The Columbus journal., 1893-10-18
Household Helps.

Household Helps.
Boil or roast q lemon, fill with
sugar while hot and eat hot. 1t will
often check your cold.
Rubber should be carefully kept
away from oil. as oil softens and
makes it unfit for use.
An iron dish cloth greatly faclli-
tates the washing of pans and kettles
to which food has adhered in cook
ing.
Old paint and varnish may be re-
moved by an emulsion formed Of two
parts of ammonia shaken up with one
part of turpsntine. 1t will soften
them so they may easily be scraped
of.
A clock is a very essential part OF
q kitchen outfit. A reliable one can
now be obtained so chesp that it is
an extravagant waste of time to have
to go into another room to ascertain
the time IS often in a day a q cook
needs to know it.
A small sized. low pine table may
be converted into a pretty writing
table. The top should be covered
with soft olive green felt, tackled in
place by brass-headed nails. The
legs can then be enameled to CORES.
pond or in plain white.
Handsome so-called '.bearskin"
rugs are easily obtained by dyeing
skins of sheep. Farmers sell long
woolled sheep skins for very little.
Good dyes will transform them into
serviceable. cheap and handsome
rugs for cottages and city homes
alike.
A pretty bag to hold the odds and
ends of fancy work consists, first. OF
q round cardboard covered with kid.
To this is gathered q bag of china
silk. The shirr strings are of mar
row ribbon. Around the edge of the
bottom and standing upright are
screwed brass rings covered with
narrow strips Of kid.
Stock Notes.
Hogs that are marketed after ten
months of age do not give the best
profits.
A writer in an exchange says he
cured q seed wart on a horse by one
application of salty lard.
A sheep raiser claims that there is
nothing like liberal feeding 10 cure
the wool taste of mutton.
People who want cattle without
horns, but think it inhuman to de-
horn them. should try the hornless
breeds.
Stock on poor grass will be apt to
find the weak places in the fences,
especially if there is any tempting
food on the other side.
The person who was never known
to make OR sell anything but a fine
quality Of butter has no trouble in
disposing Of all he a make.
Every farmers wife or daughter
should establish a reputation as q
maker of fine butter. 1t will pay. 1t
can all be sold to home consumers.
The American Creamery predicts
that in q short time it will be posi-
BILE to send to the grocer for solidi-
fed milk. the same as now for con
densed.
1t pays to have horses for farm
work that are naturally good walk
era A fast-walking team will turn
of q great deal more work than a
Blow Ole.
: Have good COWS, and then keep
them milking as long as possible
each year. Especially arrange to
have them giving milk through the
winter months when butter is high.
est.
A stockman says that on the
average stock farm the sire is more
than half of the herd. In two years
the increased value of twenty calves
by q pure-bred bull of good individu-
atty will amount to fully SO q head.
As the bull can then be sold for more
than half the first cost, the profit is
clearly in sight
Table linen to alw avs be of good
service should be mended with en-
broidery cotton of q number to CORE
spond with the quality OF the Gle tn.
Under the ragged edges Of the tear
paste . piece Of stiff paper. and make
q network of fine stitches back and
forth over its edges, carrying them
inch beyond the edges Towels
be mended the same way.