Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-12-12
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

AN oyster shell put into tea-kettle
will prevent its being covered with scales.
A GOOD protection against misfortune
"a policy in the Washington Life.
To GLAZE SHIRTs.-To every quart OF
of white soap, scraped fine. Boil the
starch (after adding hot water) until you
have it as thick as you wish.
To ESTIMATE THE AMOUNT OF HAY IN
A NOVA gentleman, largely engaged
in the growing of hay and stock in Or
ange County, N. Y, writes: "In this
part of the country we sen hay by meas
urement, in q NOW, and allow 5l2 cubic
feet for ton, and it comes out very gen.
orally correct. / have sold NOW of hay
and weighed it, and measured the NOV,
and this rule proved correct" The above
rule no doubt approximates as closely as
possible to a correct standard, the num-
Der of cubic feet required for ton vary
ing little on account of the different de-
grees of pressure to which the hay has
been subjected, and also with the quality
of the hay as regards fineness.
THE whites of eggs are now used for
burns. Seven or eight successive appli-
cations of this substance soothes pain,
and effectually excludes the air from the
burn. This simple remedy seems prefer
able to collodion, or even cotton. Extra
ordinary stories are told of the healing
properties of a new oil, which is easily
made from the yolks of hens eggs. The
eggs are first boiled hard, and the yolks
are then removed, crushed, and placed
over O fire, where they are carefully stir
red until the whole substance is just ON
the point of catching fire, when the oil
separates and may be poured off. One
yolk will yield nearly two teaspoonfuls of
oil. 1t is in general use among the colo
nists of Southern Russia as a means of
curing cuts, bruises and scratches.
CURING HAMs-Charles Jessop fur
nishes the Maryland Agricultural Society
the following recipe :-215 lbs. saltpeter,
dried and finely powdered, = bushel best
Liverpool salt, 8 lbs. brown sugar, and u
gallon molasses. Mix all in vessel, rub
the meat well with same, and pack with
skin down. The above is the exact
amount required for 100 lbs. of pork.
After being in salt three or four weeks,
take out, wash clean the pieces, dry, and
hang it up for smoking. Three weeks is
sufficient to smoke them thoroughly-by
fire made of hickory wood. When smok-
ed, take down and bag, or pack away in
cut chaff or straw. Examine them occa-
v,
renew the packing with dry material.
COFFEE AS A DIsINFEcTANT.-Roa
coffee is one of the most powerful means,
not only of rendering animal and vege,
table effluvia innocuous, but of actually
destroying them. A room in which meat
in an advanced degree of decomposition
had been kept for some time, was instant
ly deprived of all smell on an open coffee
roaster being carried through it contain
ing pound of coffee newly roasted. In
another room the effiuvium occasioned by
the clearing out of a cesspool, so that sui
phuretted hydrogen aud ammonia could
be clearly detected, was completely re
moved within half a minute on the em
ployment of three ounces of fresh coffee
The best mode of using it as a disinfect
ant, is to dry the raw bean, pound it in {
mortar, and then roast the powder on {
moderately heated iron plate until it as
sumes dark brown hue, when it is ready
for use. 1t must, however, be remem
bered, that the coffee, TO be effectual
should be perfectly pure. Adulterate(
rubbish will only make matters worse
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