The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-07-28

cool; then seal.up tight, removing the
spice, II they do mot keep and are not
excellent Il will be- the fault Of the 70.
Celpe, for / have had my fruit Kept two
years or more and % good az when
first put up. The same. recipe answers
for uuinces, pears, CherrlesAqulnces
and pears 10 BIO FIRST bOlled tender In
water. lF
P.uidlin1 tic ROOtS.--Many Of our
readers may have neglected TO trans.
plant ~ choice shrub o. tree, until II
seems to them too late In the season.
They will hnd, however, that the oper.
alton can be safely performed II they
will take up the plants and puddle the
roots-that 10, dip them In mud made
OF about the consistency OF thin mortar,
The puddle. hole should be made ready
before the plRnts are lifted, and the
roots should be dipped In the mud be.
fore the sun and air can have any effect
upon them. After the roots are coated
with earth, they may be carried 10 the
place where they are to be planted,
Shrubs that have been heelOd Ia until
the leaves have started may DO safely
removed by using the puddle.
HIHe0dr.-FeW persons are ignorant
ofthe pernlclous influence OF BuIphurIc,
nitric and muTlatic acids upon the hui
man organs Of digestion and the entire
ailmentary canal, and yet II 10 declared
upon good authority that much OF the
vinegar In commerce, or liquid sold
as vinegar, 10 made by the use OF these
concentrated acids, ut cost Of not more
than ono or two cents gallon.
The best vinegar In general use In
the United States 10 acldiaed cider. In
Europe acldiAed wine 10 the most co.
teemed; and hence the name yin, wine;
digrG sour. In England malt vinegar
10 popularity used. Wholesome vine.
gar 10 prepared by the oxidation OF
alcohol, and from weak solutions OF
sugar, and from the mixture OF starch
with YeasL-irom acetic acid, indeed,
however obtained. But all these pre-
parAtionS are expensive, and the temp
tation TO produce cheap imitation ID
apparent. .I T
Sulphuric acid, the cheapest and
most intensely sour, Ia the most gener.
ally preferred In the fabrication OF
spurious vinegar, although II iB also
the most Injurious TO health, Rs may
be coDlectured from lie softenlng effects
upon vegetables placed In II for pick
ling purposes. II. may be detected,
even In the least effective quantities,
by placing portion Of the vinegar In
q glass, and dropping into 1t solution
Of the chloride OF barlum, or Of the
nitrate Of barlta. II the vinegar con.
'tlnues clear, snlphuric acid is not pres
sent; cloudy appearance would indl.
cate the formation Of the Rnlphate Of
barlta, which will prove insoluble, no
matter what acid may be subaequent-
~ applied. m mn h'lln
: CILigGtton Of TTnipS.-whether
grown for stock or. not, every farmer
and vIllager will find Il to his advan-
tage to cultivate some OF them. Plats
Of ground where early potatoes and
peas have been removed, fence corners,
patches around the outside OF corn
fields, etc., may with but little labor be
sown, and many bushels raised without
farther labor than pulling. Do not
SOW The seed loo thick unless you In.
tend 10 thin by hand while the crop Is
growing, A common thlmbleful to- the
square rod ia very good rule. When
one pound and'R half Of seed is about
Lue EIkut HuhutAty per hCIei IL hOHu III
drills, one pound Is sufficient.
TuTnlp seed should be sown from the
10Th to the 25th Of July; SOW soon after
rain. II possible, when the soil will
work up mellow. For table use, no
tnrnip Is better than the Russia or
Sweet, which should be sown early In
july Among the larger varieties are
the White Globe, White Norfolk and
Aberdeen, The early, White Flat 10 q
good variety and'very generally grown.
Golden Ball and White Stone are raised
TO some extent. = ar,r' p,' N.""
=. lCtTiM0 R0IE,EVH.-James Seafisld, OF
Fairfield, Md, writes: I had u horse
that was pronounced incurable OF the
poll'evll, as the horse doctor had given
hImlnp TO die. ~ thought would try
an experiment, laid open the swell+
Ing with knife and forced 1t to run:
after II had run twenty.four hours l
washed onttheinclsion with soap and
wafer, and sprlnklsd qulck.lime into
the cavity. This process OF washing
out and lining repeated every twenty.
four hours for about two weeks, at the
end OF which time the swelling had
gone down and the sore healed over.
This did two years ago, and there Ia
nosign OF thereturn OF the poll-evIl, !
would advise a trial. ''' .
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