Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1866-09-26
Y Valuable Recipes.

A WAY TO "HEAp' BED BUGs III
any Of your readers need sure remedy
for bed bugs, they can have mine, and
cleanse the fouleSt house ot these trouble
some vermin without eSpcn>e. They
have oAy to wash with salt and watrr.
filing the cracks whore they frequent
with salt, and you may look in vai" for
than. Salt seems inimical to bed bugs,
snd they will not traii through it. think
i, preferable to all "intnirn:s, and the
bnyrr requires no certificate lis TO It's
genuineness.-Exchange.
tn MAKE ilESs LAy.-Thr South Caro-
Iinan say 5, a nrighh"r states that hog :
lard is he hest thing that he can lied IL
,,..x wi;h The dough h. gives to his ,hel;;
He saws cut "f his tat AS biz as a wal!
rat, will SCI hen 10 laying Immediately
licr she his been setting and that hil
feeding tkeui with the fat occasionally
his hcIis continued laying through Tie
whole winter.
FArrExlxG SrocK.-Stock, says the
Rural World, will fl.ten better in the
dark than in the liaht-betrer in the fall
Ton account of the longer nights than in
the summer. With less food more weight
Gin be secured in the dark than in
the light. Experiments have suffi
ciently demonstrated this. The pig
pen should be dark-we have often seen
it made so with the finest effect in favor
of the fattenng of stock. 1t is known
that light toughens the tissue. For a
work-horsc the sun is excellent; for the
working. man the same; but not for the
accumulation of fat. Yet how few people
take advantage of these things.
EEnMIN-FREE HENS NESrs.-Thc fowls
of Thos. Lawrence of Rockland County,
N. Y, were greatly troubled with lice.
Having little soft hay for nests, Mr.. l..
tried some Sycamore (button ball) leaves,
for one or TWO nests for sitting hens. In
these nests no lice were 70 be found,
through they abounded elsewhere in the
house-on ssssafras roosts, in the nests,
and on the birds-in spite of the most
diligent use of lime, ashes, etc. The
nests were all changed, Sycamore leaves
took the place of hay and straw, and the
lice entirely disappeared, after white
washing once or twice as usual. Now
the building has gone Il long time without
whitewash, and still no vermm appear.
American Agriculturist.
A CURE FOR RnEuMArIsM.-Malor }.
NJ McCue, communicates cure for the
Rheumatism, that has been used with re-
markablc success. 1t seems that MIR.
Francis Few, OF Dayton, Rockingham
county, saw the advertisement i'll Il Nova
Scotia paper and sent for the remedy. 1t
is simply n tablespoonful OF the juice of
the lemon taken every hour in tho day.
until the benefit derived from it.. It pro-
duces protuse persp!ration in c few hours,
and Mr.. Few got we'll. Others arc using
it successfully; some adding sugar, WA
ter, &C., to remove tho sharp accidlty.
How TO Cure A FELoN.-As VIC of;cn
see friends suffer with these very trouble
some things, we publish the following
cure for them, which we have heard
highly recommended. As soon as the
parts begin to swell, get the tincture
of lobelia, and wrap the part affected with
cloth saturated thoroughly with the tinc-
ture, and the elon is dead. An old ply
sician says he has known it to cure in
score of cases, and it never fails if applied
il season,
Gloves may be cleaned thus: Wrap
fine cloth around your finger, dip it in
new milk ;. then rub on fine soap, and
rub the glove lightly. In all the above
operations, the glove must be on the hand.
For coRSs.-Take twenty cents worth
of acetic acid and apply ii to the ccrns
every night and morning. 1t will cause
no pain and produce a certain cure. In
five days the corn may be. entirely re-
moved with the finger nail.