The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-11-27
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aaR,- Earn AND GARDEN.
-Crackers.-Take nine CUPS flour, one
cup lard, two cups water, two teaspoons
cream-tartar and one teaspoon saleratus.
First rub the lard into tie flour and add
two teaspoons salt
Patching the Hogs-Nowis the time
to feed to the fattening swine all they can
eat. It will cost at least two cents more
to make . pound Of pork in January than
it does now. It IL therefore dictate Of
economy as well a. convenience to make
the most of these mild autumn days.
Ammonia for Bloat-A California
farmer recently cured, almost instantly, .
COW which had suddenly become seri-
ously bloated from eating cucumbers too
rapidly, by giving tablespoonful and .
half of ammonia in half pint of water.
The relief was immediate and complete.
"A solution of five parts of borax in
one hundred of water it is said will pre-
vent the putrefactive process in meats for
a considerable time; flesh, dipped in the
mixture and then dried resists the usual
processes of decomposition. For dissect-
ing rooms, the taxidermist, and those en-
gagged In preparing cabinet specimens of
animal tissues, this solution can be put to
important uses.
Hogs to fatten should have, especial
ly, q comfortable place to sleep. We re-
Gently saw in respectable farmers pen
six stalwart animals of this species, with
no place to rest themselves except in mud
from two to four inches deep. At least
one-half Of what was fed to them was en-
tirely lost by this utter want of attention
to one of the prime necessities in this de-
partment of farming.
Bean Porridge.-Boil a fresh beef
bone (salt beef would answer if
sufficiently freshened, though we. never
tried iD in large quantity Of water, and
use the meat for anything you choose,
Let the liquid become cool, and remove
all the grease. Boil teacupful of beans
in three quarts of this liquor until thor
oughly soft and in pieces; add q little
rice, the necessary amount of salt, and
just before taking from the stove, little
thickening of some kind of meal.
Use it about the thickness of cruel or
gravies, and add little milk when you eat.
-Hygienic Use of Tea.-Dr. Adam
Smith, in a paper read before the London
Society of Arts, recommends the use of
tea in the following cases: AFTER full
meal, when the system is oppressed; for
the. corpulent and the old; for hot eli
mates, and especially for those who,
living there, eat freely or drink milk or
alcohol in cases of suspended animation
for soldiers who in time of peace take too
much food in relation to the waste pro-
ceeding in the body; for soldiers and
others marching in hot climates, for then,
by promoting evaporation and cooling the
body, it prevents in degree the effects of
too much food, as of too great heat"
-Burgardien's Paste Glue.-M Burgar-
dien, of the Museum of Narbonne, has
given his name to cement of great value,
which is, however, nothing more than
sillicate of potassa. 1t is used to join or
solder together various broken things,
such as iron, blocks of stone, marble or
wood of the largest size, or the most deli.
cate fragments Of statuary, vases, mosafcs,
pottery, glass-in short, almost anything.
With a small brush spread the sillicate of
LIQUID potassa over the surfaces to be
Joined, then press them together as close
" as possible. After being kept in this
position short time. they adhere perfect
"; one may even strike the article con.
siderable blow without breaking it.
Neither fire, water or ice affects this arti-
fetal adhesion.
Chicken Pot-Pie.-Take pair of ten
der, fat chickens, SINCE, open and cut
them into pieces; wash them through
several waters with eight or ten pared
white potatoes, which put into pan, and
after seasoning highly with salt and
black pepper, dredge in three tablespoon
fuls of flour; stir we'll together, then line
the sides (half way up), of medium.sized
stew kettle with paste, made OF two
pounds of flour and one of butter. Put the
chicken and potato into the kettle with
water enough to cover them; roll out
some paste for a cover, the size of the ket-
tie and join to that on the sides; cut
small opening in the center, cover the ket-
tie, and hang it over a clear fire, or set it
in the oven; turn the kettle round occa-
sionaliy that the sides may be equally
Drowned. Two hours over a clear fire, or
in quick oven will cook it. When done,
cut the top crust into moderate sized
pieces, and place it round large dish,
then with perforated skinner, take up
the chicken and potatoes and place in the
center; cut the side crust and lay it over
the top, put the gravy in a sauce tureen,
and send all to table hot.
-Nails.-Every farmer who has had
occasion to drive nail into seasoned oak
posts knows its liability to bend and
break. If the point be moistened in the
mouth it will usually drive more kindly.
Oil is still better, but then it is inconven-
lent to dip each nail separately into it.
Another point observed is that boards be-
come loose eventually from the rusting Of
the nails, which, communicating to the
wood, cause not only an enlargement of
the nail hole, but the wearing away of the
nail itself, rendering the fence or the
building shaky and insecure. This may
be prevented by heating any rough grease
until it smokes and then pouring it over
the nails TO be used. The grease will
penetrate the pores of the iron, and cause
the nails to last, without rusting, an in
definite period. Besides this no trouble
will then be experienced in driving them
into the hardest wood. The reason is that
the coating of grease prevents contact by
air, and consequently oxidation. Oxygen
is the great destroyer of iron, and moisture
is the inducing cause.