The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1869-07-16
USEFUL RECIPES.

1t is said that one of the most power
tul remedies for bots in horses is n strong
decoction of sage tea, made very sweet.
A correspondent of the Rural New
YORKER says deep, level planting is what
the potato wants. He says potato
should be planted not less than six inches
deep.
Wood ashes contain all the inorganic
ingredients which growing trees extract
from the soil, and in consequence are re-
garded as the best fertilizer for apples,
pears, peaches, plums, etc.
If you want bone and largo develop
ment of red flesh in hogs, give them as
good pasture through the summer as your
beeves have. 1t costs less everyway to
make big hog weigh 500 by Christmas
than to get two small swine up to 250
apiece.
Killing Dock.-A writer Of the n. T.
Homestead says the best and easiest way
to exterminate this troublesome pest is
to take sharp hoe and give it sliding
stroke, so as to cut the dock just below
the crown, and throw the crowns into a
basket, and leave them in the travelled
track of the highway, or any other place
where they will not get foothold in the
ground, ard the work is done.
FRIED BREAD.-Slices Of toasted bread,
dipped in milk or wine, and fried in hon
cy, are excellent. Then, instead of call
ing them fried Bread" they are toreias,
an excellent Spanish delicacy, can as
sure you. Please understand there is
neither butter nor lard. Simply melt the
honey in pan, and when it is very hot,
put in the bread, which is served hot also
after becoming nicely Drowned. Lovers
Of honey can take notice.-Erchange.
To CAEDY FRU1r-Take one pound Of
best loaf.sugar, dip each lump into bowl
Of water, and put the sugar in preserv-
ing kettle. Boil it down until clear, and
in q candying state. When sufficiently
boiled have ready the fruits you wish to
preserve. Large, white grapes, oranges
separated into small pieces, or preserved
fruits, taken out Of their syrup and dried,
are nice. Dip the fruits into the prepar-
ed sugar while it is hot, then put them in
a cold place they soon become hard.
An exchange gives the following as an
excellent receipt for bottling: To nine
pounds Of fruit put five pounds Of white
sugar, when it comes to a boil. Boil ten
minutes. BE careful to stir the fruit as
little as possible, not to bruise it. Pour
into an earthen ware vessel TO COOL
When cold, put in wide necked bottles,
cover with bladder Gooseberries,
black currants, red currants, and raspber-
ries, mixed, made last year, you can hard
ly tell from fresh fruit. The receipt for
currants, raspberries and plums Of all
kinds, is specially recommended.
To PRESERVE ToMAToEs FOR WINTER
AND EARLY SUMNER UsE-The most eco
nomical mode for family purposes is to
put them into wide-mouthed jars, hold.
ing two, three, or moro quarts, according
to the size of the family. The tomatoes,
previously TO their going into winter
quarters, are merely cooked without sea-
soning of any sort, and put, while hot,
into the jars, which should be filled full
and the corks driven home tightly and
tied down. Preserved in this manner,
they will keep as fresh almost as when
first picked.
To CLEAN PAINTS. Thee is q very
simple method to clean most any kind OF
paint that has become dirty, and if our
housewives should adopt it, it would save
them a great deal of trouble. Provide q
plate, with some of the best whiting to
be had, and have ready some clean warm
water, and piece of flannel, which dip
into the water, and squeeze nearly dry
then take as much whiting as will adhere
to it; apply it to the painted surface.
when little rubbing will instantly re-
move any dirt Or grease. After which,
wash the part well with clean water, rub
bing it dry with soft chamois. Paint
thus cleaned looks as well as when first
laid on, without any injury to the most
delicate colors. 1t is far better than using
soap, and it does not require more than
half the time and labor-C0acb MdkerS'
Journal.
TREATMENT OF SCARLET FEvER-Dr
Charles T. Thompson reports in the Lam
Get his manner OF treatment IN scarlet
fever as follows: The patient is immers-
ed in warm bath in the early stage OF
the disease, and this is repeated frequent
ly, or as often as the strength of the pa
tient will allow. The first effect is 10
produce a soothing and refreshing feeling
in the patient, to be followed soon by such
an eruption on the surface, of so vivid
a color, and in such amount as would as.
tonish those who have never witnessed
it. Thus one Of the greatest dangers OF
this fearful disease-the suppression OF
the eruption-is escaped. The appetite
generally returns after the first or second
bath, and the strength Of the patient is
kept up by nutritious food. The bath
prevents the dissemination of the disease
by removing the excreta from the skin as
it is deposited. This treatment promotes
cuticular desquamation. The body should
ba c,antly dried nv soft linen cloths after