Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1860-12-14
Scraps.

We clip the following from the Dunleitf
Adcertiser, which, by the way is as spicy anG
well conducted paper as we receive at this
office. 1t always has something good for the
farmer.
Il Shure Remedy for Fslon.-This very
painful eruption, with all the remedies rec
commended, is seldom arrested until it has
run a certain course, after causing great SUI:
fering for two or three days and nights. The
following remedy is given by the Buffalo
Adrocate, as a certain thing from it's OWL
knowledge: Take pint of common sof,
soap and stir it in ar-slacked lime till it is OF
the consistency of glaciers putty. Make a
leather thimble, fill it with the composition
and insert the finger therein, and cure is
certain" This is a domestic application that
almost every housekeepcr can supply prompt,
ly.
Butter Mdking.-Thc chief points, beside
cleanliness, in making good butter are these
TO milk at regular hours; to place the mil
in shallow vessel; to have perfectly clean
cellar, with brick or fiat stone bottom, with
shutters and wire screen windows, to admit
air and exclude insects; to skim the milk
the moment it coagulatcs, which will be in
thirty to forty hours to churn the cream al
a temperature between fiftytive and sixty, OF
sixty and sixty-fve degrees, by the ther
mometer; to free the butter as much as pos
sible from buttermilk, and then add a six
teenth part of the purest salt to work GU,
the remaining buttermilk in twelve hours af
forwards, and again in twenty-four hours
being careful not to work it to much at time
t, n, fill
and then spread clean, white muslin cloth
over the top, pack closely layer of one inch
of fine salt upon the muslin, and finally cover
the jar with closely fitted tin cover. But
ter made in this way will keep year, ifplaced
on the bottom Of cool cellar.
To Salt Beef.-The quicker beef is cut UP
after it is killed the better it will be, and, il
it is sailed while it is warm, it is nearly as
good as the best tongue. To a barrel of bee
put a peck of salt, two quarts of molasses
| four pounds of sugar and half pound Of
saltpetre. Head the barrel up and roll j,
about frequently until fully sailed.
.Suine.-See that your swine are ma L
comfortable, with plenty to eat, and plenty
of clean straw for "nest" Pace boz
| in the stye, and do not neglect to give then
dose of birthstone occasionally. Swine arr
regarded as filthy animals, but they like 4;
dry, warm, and clean bed in cold weather
as well as animals of more cleanly habits.
Hens.-Let your hens be carefully seen tt
at this season. There are now no insect,
for them to devour, and if you would realize
profit from them, you must supply then
daily with meat OfFal from the shambe!
will answer Give them plenty of oats
corn and buckwhcat; also, pounded bones
ashes and lime, with plentiful supply o
pure water.
Co,cs-Milch cows should have daily al
lowance of meal. They should also be wei
bedded, and supplied with pure water with
out being compelled to walow through tn
snow for it. A little lamp oil, poured on tn
back of the neck. will protect them from yer
min. See that they are protected from tn
cold, and supplied daily with clean, dr.,
sawdust, for bedding.
Cistern Water.-A quantity of clean lump
of freshly burned charcoal put into your els
tern, will probably keep the wafer sweet
We should arrange cistern so as to hav
the first part of shower--which washes tn
dirt off a roof-run outside the cistern. Thi
could easily be done by leading the pipe iron
the roof into hogshead, and fitting fioa
to shift the pipe when the hogshead becam
filed, so as to turn the water into the cisterr
Pure water will never spoil.