The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-03
Household Hints.

Pour vinegar over fresh fish, and the
scales will come off easily.
Salt water, borax, and carbolic acid are
aids in the battle with vermin.
The luster of morocco leather is restored
by vanishing with white of an egg.
Carrots and turnips should boil for forty
five minutes when young; one hour, in
winter
Try keeping cranberries fresh by putting
them in cold water containing piece Of
charcoal. Change the water occasionally.
When your sitter becomes clogged with
-four or meal, sift some hot ashes through
it; you will be surprised to see how nicely
it is cleaned.
To wash flannel garments, souse them in
hot water, and put them repeatedly
through wringer. The garments should
never be wrung with the hands, or put in
cold water.
Jewelry can be made to look like new by
washing with ammonia and water, or alco-
hol, then rubbing dry and polishing with
prepared chalk, applied with flannel or
chamois skin.
To remove paint from silk goods, satu-
rate the part with equal parts of turpen-
tine and ammonia, then wash in soap-suds
and let it dry between blotting paper, un-
der heavy weight.
Alum water will restore almost all faded
colors. Brush the faded article thorough
ly, to free it from the dust, cover it with a
lather of CASTLE soap, rinse with clear
water and then alum water and the color
will usually be much brighter than before.
Farm Notes
Mr.. Chase of Iowa reports an income of
$500 net from nine cows
A pig narrowed in April has nine months
to grow, and ought to weigh $50 pounds at
that time.
The thrifty potato bug energies to join
the Farmers Alliance in a movement to
prevent cheap potatoes.
An average crop Of hay in the United
States is estimated at 40, 600, 900 tons, and
the value at 1897, 900, 900.
1t is poor policy to ever put off the work
of the apiary. In no business is there
greater necessity for thoroughness and
punctuality.
Gooseberry and currant bushes should be
pruned well. Cut out some of the central
shoots where two crowded. Cut them close
to the main stem.
Let it be understood that if it is in
tended to make a good cow-or a good
steer-keep the calf straight on growing.
He will soon learn to eat hay. Give him
chance to nibble at it.
Flax may soon be cultivated as well for
lint as seed. No fax makes better linen
than the American when properly manu-
featured. With the modern machinery
we shall have something equal to the
North of Ireland
Not pint of skinned milk should be
wasted. One hundred pounds of it, mixed
with forty pounds of cornmeal, Just
doubles the value of the meal, and hence
is worth as much as forty pounds Of meal,
now about 80 cents.
Prof. Wrighton says agriculture is a
born science. 1t is full of botany, zoology,
geology and entimology. It is full of
chemistry, from the soil to the growing
plant, the ripening seed and the animal
life which is the outcome.
There is likely to be a big crop of dema-
gogues within the next two or three years.
If you have any interest in such produce,
sell it out now before the price goes down.
They will be after the votes of the farmers
on one pretext or another
In deciding about starting creamery
on large SCALE, consider first carefully
whether you want cheese factory or
butter factory. Fix on the establishment
best adapted to the kind of cows in the
neighbur1ood of the or eamery.