Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-03-17

sentative from Greenup county, who has
tested it for some five years and found il
efficacious. He is reliable gentleman
and we therefore advise you to try it:
Take o. common salt pounds.
Sulphur,
Coperas, 2
Black AntimonY, 1
Salt Peter, a ''
Wood ashes, fresh, / peck.
Pulverize and MIX thoroughly and place
where the hogs can have free access to it.
He has used it when his hogs had it Lad
and it invariably cured them. You can
make up larger quantity by proportioning
the quantities of the different articles used
-Franklin (Ky.) Sentinel,
Sweet OIL for Poisons.
plain farmer says: 1t is now over
twenty years since learned that sweet oil
would cure the bite of rattlesnake, not
knowing 1t would cure any other kind OF
poison, both on man or beast. think no
FARMER should be without bottle of it in
the house. The patient must take a spoon
ful of it internally, and bathe the wound
for cure. To cure a horse, it requires
eight times as much as il does for a man.
Here let me say, ,of one of the most extreme
cases of snake bite in this neighborhood-
eleven years ago this summer-where the
case had been thirty days standing and
the patient had been given up by his ply
sicians. / heard of it and carried the oil,
and gave one spoonful, which effected q
cure. 1t is an antidote for arsenic and
strychnine. 1t will cure bloat in cattle by
eating too freely of fresh clover; it will
cure bites of bees, spiders, or other insects,
and will cure persons who have been
poisoned by low running vine in meadows,
called ivy. Ohio F1mer.
Old Cows.
How long is it profitable to keep a COW
/ consider q COW in her prime (all things
considered) from five to ten years old
Some cows hold out much better than 9TH
ers, as with men and horses; and are really
as young to all intents and purposes at
twelve years, as others are at nine or ten
Never keep a COW through the winter after
she gets to going down hill, or kill su-
perior cow on account of her age, il her
teeth ere good she is all right, without any
signs cf deterioration. Cows should be
MIXED regularly and by steady mixers
american Stock Journal
Examining Eggs for Hatching.
The Massachusetts Ploughman says eggs
on which hen is setting should be exam
ined after seven or eight days, to see if
they contain chickens. This can best be
done at night by looking through the egg.
held between the thumb and fore finer, at
a candle. If there is a chicken in the egg,
the egg will appear dark. If it is clear,
and looks as If filed with melted wax, il
sholld be removed. AS soon as examined
they should be carefully replaced under
the hen.
Toast and Cheese.
Cut a slice of bread half an inch thick
pare c Fl the crust, and toast ii very slight
ly on one side. Cut slice of cheese g
quarter of an inch thick, not so big as the
bread by half an inch on each side; pare
OF the rind, lay it on the toasted bread,
place on fat tin plate, and put IN the
oven for ten minutes or so. Mix a quarter
OF teaspoonful of salt and mustard and
sprinkle of pepper; stir 1t into the cheese,
and you will have a delicious luncheon.
Cure for Whoopips Cough.
An NJ. ID. writes: thousands Of chill
children in this city, especially those OF
German parentage, are suffering from
whooping cough, and l wish to call the
public attention to the following simple
remedy: To one ounce of the dried leaves
Of the common chestnut tree add quart
of boiling water, and when the infusion j.
cold give cupful three times day, the
last dose being given when the patient re-
tires. After twenty-four or thirty-six
hours the patient will be relieved, and
then the dose may be administered in q
similar quantity"
How TO MAKE GRATING WAx.-Take good,
clean beeswax, one-third; rosin, two-thirds;
melt together; boil one hour, then pour il
into cold water. When cold enough work
it with the hands until you think it well
mixed. If not soft enough to spread easy
add little more wax. N. Bud your
peaches into plum sprouts. In budding
take the double buds. Graft your grapes
into wild grape roots; you will have grapes
the next year without fail One is worth a
dozen of those yoa get out of the nurser-
les. | have had them to grow ten and a
half feet long the FIRST year.-Cor. Gncin-
natl Gdzette.
BLACKBERRY WNE.-To one gallon OF
berries pour quart Of boiling water. Let
it stand twenty-four hours, stirring it oc
easional'y y; strain il and add two and hall
pounds of sugar to gallon of juice. Bot.
tie and seal; do not open before October.
Mock DUCK--A steak of beef well beat
en-, rich stufhng, such as IS used fol
ducks; spread it over the beef and roll il
in the form of a duck; then bake. Make g
rich gravy with onions and pour over it.
CURE FOR FELoN.-A venerable old lady
gives us the following: Pulverize five cents
worth of chalk, put it in deep earther
vessel, then add one tea-cup of vinegar
not acid, stir it well, immerse the felon anC
keep it In three hours, and then spread {
poultice of the same, keep il on till dry anG
change once.
To SETTLE COFFEE "A lady correspon.
dent says that she finds the best method o
settling coffee is as soon as you brown youl
coffee, and while the kernels ale yet warm
mix 1t with beaten egg, say one egg to {
pound The egg forms a cover around the
kernels, preserving the aroma, and wheI
ground acting as en- admirable settler.