Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-08-26
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.


lent manure for grapevines.
ALL plants grow stronger and ripen
better when the air circulates freely
around them, and the sun is not prevent
ed from an immediate influence.
REMEDY FOR BuRNs.-Take CASTLE
soap; spread it on piece of cloth thick
enough to exclude the air /; then wet the
cloth with cold water occasionally. % 1aGl
To PRESERVE EGGS FOR ONE YEAR.-
One pint Of quick lime, one of salt, to
three gallons of water no care is needed
in putting in the eggs, as they will be
right end up, and will settle just below
the surface, if proportioned rightly.
, SPICE CAKE.-Four eggs, one cup of
sugar, one cup Of molasses, one cup of
buttermilk, half cup of butter, one tea,
spoonful of soda, one tablespoonful of
cloves, one tablespoonful of cinnamon,
two cups of currants or raisins, one nut
meg mix not very stiff. f@
ToMAToEs.-The thing with tomatoes
is to give them all the heat you can, but
little manure, and restrain their tendency
to grow vines instead of fruit Hence
warm exposure, dark soil, and "pinching
in" both fruit stalk and vine, leaving
rather small crop to grow, which will be
sound and early and uniform in size, and
not coarse and overgrown. But you may
plant the closer. Do not train up on
poles, but keep close to the hot ground.-
KrcltdnGe. H''
To PRESERVE BoUQUET.-A writer
in the Western Rural says: Sprinkle 1t
lightly with fresh water, and put it in
vase containing soap suds. Each morning
take the bouquet out of the suds, and lay
it sideways in clean water keep it there
minute or two, then take it out and
sprinkle the flowers lightly by the hand
with water. Replace it in the suds, and
gathered. Change the suds every three
or four days. This method will keep a
bouquet bright and beautiful for at least q
month. Try it."
CLEANING T1NwARE.-No acids should
be employed to clean tinware, because
they attack the mettle and remove it from
the iron on which it forms thin coat,
We refer to articles made of tin plate,
which consists of iron covered with tin.
Rub the article first with rotten stone and
sweet oil, then finish with whitening and
a piece of soft leather. Articles made
wholly of tin should be cleaned in the
same manner. In a dry atmosphere
planished tinwsre will remain bright for
a long period, but they soon become tar
nished in moist air. q rse
PEACH JELLY.-Cut a dozen peaches
in halves, take out the stones, and peel
them. Into clear, boiling syrup, made
of pound of white sugar, put the peaches
and kernels. Boil very gently for ten
minutes, lay half the peaches on q plate,
boil the rest ten minutes longer. Then
mix with the liquor of the peaches the
strained juice of three lemons and an
ounce of lsinglass dissolved and strained.
Fill the mould half full of Jelly when
that is set, put in part of the peaches and
little more jelly, and when that is set
add the rest of the peaches, and fill the
mould with jelly. This makes an elegant
table ornament.
TRANsPLANTINe PIE PLANT,-The West.
e1'n Pomoi0giSt says: ave have cultivated
pie plant extensively for market, and find
the best time to transplant is in the fall
| after the first frost. If the stools are large
and require division do not dig them up,
but divide them as they stand with spade,
by cutting off or dividing through the
centre Of the plant, leaving the part in
the ground undisturbed. By this method
you will have good crop the next spring
on those left in the ground, and the bal
snce you can divide up and reset and they
will bear agood crop the second year, but
not the first. We have plants now stand.
| ing ten years, divided in the above man.
ner (when they get too large) and each
year produce a good crop. The ground
cannot be too rich, but must not be wet OF
the plants die out"
PHoBPHoRUs FOR CURCULIos.- AT re.
cent meeting of the Cincinnati Horticul
tural Society, Mr.. Welch stated that he
placed small quantity of phosphorus in
the crotch of plum tree. That season
the tree was loaded with plums, while
other trees had none. Whether it was
the unpleasant odor which drove the cur,
culios away or not, he did not pretend tc
say. Mr. Price said that the way Mr.
Keller kept the curculio away from hii
trees was to place damp oat straw undel
the trees once week, and burn the same
| The curculios did not seem to like thu
smoke. Mrs. Bickham said that the plum
trees near her house, around which thu
dish water and kitchen slops were thrown
were exempt from the curculi0, whilt
others, not so treated, bore no fruit.
LICE ON Hoes "A correspondent of tn,
Rural Ne.o Yorker says The past flv,
years have used the following remedy
which will clean off the lice in two days
Put abopt one gill of kerosene oil in any
old dish, and with o paint brush or OLE
| woolen rag rub the oil up and down tn,
back of the animal and behind the for,
4 legs and on the flank. Be particular abou
the last two places, for it is where the lie,
deposit their eggs, which, if not destroy
ed, will hatch out in about five days.
IT bea black hog, these eggs can be plain
ly seens being about the size of timothy
seed and lying close to the skin fast to thu
hair. No one need fear TO use the oi
freely, as it will not ipjure the hog in thu
least. Hot water will not kill these lice
for have seen them crawl afser the hoi
had been scalded in a barrel after being