Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-02-07
Farm and Household.
Wv Vust,tute Farmers, CIub.

| NJ HuStItute FhEnnCEs OhuWs
We find the following interesting facts
for farmers among the recent proceedings
of this Club:
FRosrEp FEEr.--G. A. McIlvain, Mount
Pleasant, Westmorelapd County, Pa.-It is
a great feast to me to read the proceedings
Of your Club. Let me add my mite. Frost
ed feet are cured by using pumpkin poul.
tce, made heavy, and with blanket wrap
ped around the feet. After an hour re-
move the poultice and bathe well with fresh
water Repeat two or three days. Mush
will answer nearly as we'll Bathing the
feet every morning is good preventive.
New PLAN OF GROWING PEACHES. =
A. q. Richardson, Coal Creek, Fountain
County, Ind.-Let the trees be low and
branching, have the soil good enough to
raise tall corn, plant the trees los feet apart
so that you can raise 32 hills Of corn in the
peach tree rows, cut of your corn in the
fall, pick the corn, then stack l6 hills every
way around the peach-tree and let them
stand till Spring. This saves the trees from
freezing in Winter. By the same means
they can be kept back in the Spring.
CHURNINa MILK. s. Rouse, Sara.
toga Springs, N. Y. We sell our mornings
milk. We strain the nights milk into the
churn, add two quarts of buttermilk, Of last
churning strain in from day to day; it
must not freeze when there are IL or Is
quarts, we pour,a pail Of boiling water in
tub, set in the churn, Immediately ohurn;
in 20 or 30 minutes twill begin to come
take out the churn and churn till it is gath
eied! The butter will be sweet and good !;
we get a pound from six quarts. In the
Summer we let the milk sour; when the
butter begins to come we turn in the tub q
pail Of ice water, churn till gathers time,
half an hour; quality, sweet and good every
time.
FATTENINa SuEEp.-A. G. Meikley,
Putnam, N. Y: To feed sheep for market,
are oats, peas, or corn, best to lay on fat,
and how much per day2
First: Sheep to be fattened, need quiet
and warm shelter, litter0d with straw. 1t
has been proved that if exposed to cold they
fat. Still, they should have daily exercise
and fat more healthful, but to keep their
appetite good.
1t is poor plan to confne them to one
kind of food, or ts try to have them get
along with small quantity. They should
have what they want also variety, to
prevent being cloyed. Oil cake should form
one item. Corn is said to produce wool
more than fat. Peas, beans, and turnips
are staple food. They should be regularly
fed three times day, and, if possible, after
each meal, fresh water. They should have
O plenty of salt. Perhaps some of our East
Jersey farmers will give US their method. =
Detailed statements and comparisons will
be useful.
SALTINa HAMs.-T. d. Baldcrston, La.
haska, Bucks County, Penn Il do not put
the hams in pickle, but rub them with q
preparation, as follows: 4 ib fine salt, or.
pulverized saltpeter, 4 OF. brown sugar
rub the meat well all over, particularly
about the bones, then lay on shelf 10 five
days, If any of the mixture isleft rub again.
In is days they are ready for the smoke
house.
MEDICINAL QUALITIES OF PUMPKINS.
At recent discussion in the N. Y,
Farmers Club, q correspondent writes o.
tho virtues of the pumpkin:
~ will give you simple, yet very valu.
able cure. for inhammatory rheumatism. -
A woman arm was swelled to an enormous
size, and painfully infamed. A poultice
was made Of stewed pumpkin, which was
renewed every fifteen minutes, and in a
short time produced perfect cure. The
fever drawn out by the poutices made them
extremely offensive as they wero taken of
knew man cured of severe inflammation
of the bowels by this kind of application -
think such subjects as this proper for dis
cussion in farmers club"
Dr.. SNopGRAss--Iha have no doubt pump.
kins make a good poultioe. Whatever
holds wator and warmth best is the most
suitable
DR.. SMITH--In my travels in Syria.
found pumpkin seeds almost universally
eaten by the people on account Of their sup
posed medicinal qualities. Not because
they are diuretic but as an antidote against
animalcule which infest the bowels. They
are sold in the streets as apples and nuts
are hore. Ii is medical fact that persons
have been cured Of tape worm by the use Of
pumpkin seeds. The outer skin being re-
moved, the meats are bruised in q mortai
into an oily, pasty mass. This is swallow
ed by the patient after fasting some hour.
and it takes the place Of chyle in the stem
ach, and the tape-worm let's 20 its hold o
the membrane and becomes gorged with
this substance, and 10 some measure prob
ably torpid. Then large dose of castor OF
is administered and the worms are elected
before they arc able to renew their hold.
Dr. >. gave very interesting account
ofa missionary at Athens, Greece, who
was cured by this simple remedy.
DR.. TRIMBLE said that it Is supposed
that bots in horses, hold on with hooks up
on the stomach in the same way. and tha
they let 20 when the horse ia fad sweet An