MOTHER'S DOWN-HOME COUNTRY LORE

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January/February 1977
By Nancy Bubel 
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Got a nice china dish that's cracked? Before you settle for a plastic replacement, take a tip from Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Olm of Stratford, Wisconsin: Boil the damaged plate or bowl in sweet milk for 45 minutes, and it'll probably seal the crack. Honest! And that's just one more good reason for keeping a milk cow or goat on the ole homestead.

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And do you need a strainer for your goat or cow milk? There's no reason to buy one if you own a blender with a jar that comes apart. Just unscrew the ring that holds the bottom on the jar, remove the blender blades, stretch your filter paper or cheesecloth across the container's open bottom, and screw the ring on again. Presto! A strainer that works just fine for the one?cow or one?goat family. Joy Birnseth of Gold Hill, Oregon who sent us this hint?now has a request for the rest of us: How do you keep flies out of the house? So let's hear it for fly prevention. What have you tried that really works?

OK. Now it's YOUR turn! We've all come up with practical, down-home, time?tested solutions to the frustrating little problems that bug us every day. Let's hear YOUR best "horse sense" idea.

Send your country lore to Nancy Bubel, RD 1, Wellsville, Pennsylvania 17365. I'll make sure that the most useful suggestions I receive will appear in upcoming editions of this feature. And the home office editors of THE MOTHER EARTH NEWSY (the ones who work down in the mountains of North Carolina) tell me that a one?year subscription?or extension of an existing subscription?will be sent to each contributor whose idea or tip is printed in this column.?Nancy.

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