The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-07-15
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USEFUL RECIPES, ETC.


BEMENT is of the opinion that where
fowls are fed on corn or barley it pays
well to boil it. Oats and buckwheat
should be fed raw.
ALWAYS loosen the check-rein before
giving the horse water Even if the pail
is held SO high that the rein is not drawn
tight, the position is not natural one in
which to drink
THE Stock Journal says the time to feed
poultry is not in the morning. Let them
do the best they can for themselves in the
early part of the day, but just before they
go to roost fill their crops with pudding
Active digestion can go in the crop and
gizzard Of the chicken while it is asleep.
LIQUID manure should be made weeks
before applying to plants, as experiments
here have proved that when applied too
strong it causes the plant to wither, and
stops its growth, and those plants watered
with weak solution of liquid manure
grew finely and made onefifth more
growth than those that were not thus "a
tered.-ErperimentG Farm Journal
IT is said that a cup of coffee is sure
barometer, if you allow the sugar to drop
to the bottom of cup and watch the bub-
bles arise without disturbing the coffee.
If the bubbles collect in the middle, the
weather will be fine; if they adhere to
the cup, forming a ring, it will be rainy
and if the bubbles separate without as.
Stunning any fixed position, changeable
weather may be expected. Try it.
ONE would think that kind hearted
man, when he sees how grateful this ope-
ration is to a cow, would be willing to
spend few moments carding her. 1t pays
as we'll to clean COW as horse All who
have fairly tried it find great benefit from
the operation. Aud not one farmer in a
hundred makes it a practice to use the
card or curry-comb in the cow stable. We
know stupid men who laugh at the idea
as mere notion of some fancy farmer
But in point of fact, no cow can give the
best results at the pail unless this matter
is attended to, especially in winter.-StOck
Journal.
For the preservation of The luster OF
articles of silver or plated ware, when not
needed for actual use for considerable
time, a coating of collodion Ito be had at
the drug STOREY. may be employed to great
advantage. The articles are to be heated
and the collodion then carefully applied by
means Of q brush SO as to cover the sur
face thoroughly and uniformly 1t is used
most conveniently when diluted with alCO-
hOl, as FOR Photographic purposes. Arti-
Giles thus prepared exhibit no trace what
ever of their covering, and have stood for
more than year in shop windows and 10
dwellings, retaining their white iuster and
color, while other pieces not thus prepared
become seriously MISUNDERSTANDING.
Of
dennis, In strict language, the practice of
putting up articles of diet in envelopes of
tin foil. The tin foil, it contends, contains
lead poison, and is very injurious 10 the
health of those who eat articles that have
been inclosed in it. Tie warning given to
tobacco chewers against the use of fine
cut " put up in this style is worthy of at
tention. By oxidation the nicotine of the
tobacco becomes nicotic acid, which acts
on lead, producing a salt which is very
poisonous, and not unfrequently shows
its deleteriOus effects among consumers
of the weed in the form of paralysis of
the facial nerves. We often see, and per-
haps in most cases without realizing the
cause, persons who are in the habit of
chewing tobacco, afflicted with a nervous
twitching of the muscles of the face, and
certain, though almost indescribable,
wrinkled expression of the countenance,
and which, as there.is every reason to be-
lieve, has its sole origin in the use of to-
baccO which has undergone this reaction
with lead. The tobacco alone was never
known to produce this effect, and although
its inordirate.use is undoubtedly injurious
the symptoms are quite of different
character. Foreign cheese is brought to
this market in tin foil so are bologna and
other sausages, dried fruits, etc. All these
are more or les made poisonous by their ac-
ton upon the lead which surrounds them