Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-10-05
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.
PUDDING WITHOUT MILK OR Eaas.--
Half pint of water. half a pint OF mo-
lasses, two teaspoonfuls of soda, one tea
spoonful of salt, thicken to quite thick
batter, stir in either berries or raisins, and
boil three hours.
Do DAILY and hourly your duty; do it
patiently and thoroughly. Do it rs it pre-
sents itself; do it at the moment, and let it
be its own reward. Never mind whether
it is known or acknowledged or not; but
do not fail to do it.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Country Gen.
Aeman who has tried keeping three cows
exclusively on green sowed corn since
about June l, last, finds the milk steadily
diminishing His experience with sowed
corn fed in connection with grass has been
very favorable.
TO SET THE Color OF COTTON
DREssEs.-Take large double handful of
bran. put 1t in q sauce. pan and set it over
the fire, allowing it to boil thoroughly in
quart of Water; when thoroughly boiled,
strain the bran and throw the water into
that IN which you arc about washing your
lawn or chlltz dress. Let the dress soak
for an hour or SO in it before washing In
stead of starch, use weak solution of
glue water and iron on the wrong side.
If we would establish the habit Of
drinking water freely in the morning,
soon after arising, commencing with small
quantities. increasing gradually as we
learn to relish it, until the chief portion
taken during the day is before breakfast,
it will promote the health to a much
greater extent than it ordinarily does, era
dictate disease from the system, and become
most decided luxury in time-Scientafc
Ame1 acdn.
LRMON JUICE IN J)IPHTHERIA-Mr.R Re-
villout, in paper presented last summer
to the French Academy of Medicine, as
serts that lemon juice is one Of the most
emcacious appliances for diphtheria, and he
relates t at, when dresser in tho hospital,
his own wife was saved by this timely ap.
plication. He got three doz n lemons and
gargled her throat with the juice, she
swallowing little at the same time, in Or
der to act on the more deep seated parts.
The do tor has noted numerous cases of
complete success obtained by this method
of treatment.
THE Germantown Telegraph says that
of all the crops raised in the United
States, Indian corn, or maize, which is q
better name, is the most important and
valuable, as it is the largest in extent, and
commands the greatest cash value, and is
applied to more useful purposes than any
other. 1t may be regarded, too, as the
most wholesome. Every animal, and
very granivorous bird, from the partridge
up, prefers it to all other grains; and az 10
man, if not popularity upon an equality
with wheat, as an article of diet, it is next
to it. In pork-makinR it is indispensable.
THE Santa Clara (Cal) Farmers Club
says: "1n dry Ct asons the poorer soils
yield better grain in proportion than soil
| which is richer. 1t seems, from the re-
ports that have reached US, that the farm
ers generally have been asttnished at the
unusual quantity of grain from unpromis-
ing fields. The reason assigned is that The
rapid growth OF the straw, in the better
land, exhausts the moisture in the soil be-
fore the head fills out, and hence light,
shriveled grain while the upland, not so
good, has produced less straw, and thus
retained suff1ciency of it's moisture to
mature plump and healthy Seed"
THE question, Does vaccination lose its
protective pOwtr2 is one which is discus
sed anew on the occasion OF every fresh
outbreak of epidemic smallpox, such IS
that with which London is now afflicted.
The best ob.ervers are of opinion that
when vaccination ha, been properly p r
formed, and when the system has been
brought thoroughly under the influence of
the modified form of the disease induced
by the vaccine matter, person is no more
liable to take the small. pox than if he had
formerly hid the small ox itself. The
necessity of revaccination is due usually
to the fact that the operation is imperfectly
performed, and the disease imperfectly d..
veloped.
FiREwooD, GREEN OR DRY.-We have
heard it stated that green wood gives out
in burning greater heat than dry wood.
Now it is only necessary 10 reason for
a moment to perceive that this statement
or bel eff must be fallaciuus. Green or
unseasoned wood contains twenty five per
cent. more water than air dried, or what
is commonly called dry or seasoned wood.
Then, in burning one hundred pounds of
green wO.d, an excess of twenty five
pounds of water must be evaporated. To
evaporate five pounds of water one and
quarter pounds of wood are required. So
that in getting rid of the excess of water
in green wood, a loss of over six per cent.
is incurred. This will consume one cord
out of every sixteen. This is the direct
loss. The Indirect loss we estimate much
higher. 1t can not we'll de reduced to
figures, but is sufficiently palpable for all
that It is exhibited in late breakfasts,
badly.cooked dinners, "cakes which are
dough-" and bread sodden and indigesti-
BILE; also, in disturbed tempers and gene
raj domestic unpleasantness, which not
seldom occur in consequence. If the
winters supply of wood were now gotten
up, sawed and split, and piled up under
cover, certain gain in money or labor
would be made, while prolific source Of
inconvenience and irritation to the fema' es
of the family would be avoided.-HeasM