Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-02-28


its strength.
Dishes Drowned by use may be cleaned
by letting them remain half or three-quar.-
ters of en- hour in boiling soda water
That ugly rust will depart when treated
with cream of tartar. Tie q little of the
powder in the stained parts, and boil q
few moments in clear water.
Powdered borax seems to be more thor.
oughly endorsed than any other remedy for
eroton bugs and cockroaches. But it will
not be OF much use unless used plentifully
aud persistently
10 dispose of dry bread, slice it. taking
OIL the crust; dip first in milk sweetened
and favored, then in a well. beaten egg:
ny H. ana strew sugar over it as you take
IT from the pan.
Lemon juice will whiten frosting, cram
berry or strawberry will color it pink, and
the grated rind of an orange strained
through cloth will render il yellow.
The white cinder that you can reduce to
dirt with the finger is what clean my
spoons and polish my tinware with.
Very little rnbhing is necessary when
inns ine,hoa OF cleaning cio,RS- sS-s1lu
Dissolve thirds of pound of soap in
pail of boiling hot water, add one half cup
OF Kerosene, and put all into q boiler half
fuli OF cold water, in which are the soiled
clothes. Boil fifteen minutes and suds and
rinse as usual.
uAx no nr-nr
Finely bred, intelligent horses" said
trainer recently, "are often nervous.
They are quick to notice, quick to take
alarm, quick to do what seems to them, in
moments of sudden terror, necessary to es-
cape from sudden harm, from something
they do not understand. That IL what
makes them shy, bolt and run away. We
cannot tell what awful suggestions strange
things offer to their minds 1t may be
that sheet of white paper in the roadway
seems to the nervous horse yawning
chasm, the open front of a baby carriage
may be the jaws ola dragon ready to de-
your him, and man on bicycle some ter
rlfying sort of flying devil without wings.
Directly, however, he becomes familiar
with these objects, and he is entirely in
different to them. Therefore, when your
horse SHES at anything, make him ae-
quainted with it, let him smell it, touch it
with his sensitive upper lip and look closely
at IT. He may not learn all in one lesson,
but continue the lessons, and you will cure
your horse of all nervousness Home,
Farm and Factory.
AN ITEM IN BUTTER MAKING.
John Gould, whose opinions are worth
reporting, says that it is a mistake to sup
pose that sour cream makes more butter
IRON the cream than sweet Souring adds
nothing; 1T aimply assists the churn to re
cover more fat from the cream. In sweet
cream the emulsion is perfect If sweet
cream is diluted about three times its
bulk in water at eighty degrees, and allow
cd to raise q second time, the difference
between the amount of sweet and sour
cream butter will be inconsiderable, show
ing that souring the cream is, after al, only
another way OF liberating butter fats from
the combined sugar, cheese and fbrin
Ii was asserted by the late
Professor Arnold that the adding of
small amount of pure cider vinegar to
sweet cream iuat- -tha-- --chnrn- -startad--
TO BREAK SETTING HENS.
Even the most determined can readily DO
induced TO change her mind ON this point
and bc persuaded not to set, by taking
dry goods box two feet square, more or
less, placing it with the open side on the
bare ground; put the hen under tho box,
iaking care of the ventilation by raising
one side half an inch or so. Leave the
len without food or water for four days,
hen turn her loose in the morning; II she
Itill wants to set, shut her up again for
.hreo days more without food or water, then
iberate her. This is not very cruel
~ a hen ready to set Ii always
,ncased with u prodigious amount Of fat,
which would keep her alive without bit
)f food or water for three or four weeks
Milk fever nearly always results from
'yerfeeding the cows previous to calving
Il is usual to feed all the cows alike, and
.s the dry COW is not compelled to convert
-he greater part Of her food into milk, the
is that she stores up the sur
plus as fat, and in very short time be-
comes fat enough for the butcher, and ut
Lerly unfit Tor breeding. When the calfis
iropped it may be weakly, and does net
assist in relieving tho udder. The
,ow being also fat and feverish the result
5 milk fever A cow that is expected to
,alve should receive only small proper
ion of carbonaceous food. Hay 10 prsfera,
Die to grain.
The best wealth 10 the fertility Of the
'oil. The country that largely imports
fertilizers and plants food will become
gradually wealthy, and tho time win como
when such country will have more for sale
han she can consume. Fertilizers are
more lasting and permanent than gold, and
'an be drawn upon for O return when
else fails. The same applies TO
he individual farmer The richer HE soil
ho greater his resources and the moro &C.
.ure his Investment.
CLOVER
ow il on your wheat, rye, barley or oats;
ow il anywhere that IL will grow and give
you q crop OF hay. No matter what other
lind OF feed You have, nor how much you
iave of 1t, If you can feed good, bright,
,arly-cut and wellcnred cloyor hay you
.re sure Of having tho foundation Of
alton more or less perfect, according TO
what the rest of II is composed of Be
des its use dry, as hay, clover cut green
or feeding in summer is one Of the best
oiling crops we have We have never
ricd il for ensilage, but thoae who have
ay IL makes good feed, but IL costs more
n proportion to put in the silo than corn
loes In addition To its value al feed for
'tock the roots of the clover plant make
me of the best fertilizers for other crops.
No farmer will go wrong in sowing clover,
( it will grow ON his farm; but II is not u