The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-12-16
USEFUL RECIPES, ETC,

A TOP-DREssING of fine stable manure |
in winter is of great benefit to lawns and |
grass plats.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Maine Farm
er has for two years used wooden boxes
lined with slate in which to pack butter,
and is highly pleased with them. He
finds them clean, cool and free from risk
by breakage.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Western Stock
Journal says if the hoofs and fetlocks of a
horse are well cleaned and then rubbed
with soft-soap previous to taking him out
In snowy weather, it will prevent balls of
snow collecting on the feet.
THE Rural Neao 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
atable. This method is to wash the
cheese several times in soft water and then
lay it in cloth mostened with wine or
vinegar.
A CORRESPONDENT Of the London Field
answers an inquiry whether it is 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.
CURING HAMs.-A writer in the Ameri-
can Agricult,Tist 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 shelf or in
box or barrel, as convenient, for one week.
Then rub with finely pulverized saltpetre
q OF. to 90 Ii ham), and Immediately
fol- xxyith n 1,fc
first. Repeat at the end of I'd, Sd and 4th
week the rubbing with salt alone At the
end of 5 weeks, wash in warm water, hang
to dry for "a hours and smoke.
SOMEBODY tells in the Agriculturist of
buying hard run farm and finding forty
loads OF manure in the barn-yards. AS
in swamp-muck, decayed leaves, head
lands and sea weed, adding every week a
few loads, and blowing occasionally to mix
the droppings 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
carted out in the spring.
BURNS AND SCALDs.-A correspondent
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for these accidents: "The most efiicacious
remedy ever tried was to apply common
starch just moistened with cold water, and
spread on cloth to effectually 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 the
scalded part perfectly white. After the
Inflammation is out, apply linen clotl
dipped in sweet oil. 1t is a speedy cure.
A GREAT discovery is said to have beer
recently made by a surgeon of the British
army in China, in the way of an effectua
remedy for smallpox The mode of treat
ment is as follows When the precedin.
fever is at its height, and just before thu
eruption appears, the chest is rubbed will
croton oil and tartaric ointment. Thi
causes the whole of the eruption to appear
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 i
regarded as perfect cure.