The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-12-18
Household Hints.

ease they should be cold.
Cut piece from the top of old kid
shoes and insert it inside the ironing
holder you are going to make,
Old paint stains may be removed
from clothing by rubbing the spots
with spirits Of turpentine, which will
mostly evaporate.
If one wishes to cool hot dish in a
hurry, it will be found that if the dish
be placed in vessel full of cold, salty
water it will cool far more rapidly
than if it stood in water free from
salt.
Clean very fine lace with benzine.
10 set delicate colors in embroider-
ed handkerchiefs, soak them ten min
utes before washing in pail of water
in which a dessertspoonful OF turpen-
tine has been stirred.
For earache and toothache, and
neuralgia in head and face, the surest
remedy is hop poultice wrung from
hot vinegar; and against such needs
one should keep on hand half dozen
flannel bags Of convenient size, stuffed
with strong, home cured hops.
The prejudice prevails that plants
in the sleeping room are injurious,
because they are constantly throwing
off carbonic acid. Recent investiga-
tions have shown that i'll effects are
altogether too slight to deserve con-
sideration. If room is poorly venti-
lated, plants can do no harm, aud even
if it is not, tho quantity of carbonic
acid exhaled by them will not mater
tally affect the purity of the air.
Agricultural Notes.
Young animals will thrive better if
they are not fed on corn exclusively.
Slice the turnips and sprinkle bran
and oil meal over them before feed
ing.
Fall pigs need dry, warm shelter
if they are kept growing during the
winter.
A good colt will hardly come from a
poor mare, even if she is bred to q
good sire.
Where cattle are kept a few head oil
sheep can nearly always be kept to an
advantage.
In breeding good horses you have
the advantage in always having a
good market for them.
Good care should be given the hens
now as through the winter is the best
time to realize a good profit from
selling eggs.
There is no economy in keeping
stock over winter unless they will
make sufficient growth to pay wei
, for their feed.
One advantage in keeping the stool
in q good thrifty condition is that the!
are ready to market any time tina
, may be desirable.
, Without protection for every poun<
, of food given to produce growt
, another pound must be given t.
maintain animal heat.
One Of the best remedies to use TO
T. worms in stock is to give a little tur
pentine in their feed, it will reliev
7 them in majority of cases.
Care should be taken in haudlin!
: young colts to be systematic. Trai
\ them to do one thing at a time, bu
I have them learn that thoroughly.
To make the best success with farm
ing, diligence in pushing the farm
y work and care in feeding and hand
+ ling the stock are very necessary.
Clean water and wholesome foo
9 keep stock in healthy condition. L
a majority of cases disease results fror
filth, unwholesome food, or neglect.
By keeping few rusty nails or oil
= iron in their drinking water will fur
!, nish a good tonic for the poultry, and
. especially for the hens when they ar
moulting.
Soils that are rich are benefited b
;, lime as we'll as soils that are poor. II
= the former the lime renders the plan
! food soluble. In the latter the lime i
itself an addition to the soil as plan
;. food.
Wood ashes seem dry, but Presiden
4 Smith, of the Wisconsin Horticulture
), Society, says that his experience
q that in dry seasons there is no fertilize
that produces better results on pota toe
- or Strawberries.
- Experiments show that when hog
are given a proportion of ashes an
- bone meat they have larger bone
= grow faster, and produce create
- weight in proportion to food allowed
Ashes also assists digestion and pr
d, notes health.
! In general, it is probable, says Pro
e fessor S. w. johnson, that SO per cen
- and more OF tho soil, exclusive (
:. water does not in the slightest degre
: contribute directly to the support {
: the present vegetation of our ordinar
field products.
ia 1t is estimated that the surface of q
). acre OF ground. one foot deep, contain
about 1000 pounds of phosphoric aoit
5000 pounds Of potash aud 1900
s. pounds of nitrogen. Much OF thi
l,nuavor nonv ko havonH tho ranch I