The Placer herald., 1871-08-05
HOUSE AND FA RIM.

the year cool draught ct water Is a luxury
which we may enjoy with little care. BY
the following method, simple and inexpen-
sive, water may be kept almost as cool as
ice. Let a jar, pitcher or vessel used for
water, be surrounded with one or more folds
of coarse cotton, to he constantly wet; the
evaporation of the water will carry off the
heat from the inside, and reduce it to low
temperature. In India and other tropical
countries, where ice cannot be procured, this
expedient is common. Let every mechanic
and laborer have at the place of his work
two pitchers thus provided, and lids or COW
ers, one to supply water for the evaporation,
and he can always have supply of cold
water in warm weather Any person may
test ulis by dipping finger in water and
holding it to the air on a warm day; after
doing this two or three times he will find his
finger uncomfortably COOL This plan will
save the bill for ice, besides being more
healthful. The free use of ice water often
produces arrangement of the internal organs !;
which, we conceive, is due to the property of
the water independent of its coldness.
To KEEP MILK SwEET.-A teaspoonful
of fine salt or horse-radish, in pan of milk
will keep it sweet for several days. Milk
can be kept year or more as sweet as when
taken from the COW by the following method:
Procure bottles, which must be perfectly
clean, sweet and dry; draw the milk from
the COW into the bottles, and as they are
filled, Immediately cork them well, and fast
en- the cork with pack-thread or wire. Then
spread little straw in the bottom of boiler,
on which place the bottles, with straw be-
tween them, until the boiler contains sufii-
cient quantity. Fill it up with cold water,
and as soon as it begins to boil draw the fire
and let the whole gradually cool When
quite cold, take out the bottles and pack
them in sawdust in hampers, and stow them
away in the coolest part of the house,
Southern Farmer.
PICKING GREEN CoEN.-This is a much
cheaper method of preparing corn to be
used in winter in a fresh state, than that of
canning it. When the corn is a little past
the tenderest roasting-ear state, pull it; take
Oft one thickness of the husk, tie the rest of
the husk down at the silk end in close and
tight manner; place them in clean cask or
barrel compactly together, and put on brine
to cover the same of about two-thirds the
strength of meat pickle. When ready to use
in winter, soak in cold water over night, and
it this does not appear sufficient, change the
water and freshen still more. We have used
corn prepared in this way for two seasons,
and it is excellent; very much resembling
fresh corn from the stalk.-Er.
The WINE CROP AND TRADE.-The San
Francisco Bulletin has the annexed:
The wine merchants, and grape growers
calculate that the crop this year will eqr =,
the large one of 1869, and that about =, go"
millions gallons of wine will be manuf| ,ot, t,,xoa 100,
the present. seasan. Shipments to ,b', EoS. ot
20 far, this Year.. have been p@ .ar, :, Jonhla I
what they were hsi year, ap' = lo"'H ho Iii
larger but for the high ,taa 'e a'n, sun
obliged to pay. These rat.s ~ ara that ht
our manatactssers a. Id dealers are i, bic
to compete fairly J., the Eastern market " itb
tI0Se "No my ,rt wines D europe.
ArrEN HON, FARMERS. the mo. t
succe' sful gardeners informs us that the ter
ri' .e pest, the cabbage louse," can be pre-
vented from doing damage to garden stuff
by following his directions: Boil the leaves
and stalk of the elderberry bush, and sprinkle
your plants with the water. Commence
early before the lice get start, and don't
be fearful of getting on too much 1t is well
known that the lice will not tou ! this bush,
there being something about it particularly
offensive to them, and as it does not injure
the plants in the least, it is well worth the
trial.-Plumas National.
MORE ABOUT THE OLEANDER Poison. We
made mention, few days since of the fact
that the Oleander, so common and popular
in all our gardens, was a very poisonous
plant We have since met with the follow
ing paragraph in the last number of 7ihon's
Journal Of Horticulture, in further relation
to the matter
The oleander is cassed by botanists in the
Dogbane family, of which many of the spe-
cies are acrid-poisonous. Philip Miller, Of
the Botanic garden, Chelsea, England, marks
in bis Gardeners and Botanst's dictionary,
that ''oii in which oleander leaves had infus-
ed, is recommended in the itch and other
cutaneous diseases, in preference to mercural
preparations for children and delicate consti-
tutions; but that the leaves are acrid and
poisonous, and therefore not proper to be
used internally without great caution. The
branches, when burnt, emit very disagree
able odor." Even the odor of the flowers
when inhaled in close rooms, sometimes pro-
duces very unpleasant effects.
The remedies for this poison are such as
are commonly used for narcotic and acrd
poisons.
How TO KEEP MEAT FRESH As farmers
are at distance from meat markets, the
following directions for keeping meat may be
of use to those who try it: Cut the meat il
slices ready to fry. Pack it in a jar in lay
ers, sprinkling with salt and pepper, just
enough to make it palatable. Place on the
top thick paper or cloth, with salt half an
inch thick Keep this on all the while.
have kept meat three weeks in the summer,