The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-12-05
Agricultural Items.
THE FARM--THE GARDEN-THE HOUSEHOLD

Eggs for cooking purposes : One table,
spoonful of corn starch is said to be equal 10
one egg. 80. af
Odors from boiling ham, cabbage, etc. are
prevented by throwing red pepper-pods or a
few pieces of charcoal into the pod.
Pigeons are hatched in eighteen days, chick
ems, twenty-four; turkeys, twenty ducks
and geese, thirty. @ ,s :. -,
The hypo-sulphate of soda is recommended
as a cure for glanders in horses. The dose
from one to two drachms three or four times
day. The remedy should be given upon the
first manifestation of the disease.
A western farmer says washing the hands
in warm dish-water at night will prevent their
chapping in husking time. He soaks his
hands well in the water, and rubs in the
greasy scum, well, dries his hands at the ire.
Every farmer should have an ice house, and
now is the time to make it. Nature will very
soon furnish the material to fill it, and the
luxury next summer will amply repay the
structure and the small expense of filling.
Five cents worth OF either lunar caustic, or
caustic of potash, win cure warts on the teats
of COWS. Keep the .caustic in a vial; take a
stick of it, wet the end with water or spittlee,
and rub it on the warts Two or three appll-
cations will suffice. Be very careful with the
caustic of potash or it will eat too deep ana
make sore.
The Country Gentleman says Having
horse that would kick everything to pieces IN
the stable that he could reach, and having
found remedy for it, latter trying many
things, such as lettering, whipping, hanging
chains behind him to kick against, &c.,l |
send it to you. 1t is simply fastening short
trace-train, about two feet long, by strap, to
each hind foot, and let him do his own whip
ping if he cannot stand still without it, and
he will not need to have boards nailed to bis
stall every day. ~.
The London Reader states that new
method of destroying the insects which infest
old trees has been employed with success by
M. Robert, whoit appears has thus saved the
old limbs of the Boulevard d, ,Enfer from de-
cortication. M. Roberts first shaves off little
of the old bark, in order to facilitate the oper-
alton; he then impregnates the whole OF the
trunk of the tree with concentrated solution
of camphor in alcohol; this not only destroyed
all the insects then In them, but since, not
single insect has attempted to penetrate the
bark.
APPLE SNow.-Put twelve very tart apples
in cold water over slow fire. When soit,
take away the skin and cores, and mix pint
of sifted white sugar; beat the whites of twelve
eggs to stiff froth, and then add them to the
apples and sugar. Put it in dessert dish,
and ornament with myrtle and box.
REMEDY FOR CRIB-BITING.-Get a piece
Of thin iron, an old wheel tire, say one and
three quarters or two inches wide, and raise it
in parallel position about an inch above the
edge of the front and back side of the feed
box, by fastening 1t at the end, and bracing it
in the middle; and placed in this position the
animal has nothing but the sharp edges of the
box to catch hold Of
BENZINE Ag AN INsECTICIDE.-As our
houses and gardens are always more or less
infested with ver1nin, it is satisfactory to know
that benzine, an article wellknown as>adeter-
gent, Is eficaolous as an insecticide. Two drops
are sufficient to suffocate the most redoubta-
BILE pest, be it beetle, cockchafer, spider, slug,
caterpiller, or other creeping thing. Even rats
and mice decamp from any place sprinkled
with few drops of benzine A singular fact
connected with this application of ibenzne is,
that the bodies of insects killed by it become
SO rigid their wings, legs, etc, will break rath-
er than bend, If touched. Next day, howev
er, when the benzine has evaporated, supple
ness is restored Boston Gazette. 3is