The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-09-17
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
USEFUL RECIPES, ETC.


COOKED meal Is nearly double the bulk
of uncooked, yet quart for quart it ia said
to 60 as far. The difference Is, that much
of the food is undigested unless cooked.
IT is said that the Juice Of one lemon q
day, taken in water, will cure the most OBJ
stinate case of neuralgia. No sugar
should be taken, as it has q tendency to
counteract the effects of the lemon Juice.
Two QUARTS of hot water, one pound of
Indian meal and quarter of pound of
unbolted wheat -four, will make more eggs
when fed warm to hens than twice the
amount of whole grain. So says an ex-
change.
THE 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 q
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 off innumbcrable 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-
casionally. SOds, charcoal, stonecoal or
clay should be given to them frequently.
These tend to correct and prevent diseases,
and are very much relished by them. A
little attention to this subject will prevent
much disease among hogs
If you pillow down your weeds before
they go to seed they will prove a benefit
to your land instead of curse. If they
are allowed to go to seed they will be a
source of endless trouble. Plowed under,
they are worth as much as a dressing of
manure. Beside enriching the soil they
tend to keep it loose. If you add from
twenty-five to fifty bushels of lime per
acreStO the ground, and harrow it in, it
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 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 il
we like. Good old vinegar will keep
pickles prepared in this way for a yeaI
without its being changed. Watered, flashy
vinegar will scum over and need to be
changed"
WHEAT VS.. CHEAT-Wheat never turns
to cheat, nor does cheat ever turn to
wheat If cheat is not sown with the
wheat, and there is none in the ground
there will be none found in the growing
CROP Cheat is often found growing sc
closely among the roots of wheat as tc
have the appearance of having come from
the same seed. But that is not the case
Wheat never will become cheat, however
badly it may be damaged or degenerated
The two are quite different plants.
Journal.
PACKING BUTTER.-It is of the first i'm
portance, in packing butter, either fol
market or home consumption, that thu
vessel in which it is placed should no
only be clean, but made of a material from
which the butter will not derive any un
pleasant flavor. In speaking on this sub
ject, the Toronto Globe warns farmer
against the use of pine firkins and tubs
and continues: 1.-THE idea of using pin,
originated with country storekeepers
VINO generally furnish the package to tn
farmers wives to fill, and desire to go t,
as little expense as possible rather than t
give the buttermaker good name in tn
market. Use stone jars or crooks TO
packing butter for home use, or to be sol'
to neighbors or to city consumers. Whel
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 resinous wood, however we
it may be seasoned, scalded, or whateve
else is done to it, will still give a ba
flavor to butter when used as package
the salt in the butter seems to draw on
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 niue
use of for the purpose of making butte
packages"