The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-06-23
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

To CLEAN MATTING.-Put a double
handful OF salts into a bucket of cold
water; wash the mating, small piece at
a time, rub it well with coarse cloth;
avoid treading on the mating until it is
dry.
COLOGNE WATER.-Take one pint of
alcohol, sixty drops of essence of berga-
mot, sixty do. of lavender, sixty do of
lemon, and sixty of orange. Cork up and
shake well, and it is fit for use. This is
cheap, and as good as any
A CHOICE PUDDING.-One quart of
sweet milk, one pint of bread crumbs,
one teacup of sugar, butter the size of
hens egg, yolks of three eggs, a handful
of raisins, flavor with lemon. Bake half
an hour. Then beat the whites of three
eggs, with two thirds of teacup of sugar,
pour over the pudding and bake slightly.
IT is said that radishes and turnips al
ways do better when planted in new
ground, or at least ground where they
have not heretofore been. Old gardens are
the worst places in the world for radishes.
You will rarely obtain any sound ones.
Clay mixed with the old soil vitalzes it
greatly and will produce good radishes.
A CORRESPONDENT of the American
Agriculturist, in illustration of the en-
durance of the thoroughbred horse, says
one ridden by him during the war was,
at one time, on duty 81 hours, carrying
a weight of not less than 200 pounds, 81
most absolutely without food, and watered
not more than three times, yet he came
| into camp by no means exhausted
A WRITER to the American Institute
Farmers Club gives the following method
| to expel sheep ticks: / feed sulphur. 1t
not only keeps them off sheep. but drives
| them. / iced it with salt well mixed in
equal parts, at the rate of three pounds of
sulphur at one feed to 100 sheep. Then,
after five days, | give another dose, the
same as the first Before begin dosing,
l let them get salt-hungry"
To kill cockrOaches mix equal Quanti-
ties of red lead and Indian meal with mo-
lasses, making it about the consistency of
paste. 1t is known TO he certain exter-
minatOr of cock reaches. A friend who
was troubled with thousands upon thou
sande of them, rid his house in very
few nights by this mixture Put it upon
iron plates and set it where the vermin
are thickest Be careful not to have any
article of food near by where you set the
MISUNDERSTANDING.
SHEEP DIPS.-Sheep dips, containing
arsenic or other metallic poisons, should
be used cautiously and not in excessive
quantities; and although arsenical dips
are probably more powerful than the dips
which contain no mineral poisons, yet the
latter are to be preferred for more reasons
than one. Several cases of death amongst
f1ocks and herds are reported in England
as the result OF the use of sheep-dippine
mixtures; bat these have been dips into
which arsenic, &c, entered largely.
WHEN NOT To EAT-Never eat when
very much fatigued wait until rested
Never eat just before you expect to en-
gage in any severe mental or physical ex
ercise. Never eat while in a passion, OF
while under any great mental excitement
whether OF depressing or elevating
character. Never eat just before taking
a bath of any kind. Never eat just be
fore retiring for the night Never eat be
tween regular meals.-Herald Of Health.
A WRITER in the last issue of GO0c
Words says: The thieves quarter il
London is another curious and graphic
description. The statement is made thai
there and In other large English cities anC
towns the thieves live in province o
their own. There are 100000 people anC
10000 houses in the country enlisted il
the support and practice of theft. Their,
are "A 900 known thieves at large in Lon
don, 5000 known receivers, and 81 ,0S-
prisoners IN prisons and rcformatOries"
To CURE A FELON.-TO cure this pain
ful thing, or rather to check it or nip i
in the bud, the London Lancet, high au
th0rlty, says there is nothing like the fol
| lowing a. a c leo Ia, I, cI
indicates the disease is felt put directly
over the spot fly blister about the siz,
of your thumb nail, and let it remain for 81,
hours, at the expiration of which time
directly under the surface of the blister
maybe seen the felon, which can be in
stantly taken out with the point Of /;
needle or lancet"
A HINT WORTH MINDING.-hll rasp
berry and blackberry canes set out THU
spring should be cut down to within ST.
inches of the ground, If not done wheI
set out. 1t will insure the growth of tn,
new wood, and they will come into fin,
bearing order next year; whereas SHOULD
the canes be allowed to remain only par
italy pruned, as other bearing wood
there may be small crop of poor fruit
and only about half crop next year
Some people are so eager to get fruit "A
once that they totally neglect this advice
CUTTING Hickory TMBER-In answe
to an inquiry In regard to cutting hickOl
timber in order to prevent destruction 10y
worms, L would say, from the best cxpe
rlence | have had, cut timber when tn
sap is in full flow and when the bark peel
readily. Cut it at such time and remov
the bark, and let it season before using
says X. ). O., in Cincinnati Gazette Say
ID. ii. d., the best time to cut hickor,
timber is In June. Such timber, cut a
that time, worms never work in. Hickor'
timber may be safely used either 70
building purposes or rails, if cut then
when the sap is fully up, when the bari
should be removed, which is easily done.