Clean house in the fall instead of spring, and you get rid of all the filth made by flies. But when you burn bituminous coal, spring is the proper time for house cleaning.
Keep coarse mats on the kitchen table for keeping it clean.
Use a coarse apron and gloves for cleaning grates. Have coal cinders sifted, and save the coarse part to burn again.
Buy your wood in August and September, when it usually is cheapest and plenty.
Have the backs of your chimneys kept clean by sweeping.
Never try a new dish for company.
To purify water, put common charcoal pounded in a common flower-pot, and fine sand over it, and let the water trickle through. Or, take an old sieve, and fill it with sand and pounded charcoal, and strain the water, and then cool it with ice.
Keep a receipt book for yourself, and write in it the improvements of your own experience.
Keep bits of potter’s clay in the house, to use for a paste to extract grease from carpets, floors, and broadcloths.
Dry bran around grapes and other fruit preserves it.