Year: 1877

Household Hints.


An EXCELLENT FURNITURE Polish -
Put into a bottle one pint of linseed oil,
half quartern of spirits of wine, half a
quartern Of vinegar, and one ounce Of
butter Of antimony. Mix all together,
and shake the bottle well before using it.


RUsT IN TrS,-To prevent rusting Of
tin rub fresh lard over every part of the
dish, and then put it in hot oven and
heat it thoroughly. Thus treated, any
tinware may be used in water constantly
and remain bright and free from rust in
definitely, ,r


For CLEANING WHITE MARBLE Hall
q pound of pearl-ash, one pound of
whitening, half a pound of soft soap all
10 be boiled together until quite thick,
and put on the marble when nearly cold.
1t must remain on for twentyfom hours,
then be washed of with soft water, and
afterwards polished well with linen
cloths. Spirits of turpentine for black
marble.


CANARY BIRDs.-To keep insects off
of birds, put the least bit of kerosene
oil under each wing say as much as
remains on your little finger after you
have let the drop fall off. Do this every
ten days until all are removed. Clean
the-cage we'll every day scour it in hot
water use borax and but little soap.
Mate the birds during the last of Feb
ruary Or first of March.


To CLEANSE A KITCHEN SNK.-Every
morning, after the dishes have been
washed, give the sink thorough scald-
ing out then sprinkle plenty of pulver-
lied borax in and around the sink, under
it, and the boiler let the borax remain,
as it is a disinfectant. 1t will also ab-
sorb the grease; drive off the bugs or
ants, and will not in any way interfere
with the cooking or dish-washing.


Winter Flowing.


Winter plowing is good thing. 1t
upsets the insects, turns them up from
their warm quarters below to cold
quarters above. 1t throws up the clay
to be pulverized by the frost and air.
1t gives much aid to spring work, as, if
the soil is dry now, it will not need to
be plowed again in spring-a good
harrow pulverizing it finely for any
crop. For oats and clover, timothy,
red-top, blue grass, orchard grass, &c +,
by all means do winter plowing. Then
in early spring you can SOW the seed at
once, and not wait till the ground is in
condition to plow, and then spend sew
eral days Ia doing what could better be
done in any open weather in winter.
GA word to the wise is sufficient. -
Rural World.


How TO Keep spinach,


The Massachusetts Ploughndn gives
the following method of saving spinach
over winter as practiced by the market
gardeners about Boston To keep
spinach it is only necessary to cut it on
a dry day, about Nov. 10 Or 10, and pile
it about six inches deep upon shelves
in cellar provided with Yentilators, SO
as to be able to keep the temperature
as near as may be at 80 degrees. The
cellar is usually built on purpose in the
large gardens where 1000 bushels or
more of spinach are stored. An ex-
cavation 20x30 feet is made, six feet
deep, and walled up at the sides aud
covered i'll with a roof of boards and
shingles, with door at one end. Two
paths OF alleys run the length of the
cellar two feet wide, and shelving of
six-inch boards, with air spaces of an
inch between, are built up on each sid
the alley; the space between the shelves
is fourteen inches.


The cellar should be provided with
two or three ventilators of pine boards
six inches square, extending from near
the floor to a height of several feet
above the roof. These are kept open i'll
moderate weather, closed in very
severe cold spell or in thaw, the OBJ
iect being to keep the temperature as
near 80 degrees as may be.


The roof and ends of the pit are COW
cred over with litter of any available
kind to exclude frost. Spinach will keep
very we'll in cold, dry weather in eel
lar like this with a little waste but if q
warm open spell of weather occurs, il
is very likely to decay and spoil. ~