Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1886 — Comfort from newspapers. [ARTICLE]

Comfort from newspapers.

Many years ago, in one of the severe . wjqters when there much hardship poor, a city paper suggested that old newspapers, spread over the bed, would form an excellent substitute for blankets and coverlets. This brought upon the journal a great deal of harmless ridicule; from other papers, but it brought comfort to many a poor family. In the matter of bed-clothing, especially, we are apt to associate warmth with weight, and do not consider that there is no warmth in the coverings themselves, but that they merely prevent the heat of the body from passing off. Whatever is a poor conductor of heat will make a warm covering. Paper itself is a poor conductor, but still poorer are the thin lay•rs of air that are confined when two or three' newspapers are laid upon one another. A few newspapers laid over the bed will keep one much warmer than some of the heavy, close-woven blankets. We do not propose newspapers as a substitute for blankets and comforters, but it is one of those make-shifts that it is well to know. In traveling one may, by the aid of a few papers, secure a comfortable rest in a thinly-clad bed, and if we cannot afford to give a destitute family a blanket |or a comforter, we may show them how to increase the usefulness of their thin coverings by stitching a few layers of newspapers between them. It may be well to remind those who grow window-plants that, by removing them away from the window, and arranging a cover of newspapers over them, they may be preserved from harm in severely cold nights. With the plants, as with ourselves, it is not sc much thn* cold comes in as that the heat goes off - , and often a slight protection will prevent the escape of heat.—American Agriculturist,

a member of tbe Western New I'jrk. Farmers’ Club sprayed his orchard with a solution of paris green, to exterminate the canker-worm, and reports the apple aphis, which had formerly.infest* ed his trees, had wholly disappeared. There is no excuse whatever for the Blovenly appearance of many yards or lawns about the farmer’s home. It is not the sign of good farming, sincf carelessness in one place denotes very clearly carelessness in another.— Chica* go Journal. Turnips for Cows.— l have tried every way to destroy the flavor of turnips in milk, but without success. I have boiled it, fed the cows after milking, but it was all the same—turnip flavor unmistakable—and as we do not like our butter so. flavored, I only feed turnips when the cow is dry.— Mrs. G. BourinoL. Ottawa. Canada.