The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1858-05-12
Useful Receipts.


water, ore at time. | have saved seve-
raj horses in this way.
BREAD OMELET.-Put into a stew pan
tea cup Of bread crumbs, a tea cup of
cream, spoonful Of butter, with salt, pep
per, and nutmeg; when the bread has
absorbed the cream, bsal; in the eggs,
beat them little with the mixture, and
fry like plain omect.
STICKING SALvE.-As requested by
Mr.. Smith, send you recipe for ma.
king Sticking Salve Of the first quality
not only for sores, but for pains, &c
Three pounds rosin half pound bees-wax
hall pound mutton tallow, and table
spoonful sulphur. When melted togeth
er, turn it into cold water and then work
together with the hands, by pulling and
doubling it, fifteen or twenty minutes
tue origioLaI recipe SAYS, "about an hour"
and it is fit for use.-Rurdl NeV Yor
ker.
HEN MANURE Hen manure is ten
or httecn times stronger than common
yard manure. 1t may be mixed with
! several times its bulk of ioam, stirred well
allow 1t to remain a few weeks. if
convenient, to allow it to impregna.e the
loan, and then be applied in the hill'-
Or the hen manure may be sown broad
cast, narrowed into the earth, and then
turn uuder lightly with a gang plough or
otherwise, and the quantity used per acre
must be in accordance with its strength.
The lime may be treated in the last men.
toned way Co"nty Genticmon.
Cure FOR SrAMMERTNG.-At every
syllable pronounced, tap AT the same time
with the finger. BY doing so the mos
lnveteraie stammerer will be SURPRISED TO
find he can pronounce quite ilucn,lv, and
by long and constant practice lie will pro.
nounce perfectly well. This may be ex-
! planned IN two ways, either bv sv,n
pathetic concentancous action Of the nerves
OF voluntary motion in the finger, End in
those OF the tongue, which is the most
probable; or 1t may be that the move
ment of the finger dis;ractS the attention
of the individual from his speech, and al
lows free action Of the individual nerves
concerned in articulation
SALT AND ASHES FOR Cows.-On turn.
ing my COWS 10 pasture in the spring, |
provide several small tubs, and having
fixed them firmly in the soil. to prevent
them being overturned, put into each tub
one quart of salt, and three quarts of
s'tted wood ashes, previously well mixed
by stirring. The cows partake freely of
this mixture. At prevents injury by the
sudden change from dry to green food
and has, besides, most invigoratinr
effect upon the general system. Some
assert that salt should be given as often
as only once a week, as its more frequent
use would be injurious. But when sup.
Piled IN this way, no apprehension need
be entertained. have never known an
instance Of this kind, and have so given
the article for Germantown Tel.
Cgroph.
RoT.-It is fact indispu,abIy proved,
says Mr. Cuthbcrt w. Johnson, that il
sheep are allowed free access OF salt, they
will never be subject t. the disease called
the rot. some recent experiments also
lead me even 20 hope that shall one dav
or the other, he able TO prove it to he a
cure for this devastating disease. have
room bat for one fact Mr.. Rusber, of
Stanly, in Glouchestershirc, in the autumn
OF 1928, purchased for mere lrife TWEEN
ty sheep, decidedly rotten, and gave each
OF them for some weeks one ounce of sal,
every morning two only died during
the winter; the surviving eighteen were
ewed and have now, says my informant
lambs by their sides.-FycM.
CURE FOR TIE BITE OF A MAD Doc
a writer in the National Intelligencer
says that spirits OF hartshorn is certain
remedy for the bite of mad dog. The
wound, he adds, should be constantly
bathed with it, aud three or four doses,
diluted, take inwardly during the day
The hartshorn decomposes chemically the
virus insinuated into the wound, and i'm
medlately destroys its deIeteriousness.-
The writer, who resided in Brazil some
time, first tried it for the bite Of a scorpi
on, and found that it removed the pain
and inflammation almo.t instantly. Subse
quently he tried il for the bite of rattle
snake, with similar success. At the suC
gestion Of the writer, an old and allie
physician tried it in cases Of hydrophoLia
and always with success.
PLANTING Box.-Few people, except
professed gardeners, know how this hand
some border ornament ought 20 be plan
ted. 1t IS usually stuck in few inches
and left struggling on top Of the ground
with three or four times as much top and
three or four times less bottom than it
ought to have. Box grows nearly as
we'll from the branches as the roots..-
Now, the trench in winch the edging is
to be planted, should be full spade deep
on the border side, being few inches
sballower on the alley sde-the soil
should be made fne-and the box inser.
ted to the bottom Of the trench, packed
in tightly with soil, leaving only from one
and half TO two and half inches out
OF gsound. There viii DC no danger Of il
not growing, or Of producing full foliage