Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1871-01-26
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.
Mr.. CURTIS, a successful farmer and
ffuit- grower, of Berkshire, Mass, hastens
the maturing of his grapes, by pouring
around the roots of his vines warm ram
water--warm soap .suds, If he has them.
THE use of lead instead of lint, for
dressing wounds, is recommended by
French writer, who says, that it feels soft
and cool to the wounded parts. end" that
the formation of very thin layer OF the
sulphatc of lead impedes putreiaction
THE London Lancd gives the following
cure for bone felon: Gas soon as the dis
ease is felt, put directly over the spot
y-blister, about the size of your thumb
nail, and let it remain for six hours, at the
expiration of which time, directly under
the surface Of the blister may be seen the
felon, which can be instantly taken out
with the point of q needle, or lancet,
AcoRSs, as food for cattle, are at present
the subject of discussion in Engl md, some
contending that they are poisonous, while
others estimate that the acorn crop of
1870, in that country, was worth more
than $5,00o,000 1t is stated that dry and
ripe acorns taken in moderation, are very
valuable as food for sheep and swine, but
that domestic animals, permitted to roam
about park, would oyerfeed Themselves,
and die of indigestion.
RAT Poison The following, says Sir
Humphrey Davy, is tasteless, colorless,
odorless.and infallible rat poison; Car
Donate of baryta, two ounces; grease, one
pound; mix, and set a short distance from
their holes. 1t produces great thirst con
sequently water must be set close by, for
death takes place Immediately after drink
ing, not giving them time to go back to
their holes. Be sure that no domestic ami
NAL gets at it, for it is most deadly
poison, Perhaps this remedy may be an
important suggestion to hunters and trap
pers.
REMRDY FOR GARGET.--FO garget in
the bag, Prof Law recommends dose of
one pound of EPSON salts, to be followed
the next and for few successive days,
with an ounce of nitre and a dram of
iodide of potassium. Also to rub the I'D
der daily with an ointment composed Of
one part Of iodidc to twelve parts of lard.
A subscriber in the Ne,o Hampshire Farmer
has the following remedy Give the COW
three or four quarts of strong tansy tea,
which she will drink freely if troubled
with garget and it will effect a cure.
have tried this remedy several times with
good success.
BAKED PUDDING The following is said
to be one of the best buildings that was
ever used in the Metropolitan Hotel of
New York Five tablespoonful of corn
starch to one quart of milk dissolve the
starch in part of the milk, heat the re-
mainder of the milk to nearly boiling;
having sailed it little, then add the dis
solved starch to the milk, boil three min
utes, stirring it briskly; allow ii to cool,
and then thoroughly mix with it three
eggs, well beaten, with three tablespoon
fuls of sugar; flavor to your taste, and
bake it half an hour
ACCoKDING to a German author, the
chick, at the moment of escape from the
egg, weighs tSo-third7 rs much as the
original err. IT, therefore, il is desirable
to have large and strong chicks, 1t is
necessary to see hat the heaviest eggs are
hatched The average weight Of hens
eggs may be estimated at about ten to the |
pound, some weigh considerably more, !
and others much less than this proportion. /
BY pains in selecting large eggs, it will he /
possible, according to the usual theory of /
selection for breeding, to secure race Of
chickens Of large size.
ROAST G0osE.-It should be very fat; /,
remove every pintcather. Then pass a .
lighted paper over the outside surface, to .
remove the fine hairs. Make foreemeat, |
either as for turkey, of fine bread crumbs, |
seasoned with summer SayOry, salt and |
pepper, or, with sage and two onions, |
chopped fine, with pcppera salt. Roast !
until fine brown all over. If nice
brown around the legs and wings, you
may be pretty sure it is done. Remove
every particle of fat from the pan. 1t is
not fit 10 cat, Keep it however, tor Ia.
bricating oil, and other useful purposes,
Make gravy of the brown sediment re
naming in the pan. Apple sauce and
onion sauce with potatoes, peeled and
boiled whole. american Agrtca!turt%.
EATING THEIR FEATHERS Eating
each others feathers is habit which fowls
often contract when confined in yards, but
is not, perhaps, fully understood. 1t y a
morbid appetite" says writer IN the c"F,
ticator, apparently induced IN the onset
by the impatience of the fowls under con
tinement.' II is well known that lows
are very fond of blood, and when moult
ing, the new ltdliltiS hlS SNA'Nt"LiJ '"tiN'
blood shot that is, the ends of the quilts,
when quite young, have a drop or So OF
blood. which induces the fowls to pluck
for the blood contained in them; and we
have known it to be kept up till some IN,
diyiduals of the flock, who were made
special victims, were almost entirely de
nuded of their feathers, and sometimes
have even had their entrails torn out
IA. A., Stock .}oltrnd{
CoAI. TAR AND FENCE PosTs,-A cor
respondent of the Cincinnati Gdzette
writes Fourteen years ago, | built
yard fence around my dwelling, of sawed
oak posts SKA had them well seasoned
and placed about dozen of them on two
logs, letting the foot of them project over
2le feet then built fire under the
foot of them, and let them burn until
well charred | had close at hand my
barrel of tar, with the end out, and sunk
two thirds in the ground When the
posts were Dlaztng hot, ! pumped them
into the tar, letting them Hmain minute
| was particular in having some water or
tight cover ut hand, 10 put ont the tar, if
it should catch FIRE. My post, appear 10
be sound to-day, excepting some which
had sap on them Sawed oak posts do
not, ordinarily last more than six OF eight
years.