The Placer herald., 1872-03-16
HOUSE AND IA Il M.
APPLES FOR HUMAN FooD.--The Wate'

besides containing large amount OF sugar,
mucilage and other nntritive matter, apples
contain vegetable acids, aromatic qualities,
ETC., which act powerfully in the capacity of
refrigerants, tonics and antiseptics; and when
freely used at the season of mellow ripeness
they prevent debility, Indigestion, and avert,
without doubt, many of the ills which flesh
is her to. The operatives of Cornwall
England, consider ripe apples nearly as nour-
ishing as bread, and far more so than pota-
toes. Ia the year 1SOl-whch was year
of much scarciy-apples, instead Of being
converted into cider, were sold to the poor,
and the laborcrs asserted that they could
'stand their work OH baked apples without
meat; whereas potato diet required either
meat or some other substantial nutriment.
The French and Germans use apples exten-
sively, as do all the inhabitants of European
nations. The laborers depend on them as
articles of food, and frequently make din
ner of sliced apples and bread. There is no
fruit cooked in as many different ways in our
country as apples; nor is there any fruit
whose value, as an article Of nutriment, is
as great and SO little appreciated.
Rust IN GRAIN The January report of
the Commissioner of Agriculture has the
following in regard to rust in grain, which
may be of interest to agricultural readers :
cit is at present well established that rust
in grain is produced from the spores of a
mcroscopcal fungus growing upon the bar
berry and various rough-eaved plants alder,
etc. These, falling upon the leaves of the
cereals and other grasses, develop very rap
Ilx in I En ,i
similar character, by which the affection is
propagated with inconceivable quickness.
The Winter spores, which are produced last,
form on the first named plants other fungus
growths the next year, and thereby secure
the continuance of the rust from season to
season. The proper method of preventing
grain from taking this affection, consist, first,
in extirpalins the barbery and other trees
mentioned from the vicinity of the grain
fields; next, the grain should be cleaned with
the utmost care so that no seeds of tho fun
gus bearing plants may be introduced in the
field in the sowing, and thus aid in the de-
velopment of the disease; and, finally, no ma
nure should be applied to the grain fields in
which any straws are mixed that have come
from rustcd plants and, in fact, straws of
this character should be burned as the most
eflectua method of protection against the
spreading Of the disease. If used at all as
Il manure, however, it should be kept frcm
grass lands Or fields in which grain is not
raised
TAKING CoLD.--If cold settles OF the
outer covering of the lungs it becomes pneu-
monia, inflammation of the lungs, or lung
fever, which in many cases carries the
strongest man to his grave within a week
If cold falls upon the inner covering of the
lungs it is pleurlsy, with its knife-ke pains,
and its slow, very slow recoveres. If cold
settles in the joints, there is rheumatism in
its various forms; nflammatory rheumatism
with its agoncs of pain, and rheumatism of
the heart, which in an instant sometimes
snaps the cords of life with no friendly warn
ing. 1t is of the utmost practical import
ance, then, in this wintry weather to know not
80 much how to cure a cold as how to avoid
it. Colds always come from one cause,
some part or the whole of the body being
cooler than natural for a time. If man
will keep his feet warm always and never
allow himself to be chilled, he will not take
cold in lifetime, and This can only be accom-
plished by due care in warm clothing and
the avoidance of draughts and undue ex-
posure. While multi,udes of colds come
from cold feet, perhaps the majority arise
from persons cooling off too quickly after
becoming little warmer than is natural
from exercise or work. or from confinement
to warm apartment. - Woods household
Magaztne.
TURPENT1SE IN HEADAcHE-Dr Wash
burton Bcgbic. (Edtn3aryh Medical Jour
naD advocates the use of turpentne in the
severe headache to which nervous and hyster-
ical women are subject. "Ihere is, more
over" he says, "another class of sufferers
from headache, and this is composed of both
sexes, who may be relieved by turpentine
refer to the frontal headache, which is most
apt to occur after prolonged mental effort,
but may likewise be induced by unduly-sus-
tanned physical exertion-what may be styled
the headache of a fatigued BRAIN A cup of
very strong tea often relieves this form of
headache, but this remedy, with not few,
is perilous, for, bringing relief TO pain, it may
produce general restlessness and-worst Of
al-banish sleep. Turpentine, in doses of
twenty or thirty minims, given at intervals
of an hour or two, will not only remove the
headache, but produce III wonderful man
ner that soothing influence to which reference
has already been made.
How EASILY BUTTER is SpoILnp.-A far
mers wife writes: "Of all the productions
of the farm, butter is the most liable to be
tainted by noxious odors floating in the at
mosphere Our people laid some veal in the
cellar, from which little blood flowed out,
and it was neglected until it began smelling
offensive. The result was that jar of but
ter which was then packing smelled and
tasted like spoiled beef. Another lady reader
remarks that there was a pond of filthy,
stagnant water a few hundred feet from their
house. from which an offensive e!liuvium
would be borne on the breeze directly to the