
ing plants, nicely arranged and well
attended, presents far more attract
i've appearance than a large space. On
a small place verandas or porches mas
be covered with handsome climbcry,
and so may trellises be used to shut out
unsightly objects.
A dash of soap suds is death to cur
rant worms. Try it, in Just such
strength as will curl them in a second
of time. Use livery strong, and after
it has served this good purpose the
rains wash it down, and it acts as
stimulant to the bushes
In eight of the American States
there are 1,70S butter and cream
factories, aud the value of the dairy
products of the whole Union last year
was $500, 100000. while the value of
the milk COWS is estimated at 500, 000,-
600
Light tea cake; one cup of sugar,
two eggs, half a cup of melted butter,
one and a quarter cups of milk, two
teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar and
one teaspoonful of soda. Add flour
enough to make stiff batter. Bake
twenty minutes in a good oven.
To clean handsome paint, the best
method is to have quarter of pound
of fine whiting in a saucer. Dip in a
small cloth and rub it on the paint, as
in rubbing silver. Then wash off with
hot suds, and wipe with dry cloth.
Many intelligent farmers have come
to the conclusion that for hoed crops
Gh hn all nsa
land, and that if anything is placed in
hill it shall be very small quantity of
some fertilizer that contains plant food
soluable in water, so that the plant
can derive immediate benefit from It..
and consume it before the roots extend
beyond the hill, and before the manure
spread broadcast has become decom-
posed sufficient to form plant food.
Farm Stock and Home says: The
large number of creameries established
in Minnesota during the past sixty
DAYS means for the farmer, less wheat,
more grass, more stock, more cows,
more butter, more money, better times
and general prosperity.
An Ohio farmer, in relation to killing
the potato beetle, says: Take equal
parts of copperas and Stacked lime,
using five pounds of each for twenty
gallons of water, and sprinkle it on
the vines with brush. ] had field
alive with beetles, and after one dose
not single live one could be found,
and besides it benefits the plant"
If the lawn is not looked after it
inevitably gets ragged. The grass
will die out in places, and bare spots
will appear. These may be raked or
hoed to a good filth and grass-seed
sown thereon. or they may be sooner
and better filed by grating small
pieces of sod therein. The best plan,
however, is to graft in a few bits of
sod, and also SOW seed One will help
the other.