Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-06-03
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.


AN exchange says, to clean grease from |
old machinery and from clothes nothing is
better than benzine.
NICE GINGRRBREAD-Four pounds of
Hour, three pounds of sugar, two pounds
OF butter, nine eggs, four spoonfuls of
ginger.
GINGER COOKIES. Two cups molasses,
one of butter or lard, four tablespoons of
hot water, two of soda, two of ginger
bake quick.
NEVER be worried at tribes. If spider
breaks his thread twenty times, twenty
times will he mend it again. Make up
your mind to do a good thing, and you
do it,
THE Boston Journal of Chemistry rec.
ommends mixture OF equal parts of dry
white lead and red lead mixed into paste
with mastic varnish, and used as soon as
made, as cement for aquariums.
FRoIT OR WEDDING CAKE.-Four cups
OF Hour, two cups sugar, one cup molasses,
one cup butter, one teaspoon of saleratus
in one cup of sour milk, four eggs, one
pound raisins, one and half of currants,
one teaspoon each of spice and cinnamon,
one-fourth tumbler of wine.
To TAKE INK-sTAINs OUT OF MAHOGANY.
Put few drops of spirits of inter in a
teaspoonful of water, touch the spot with
a feather dipped il the mixture, and on
the ink disappearing, rub it over lmme-
diately with rag wetted in cold water,
or there will be a white mark, which will
not be easily effaced.
To ROAST LARGE FowLs.-Take the
fowls when they are ready dressed, put
them down to good fire, dredge and
baste them well with lard; they will be
near an hour in roasting; make a gravy
of the necks and gizzards, strain it, put in
a spoonful of brown flour; when you dish
them, put on the gravy, and serve them
up with egg sauce in boat
If it be required to get good radishes in
winter, during the severe cold, an old cask
should be sawed in two, and one half of
it filled with good earth. The radish seed,
beginning to shoot as before, must be then
sown in, the other half of the barrel put
on the top of the full one, and the whole
apparatus carried down into the cellar.
For watering, lukewarm water should be
| used, as before. In The course of five or
six days the radishes will be fit to eat
LATE TRANsPLANTrEG.-Itis is quite often
necessary to transplant trees aud shrubs
| alter they have commenced growth in
spring. If cloudy, wet weather is select
ed in which to perform this operation
there is little danger of loss. Even two
or three days Of cloudy weather with lit.
tie or no rain will have a wonderful effect
in preserving the lives of transplanted
trees. We always choose cloudy or rainy
weather for transplanting any plants that
have been overlooked, or for any other
cause have begun to grow, and we would
much rather wait two or three weeks for
rain than to transplant in warm, dry
weather. This, of course, refers only to
late spring transplating. Hearth and
Home.
How TO PREPARE CORN FOR CRows.-
A correspondent sends to an exchange the
following account of the manner in which
friend prepared dainty dish for the
crows which infested her husbands corn
field: "On the afternoon of that day, in
stead of her usual sewing, my friend took
a plate of corn, large needle, and a
bunch of horse-hair, which her husband
brought in that morning, and sat down to
work, or play, as it looked to me.
Threading a hair into the needle, she
would pass it through a kernel of corn,
slip the needle off the hair, place the
ends together and tie knot, lay it by,
and proceed the same with another, till
she had some dozens prepared. Asking
an explanation, learned that it was to
scatter about over the newly planted corn.
field, together with other corn that was not
threaded, for the crows After swallow.
ing few kernels of that with the hair
attached, they left in disgust, without
troubling that which was planted"
PRUNING TREEs.-A subscriber asks il
he shall prune apple-trees after they have
been planted some time and taken root
He also desires information in regard Ia
the best time to prune both apple and
peach trees. We prefer to prune young
apple trees at the time they are planted
but If this has been neglected, we would
perform the operation just as soon as we
discovered our neglect, no matter at what
time of year this might occur. June and
July are both good months in which to
prune the trees named. If branches are
shortened at this season, a renewed vigor,
GUS growth will be more likely to follow
than If the operation is deferred until
later. There are certainly seasons which
are far preferable to others for pruning
but our rule is to cut off or shorten 8
branch just as soon after we discover thai
1t needs 1t as possible. For general rule
pruning of deciduous trees may be done
in the winter months, or just after the
leaves are fully developed in spring OF
early summer. Hearth and Home.
O. T. ALvoRD, Wilmington, vt, ha,
found says the Rural NeO Yorker, that {
hens gizzard is a good bone mill, anC
their gastric juice practical substitut,
for the burning acid. Then with a little
of that patented material known as "drJ
earth" placed under the roosts, domestic
guano is produced which proves to be ont
of the most valuable manures that arr
made on the farm or that can be bought
in the market. AS the bones are col
lected they are carried to a fiat stone
under his shed and pounded with an ole
ak or hammer just fine enough for tht
hopper of his hen-power mill; and th
is all the time or labor required to secur,
most valuable superphosphate. Al
hens in winter are unable to obtain insects
worms, bugs, etc, on which they feed IL
summer, they eat the pounded bon,
greedily, and pay for it not only by tn,
manure produced, but by an increased
quantity of fresh eggs, always acceptable
and always valuable during the winte
months.
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