National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-10-13
Fnrn,, Garden and Household.

To PICKLE ONIONS. Peel and boi
them in milk and water few moments
put cloves, spice, pepper, and salt int
your vinegar, boil them in brass, turn u
on Your onions, and cover them tight
WASHING SoAP.-ro make superior
washing soap, take five pounds bar soap
or seven pounds good soft soap, foul
pounds good 81 soda, two ounces o'
bonx, one oun hartShorn 10 he di.
solved in twenty-five quarts Of water and
boiled about fifteen minutes. For hard
soap, add to the above half pound OF
rosin.
RrNG WoRM.-This disagreeablc aiiec
ton may he easily aud speedily cured as
follows Upon retiring at night apply Il
poulticc of damp gunpowder to the part
affected. Generally one application is
sufficient. but if, on the following night,
there are no positive indications of "A
cure having been effected, apply again,
aud the eruption will speedily vanish.
To CLEAN OurPAINrED SURFACES -
Take piece of soft flannel, put 1t IN
warm water, and squeeze it till it feels
dry next dip IT gently on to some very
finely pulvcrized French chalk, and rub
the painted surface with the flannel {;
the effect will be the removal of all
dust, greasy matter, and dirt the sur
face is next washed with clean sponge
and water. and dried with IA piece of
wash-leather This method does not in
iurc the paint like soap, and produces a
very good result
How TO Do UP SHIRT BosoMs. Take
two ounces of gum arabic powder, put
il into pitcher, and pour on it Il pint of
boiling water according to the degree
Of strength you lesire), and then having
covered it, let it set all night. In the
morning pour it carefully from the dregs
into clean bottle, cork it, and keep it
for use. A tablespoonful of gum water,
stirred in pint of starch that has been
made in the usual manner, will give to
lawns, either white or printed, II look of
newness when nothing else can restore
them after washing 1t is also good
(much Diluted for thin white muslin and
bohinet.
To PRESERVE PEARS. Take small
rich, fair fruit as soon as the pipe are
black /; set them over the fire in kettle
with water to cover them let them
simmer ill they will yield to the pres
sure of the finger, then with "A skinner
take them into cold water; pare them
neatly, leaving on little of the stem
and the blossom end pierce them at the
blossom end of the core then make II
syrup of n pound of sugar for each
pound of fruit when it is boiling hot
pour it over the pears, drain it off, max
ing it boiling hot, and again pour it
over; after day or two put the fruit
in the syrup over the fire, and boil gent
~ until il is clear ; then take it into the
jars or spread it on dishes boil the
syrup thick, then put it and the fruit in
jars
DEEP CULTIVATION OF Poor LANDS. -
]. Waters, Rochester, Vt, asks Hea'M
and Iiom if he could injure piece of
very poor land by blowing it deeply this
fall, and leaving it until spring. He,
thinks the frost would have beneficial
effect on it. If the land is ry poor,
certainly no injury can occur by break
ing it up deeply, and possibly, we will
say probably, good might be done. 1t
is Just such soils as those which are
benefited by deep blowing in the fall.
The exposure to winters frost may
ameliorate the subsoil so much as to
permit crop of clover to grow, which
might be turned under as manure
though the land may have been reduced
to poverty by shallow blowing and con
slant cropping, it does not follow that
deep blowing will restore it, but rather
that If the same course of treatment is
continued it will he more ef1ectually
impoverished. Plow deeply, manure
literally, if the land must be restored.
LAMENEss IN Houses Lameness of
whatever kind should have prompt at
tention. However trivial it may appear,
it may end in chronic lameness and
perhaps in SPAWN and ringbone. If the
cause Is not clear to the owner, he had
better consult one that is skilled,
though il may cost little trouble and
money. There are various causes and
kinds of lameness. 1t frequently arises
from shoeing or by picking up some
foreign bodies. Removing the cause
will generally be sufficient to effect
cure, hut if the incision is deep, dress it
with f'r balSdm or mixed soap and sugar.
In stitle joint lameness the symptoms
are heat and tenderness, and the limb
is advanced with difficulty; rest, TO-
mcntations with infusions of poppy
heads, cold water, and sometimes physic
viii be the most proper means of cure.
For chronic lameness (of the stilic),
originating i'll adhesions or intiltrations
of the surrounding tissues. II few appl:-
cations of the acetate of cantharides will
probably effect a cure