The Placer herald., 1872-02-03

HOUSE AND FA Il N.

uefSl00u tilat eggs are more easily dlgeSteu
if 'rare" than "wcll" done; but which
portion of the egg resists digestion-the
"white," which is nearly pure albumen, or
the yclk ? Lately experiments have been
made in this direction with ample opportu-
nifty of demonstrating that healthy gastric
Juice, which the stomach secretcs for pur-
poses of digestion, will not act readily on
firmly coagulated white of egg, even if cut
in pieces not larger than ordinary peas (and
that is as fine as people usually chew their
foodD, while it acts with facility upon the
more brittle yolk. The reason is that the
coaguatcd albumen is very compact and
tenacious and would need to be "ground to
powder to accept the chemical aliinities Of
the gastric juice. Pour into basin of boiling
water sufficient to cover the eggs, put the
eggs into the water and let them remain 10
or Is minutes, according to circumstances
and your own taste; keep the water nearly
up to boiling temperature, bat don't boil the
eggs. Fresh eggs will cook more quickly
than old oncs and Of course small ones
quicker than large ones. BY this process
you will find the yclks well cooked, while
the white is left in a condition to digest
readily.
LIME IN TRANspLANT1No.-It is asserted
in an English publication of great merit,
gays the Germaoto,ca 7elegraph, that a
large plantation Of trees has been formed in
that conntry within a few years past, with
out the loss Of a single tree; and this, says
the writer, has been effected simply by put
ting a small quantity of lime in the hole be-
fore introducing the tree. Four bushels of
lime are said to be sufficient for an acre.
The lime should be thoroughly mixed with
the loan, in order that it may be reached by
the roots, with equal facility, in every d-
rection, as its principal effect is to push for
ward the tree during the precarious stages
Of its growth, and when the new ibres, be-
ginning to start and ramify from the tap and
laterals, require supply of readily appro-
priable and nutrtivc matter, throughout
their whole extent.
have often used lime-generalIy its by
dratc-n transplmting fruit and ornamental
trees, says the writer, and always with the
best results.
THROAT AND LUNa DISEASES. Most of the
tuIOut NlSNdStS, NIfCu HuitCilN
lead to consumption, are occasoned by sheer
carelessness. A delicate woman often sits
for two or three hours in crowded theater
or church, breathing an atmosphere tainted
by the eXlalations from the lungs of hun
dreds of other people, her system is cx-
hausted, her skin is excited by unwonted
action, and when she leaves the building and
goes out into the cold air her blood is sud-
denly driven to the interior Of the body, and
then ensues a more or less permanent con-
gestion Or inflammation of some of the in
ternal organs-usually the air tubes in or
leading to the lungs. This process being
repeated many times, chronic bronchitis is
finally established in persons otherwise heal
thy, and life is ever after rendered mis-
cradle by this periodical overheating and
sudden chilling of the body, even if the
more dangerous malady, consumption, does
not interfere, and put the abused body into
the grave.
MorHs.-In India, upholsterers and sad
dlers are badly troubled with moths in their
work, especially in the rainy season; and
the upholsterers in that country follow
series of simple rules by which they entirely
avoid the ravages of these pests. They
never put on a Lurlap or cotton covering
without first sleeping ii in a solution of sui
plate of copper, made by dissolving about
one ounce in one gallon of boiling water, and
then quickly drying the material in the sun
or by hot stove. For over coverings, es-
pecially if of wool, a solution of corrosive
sublimate dissolved in patent colorless aco-
hol is frequently used with good effect. The
boiling solution of sulphate of copper is often
applied to floor previous to laying mat
or carpet, and invariably under heavy arti-
cles of furniture.
PEACH TREES FOR FIREwooD. The Farm
er recommends that those land owners who
have lands they esteem of but little value,
wild, hilly, side slopes of gravelly OR sandy
and dcconposed rocky materials, should
plant thereon peach trees for fuel. Any one
who will plant out so, 100 or l 900 acres
of such land this Autumn with peach pits,
and permit them to grow five years, would
have fortune in proportion to the acres
planted, using the trees as firewood only;
it is one Of the best materials for frewood
known. This would be a good speculation
for any person for frewood only. 1t would
pay splendidly; the peaches could be gather
ed for drying, or sold, or for large droves of
swine, using peaches to fatten them. We
hope this enterprise may be tried.
WARM WATER FOR PLANTS. r. G.. VIII
liams, Of the Vermont State Normal School,
writes upon this subject as follows:
Last Winter we had about one hundred
plants in the house and usually gave them
warm water, and very frequently water that
was much too warm for the hand; some wa
tor at or very near the boiling point, has
been poured into the saucers of pots and
just on the sides. We have about forty
persons in tie family, from different parts of
the country, and their testimony is that they
never saw such fine geraniums, heliotropes,