The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-02-11
USEFUL RECIPES, ETC,
An exchange says to prepare Japan te

AN exchange says TO prepare Japan tea
properly it should be nearly boiled.
THE Rural World recommends giving
stock, especially those confined to stables,
a sod Of earth foot square once week,
or what they will eat up clean.
THE celebrated Mr. Wesley remarks to
this effect, that fretting and scOlding
seem like tearing the flesh from the bones,
and that we have no more right to be
guilty of this sin than we have to curse,
and swear, and steal.
To PREVENT lamp chimneys breaking
by the sudden contact with heat, the best
way is TO cut or scratch the base of the
glass with q GLACIERS diamond. Another
meth@d is to put the glasses in water and
boil them.
THE MW England Farmer says thst in
the hands of careful and patient persons,
experiments the past year have satisfied
many that bones are an exceedingly valu-
able stimulant of vegetable life and ought
to be preserved and prepared for use on
the soil.
APPLE FRUIT CAKE.-Two cups of dried
apples, soak over night; in the morning
chop fine, ard boil one hour in one cup
sugar, one cup mOlasSes; when cooled,
add one cup sweet milk, one teaspoon
soda, one cup butter or sour cream, three
cups flour; flavor with all kinds of spices
bake in slow oven.
THE death of Robert Borner's Auburn
horse induces a New Yorker to send the
Tribune q remedy which he has never
seen fail to cure collie in horses 1t is
simply to drench them with preparation
of chlorine and permanganic acid, which
can be procured at any drug store. He
has used it and seen it used repeatedly,
and has so much confidence in it that
he would be willing to insure the re-
covery of any horse if it was admin stored
in time
A CORRESPONDENT of the Mime Farmer,
in answer to an inquiry IS to the cause
and cure of worms in pigs, writes: g II
the writer will take the pains to give his
+ pigs handful of good rock salt at least
twice week in their food, until killing
time. / think the pigs will thrive, provid
ing he gives them enough to eat. The
cause of pigs having worms is, think
! the want of the preventive-salt Pigs
hardly ever get any salt except what they
get in the slops from the kitchen"
A CORRESPONDENT of the New England
q L
around my trees, certainly as often as
} once year, and believe it to be of great
benefit to them. But, like some of your
other correspondents, ] have learned not
+ TO apply it in contact with the bark of the
! trees, as they become moisteped and form
/ I've often too strong for the growing wood
generally use about one quart of ashe.
to tree, scattering it around them as fal
as the roots arc supposed to extend un
derneath. Ny large trees, in bearing ter
or twelve years, receive an application O
from six TO eight quarts of unleached
ashes to each tree, scattered in same man
ner. never permit the ashes to lie upon
the ground in any place more than one
inch in depth.
THE old adage of ga STITCH" etc, is ap
plicable to every orchardist at this season
of the yea, and he who needs it in regard
to mice is wise man. A very little care
move all mulching material, grass-turfs
| punches of weeds, or other rubbish thai
may be around or near to the bodies o
apple and pear trees, may perhaps save
them from being destroyed. If any art
found injured, get spade and earth NJ
around and over the wound, so IS to keeI
it from drying; for many slight WOUND
will heal over if kept from the air, when
if left open and exposed, it would crack
absorb moisture rot, and in time destroy
the tree Don't forget the old adage, again
we repeat, and at once look over your
orchard Observation-Disclosures.