Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-08-20
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
USEFUL RECIPES. ETC.

IT you are buying carpet for durability
choose small figures.
ScoTCH snuff put in holes where crickets
come out will destroy them.
STAaNANT or foul water, saws the Stock
Journal, is very injurious Il causes
blood poisoning, and this leads to many
fcbrile complaints, and Il one Of the great
causes of abortion In COWS and other ami
mails.
An extensive fruit-grower, who within q
few years has set out thirty thousand
trees, says that, as 20 peaches, pears, and
plunis, he would prefer them at one year
old, and the apple at two years Much
depends on future cultivation.
II is stated that green copperas,d dissolved
in rain water, will efectually concentrate
and destroy the foulest smells, and il
placed under the bed in hospitals and sick
rooms viii render the sir free and pure,
For butchers stalls, fish markets, sinks,
and wherever there are offensive putrid
gases, dissolved coppefas sprinkled about
will in few days pdflfy the atmosphere,
and an application once week VIII keep
IL sweet and healthy.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Scientific Amer
Iodn gives this advice TO horsemen
Whenever they notice their horse direct
ing his ears TO any point whatever, or in
dicatlng the slightest disposition 10 become
afraid, let them, instead Of pulling the rein
| W bring the horse toward the object caus-
ing its nervousness, pull it on the opposite
side, This will instantly divert the atten.
tion Of the horsc from the object which Is
exciting his suspicioti, and In ninety nine
cases out of hundred the hofse will pay
no more attention to the object from which
he will fly away if fOrcibly driven to il by
| pulling the wrong rein" rt .E.
| SHARPENING AUGERs-Newa augers and
| auger-bits cannot be made to bore many
times without the application of pressure
equal to the weight of d man. The diff.
Guilty is usually attributable to the incor
feet manner Of filing the edge of the lips
The very edge Of the lips should alway:
be little more prOiiilneht than the
portion back of the cutting edge. In order
TO make an auger or bit draw itself into
the wood without any pressure, procure q
small, three-square file, file up the screw
then touch up the cutting edge of the lips
and exercise care that the under side o
the very edge of the lips Is not filed ava,
to such an extent that il cannot take hole
of the wood beneath it.--Hedrth and Home
FoREtGN SUBSTANCES IN THE EYE.-A
MIbSI ia Jne H6dTJh ana IfOD16 says; y
is of great Importance to remove such sub
stances as speedily as possible, and as, il
nearly every instance, such cases aris,
when no one is with us, | give the rail
readers remedy for cinder. The railroad
man, when any cinder becomes lodged il
his eye, takes hold of the lashes of the up
per lid and draws it out, at the same tim,
closing the eye, then, by letting the uppe
lid go, II falls over the lower lid when
upon opening the eye, the cinder will lodg,
upon the outside Of the lower lid, and car
be wiped off with kerchief or hand Al
this can be done by person himself ever
if he has but one hand"
SLUGs.-"T The only effectual way" say
the London Gardeners Magazine, "to rio
yourselves of slugs viii be to- gather then
with the hand and drop them into q pot o
hot lime All the lining in the world will
not keep them off the plants, for the limt
soon gets dead after ite exposure to tn,
open air. Lay few cabbage or lettuc,
leaves about where they most frequent
and go over them early In the morning
and pick the slugs up. 1t will also be wei
to examine the beds of young lettuce, etc.
late in the evening or early in the morn
ing, also in showcry weather, for these arr
the times when they commit their princi
pal depredatioDs, and can therefore b,
more readily caught We are aware tha
it is a slow and tedious affair." but it mus
either be done or the crops left to be de
1 stroyed before your face"