Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-04-10
HOME AND FARM : i:

HOME AND FARM. I.
Ito keep tho house free from
moths, never put down carpets till the
floor 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 u source of
trouble and vexation.
Amy 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 in 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 it
breaks the grains and makes them
pasty.-Mother's Magazine.
When Aat-irons become, rusty,
black them with stove polish and rub
we'll with dry cloth. The yelk of an
egg to wipe them over with has also
been recommended. 1t pays to 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 hu.
man nature. Its responsibilities, Joys,
sorrows, smiles. tears, hopes and So
licitudes form the chief interests oil
human life. Go where q man may,
home is a center to which his heart
turns. The thought of his homo nerves
his arm and lightens his toll. For that
his heart yearns when he is affair off.
There he garners up his best treas.
ures. God has ordained for all men
alike the highest earthly happiness in
providing for all the sanctuary OF
home.
"A quaint lesson in econo my was
given by an Englishman of wealth and
position to an American friend. It is
related to the method of preserving a
stair-carpet, and to keep it in it's en-
tirety as long as possible. She and her
husband had agreed, the one to keep
always to the right in going up and
down, and the other to walk only upon
the left-hand side of the carpet. It was
expected that the company would keep
exclusively in the center of the stair.
way, and that, as q 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 is
better than to have drains or sewers as
usually constructed in and near farm.
homes. There is a safer way, how.
ever, of dealing with house-slops, wash.
ing-suds and liquids of that sort. Keep
barrel on wheels near the kitchen.
door as fitting receptacle for all such
substances, and empty it's contents
from time to time upon the garden, on
meadows, or upon the compost heap
American Agriculturist.