The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-02-17
USEFUL RECIPES, ETC.

Avoid it. Don't live in it. Keep the
children out of it."
ALL cooked dishes that it is wished to
cool before using should be set in the pure
fresh air. 1t will preserve their flavor un-
impaired; otherwise not
A CoRREsr oNDRNT of the Cincinnati Ga
zette says the best feed to fatten . hog
rapidly is made as follows: Two parts
barley, two of Germ, one of oats; grind,
cook and then feed cold.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Rural Neac
Yorker says that he can make so pounds
more butter from cow during the season
by churning all the milk than by churning
the cream alone.
"RURAL" writes to the Chicago Tri-
in small heaps in the field, to be spread
in the spring, is bad one. He thinks it
much better to spread it at the time of
cartIng it out
LEARN to insure your principles against
more exercise your reason if you live in
the constant dread of laughter, than you
can enjoy your life if you live in the con-
slant terror of DEATH
! WORK the buttermilk out Of your but
| ter, but work it mildly, 80 as not to break
the grain and make grease of it. If you
are wise you will pack away your butter
in clean vessels, securing and cleanline ss
throughout in making, and cover with
salt and water-a simple thing, but it
must be done
THE american Farm Book mentions a
horse that died at sixty seven years of age,
and another that was quite coltish in his
forty-fitth year. These cases of longevity
were doubtless the results Of good care
1t is never economy to put horse to the
utmost of his strength to obtain a great
amount of work, or to feed sparingly in
order to save provender.
AT a meeting of the Deerfield On. II J
Farmers Club, Mr. David Garrish said
that the bearing year of fruit tree may
be changed by picking off the blossoms
one year, SO that it will bear the next.
! The bearing year of a tree depends much
on the year 1t was grated He had a
Porter apple tree which bore fruit on one
hGiT of the tree one year, and on the other
half the next year.
ROOF felting wound around the body OF
trees, tied with string at the top and bot
tom, is sure protection against mice II
, too much heat is feared from the color, ii
, can be changed with a whitewash brush
: on thousand trees in one day. Cut the
telling in strips long enough to protect the
trees where the snow drifts, and wide
enough to go around the body; leave nc
| space between it and the ground, and ysu
have a jacket that no mouse or insect viii
go MISUNDERSTANDING.
A CORRESPONDENT of an Eastern paper
referring to the fact that pork is sometime.
found of yellow color, says that it results
S from the too free use of corn for food. He
G says that about the time hogs are finished
e Off farmers often make mistake in feed
s ing too much unmixed grain. The result
G is bad digestion and yellow fat. MixeC
:. feed should be given to the last-roots
S pumpkins, apples, with corn. AS rule
3 you can get them.tO eat more grain ant
take on more flesh than by diet of ricl
, food only.
S THE Western Stock Journal says tn
S very best food for mich cows is whoa
' bran. Nothing has so great tendenc,
t to increase the flow of milk, and as i
: abOunds in phosphates, it is a highl,
: nutritious and healthful diet Give tn
Y cows all they will cat of it, and if con
S venient mix little corn meal with il
r Don't over feed, but give just what the,
a will lick up with a relish, and you will b
D rewarded with an abundant supply of milk
and your cows win keep in good condi
] ton.
s A CORRESPONDENT of the Freepol
Y JOur1,at says A few years ago made a
e experiment that fully satisfied me in re
i gard to the way to apply manure | ha
n piece of ground which intended to pu
in wheat next year. 1t was plOwed in tn
usual manner. In the fall l hauled on
l. five or six loads of fine manure, an
y spread it on about an acre. The piece {
/ grOund-abOut eight acres-was sowed i
e wheat the next spring, and at harvest
s stood at least foot higher and more tina
twice as thick, as it did where it was nc
C sOwn in wheat and seeded down wit
e clover. The second crop showed the ma
II nure as plainly as the first, and also tn
r clover this last summer.
y SWEET On. FOR PoIsoNs-A plain faI
o mer says " 1t is now over twenty year
e since | learned that sweet oil would cur
o the bite of a rattlesnake, not knowing
would cure any other kind of poison, bot
n on man or beast. think no farmer shoul
= be without bottle of it in the hous,
q The patient must take spoonful of it in
ternally, and battle the wound for cur,
h To cure horse, it requires eight times a
e much as it does for man. Here let m
l. say, of one of the most extreme cases {
d snake bite in this neighborhood-eleve
re years ago this summer-where the cas-
Is had been thirty days standing, and tn
t patient was given up by his physicians
|, heard of it and carried the oil, and cav
one spoonful, which effected q cure.
ir is an antidote for arsenic and strychnin
r 1t will cure blOat in cattle by eating to
st freely Of fresh clover it will cure bites
s, bees, spiders, or other insects, and wi
% cure persons who have been poisoned b
r low running vine in the meadows, cal
g, ed ivy.-Ohio Farmer.
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