Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1872-01-19
Useful Hints.

To PREVENT TURNips FLAyoRrNG MILK AND
MEAT. hen turnips and rutabagas are fed
to milch cows and fatteniug sheep and beeves
the milk and butter and meat will have q de-
ciied favor of The roots. This may be pre-
vented by feeding the cows only Immediately
after milking and by changing the feed of
fat animals from roots to hay and meal three
or four days previous TO Strengthening there
will be no unpleasant favor in the meat.
SEED CoRN-Ears Of corn that have been
selected for seed should be hung up In dry,
cool place. Taken promiscuously from the
crib in the spring, ii is more than likely that
the majority of the grains will have become
injured and unfit for seed, and then the white
grubs, cut worms, and crows will be accused
Of destroying the young shoots, which really
never existed. There is no better place to
hang up the seed ears than in the top Of the
CRIB, where mice or rats cannot reach them,
and where a constant current Of air is passing.
# we would improve our corn, we must Sc
lect the seed as well as give it good cutiva-
ton. .
SPREADING MANURE.-An exchange says. We
think it wrong practice, when hauling out
manure in the fall or winter, to place it in
heaps. 1t is better to spread it at once. In
the first place labor is saved. But most i'm
portant Of all is the fact that much of the ma
nure is wasted when placed in heaps. Ifspread
al once, it is more equally divided than it can
be afterwards We once hauled out manure
on.a field, leaving it in heaps until the haul
ing was completed. During this time some
showers fell. The land was sown to oats next
spring, and on the spot where the heap had
been the grain lodged and was spoiled The
following crop was wheat, and on those spots
The wheat rusted and yielded nothing, while
the growth Of the straw was remarkable. We
have never since repeated the practice.
A CURE FOR SMALL-Pox.-A correspondent
Of the Stockton (Cal,) Herald gives the fol-
lowing as a sure cure for smallpox:
herewith append recipe which has been
used to my knowledge in hundreds of cases. 1t
viii prevent or cure the smallpox, even though
the pi,ings are filling. When Jenner dscov-
cred the cow-pox in England, the world of
science hurled an avalanche Of fame on his
heads but when the most scientific school of
medicnei in the world-that ofParis-published
mis- recipe as panacea for small. pox it passed
anheeded. IL is as unfsiling as fate, and con-
siiers in every instance. 1t is harmless when
taken by well person. 1t will also cure scar
let fever. Here is the recipe as have used it
and cured many children of the scarlet fever /;
here it is as ! have used it to cure the small
pox, when learned physicians said the patient
must die:
:. Sulphate of zinc, one grain; fox glove
(disiialis), one grain; half a teaspoonful Of
sugar mix with two tablespoonful of water y
When the above has been thoroughly mixed,
add four ounces of water Take spoonful
every hour. Either disease will disappear in
twelve hours. For child, smaller doses, ac-
eorling TO age. If countries would compel
physicians 10 use this there would be no need
n pest houses. If you value advice aud ex-
pcrence use this for that terrible and dread
full scourge.