Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-09-10
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
USEFUL RECIPES, ETC.

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COOKED meal Is nearly double the bulk
of uncooked, yet quart for quart Il is said
10 20 as far. The difference is, that much
of The food is undigested unless cooked.
IT is said that the Juice Of one lemon
day, taken in water, will cure the most OBJ
siinate case of neuralgia. No sugar
counteract the effects of the lemon Juice.
Two QUARTS of hot water, one pound of
Indian meal and quarter of pound of
unbolted wheat flour, will make more eggs
when fed warm 20 hens than twice the
amount Of whole grain. SO says an ex-
change.
NTHE black knots on plum and cherry
trees have been decided on good authority
TO be neither the production nor the spe-
cial nest of any species Of insect, but a
little parasitic plant of the class Fungi
The only cure is TO lop off and burn the
affected branches, as if left until late in the
| season they throw.oH innumberable spores,
which lodge on healthy branches and
there vegetate.
WHEN hogs are kept in pens and cannot
hunt green food, they should have clover
and other succulent grasses given them oc-
oasionally. Sods, charcoal, stonecoal or
clay should be given to them frequently.
| These tend 10 correct and prevent diseases,
and arG very much relished by them. A
| little attention to this subject will prevent
much disease among hogs ..
IB you plow down your weeds before
they go TO secdithey will prove benefit
| To your land instead of curse. If they
are allowed to go to seed they will be u
source of endless trouble. P1owed under,
they are worth as much as a dressing of
manure. Beside enriching the soil they
tend to keep il loose If you add from
twenty-five to fifty bushels of lime per
acrclto the ground, and harrow IL in, il
will convert your weeds into plant food.
| A LADY sends to, the Farmers Club the
following pickle prescription, which she
has used several years with success, and
she has repeatedly heard the pickles called
Superior: "Pick over the vines every
other day, select the perfect fruit, wash
clean, and cover with q strong brine for
twenty -four hours. Then take them from
the brine, rinse with clear water, and
drain them dry When dry, pack them
close in stone jars, and cover with good
vinegar. Red peppers may be added i
we like Good old vinegar will keet
withoutits being changed. Watered, flashy
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changcdPy -t s.- -
seWHEAT VS.. CHEAT.-Wheat never turn
to cheat, nor does cheat ever turn t.
wheat. If cheat is not sown with tn
Wheat, and there Is none in the ground
there viii be none found in the CROWN,
crop Cheat is often found growing 81
closely among the roots of wheat rs {,
have the appearance of having come iron
the same seed. But that is not the case
Wheat never will become cheat, hOwevc
badly it may be damaged or degcnerated
The two are quite different plants-hdrt
Journal. ......
PACKING, BuTTER--It is of the first i'm
portance, in packing butter, either 70
market or home consumption, that til
vessel in which it is placed should nc
only be cleanf but made, of material fror
: which the butter will not derive any III
pleasant flavor. In speaking on this sui
ject, the Toronto Globe warns farmer
against the use of pine tirkins and tub
and continues: "The idea of using pin
originated with country storekeeper'
who generally furnish the package to tn
farmers wives to fill, and desire to go
rs little expense as possible rather than
| give the buttermaker good name in tn
, market. Use stone jars or crooks fc
packing butter for home use, or to be sol
| to neighbors or to city consumers. Whe
f wooden packages are used, have them mad
only of the best seasoned white oak, maple
or any kind of good, hard wood. Pine, o
any kind of rcsinous wood, however wei
1t may be seasoned, scalded, or whateve
else is done to it, will still give ba
flavor to butter when used as package
the salt in the butter seems to draw OF
the resinous flavor from the wood at som
time or other after the butter is put in. w
should imagine that so cheap and stron
an article as glass could be made muc
use of for the purpose of making butte
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