Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-04-25
HOME AND FARM.

To keep the house free from
moths. never put down carpets till the
door is thoroughly dry.
If you are careful TO keep the fur
rows straight you will do faster and
better blowing.
Old, worn-out and dull imple-
ments are the most expensive things
that can be used on the farm. They
cost the user more every year than he
would have to pay for new improved
machinery, and are always a source Of
trouble and vexation.
Any soil that will grow fair crop
of corn may be selected for peaches.
The same cultivation is given peaches
the first year that is necessary for
corn. which means that the cultivator
should be passed over the ground fire.
quently and the grass kept down.
The cherry, says the Rural Cana
dian. is about the only fruit tree which
can be recommended for shade i'll past
ures along roadsides. as the hardy vari-
cites OF cherries are not affected by
the trampling of stock or the passing
of vehicles, which would prove most
injurious to most other fruit trees.
ALI the cereals. even rice, are far
better to be put to cook in boiling
water. This bursts the starch cells at
once, and prevents the raw taste and
stringy dark look which these prepa-
rations frequently have. They should
not be stirred while cooking, as il
breaks the grains and makes them
pasty. Mothers Magazine.
When fat-irons become rusty,
black them with stove polish and rub
well with dry cloth. The yelk of an
egg TO wipe them over with has also
been recommended. 1t pays 10 care
for ones irons. Good work in ironing
can not be done without good irons.
And it pays TO be careful about every
thing in our home, or how can good re-
suits be expected
Home is the chief school OF hui
man nature. Its responsibilities, joys,
SORROWS smiles. tears, hopes and so
licitudes form the chief interests OF
human life. Go where man may,
home is center to which his heart
turns. The thought of his home nerves
his arm and lightens his toll. For that
his heart yearns when he is afar off.
There he gamers up his best treas
ures. God has ordained for all men
alike the highest earthly happiness il
providing for all the sanctuary Of
| home.
"A quaint lesson in economy was
| given by an Englishman of wealth and
| position to an American friend. 1t is
related to the method of preserving q
stair-carpet, and to keep il in its en-
tirety as long as possible. She and hel
husband had agreed, the one to keeE
always to the right in going up and
down, and the other to walk only upon
the left-haud side of the carpet. 1t was
expected that the company would KEEP
| exclusively in the center of the stair.
way, and that, as result of the ar
rangement, the stair-carpet would
grow old with equal rapidity.
Have trees and grass and flowers
around the house to eat up the slopS
and dish-water thrown out and emp
tied here and there on the premises,
and to render harmless all these sub
stances that in their decay might en-,
danger peoples health. This plan i:
better than to have drains or sewers as
usually constructed in and near farm
homes. There is safer way, how.
ever, of dealing with house-slops, wash
ing-suds and liquids of that sort. KeeE
barrel on wheels near the kitchen,
door as fitting receptacle for all such
substances, and empty its contents
from time to time upon the garden, OF
meadows, or upon the compost heap.
American Agriculturist.