The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-04-21
Home, Farm and Garden.


will whiten and sw eeten clothes without
injuring the most delicate fabric. For
garments very much soiled use spoonful
of kerosene.
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ADVOCATE.
Kerosene lamps turned down so az to
burn low soon poison the air of room.
This practice should never be allowed in a
mouse, and certainly not in sleeping-rooms
or sick-rooms.
Hold raisins under water while sten-
ing; this prevents sickness to the hands,
and cleanses the raisns. Put the quantity
vi raisins needed in a dish with water to
cover, stone them before removing from
water.
Scrambled eggs are the simplest to
cook of all. Beat two eggs well, pour into
buttered pan that has become quite hot.
season with pepper and salt, and stir con.
slantlY until done, which is easily told bS
Ihe eggs forming in small Jumps.
Egg Soup.-Slice tive onions and fir,
Drown, add three pints of water and boil
add salt, pepper and pinch of sugar. stil
until the soup has thickened, remove from
yhe fire and mix in the lelks of beaten
eggs. Have ready in the soup tureen ten
ounces Of pulled bread, pour the soup ovel
| and serve.
When the ground is hard and frozer
work may be done by cutting cut The SUI
Jus CANES of 0ackberries and raspberrles
The old cane Is only useless incumbTanc,
20 vine, and should be removed Will,
Yhere is plenty of time for such work. A
lberal application OF wood ashes may b,
applied after removing the canes, Will,
zone dust will also be found very bench
| cal.
Farm and Garden recommends ever,
iarmer VINO builds an lce-house TO arrang,
for Il cold storage apartment in connection
With 1t, for the preservation OF fruit
outer, etc. NJ master how small i
IS, it will be found decided convent
ence.
The cabbage reqHires a deep, ricl
soil, and thorough working. For early us,
ne plant should be started in hot bed VI
cold frame; but seeu for wiuter ca bag,
should be sown in a seed bed early in III,
spring. Some of the large late vaIietie,
seem 10 do best II tue seed is sown in Lh,
ANS "heie they are 10 remain, and III tha
| .ase SOW Two or three seeds here eacl
liant is desired and then pull up all bu
he strongest. Pant the large yarieLIe.
three ieeL apart; The small, early sorts
nom foot ~ Is inches. The SAVOY,
hale Wrlnkled leaves anu are of tine flavor
especially alter a little frost has touche,
.nem III autumn. Some garueners glow
plants for early summer cabbage IN
.lalue in autumn, projecting them wilI
boards or mating during winter.
"A few pot herbs and sweet herbs
shonld have place III every YegetaDi,
Garden. Every cook and every goou house
keepers knows The value vi The little patcl
VI herbs upon which she makes daIlN
traits i'll the summer and which turnishe,
such nice collection of d led herbs fo
winter seasoning, without which Til,
Thanksgiving turkey would be scarcely
worth the having; while as domesLl,
medicines several kinds are held in higl
,epuIe. A very small space in the gardel
| sNes all the herbs needed in any family
he culture is very simple; and The bes
aay is 10 make lille seed-bed in I'll,
early springs, and Set the plants out in a
| lar
al rule il is best To cut herbs when il
lower. tie them up in small punches ant
Iang IN the shade to dry.
FOR beets the soil should be rich
mellow and deep. Plant in drills, about
.wo inches deep and the rows about II ol
10 inches apart. For field culture tht
rows should be wide enough to admit the
lorse cultivalor, and tae roots not nearer
man one foot IN the rows. The mango
Surzel Oeets grow TO very large size, art
coarse, and wonderf ally productive, making
excellent feed for cattle.
AT recent m,s s.ing of the American
Poultry Association, at Indianapolis, the
Oorking fowl was exempted from heavy
cuts" as fancy fowl, 1t being considered
a strictly market fowl. The action recog-
nizes the Dorking as the best aud leading
Oreed for market.
Save the fresh horse manure, free
from litter, for your hot beds, and use
plenty vi it, in order 10 RAPIDLY generate
The heat when the frame shall bs ready.
The liquids OF the stable ara from three "
SIX tunes as valuable as the solid portions,
and it pays 10 save such. The best mode
of so doing is 10 use some kind Of absors
Uent material.
"A good word for ths sparrows. The
sparrow is not guilty OF half the depreda-
lions that are laid to him. They come "
the very thresholds OF your dwellings 70
pick up insects and yermIn. They des
troy enough weevil and worms tc more
than compensate for the grain they eat.
lnsec.s in new forms are constantly appear
ing in our gardens and orcparIs, aud 10
poster our stock. Let us be cautions that
We are not destroying valuable assistant
in this war upon the sparrow. Such mis-
takes have been made from the days
witches were hung TO appease popular
clamor.
Greatly Excited.