Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-10-21
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

THE Nep Bnoldnd Fdrmer thinks the
discussions among farmers at fairs, when
properly conducted, as important as any
branch of the occasion.
ENoLIsH PoTATo BALLs.-Boil some
potatoes very dry, mash them as smoothly
as possible, season we'll with salt and
pepper, warm them with about an ounce
OF butter TO the pound and few spoon
fuls OF good cream. Let them cool
little, roll them into balls, sprinkle over
them some crushed vermacelli OF maca-
roni and fry them light brown.
A. M. GARLAND, in the Western Rural,
reiterates the opinion that farmers who
sell their hocks Of sheep to butchers, or
allow them to be decimsted by neglect or
disease, act very foolishly. He thinks
wool will soon bring better prices, and
that the demand for mutton is steadily in
creas1ng. he, however, does not advise
keeping large hocks in the States east of
the Mississippi.
IT is said that clothing treated with
tungstate of soda may be rendered nom
intlammable. A concentrated neutral so
luton OF this salt is diluted with about
one. third water, and then mixed with
three per cent of phosphate of soda. It
Is used in the royal laundries of England.
Even the hghtest muslins dipped in it and
dried will not take fire or burn.
SKCRETARY HOWARD, of the Michigan
Board Of Agriculture, in reviewing the
| characteristics of the season, in 1869, in
Michigan, says the great agricultural les
son TO be learned from the season Is the
necessity of drainage. He thinks there
are many thousands of acres on which
the Increased value of the crop that
might have been obtained in that year
would have paid the whole expense Of
drainage.
A BARREL of -four weighs 1876 pounds,
barrel of pork 200 pounds, barrel oi
rice 900 pounds, keg of powder
% pounds, frkin of butter 90
pounds, tub of butter 81 pounds. The
following are sold by weight per bushel
Wheat, beans and clover seed, go pounds
corn, rye and flsxseed, 55 pounds; buck
wheat, 81 pounds; barley, 48 pounds
coarse salt, S5 pounds.
COOKING OAT MEAL.-Take one quart
OF water in tin kettle, place 1t on the
stove and put in little salt. Stir in slow.
ly two large tablespoonfuls of meal. Let II
simmer gently for half an hour, stirring
frequently. 1t will thicken and grow
whittier until the expiration Of that time
when 1t is sufficiently done. Some milk
can be added. If scalded milk is objected
to, cold can be used after being brought
to the table.
A CONVENIENT method of preparing
outdoor labels for plants, capable of re
sisting any weather, consists in first cut
ting them out of smooth paste-board, and
writing upon them whatever may be de
sired in ordinary ink. When this is dry
they are immersed in linseed oil, or, what
is still better, linseed oil varnish, unit
they are completely permeated by the
liquid; after which they are hung in the
open air upon threads to dry. They be
come like iron, and resist wet for a Ions
time, and are more durable than slips o.
netaL-Erchange.
BIOLOGISTS say that building stone
should be placed in wall in the sam,
relative position as that in which it wa
taken out of the quarry. When the rocH
became solid from it's primeval semi. luit
condition, gravity made the stratiicatior
take place in horizontal direction. So
as wood in pavements is exposed with the
end of the grain to the wear, the ston,
should be dressed in such way that the
edge of the grain may sustain the actor
OF the elements.
A WRITER in an English journal sug
gests the use of ordinary sulphurIc aciC
or oil OF vitriol as an excellent agent fol
the destruction of weeds on lawns. Th,
difficulty OF eradicating such unsightly
elements of the lawn is well understood
since to do SO satisfactorily requires the
removal of large amount of dirt, pro
duclng corresponding injury to the gen
eral appearance. BY taking the acid il
/ nd oil a 60 co1
into the crown of any obnoxious weeds
it will turn them brown in an instant, anC
ultimately cause the death of the plant
Great care must of course be taken to pre-
vent any of the acid from falling upo1
the skin or any articles of clothing.
PETROLEUM AS PAINT.-We recon
mend the use of petroleum to presery,
wood-not as paint. Nothing shoulC
be mixed with it. The only point in ap
plying 1t is to get as much oil on as the
wood will absorb. We use it on imple
ments, machines, wagons, carts, fences
buildings, shingle-roofs, pig troughs, etc
with great advantage. 1t will certainly
do much to preserve wood from decaying
and iron from rusting. We buy it bY tn,
barrel, at from 25 to 30 cents per gallon
and use 1t freely on all woodwork expos
ed to the weather. 1t is not necessary t
go into the details of its application. W,
would simply advise our readers to get
barrel and use it freely on plows, harrows
drills, cultivators, reapers, mowers, ted
ders, forks, rakes, spades, shovels, hoes
axes, scythes, cradles, hen-coops, doj
kennels, hot frames, sashes, swill bar
rels, pals, pig troughs, plank floors
wheeloarroWs, gates, fences, wagons, carts
sleighs, stone-boats, horse-powers, an,
sewing-machines. We have used it ON al
these and many similar things, and thinl
even log chains and crow bars would b
none the worse for being rubbed owe
with it.-Anerican AgricuIturiSt.