The Placer herald., 1872-08-03
HOUSE AND FARM +.


1t cannot be too generally known that all
forms of sore throat, whether simple, quinsy,
liberated, diptheria, scarlet fever, or other
wise, can be totally cured Or greatly allevia-
ted by simply wearing soft old silk hand
kerchief twice around the neck, high up and
next to the skin, especially if worn at night
when the pain is first felt. Like Naaman, the
Syrian, people will take any trouble but the
right one and fly to garges, bsters, potions,
pills, etc, and keep at them for a month at
time, but an old silk square why it's too
absurd, and 50 they hug their sore throat
and wonder why it don't get better. Not
only does the silk cure the sore throat but it
prevents a recurrence oft. was formerly
martyr TO quinsy and liberated sore throat,
and used to have n whole month of it regu-
arly every winter, and in spite too of all the
usual battery of pills, eargles, etc.; it ran
its course, till tried the silk the sore throat
took The hint, and has left me alone ever
since as bad customer. invariably killed
it within an hour of any attempt it made
upon me; an old sore throat will take a day
to cure Mind do not pretend to say that
the silk will cure fever, or any other symp-
tom of complication that may accompany
sore throat; but this | DO say, that it will
cure and remove all pain and difficulty in
swallowing in the throat without the aid OF
any local remedy, or it will do it in spite Of
them if you apply them and it both-wiih-
out it cure comes by nature, not by physic,
so far as the sore throat goes other remedies
are neither good nor harmless, except as they
keep you from trying the infalIiple silk.
WHERE THE RAIN COMES FRoM.-There
has been a great deal said of the effect of
forests upon the rainfall of countries. We
doubt very much the correctness of attribu-
ting the lack of rain in California during the
Summer months to the absence Of forests.
No extent of forest will ever bring us rain in
Summer, so long as the climate is controlled
by the great ocean wind currents that sweep
down the coast from the northern seas, Oh
overland from the same direction.
Those from the ocean come laden with
moisture almost to complete saturaton, and
they clio he the western slope of the coast
range of mountains north of the central por-
ton Of the State with forests of timber: but
the forests do not saturate the winds with
moisture, nor do they bring rain.
We get our rain in Winter, not because
we have more trees and foliage then than in
Summer: our rains are not the product of any
country's forests; but they are brought to us
by wind currents from afar, that come upon
us laden with moisture obtained from some
other source than our forests. We believe
the southeast winds of winter bring us, but
do not create here, the moisture that gath
cred into rain, deluge mountain and pla':...
If the Sierras receive a heavier rain or snow
fall than do the plains below either in Sum
mer or Winter, it IS not because they are
more densely timhered, but because of their
condensing the waters of the clouds into rain
and snow
Forests, timber belts and hedges exert a
modifying influence on the winds of any coun-
try, and their growth should be encouraged
their luxurious shade; but let us plant them
because we want them for other purposes
than rain producers Press.
Poison OAK.--Somebody recommends as an
antidote for poison oak salve made of equal
parts of butter salt, and saleratus; and that
person who expects to be exposed to the
poison oak, should take a small box of this
salvc with him, and anoint the hands and
face. This will oftentimes prevent the poi
son taking effect; but if it has taken effect
the salve is a sure and speedy cure.
SUNFLowERs are said to exhale an ozon-
lied oxygen, and are therefore recommended
for cultivation in malarous districts 20 de
stroy the maarial poison. They am, IN ad-
dition, very useful plants, yelhng about
forty per cent of good oil from their seeds,
how A Hiat nj
sunAower seed is said to increase the laying
power of fowls.
THE ADVANTAGE OF GRoANINd. Frencl
physician is out in long dissertation on the
advantage of grooming and crying in general
and especially during surgical operations
He contends that groanng and crying are
two grand operations by which nature allays
anguish; that those patients who give way
to their feelings more speedily recover from
accidents and operations than those who sup.
pose 1t unworthy man to betray such symp-
toms of cowardlce as either to groan or cry
He tells of man who reduced his pulse
from one hundred and twonty-six to sixty ii
the course of few hours by giving full ven,
to his emotions. In accordance with the
above, the crying of children should not be
too greatly discouraged What is natural is
nearly always useful, aud nothing can be
more natural than the crying of children
when anything occurs to give them either
physical or mental pain.
CHERRIES, EARLY AND LArE,-In New
York and New England, we used to think
we were doing well to get the Mayduke ripe,
even as early as the last days of May, and
more frequently by the 10th of June The
latest were from the middle to the last of
July.
Here we get Bauman's May as early as
the 10th Of May, and the Belle Agatha and
Rumsey's Late, through the whole of Au-
gust and extending into September
Why do not more of our fruit men turn
their attention to cherries .--Rural Press.
SYRIAN WHEAT. Sonora Independent
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