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Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-01-19
A Few Hints About Cooking Game.

THE cooking of game is extremely sim
pie, as very few kinds require force-meat.
and the sauce is very easily made. As
general thing, game is roasted. The longer
game is kept, provided it is not stale, the
better. Birds and and all kinds of game
are better kept in the feathers and skins
till just before required for cooking
When the feathers slip off very easily, the
birds may be considered ripe for the spit
or oven Be very careful not to tear the
skin while taking off the feathers. After
every feather and pin-feather has been re-
moved, pass the blaze of a lighted white
paper over the outside surface to singe off
the hairs, which, if allowed to remain,
would show very distinctly after the birds
are roasted. Be careful in drawing the
birds, and they will require very little
washing. The less they are washed, the
better favored they will be. Do not soak
game in salt and water, as recommended
by some writers. They say: 1T is to
take out the game flavor" If the game
flavor is undesirable, doubt if soaking in
salt and water would remoye it. The game
flavor is what epicures like. The heads of
the birds, with the whole length of neck,
should be cleaned, the eyes removed, etc.,
and skewered to the side of the wing and
roasted with the game. 1t distinguishes
the bird from domestic fowls No stufflng
is required. Sometimes wild ducks may
have a mild force-meat of bread-cTumbs
soaked in port-wine, but it is not usual in
this country. Put no water in the pan,
but baste the birds every few minutes with
butter and the gravy that runs from them.
Woodcocks or snipe are prepared for the
roast without drawing or opening them in
any way. The head, with long bill, is
cleaned and fastened to the wing. The
feet, of course, are left on.
Bread crumbs, fried to fine brown in
butter, are served with game; also bread
sauce and jelly. The bread-sauce is made
as follows: Take quantity of fine white
light bread-crumbs. Pour over them an
equal quantity of boiling new milk. Let
it soak awhile, then stir in little butter
and salt. If desired, you may add cayenne
pepper or a little mace. Some add a
boiled onion chopped fine. 1t is very
good without these additions, and will suit
the general taste better probably. 1t
should not have a boil up, and be allowed
to stand, where it will not burn, on the
back of the stove till wanted for the table.
Remember to remove the skewers and
strings from the game before removing
them to the large dish for table. If you do
it afterward, you will make the dish look
untidy. Small birds are very nice rubbed
over with the white of an egg, and then
rolled in bread crumbs before roasting.
Basic with butter, and apply fresh bread
crumbs to bare places till they have a uni
form appearance. Some nicely toasted
slices of bread, soaked a minute or two in
the gravy from the pan, is served with
game, and is very much relished by some
persons. Young partridges are very nice
broiled and served at breakfast. They are,
however, generally roasted.-HearM and
Home
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-01-19
Popular Errors about the Eyes.

THERE comes time when normal eyes
find their powers grown limited, and re-
quire more light and assistance from glass
es when looking at small near objects.
When this period arrives, it is an error to
persist in endeavoTs to do as formerly
with the eyes; but much use must be
avoided except in clear light with the re-
quired auXiliaries 1t is also a mistake, as
will hereafter be shown, to suppose that
glasses should not be worn while it is pos
sible to avoid doing so. On the contrary,
they serve to prevent straining of the
eyes aud preserve rather than iniure them.
Certain defects of refractive power are
due to malformation of the eyes, either ex-
isting from birth or acquired afterward
and are not to be removed by remedies or
by manipulation. 1t is mischievous er-
ror to suppose that the form of an elastic
globe, filled with fluid or semi-fluid sub
stances, can be changed, except for the
moment, by pressing upon it with the fin
gers, as has been recommended by charla-
tans. All the theories that the eye can have
its form favorbly modified by rubbing il
always in one direction, or by any other
manipulation, have no foundation in facts
But while persistent squeezing, according
to these methods, can never do any perma-
nent good, it involves great risks.
1t may lead to congestion and and hem
orrhage within the eyes; or give rise to de.
structive inflammation or the formation OF
cataract by dislocating the chrystalline
lens; or cause almost immediate loss OF
sight by separation of the retina from its
neighboring parts; or may increase the
giving way of the back part of the globe
which is already often begun in near-sight
ed eyes.
The same warnings will apply with
equal force against the use of eye
cups fitted with rubber bulbs, to alter the
form of the eyeball, as is asserted, by sue.
ton. Valueless and dangerous as they are
persons are often persuaded to purchase
and try them, sometimes TO their sorrow
-Dr. Villains, IN Atlantic Monthly.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-01-19
Remedies for Hollow Horn.

THE following recipes are contributed
to the Rural Nelo Yorker:
Take one pound of bittersweet root, one
and one-third pounds of tobacco; boil in
chamber lye; add one pound of lard; sim
mer down to salve. Shave the hair eff
between the hsrns; apply to the head,
rubbed on well; put two thicknesses OF
wooden cloth from horn to horn; tie on
with string. l have used this kind of
salve occasionally, over forty years, for
hollow horn. Have cured cattle that had
not been able to ge. up in four days; also,
garget in cows udders, chapped teats, or
any kind of sores. Apply little to horses
ears, and the flies will be very careful not
to trouble them--s. II. NJ.
l have never known the following to
fail even in the worst of cases: My plan
is to fasten the animal in stable, or where
it can be held, and take middling- sized
gimlet and bore through both horns on
the under side, about two inches from the
head, into the hollow. Animals will never
be obliged to have their horns bored but
once unless they get stopped up, when
they should be bored out again, and they
will never be troubled with the hollow
horn unless the holes get stopped-Far-
Dler.
Take strong spirits of camphor, pour it
in the hollow on the top of the head. If
not very bad, that will cure it. If that
don't start it, take gimlet and bore the
horn about three inches from the head,
and put about half a teaspoonful of cam
phor gum in each horn. If that don't
warm up the horns in two hours, you need
not try anything else. Make some wooden
plugs and put in the holes when you get
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-01-19
Dairying in the United States.

The following statistics are from the
Lice Stock Journdl:
But few persons realize the magnitude
OF the dairying interest of the country
at the present time. The present produce
of cheese is supposed to be 100000, 600
pounds, which, at fifteen cents a pound,
amounts to S45,000,0O0; and of butter,
5l5,OO0O00, which, at twenty-five cents a
pound, amounts to $152000 900; with
1000 gallons of milk sold in the cities
and towns, and 100000 gallons consumed
IN families where produced, worth $685.
UOOO9O; making together dairy product
OF S215OO0,OO0, besides the pork made
from the refuse of butter and cheese
dairies. The number of cows is probably
not less than 100000; the number in
1860 was $S,72S, 1862.
If we allow 100000 cows for making
the butter, ii will give 115 pounds to the
COW, and 100000 cows employed in pro-
ducing cheese, which will be 200 pounds to
a cow, 100000 cows for the production of
milk consumed in cities and families of
producers, leaving 100000 cows in the
Western and Southern States devoted to
raising stock. From these facts it will ap-
pear that the average product of butter
and cheese is very far below what it might
be with the intelligence and attention of
breeding, feeding and general management
which the magnitude of the subject de-
mantls. The first Collins cheese factory
of Erie county, N. Y, for 1869, reports the
average from 730 cows at 420 pounds of
cheese to cow, while 200 pounds and
over is a common yield to a cow in butter,
from good, well-fed COWS.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-01-19
The Temperature Of the Air.

AERoNAUTs, who now form an import
ant section of the travelling public, will be
glad to learn, the Pal Mall Gazette thinks,
from so high an authority as Mr.. Glaisher,
that it is popular fallacy to suppose that
the temperature of the air always decreases,
by uniform law, with increase of eleva-
ton. Were it so, the balloon monte
would become an impossibility during the
present season, for a half-starved Partisan
would be, of all persons, the most incapa-
BILE of withstanding the rigor of an Arctic
climate
Mr.. Glaisher's experiments, however,
have brought to light the unexpected re-
suits that the mean monthly temperature
of the air at fifty feet high, is, during the
evening and night hours, invariably higher
than at distance of four feet from the
ground, and in the winter months the
same rule holds good. both by day and
night In fact, the general conclusions at
which he has arrived are, that at sunset
the temperature of the air is sensibly the
same up to two thousand feet, but that at
night and during the winter season, it in
creases from the earth upward. 1t would,
therefore, seem that the voyager who pen
etrates beyond the clouds, will not only be
rewarded by finding serener atmosphere,
but also temperature milder than that to
which the combatants on whom he looks
down are exposed
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-01-19
Curing Meat.

THE Germantown Telegraph says: "To
one gallon of water add one and a half
pounds of salt, half pound of sugar, half
an ounce of saltpeter, half an ounce of pot
ash. In this ratio, the pickle to be in
creased to any quantity desired. Let these
be boiled together until all the dirt from
the sugar rises to the top and is skinned
off. Then throw it into tub to cool, and
when cold, pour it over your beef or pork,
to remain the usual time, say four or five
weeks. The meat must be well covered
with pickle, and should not be put down
for at least two days after killing, during
which time it should be slightly sprinkled
with powdered saltpeter, which removes
all the surface blood, etc, leaving the meat
fresh and clean. Some omit boiling the
pickle, and find it to answer well, though
the operation of boiling purities the
pickle, by throwing off the dirt always
to be found in salt and sugar. If this
recipe is properly tried, it will never be
abandoned. There is none to surpass it, il
so good"
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-01-19
Water.tight Cellar Floors.

WHEN floors are not subjected to a
great pressure of water, a good hydraulic
cement in water-lime will form tight Gel
lar bottom and sides; but when the whole
soil is full, and the cellar is like basin in
1t, as in case proposed to us, the pressure
of the water upward will surely find
crevIces where it will ooze up. The cure
for this state of things is to get drainage,
if possible, and if this cannot be had, and
repeated patchings will not stop the leaks,
in very dry time take up the top of the
floor, and after covering the whole with a
layer of gravel, pour into it melted asphal-
tum, which should be rolled and pounded
down while warm. and one or two more
layers applied, topping with sand. If the
gravel can be hot, also, 1t will make a
much better floor; but if it cannot be,
some coal-tar may be mingled with the as
phaltum, and the gravel coated slightly
with it before the hot asphaltum is applied.
American A1ricYlturiSt
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-01-19
Agricultural Crumbs.

BE prudent in planting; one corn is
often enough for an acher, and if YOU must
leave anything out, why, drop your pota.
toes.
Farmers are not expected to be men OF
letters, but it is generally understood that
you will make A while the sun shines.
Your field may be ''furrowed with care, "
but it cannot be narrowed by the recol-
lection"
Even your grief may be Of a moving
character, for when there are no horses
the farmers (s) teers will move the plow.
No matter how much work you have on
foot, keep your tow out of the flax.
You must r,member which are the
most noisy vegetables potato balls,
and you can make a pumpkin holler
Keep in mind the active ones, beans
will run, you see the cornstalk in the field,
and one vine that you plant you may find
hop when it comes up.
Don't let your cattle stray; they often
wander to the most mysterious places
we once saw cowhide in shoemaker's
shop.
Best locks for your barn in winter
Bullocks.
Flower for the hayfeld-The winrows.
The sentiment of cheese is astronomical
for when forced to expression it gives the
milky whey.
When you get your stock in for the win.
ter, remember you cannot wear the hoes
you dug the potatoes with.
Your wife may baste the chicken, but
you will have to sow the crop yourself
When you find the larks-pur in the coun.
try it may be safe to judge the cattle go to
the fields.
If you are dazy about the head in spring
it may be from over -stuffing; some are
savory in the river in summer
The flowers are no exception in follow
ing the fashions; go to the pond and yor
will find the lily pads there.
If you design to sweep the country a
election time you will find an underbrusl
in the woods.-BOSton ConmeJ cidl aat
| Bulletin.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-01-19

the company of his brother to New York
on the way home. Having some hours to
spend in the city prior to the sailing of the
Stonington steamer they took saunter
around the streets to note the temptations
spread out for Christmas presents. A
lady's reticule hit the taste of the Boston
brother and he determined to buy it and
send it to his sister-in- law in Pennsylva-
mia. They entered the store to make the
purchase, and nice Russian leather porte
monnaie was added to the Christmas re-
membrance to Joe, which was the name of
the Pennsylvania brother. The proprietor
said the names of the parties who were to
receive the gifts could be put on the satch-
ell and wallet at little expense or delay,
and the suggestion was hailed as an i'm
provement on the value of the articles.
The names were written out and handed
TO the proprietor of the store, who re-
piled that he also owned the same sur
name. This led to conversation, to ex-
PLANTATION, and finally to the discovery that
three long g-separated brothers had there
and then met face to facet II
would require an abler pen than ours to
describe the feelings entertained by the
trio.
We are permitted to explain things thus
far: The third brother had been little
wild in his youth, and had entered the
service of Queen Victoria, in which he had
remained during eleven years. His regi,
ment had been ordered to Canada, and be.
ing desirous of tasting freedom, he had i'm.
proved chance of stepping over the line
For fifteen years past he has been in busi.
ness in New York, and has had worldly
success corresponding with that of his
elder brethren.
This is our story. 1t has not the flavor
of deeply exciting romance, of free imagi-
nation, but it is true, and as wonderful as
it is true.-B0st0n Times, Jan. 3.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-01-19
Strange Domestic Romance.

~, 90 ~. ,.:o. 90 A. f,1Io-:.
0mn So W tnS pa,res t on sns iUlioms
;ta ieS na' M aqu1,n.ou In" us WIZ
tSo 1n 1 pao,oSials as, 9I.y llniee ytaLs ago
,no ,,,oro tbo Ion So u ~ ilSI aS i..' omole
VIZ eniee n9ys' pei.g ussaIo1s VI pe'ter- Yer
nis ~ ooiloi''oI III me, lei1 nnS lanu ioI
% sh,s county, Mitn ail inoSllite nue. loea as 70
c.N Mnoio NC iiiiS III so1tIe anu only ohGe tneie
altet, II, III Ietter nom New YORK, had ms
Ialn ny any lniorlnatloh thal ne was aliVe'
our years alterwaro tne eluer prother
CAN'T W lnls country, anu mas since peen
reputaoly known IN TINS city as member
Vi one OF lhe most actiVe PROFESSIONS. we
are are precluueo from saying more on
'l1S Is, neau.
me WeeA before Onrlstmas our Boston
IIlehu nau occasion 10 Vlslt HarrlsDurg,
e!ih., lroln winch pace NE took nlgnt
train for New York. An obstruction on
the railroad few miles west of Philadel-
p ma caused delay OF some hours near
small way statlon, some OF the passen-
gers becoming urea OF slttlng IN the cars
went out 10 explore the Iocailly, partlcu-
larry with the view TO the procurement OF
IelreshmentS: In thls accomplishment
tnere was little chance OF success, as
the place could not even boast OF
grocery. There are men, however, who are
not to be folled IN their lntents If any
means can be possibly found to carry them
out, and some OF these people happened to
De among the delayed passengers, and
Respectable LOOKING larln mousse pelng near,
tnat class OF 1oragers invested IL, calfeu up
the inmates, VINO We're enjoying the COM
forts OF thelr'last morning hours repose,
and prayed Tor supply OF anything 1uld
from cold water 10 CIDER, tea, conee, Donr-
bon, or apple,Jac Inc owner OF the
mouse good naturedly opened 1t 10 MS
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-01-19
Poultry Raising on a Large Scale.

WE are in receipt of number of let
tiers asking advice on this subject. Poultry
is cheap this year for some reason
probably because corn is not dear, grass
hoppers more abundant; the season was
dry, and the weather holds warm. 1t is
therefore easier to buy 1000 choice pullets
than usual but if anybody tries it he will
find task to do that-if we may Judge by
the experience of neighbor.
We have no doubt it is profitable to
keep fowls by the 1000; and the ex-
pertinent in almost every case, where care
is constantly exercised, will be successful
for the winter and part of the spring, but
when we have moist, cool, spring weather,
damp within and without, colds, Group, and
death will surely come to an extent to re-
duce the profits essentially, unless ex-
perience and vigilence, with the closest
attention to the wants of the fowls and
their sanitary surroundings, ward them off.
We advise no one to undertake wintering
1000 hens, but are glad if discreet people
try the experiment.
We are learning more about chicken
ailments, preventives, and cures; and the
time is coming when focks of 5000 will
be no rarity-Americd AgriculturiSt.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-01-19
Planting Apple-Orchards.

No man, in the review of the past sea-
son, can say that the apple-trees have
done bearing. The yield has been bounti-
full, Notwithstanding the great drought,
and apples have been drug in many
communities, yet good winter apples are
now bringing remuneratiye prices-three
dollars barrel and upward. Thousands
of barrels have been sent into New Eng
land, and are now selling in sight of farms
once blest with productive orchards. The
excuse for not planting has been the fail
ure of the old trees to bear. Why should
they bear, given over as they have been
to utter neglect for a whole generation? {?
A tree can no more bear fruit without
nourishment than cow can give milk
without fodder. There are orchards in
the older parts of the country well fed
and as productive as ever. There was
never more encouragement to plant good
varieties of the apple than now. There is
no danger of overstocking the market with
good sound winter apples. Even in this
year of plenty, the long keeping varieties
will bring good prices. Every farm
should have its orchard.-HearM and
Home
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-01-19

GoDEY's LADY's BooK-A splendid
number of Cooley is presented to the patrons OF
this excellent monthly for February. The en-
bellishm-nts are numerous and Of a superior kind,
consisting in part of: "The Fight Interrupted"
q steel plate; Colored Fashion-Plate, containing
seven figures; "Our Balloon Post" an extra
wood engraving; winter another splendid
wood engraving; etc. The other novelties for
the month are the usual large Extension Sheet,
Drawing Lessons, Cottage, and the various designs
to be found In the Work Department. Marion
Harland, Mrs. Hopkinson, and other prominent
writers contribute to the literature OF this number
L. A. Cooley, Philadelphia. $500 per year, with
liberal inducements to clubs.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-01-19
The Cause of Rust in'Wheat.

THE Germantown Telegraph says that it
is getting to be a pretty general opinion
among farmers that the sowing of grass
seed-clover or timothy-with the wheat
in the fall, as has been common in nearly
every wheat growing district here, as well
as north and east of US, is the cause of
rust on wheat, by reason of the moisture
which the grass retains affecting the grain
stalks when maturing. These grass seeds,
sown after the wheat crop has been har-
vested, will produce, it is claimed, as good
crops the following year as if sown at the
time of the wheat, nine months previ-
OuSlV
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-01-19
Defensive Medication.

Investigation Il as necessary for the protection
OF the human body against disease when unhealthy
influences are abroad, as iron armor and granite
easements for the protection OF ships and for
tresses when asssiled by shot and she'll Hence, II
Is desirable when those potent enemies of vitality,
damp and cold, pervade the air We breathe, to put
the system in the best possible condition to en-
counter them. The stomach is the organ by
which every other organ is nouzshed and sus-
tanned. and therefore upon its vigorous and regu-
lar action depends, In q great measure the capac-
ty Of the system to resist the assaults of the invs
ible enemies OF health and life, by which at this
inclement season, 1t Is surrounded. Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters, an admirable tonic and regulat.
ing medicine for all seasons T. never more needed
than in winter, when the torpifying influence of q
chilly atmosphere affects all the vital functions
and renders the body extremely susceptible. By
toning the digestive organs. and the liver, and the
bowels, with this unequalled vegetable specific, I
physical condition is attained which seems to be
proof against all varieties OF temperature and tha
Is inimical in the air OF winter. Defensive medi
cation Is q precaution which should never b:
neglected when danger is present, and therefore
OF the Bitters this is particularly
desirable, especially for the feeble and sickly.
remedy for biliousness, dyspepsia, nervousness
and bowel complaints, there is nothing compare
BILE to this wholesome restorative
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-01-19

A wRLL known clergyman, we hear it
said, called on Booth, the actor, at his
hotel one day last week, and asked if there
were no side doors in the Opera House
through which he might gain entrance
into a private box without being seen.
The reverend individual vanished when
Booth retorted: Sir, there are no doors
in the world through which God can not
see; would you hope to find such in the
Opera House e?"-Pitts5uayh Leader.