The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-01-24
Farm and Garden NOtes.

Stem wood should now be cut
back.
Never put salt on steak until it is
cooked.
Mend the torn pages of books with
white tissure paper.
Mortar and paint may he removed
from glass with hot, sharp vinegar.
Black walnut sawdust, caramel and
roasted and Drowned horse liver are
used to adulterate coffee.
Money spent for trees is a good in.
vestment if the trees be properly cared
for.
Tea and coffee often leave brown
rim around the bottom Of cups and
saucers. This discoloration can be
removed by securing with salt that
has been little dampened.
The rubber rollers of wringing ma
chimes that have become sticky or
covered with lint from colored clothes
can he cleaned by passing a rag wet
with kerosene through them.
Feather beds or pillows should
never be put in the sun for the neat
draws out the oil from the feathers,
giving them rancid smell. Air them
on windy day where the sun will
not touch them.
A small-sized, low pine table may
be converted into q pretty writing
table. The top should be covered
with soft olive-green felt, tackled in
place by brass-headed nails. The legs
can be enameled to correspond, or in
plain white.
If your apples freeze during the
cold weather the injury to them Will
be much lessened If they are Kept
from The air and allowed to thaw
very gradually.
Lay thick piece of Canton flannel
under your tablecloth. Even coarse
napery will look a much better quality
with sub-cover than spread directly
over the bare table top.
In purchasing canned goods it il 9
safe rule to observe whether the heao
of the head is concave, q bulglDg ap
pearance being indicative of decom
position.
| IF the head he washed occasionally ly
with salt and water it will lessen the
falling out of the hair. Salt added tc
1.-THE bath will be found almost as in
vigorating as an ocean dip.
If YOU have black or tinted cambrics
or muslins which you hesitate to trus
Ito the laundress, give them first diI
Yourself in water in which has been
Stirred teaspoonful black pepper
. this is also said to save gray and buf
linens from spots when used III nrs
I. water.
Pie Crust for Dyspeptics.-Bo ano
mash half dozen potatoes, add tea
cupful of rich sweet cream, little
salt, and flour enough to roll out the
crust. Handle as little as possible
Put a strip around the edge of the
plate and cover the top of the pie, bu,
put none at the bottom. Prick the
upper crust TO let the steam out.
Give the growing chicks a taste. o.
boiled potatoes, and notice how they
"go for them" In many places the
= potato crop is large and this vegetable
: cheap. It is even cheaper than corn
but if fed in connection with corn anC
other articles of diet, it is great helE
to raise young stock economically anc
successfully.
A french method of preserving
grapes is something very close t" theil
natural condition. Shoots Of the vine
bearing, say, two branches of sound
grapes each, are placed in bottles OF
vases filled with water containing
charcoal in solution. The bottles are
then hung along the edges of notcheo
shelves in dry place. tits said tina
if tue water be renewed from time tt
time grapes 80 treated will keep IL
good condition until April.