Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-10-29
: HOME AND FARM.
The Rolling Pin-Husking Before Shock
lng-The New Sugar-Fried Corn
French Mustard-Notes.

The less tenderness man has IN ms
nature, the more he requires from otiiers'
1t il not so honorable to descend from
high ancestry as TO ascend from low
one.
Benzin or naphtha will remove grease
from paint without removing the latter,
if used quickly and carefully.
A new process in shot-making does
away with tall towers. A strong current
of air is forced ON the lead as it falls into
the water.
Pigs can be reared so as to have 70 per
cent of lean meat in them by feeding
bran and midGlings. Skim milk may
also be fed.
1t is stated that the roadside fences are
being rapidly removed in the vicinity OF
Boston, adding much to the rural beauty
of the suburbs.
Let your horse stand loose if possible.
without being tied up in the manager.
Pain and WEAKNESS from confined posi-
ton induce bad habits.
Half of the wear to tools, on some
farms, comes from unnecessary exposure
to sun and wind and rain. A convenient
shelter is far cheaper and looks less shift
less.
Late in the fall, after the grass begins
to die down on the lawn, apply liberal
dressing of ashes and lime to the lawn.
On light soils coating of manure should
he spread over the lawn. to remain during
the winter. In spring rake it off.
Feed the poultry all they will eat a few
days before they are marketed. This is
applicable to all kinds. Much of the
poultry sent to market is not in condition
to be of the best quality. They need
fattening.
The horse-troughs and barn-lofts are
no places for the hens. If hens are al
lowed to make nests in the stables they
may not only create filth therein, but also
carry lice with them, as nearly all kinds
OF fowls are afflicted with lice at this sea
son.
Where rag weeds have taken posses
sion the crab grass has been kept down.
The crab grass grows best m very warm
weather, and on ground that has been
cultivated. 1t throws out large roots, and
does more damage to young plants than
weeds.
A pound of saltpetre to eacl' square rod
of ground is recommended as an excellent
quick acting manure for hower-beds, and
it is also excellent for strawberry plants.
AS it is easily soluble in winter it is soon
appropriated by plants and gives imme
diate results.
As cheap homemade paint for barn
roofs, make a mixture of red oxide of
iron and fish OIL 1t is not as durable as
good paint, but serves well to give
bright color to oil roofs and buildings,
and will last two or three years. 1t
should not cost over 80 cents gallon.
The new sugar produced from coal,
called sacharine, has been condemned by
Paris doctors; because it seriously i'm.
pairs digestion. They recommend that
its use as an article Of diet be forbidden
by law, and an ordinance to that effect
is said to have been enacted. The good
old cane sugar seems likely to retain it's
place for while yet, in spite .f new in
ventions and artificially high prices.
Dalmation insect powder as a remedy
for the cabbage worm has been tried this
season with success. 1t is busted over
the plants occasionally with a busting
box or blown from a small bellows. A
solution OF teaspoonful of saltpetre in a
gallon of warm water sprinkled over the
cabbages once week has also been a
valuable remedy, and the work of apply
M q
can be used.
When chicks of different ages are run
ming together and older birds are about
the food for the little ones should be
thrown under Slated coops into which
only such can enter. This will save the
your gest and the delicate from being
trampled upon and crowded out and will
give them a chance to eat their fill at
their leisure. They will soon find out
what 1t means, and more often than not
Will be found waiting in the pens for tile
food to be thrown to them.
The Rolling Pin.--From the depths of
the culinary past has been uneartbed an
oblong club of wood with handle on
either end. The use of this article nv
the ancient housewives seems to have
been misinterpreted by the Young and
frivolous OF the present day. 1t can now
be found encased with purple or scarlet
plush, with handle engilded, and row
OF small brass hooks inserted into tha
main body OF the article. and used N
hang up keys, watches, purses and other
little bric-a-brac. The most thorouoh in
vestigation fails to reveal such use of
the rolling pin among the ancients In
those good old dsys it was EMPLOYED in |
slamming and jamming and rolling
dough to state of thinness in order that |
II might be used as an encasement for |
heterogeneous compound known as ME
But, alas, the rolling pin has reached an
etfete stage of civilization. 1t has orad.
uated nom the probabilities Of tho
kitchen to the ornamentation of the mar.
Tor, and is henceforth of no real value
Husking Before Shocking.-In some
sections the corn is cut and shocked in
me helds, the work of husking being
lone after the winter sets in by handling
me stalks IN the shocks, 1t is not onlv
laborlous operation, but one that ex-
poses the former in winter, and the prac-
zee belongs to former generations rather
nan 70 this' Much OF such labor NAV be
saved oy cutting down stalks so as IN
make roads through the corn for the mr..
pose OF using wagons. The corn so emf
should be carried to the barn and nseJ
sraln and stalks, as an early sunnly
The corn should then be pulled from The
stalks and thrown In heaps to be loaded
n the wagons. 1t can then be busked in
ne barn during rainy weather or otbar
elsure time. The pulling off Of tha
,ars can be done 50 easily and onictiv
hat large field can be gone over in
lay; After the corn is hauld of only tbs