Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1870-04-22
FARM AND FIRESIDE,

HOLES IN THE POCKET BOOK. Farmers,
mind we'll that you keep no holes in your
pocket-books If you do, be sure all the
"tin" will slip through and be lost. Let
us see how some men make holes in their
pocket books
If you plough shallow, plant inferior seed,
and then suffer what comes up to run to
grass or fall prey to insects, you make a
hole in your pocket-book.
If YOU turn out your stock upon the COM
mon to mix with inferior breeds, or allow
them to stray or be stolen, be sure you have
a hole in your pocket-book. ..
If you purchase abroad what you might
easily and cheaply make at home, such
things will make holes in your pocket-book.
If you keep bad fences or bad gates, and
your neighbours stock break in upon your
growing crops, and then worry or injure
them with dogs. and by SO doing turn .
friend into an enemy, you make sad rent
in your pocket-book.
If you spend your time and money at
elections or stores, drinking and carousing.
when you ought to be at work, be assured
there is big hole away down deep in your
pocket-book.
If you leave your tools to b. thrown
about here and there, exposed to all sorts of
weather, be sure they will rot and rust and
make holes in your pocket book.
Land undrained and unmanured, stock
poorly fed or neglected, orchards left to
grow at will or be pruned by cattle, idleness,
sloth, tobacco, whiskey, worthless dogs, fine
clothes-all these make sad, sad holes in the
pocket-book, the memory of which will not
be pleasant when the evening shadows come,
and you find that you have done nothing for
rainy day.--Anaerican Farmer.
How TO MAKE HENS PAY.-The question.
do hens pay 2" has long ago been settled.
With eggs at 40 cts. per dozen. there is no
room to doubt that they do pay, and well,
too. 1t becomes, then. matter Of some
Importance to know how to make them pay.
l have had lifelong experience in this
line, and will venture an opinion, in the facs
of the thousand and one already given to
the public. In my management of fowls, I
have labored to reduce all "rules" and "di-
rections" into one short, simple and compre-
hensive form. I give it below:
A comfortable, clean, well ventilated, dry
and airy house a dry and sunny range,
free from any disturbing influences; access
at all times to clean water and plenty of
gravel: good and liberal feeding twice day,
morning and night; good nursing and care
full oversight at all times careful separa-
ton Of breeds and BOOSTERS, or a judicious
crossing of breeds plenty of nests for all the
hens and an unceasing war against vermin.
These things, with no one of them left out,
will insure success, and constitute the sum
and substance of all the books ever written
upon this subject Attend to these things
and you will FIND tibet fowls, in proportion
to capital, pay better than any other stock
upon the farm. Eggs always command
ready sale and always sell at their full val
ue. And very important item would be
taken away if fowls were entirely withdrawn
from the market There is pleasure,
there is economy, there is money in this
business, managed by the above simple rule.
Try it.-American Farmer.
DYpTHER1A DIR. Revillout, in paper
presented last summer to the French Acad-
of Medicine, asserts that lemon juice is one
of the most eficacious medicines in dyptker-
Ia, and relates that, when dresser in the
hospital, his own wife was saved by this
timely application. He got three dozen le-
mons, and garged his throat with the juice,
swallowing little in order to act on the
more-sealed parts. The doctor has noted
numerous cases of complete success obtained
by this method of treatment.
CANcER.-A citizen of Philadelphia, who
has been using weak solution of corbole
acid as wash to correct the offensive odor
arising from cancerous affection, discover
ed that it also entirely removed the cancer.
One-fourth of an ounce of carbolic acid is
diluted with quart (thirty two fluid ounces)
of water, and the lotion is applied three
times day. A weaker solution, containing
one-eight Of an ounce of carbolic acid to the
quart of water, would probably bea safer
application.
The following recipe is given by the Lon
don Lancet for the cure of Bone Felon:
Gas soon as the pulsation which indicates
the disease is felt, put directly over the spot
a fly blister, about the size Of your thumb
nail, and let i. remain for six hours, at the
expiration Of which time, directly under the
surface Of the blister. may be seen the Felon,
which can easily be taken out with the point
of needle or lancet"
OMELEr.-Four eggs, (whites and yolks
beaten separately, one tablespoonful -four,
beaten up in little milk. salt and pepper to
taste. Heat the milk in skillet, when
boiling stir in the thickening and salt and
pepper; take off of the stove and stir in the
whites and yolks. pour in buttered dish
and bake in quick oven until nearly brown
ed, This is easily made, and excellent
CREAM Pie Place pint of milk where
1t will heat, then beat together one cup of
white sugar, one-half cup of -four and two
eggs, and stir it into the milk when it is
near boiling stirring it rapidly until it is
cooked thoroughly, when cool flavor with
essence of lemon, and pour upon the crust,
which should be baked before the cream is
put In. making two pies. e=sE
Corn STARCH DELICATE CAKE.-One cup
of butter. two cups sugar. one cup sweet
milk, one teaspoonful soda, whites of seven
eggs; mix thoroughly together one cup of
corn starch, three cups -four, two teaspoon
fuls cream of tartar Add to the rest, and
bake quick in deep tins. 1t is also very nice
baked in one loaf
RusKs.-Two cupfuls of sweet milk, one
half cupful Of sugar, two eggs. two tea
spoonfuls of butter, two teaspoonfuls of
cream of tartar, one teaspoonful of soda,
eonr cunf1ls of -four Bake in muffin dish