Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-12-17
USEFUL RECIPES, ETC.

A TOP DRESSING Of fine stable manure
In winter is of great benefit to lawns and
grass plats. -t....... ..-,-. .......
I A CORRESPONDENT OF the Maine Farm
|vr has for two years used wooden boxes
lined with slate in which 10 pack butter,
and is highly pleased with them. He
finds them clean, cool and free from risk
by breakage. ".t.' "
A CORRESPONDENT OF the Western Stock
Journal says il the hoofs and fetlocks of
hofse are well cleaned and then rubbed
with soft soap previous to taking him out
In snowy weather, 1t will prevent balls of
snow collecting on the feet. 'ys ....1.s
The Canada Farmer says the great ex-
citing causes of corns in horses feet are
hard work and bad shoeing. 1t says a
Edriye of ten miles on a macadsmized road
with the shoe pressing ON tho heel will
Frequently produce bruise that will turn
4 out o troublesome corn.
THE Rural Neo Yorker says there is a
method sometimes adopted with good sue
cess to make cheese which is dry and
hard, from over sailing, mellow and pal
atatle. This method is to wash the
cheese several times in soft water and then
| lay it in a cloth moistened with wine or
vinegar Euif ... -tt. r. .fr. .r.....
A CORRESPONDENT Of the London Held
answers an inquiry whether it is a safe
practice to wash sweated horses in cold
water. He says he has adopted it with
| beneficial results, both in summer and
winter. After washing, the animal should
be rubbed dry, as far as practicable, the
| legs especially. ..
A CORRESPONDENT Of the Country Gen.
Aemdn says that he keeps cuttings perfect
| ly safe through the winter by choosing a
| dry place in his garden, opening q trench
| one foot deep, placing the cuttings in
small bundles perpendicularly, working
! fine earth or sand among them. Cover
with earth and ridge up to turn off water.
Boards or coarse litter may be thrown over
CuRINa HGfs.-A writer in the Ameri
1 can AgrtculturtSt has long practiced the
following method of curing, with excel
| lent results: AS soon as the animal heat
| Is well out, rub the pieces on every part
| with salt and lay them on a shelf or in q
box or barrel, as convenient, for one week.
Then rub with finely pulverized saltpetre
| (1eoz. to a 20 tb ham), and Immediately
follow with another dressing of salt as at
first Repeat at the end of I'd, Sd and 4th
week the rubbing with salt alone AT the
end of 8 weeks, wash in warm water, hang
to dry for "a hours and smoke.
! SOMEBODY tells in the ,A0riculturist OF
buying hard run farm and finding forty
loads of manure in the barn-yards. As
soon as the yards were cleaned he carted
in swampmuck, decayed leaves, head
| lands and sea weed adding every week a
\ few loads, and plowing occasionally to mix
the dropplngs of the cattle with the con
tents of the yard All the manure from
the horses, cows oxen and pigs was
thrown into the yard. BY September he
had two hundred and fifty loads of com
post of much better quality than was
car!ed out In the spring.
BURNS AND ScAhDs.-A correspondent
to the Rural Neao Yorker offers his remedy
for these accidents. nThe most efflcacioul
remedy ever tried was to apply common
starch Just moistened with cold water, anG
spread on cloth to effcctually cover the
wounded part. A little girl who was bad
ly scalded was instantly freed from
pain by the above remedy. Keep the
starch moistened, and in few hours the
Inflammation will be gone, leaving thu
scalded part perfectly white After the
inflammation is out, apply linen cloth
dipped in sweet oil II Is a speedy cure.
A GREAT discovery is said to have been
recently made by surgeon of the British
army in China, in the way of an effectual
remedy for smallpox. The mode of treat
ment is as follows: When the preceding
fever is at its height, and just before thu
eruption appears, the chest is rubbed witt
croton oil and tartaric ointment. Thi
causes the whole Of the eruption to appea
ON that part of the body to the relief O
the rest. 1t also secures full and com
plete eruption, and thus prevents tn
disease from attacking the internal organs
This Is now the established mode of treat
! ment In the English army in China, and
regarded as perfect butG W.