A Goop Pastz.—To one pint cold water add two heaping table-spoons flour. Put the flour in a pan, add a little of the water, stirring until smooth; then add the rest of the water, stir thoroughly, place on the stove and stir constantly until it boils. After taking from the stove, add one-fourth teaspoon ground cloves✪ Goop Paste to keep it sweet. Prece-Bacs.— White cotton piece-bags hung in the linen closet are a great convenience; have them made with a string to draw:from both sides: mark in large letters in indelible ink, ‘‘Merino and Cloth,” “Cotton and ‘Linen Sundries,” ‘Dress Pieces,” “Old Linen,” “Worsted and Yarn, *‘Old Silk,” ‘Thread and Tape,’ ‘‘Old Gloves,” ete. To Remove WHITE Spots on Furniture, caused by a hot iron of hot #ater, or to restore blistered furniture.—Rub with a No. 1 sand-paper some- what worn, or apply pulverized pumice stone mixed with a few drops of linseed oil, then with a cotton cloth rub on some shellac varnish thinned well with turpentine. Or, rub with spirits of camphor. : WEIGHT oF GRAIN.—Wheat 60 pounds in all states except’ Connecticut, where it is 56; corn 56, except in New York, where it is 58; oats 32; barley 48; buckwheat 46 to 59, but generally 48; clover seed 60, but 64 in Ohio and New Jersey; timothy 44; flaxseed 56; potatoes 60; beans 60,:but in Ohio . 56, and New York 62; dried peaches 28 to 33; dried apples 22 to 28. UNFERMENTED WINE For Communion.—Weigh the grapes, pick from the stems, put in a porcelain kettle, add very little water, and cook till stones and wnly separate; press and strain through a thick cloth, return juice w Kettle, and add three pounds sugar to every ten pounds grapes✪ Unfermented Wine for Communion; heat # _ ‘immering, bottle hot, and seal. This makes one gallon, and is good, £ 522, - ‘MISCELLANEOUS. To MAKE Hens Lay In WInTER.—Keep them warm; keep corn con stantly by them, out do not feed it to them. Feed them with meat scraps when lard or taliow has been tried, or fresh meat. Some chop green pep- pers finely, or mix cayenne pepper, with corn-meal, to feed them. Let oe have a frequent taste of green food, a little gravel and lime, or clam- shells. * To Remove Or, Marks from wall paper where inconsiderate people rest. their heads. Take pipe-clay or fuller’s earth, and make into a paste, about as thick as ice-cream, with cold water; lay it on the stain gently without rubbing it in; leave it on all night. It will be dry by morning, when it can be brushed off, and unless an old stain, the grease spot will have dis- appeared. If old, renew the application. ConTEeNTS oF CisteRN.—The following gives the contents of a cistern for ‘each foot in depth. 1f the diameter at top and bottom differ, strike the average and use that as the basis of the estimate: 5 feet diameter 4.66 barrels. ~ 8 feet diameter 11.93 barrels. 6 66 v 6.71 bb 9 oé 66 15.10 66 i he oe 9.13 ae 10; * ‘ 1S Lat CocHINEAL CoLorinc.—To a pound of wool take two gallons of rain- water, one ounce cream tartar, one and a half ounces cochineal, two ounces solution tin, one-fourth ounce turmeric; first, put the cold water in a copper kettle and let it boil, put in the cream tartar; in five min- utes, the cochineal; in five minutes, solution tin; in five minutes, turmeric; in five minutes, yarn; boil an hour; stir all the time. Rinse in cold water. Stove PouisH.—Add to one pint benzine, one ounce pulverized resin; when dissolved, mix any good and finely ground black lead, using the above just the same as you would water for mixing stove polish. Apply with a small pain? brush, and rub it smooth, as it dries rapidly ; when dry, polisb with a soft stove brush; very little rubbing is required. For sheet-iron use the benzine and resin alone, apply with soft rags, and rub rapidly until dry and shining.

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A Good Paste.—To one pint cold water add two heaping table-spoons flour. Put the flour in a pan, add a little of the water, stirring until smooth; then add the rest of the water, stir thoroughly, place on the stove and stir constantly until it boils. After taking from the stove, add one-fourth teaspoon ground cloves to keep it sweet. Piece-Bags.— White cotton piece-bags hung in the linen closet are a great convenience; have them made with a string to draw:from both sides: mark in large letters in indelible ink, ‘‘Merino and Cloth,” “Cotton and ‘Linen Sundries,” ‘Dress Pieces,” “Old Linen,” “Worsted and Yarn, *‘Old Silk,” ‘Thread and Tape,’ ‘‘Old Gloves,” ete. To Remove WHITE Spots on Furniture, caused by a hot iron or hot water, or to restore blistered furniture.—Rub with a No. 1 sand-paper somewhat worn, or apply pulverized pumice stone mixed with a few drops of linseed oil, then with a cotton cloth rub on some shellac varnish thinned well with turpentine. Or, rub with spirits of camphor. : WEIGHT oF GRAIN.—Wheat 60 pounds in all states except’ Connecticut, where it is 56; corn 56, except in New York, where it is 58; oats 32; barley 48; buckwheat 46 to 59, but generally 48; clover seed 60, but 64 in Ohio and New Jersey; timothy 44; flaxseed 56; potatoes 60; beans 60,:but in Ohio . 56, and New York 62; dried peaches 28 to 33; dried apples 22 to 28. UNFERMENTED WINE For Communion.—Weigh the grapes, pick from the stems, put in a porcelain kettle, add very little water, and cook till stones and skins separate; press and strain through a thick cloth, return juice to kettle, and add three pounds sugar to every ten pounds grapes; heat to simmering, bottle hot, and seal. This makes one gallon, and is good, £ 522, - ‘MISCELLANEOUS. To MAKE Hens Lay In WInTER.—Keep them warm; keep corn constantly by them, but do not feed it to them. Feed them with meat scraps when lard or taliow has been tried, or fresh meat. Some chop green peppers finely, or mix cayenne pepper, with corn-meal, to feed them. Let them have a frequent taste of green food, a little gravel and lime, or clamshells. * To Remove Oil Marks from wall paper where inconsiderate people rest. their heads. Take pipe-clay or fuller’s earth, and make into a paste, about as thick as ice-cream, with cold water; lay it on the stain gently without rubbing it in; leave it on all night. It will be dry by morning, when it can be brushed off, and unless an old stain, the grease spot will have disappeared. If old, renew the application. ConTEeNTS oF CisteRN.—The following gives the contents of a cistern for ‘each foot in depth. 1f the diameter at top and bottom differ, strike the average and use that as the basis of the estimate: 5 feet diameter 4.66 barrels. ~ 8 feet diameter 11.93 barrels. 6 66 v 6.71 bb 9 oé 66 15.10 66 i he oe 9.13 ae 10; * ‘ 1S Lat CocHINEAL CoLorinc.—To a pound of wool take two gallons of rainwater, one ounce cream tartar, one and a half ounces cochineal, two ounces solution tin, one-fourth ounce turmeric; first, put the cold water in a copper kettle and let it boil, put in the cream tartar; in five minutes, the cochineal; in five minutes, solution tin; in five minutes, turmeric; in five minutes, yarn; boil an hour; stir all the time. Rinse in cold water. Stove PouisH.—Add to one pint benzine, one ounce pulverized resin; when dissolved, mix any good and finely ground black lead, using the above just the same as you would water for mixing stove polish. Apply with a small paint brush, and rub it smooth, as it dries rapidly ; when dry, polisb with a soft stove brush; very little rubbing is required. For sheet-iron use the benzine and resin alone, apply with soft rags, and rub rapidly until dry and shining.

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