Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-08-04
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

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juice of one lemon, and a very little salt.
Bake in fine puff paste.
PEACE PoTPIE.-Put a plain pie crust
round the edge of a pan cut up some
peaches, and put a layer of them into your
pan, then a layer of sugar and nutmeg;
cover with crust, and bake slowly for two
or three hours.
DRIED APPLE PR.-To a quart of
dried apples or peaches, stewed and
mashed, take one ~teacupful of cream, two
eggs, well beaten, and seasoning of CHINA
mon or lemon. Sweeten it to your liking.
Bake in a pie paste.
TRAINING ToMAToEs.-The GGrde7eT's
Monthly says, after trying all kinds of trel-
Isses recommended, tomatoes will do best
tied up singly to strong stakes. 1t thinks,
however, it would be more profitable on
account of the less work, to let them
grow as they will on the ground, although
they will not yield as much.
EXPERIMENTS made to ascertain what
colors are most quickly and easily per-
ceiVed by the eye, seem to show, accord
ing to the photographic Ne1cS, that bright
yellow is the color most easily distin-
guished, and it is, therefore, suggested for
railway signals. 1t is remarkable that
yellow yields dark shades in photographs;
thus, a yellow-haired person is apt to have
black or dark hair, and yellow dresses
never turn out light. . ns 87
A CORRESPONDENT of the Eatomolo9ist,
who keeps a large number of toads in his
garden for the purpose. of destroying
insects, says. that when first a toad
is brought into q garden and set at liberty,
he will usually strike for some other parts
the first night, but a few days penning
up seem to attach him to the locality. He
may be settled for the season in almost
any particular locality by simply penning
him up in q temporary Enclosure for a few
days, and then removing the Enclosure
without disturbing him. A75f"
THE sunf1ower is very useful. Its
leaves soon become large enough to be
used as a covering for young cabbage and
tomato plants. Its stem affords an excel
lent hop or bean-pole, aud when dead in
the fall, if cut up and kept dry, it answers
well for kindling wood. The leaves can
be plucked of through the summer with
out injury to the plant and dried for fod-
der, or fed to mich COWS or horses. Its
seeds make a fine oil, or chickenfeed. 1t
is said to be an absorbent for malaria, and
is often cultivated as a preventive of
fevers near dwellings that occupy low.
places.
A CORRESPONDENT of the MGssGchusetts
P20ughngGR gives this remedy for white
hairs that appear on horses from the use
or wear of the saddle or harness :-"Take
| a piece of fresh butter or lard, large
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ing; rub the same with the hand until IL
becomes quite hot, repeating the opera
ton at least three or four times, and the
white hairs will soon come out and hairs
of natural color take their place. ! have
tried this on several horses, and never
knew it to fail. I think the best time to
do it is in the winter before the new coat
starts" L
THE Canada Farmer gives the fol-
lowing suggestions in regard to weaving
lambs: "When separated from the ewes,
lambs should b placed in a field as dis
tant as possible from them, so as to be out
of reach of their bleating, and they will
/ soon become contented and thriving. The
| pasture to which the lambs are put ought
to be somewhat better than that to which
they have been accustomed, yet not too
~luxuriant, and if the ewes and lambs can
be turned into 1t together for a week, and
the ewes then taken away, the lambs viii
not then fret so much as would be the
case were they removed to a field that is
strange to them"
To CURE HOG CHoLERA.-Take two or
more large barrels and place convenient
to the kitchen. Into this deposit all the
pot liquor, dishwater, and greasy water of
any kind, refuse pieces of bacon, and a
few bucketsful of soapsuds. Let it stand
q few days, or until fermentation begins,
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fine charcoal, and half a bushel of corn
meal, one handful of salt, and a half
pound of copperas. Let it stanG q short
time, so that The charcoal may become
thoroughly saturated with the liquid, then
feed to the hogs in the usual manner;
this has never failed as a preventive, and
in every instance wherein from neglect
the disease made its appearance, succeed
ed in curing it in a few days. Western
Rural. 80
HARVESTING TIMOTHY SEED.-A con
tributor TO An exchange has the follow
ing suggestions on this subject: Do not
cut until the earlier heads shatter some.
Wait until you have three swaths cut,
then cut b binders or rather h bands
that. set it up. Put three sheaves or
punches together on end, and tie tightly
around the top. The advantage ofsetting
three swaths together is that it leaves
your punches in rows sufficiently wide
apart to admit of driving between;
them in hauling in. Let the bin
ders stand until the outside is ONE
what bleached and scattered, Thresh
stack before ycu thresh, it is better to tie
in sheaves. Tie same as grain; set six.
sheaYes together, and tie: around the top.
Always haves tight bottom in your rack
to save shatherings." @- ~
eBULwRR says that poverty is only an
idea, nine cases out of ten. Some men with
$4,000 a year suffer more for the want of
means than others with $500. The reason
is the richer man has artificial wants His
Income is $1,000, and he suffers enough
from being dunaed for unpaid debts TO
kill q sensitive man. A man who earns
adollar a day and does not run in debt, is
the happier of the two. Very few people
Who have never been rich will believe.
this but it is true. There are thousands
and thousands with prineely incomes who
never know q moments peace, because
they live abeve their means. There is
really more happiness in the worldanong
tina working people b among those
who are called rith. ~ . t's e=s7 ~
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