The Placer herald., 1870-09-10
HOUSE AND FARM.


to 60 visiting and spend two or three weeks
enough to do to keep farmers at home any
time Of year; but ought they not to get ou,
Of the home groove OCCASIONALLY" Yes. A
farmer cannot fail to profit by resting; but
some farmers know how to rest profitable at
home. Visits are usually beneficial to hard
workers, care being taken that thay do not
become chronic. These days, a man who
stays close at home loses much which he
ought to know and can only learn by seeing.
Especially is this true in agriculture. A
practical man can learn vastly more with his
eyes in ten minutes than in halliday with
his ears We urge farmers to rest. We
urge them to travel, to visit one another,
walk over each others farms, orchards, gard
ems, study each others modes of doing things.
1t il both relaxation and wisdom to do 80 it
seems to us.--Rural Ne,c Yorker.
YEAsT.-Good yeast is indispensable in
order to secure good bread.-We give the
following reliable receipt. Pare and boil
eight medium sized potatoes. Remove from
the water when done, and put into it one
smLl handful of lose, or two teaspoonfulls Of
pressed hops. While these are boiling, mash
and roll the potatoes very smooth and free
from Jumps; mix with them three table spoons
even full of -four, half cup of sugar---brown
Is the best for yeast-one tablespoon even
full Of ginger, and three of salt. Strain out
the hops after boiling fifteen minutes, and
pour the boiling water over the potatoes,
Aour, etc. Stir it well together, and again
set it on the stove till it boils up once, string
it all the time or it will burn. This done,
pour into large earthen bowl or stone pot
to COOL When milk or blood warm, add a
small quantity of bakers yeast or yeast cake
Keep in warm place till well raised; then
put it into stone jug; cork and tie down
securely. One teacupful will raise two good
sized loaves
SURE Cure ron BED Buos.-Four years
since moved into house which was swarm
ing with bed-bugs. whitewashed the cell
ing, papered the walls and secured the floors
with boiling hot suds. Yet enough survived
to establish good sized colony in every bed
stead. then took a tablespoonful of quick
silver, costing 10 or Is cents, which | beat
up with the white of two eggs, just as !
would make frosting for cake, or till the quick
silver was thoroughly mixed with the egg
This applied with feather to every crack
and crevice where bed-bug could hide, after
washing the bcdstead in cold water. This !
repeated three or four times during the second
summer.
The result is, have not seen a bed-bug
for two years. AS the bugs will not stay
where quicksilver is applied faithfully, it is
necessary to overhaul the bedding freq quently,
to capture stragglers who are seeking more
healthful abode. have never known this
remedy to fail when faithfully applied
AUNT HATTIE"
CuHE FOR MANY DISEASES. The last num-
Der Of the National Medical Journal contains
. paper written by DIR. John Ii. Griscom,
of this city, and recommending the use Of
sulphite of Soda compound of sulphurous
acid and soda-in almost all diseases depen-
dent upon the vtiated condition of the blood,
whether caused by the inhalations of malaria
or vitiation of food, and almost every disorder
Of contagious and infectious character Dar-
rhpa, cholera nfautum, dysentery, and
AldHN SCNCtC uiSCdSCo VI ilIt Shill IdNc DccI
relieved almost Immediately upon its dges-
ton, and more quickly than by any other
articles of materia medica. 1t is also held to
he perfectly and rapidly curative in some case
Of typhoid and intermittent fever, erysipelas,
scarlatina, dyspepsia, nausea, syphilis, cat
arh, and rectal hemorhage. The sulphite
Of soda, which must not be mistaken for the
sulphate of soda, is in short a sort of panacea
About twenty grains is dose for an adult
BROOM Corn CULTURE IN Ono. An Ohio
correspondent of the Country. Gentleman
says;-'' Broom corn is talked of but little in
reports and market lists, but an extensive
business is done in it in Central Ohio. The
more extensive growers do their own man
ufacturing, and as they put the seed in the
ground aud put the brooms on the m rket, |
there are no transactions to get into the pa
pers, and no noise is made about the business
AS certain growers in this section have been
engaged in growing broom corn and man
ufacturing brooms for the last twelve years. |
and become wealthy, the inference is that the |
business pays. Everything from seed to
straw is made to count, and the returns are
very ROOu -ltu| III Nt LO|ht|.
To KEEr NAILS FROM RUsTINa; When |
nails are used in a position in which they |
are greatly subjected to air and moisture, it
will always pay to prepare them in such a
manner that they will note asily rust.-Ths
may be accomplished without any difficulty
by heating quantity of nails on a shove
and throwing them, while quite hot, into
vessel containing coarse oil or melted grease.
The nails should be SO hot that the grease
will be made to smoke freely Cut nails
prepared in this manner are improved in ev
cry respect. They are rendered tougher,
and they will outlast any kind of wood, even
though buried in the ground; while unpre
pared nails are completely destroyed in
very short time.
LINE water is most beneficial for an occa-