Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-09-05
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

TO Polish Tins.-First rub your tins
with damp cloth; then take dry flour
and rub it on with your hands; afterward
take an old newspaper and rub the flour
off, and the tins will shine as well as if
half an hour had been spent rubbing them
with brick dust or powder, which spoils
the hands.
Recipe for Picking Cherries lbs
of sugar to one quart of vinegar; (ifyour
vinegar is very strong reduce it with wa
teri; spices to taste; this for seven lbs. of
fruit; when the syrup is hot put in the
cherries; cook them well but not until the
skin shrivels; watch them, and have them
as plump as when first picked from the
tree; we put ours into cans and seal them
up hot Western Rural.
TO Pickle Sweet Apples.-To one
peck of apples make a syrup of four
pounds of sugar and one quart of vinegar
Boil the apples in the syrup until tender,
and then take them out and save the syrup
for another sauce. Put the apples in a
jar, boil five pounds of sugar and one
quart of vinegar with some cinnamon and
cloves twenty-five minutes, and pour it hot
over the apples. This pickle is delicious
discriminating Ants.-In reply to the
query of G. Babcock in the Tribune as to
the best mode of eXterminating black ants
Tor any other ants) can strongly recon-
mend the application of powdered cyanide
of potassium in and around the ant bed
An application of about a quarter of an
ounce is generally sufficient; but if neces-
sary, a second will surely give them their
quietus. 1t is, however, important to bear
in mind that this salt is deadly poison
extreme care is required in its applica-
tion.-OOr. ". 7. Tribune.
Transparent Pudding.-Warm half
pound Of fresh butter, but do not allow it
to melt. Mix with it half pound of
powdered loaf sugar, and stir them to-
gether till they are perfectly light. Add
small nutmeg, grated, or half large
one. Beat eight eggs as light as possible,
and stir them gradually into the butter
and sugar. Finish fine with sufficient ex-
tract of roses to give it fine flavor. Stir
the whole very hard, butter a deep dish,
put in the MIXTURE and bake it half an
hour. Serve it up cold. You may bake
this pudding in puff paste.
In a healthy condition, the skin is
kept supple by an oily secretion, which
answers the same purpose as oiling leath-
er. During warm weather this secretion,
in common with all secretiOns of the skin,
is more abundant than in cold. When it
is insufficient, the skin becomes dry and
harsh; and in those parts of the body
where the skin is thick and subject to
much motion, as on the hands, it readily
cracks or assures. The amount of this
secretion is so much reduced in cold
weather that the frequent washing of the
hands with soap causes them to chap read
lily, and this the more certainly if the soap
is not thoroughly washed off. The alkali
in soap is usually in excess, and this COM
bines with the oily secretion, and so de-
prives the skin of it's natural lubricator
To prevent the hands from chapping, then,
be careful to wash all soap from them in
clean water. This will ordinarily suffice;
If not, it will be necessary to make good
the removed oil by glycerine, honey, NUT
ton tallow, etc.
Edmund Osborne, of GreentOWn, Ind,
writes to the Northwestern Farmer: "a
few years ago, rather by accident than
otherwise, a part of my hogs got into the
orchard, and as found they were doing
good work in picking up the windfall APP
Piles, [ allowed them to remain there Du-
ring the season all those that were not in
the orchard had the cholera, and more or
less of them had died, while those in the
OICnaTu-SomeInlng ike One-tn1rQ OF the
whole lot-were thrifty and healthy all
the season, none of them dying with any
disease, and that, too, with nothing but a
fence between the two lots of hogs"-
There is no doubt (says the National
L5Oe Stock Journal that in its season
fruit is conducive to the health of all ami
mails, especially to such gross feeders as
swine. So far as it promotes general
health, it assists the system in throwing
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any particular complaint.