The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-05-06
USEFUL RECIPES, ETC.


USEFUL RECIPES, ETC.
GEEsE-EaGs, carried to the cellar as soon
as taken from the nest, and turned over
each day, will hatch well. Above stairs
the temperature is uneven. Number the
eggs, and let the first goose setting have
those first laid
A WRITER in the Rural Neu Yorker
dissents from the theory that many win
dOws are desirable in barns. He thinks
the money often expended in making
them could be much more judiciously ex-
pended.
To WHIP CREAM.-Sweeten bowl of
cream with loaf sugar and flavor with any
extract or fiavoring that suits you best.
Whip the cream with a whisk, and as it
rises in the froth, take off with a skinner,
and place upon seive to drain.
AN exchange says: If horse, afflicted
with the collie, be drenched with pre-
paration of chlorine and permanganic
acid, a cure will be effected. Our author
ity is so certain of it, that he would be
willing to insure the recovery of any horse
not too long neglected"
A CORRESPONDENT of the Practical
Farmer says that his experience shows
that two quarts Of cooked potatoes would
do as much toward fattening as four fed
raw, and that the value of corn meal is
very nearly doubled by thorough cooking.
He considers raw potatoes almost value
less for fattening.
THE agricultural editor of the Weekly
Press reminds boys who have to split
wood that it splits much more readily up
from the roots than downwards. The stick
should be turned upside down before
striking it. So too it is better to split by
slabs than to strike through the center OF
the larger pieces.
In using common salt, SCOT, or guano
for manure, moist weather, should, if posi-
BILE, be selected for applying it for it is
necessary that these subs tances should be
dissolved before they can be appropriated
by the roots of plants. AS long as they re-
main as dry powder on the surface OF
the soil, they can be of no use.
To PREVENT HENS EATING EGGs.-A
correspondent of the Prairie Farmer says
he has accomplished this by keeping a
setting hen upon the nest, and removing
the eggs every night. His hens that got
so bad that they would ego for nest In
flock as soon as they heard a cackle, were
broken of the habit edtirely by this
means.
TIE Scientific american gives the fol
lowing mode of testing kerosene: "Fill
a cup with warm water, the temperature
of which is to be brought to 100 deg. Fab
renheit, pour the oil on the water; apply
flame to the floating oil by match or other
wise. If the oil is unsafe it will take
fire, and its use in the lamp is dangerous
for it is liable to explode. But if the oil
is safe and good it will not take fire."
WHEN writing by common ink has be.
come faded by age so as to be nearly OF
quite illegible, it may be restored to its
original hue by moistening it with a
camels hair pencit or feather dipped in
tincture of gals, or solution of ferro
cyanide of potassium, slightly calculated
with hydrochOlOric acid. Either of these
washes should be very carefully applied
so that the ink may not spread.-Scientif,
american.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Country Gen
Henadn says that he finds lesched ashes
and cut grass the best mulch for the gran,
vine. The ashes gather moisture and re
pei heat. Grape vines that were muchet
at the commencement of the drouth las
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grass rots, the roots derive nutriment from
it. The grass is put on first, and then GOV
cred with ashes. This mulch is both pro
tective and enriching, and the nutrimen
Is of kind that is wanted-vegetable an,
carbonaceOus
THE Country Gentleman, in an articl
reviewing some objections to the manage
ment of Agricultural Societies, suggest
that the best cure is more general inter
est in and cooperation with the Agricul
tural Societies by the general body O
farmers. 1t will do little good to simph
find fault with existing evils, if we max
no effort to remove them. But, if all tn
farmers in county will take an interes
in the affairs of their Society, its manage
ment may be made what they want it.
THE common practice of using pads O
sheep-skin under horses collar is obiec
tiOnable, especially in warm weather, be
cause it accumulates heat and makes tn
breast tender. A better way is to take
piece of thick and smooth leather, cut i
out just the size of the collar, or a litt
wider, and let it lie flat on the neck an,
shoulders. 1t will lie smooth, while tn
collar itself moves about, and chatting will
thus be prevented. 1t is also well to wasl
the breast OF working horse every nigh
with clean water-Hedrth and Home.