Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-08-28
RECIPES, ETC.

| AcS, Oh ~ VI S4uiiIS, udii du ouuCC
VINE OF ipecac, two drains; paregoric,
three drains mucilage of gum arabic, one
and-a-half ounces. Mix. Take teaspoon
| ful three times day.
TO Horse Drivers.-Drive slow in no.
| weather. Wash your horses feet. Battle
their necks in cold water Wash their
collars often Look out for gals Do
not let them suffer for water Lengthen
your check reins. The horses will do
more work on account of this kind treat
| ment.
Ink for Marking Packages.-An ex-
| cellent ana very cheap ink is made by
| mixing quarter of an ounce of bichlor-
lde OF potassa and four ounces of extract
| Of logwoOd in stone jar or demijohn,
with two gallons of hot water. Shake
well and let it stand for about two weeks,
| shaking occasionally.
An excellent machine oil can he made
| by taking one-third hogs lard and two
| thirds coal oil, and mixing them together.
| 1t does not gum like many oils that are
| purchased, and is good for sewing ma
chimes, or, indeed, any machinery. By
changing the proportions, it can be made
| thicker or thinner to suit the requirements.
Bleaching Sponges.-A sponge may
| be bleached almost snow white by repeti-
tons of the following process: Soak it
in diluted muriatic ACID for ten or twelve
| hours; then wash it with water, and inn
merse in solution of hyposulphate of
soda, to which small quantity of diluted
muriatic acid has been added Wash and
| dry it.
-Squeaking Boots and Shoes.-To pre-,
vent the soles of boots or shoes from
squeaking, says the Shoe and Leather
Chfontcle, rasp, with coarse rasp, the
outsole and insole, and every other piece
OF leather that comes in contact in friction
by the action Of the foot Then apply
freely good wheat or rye paste If this is
well attended to from heel to toe, the boot
or shoe will not squeak.
To Cure a FeIon-Many persons are
liable to extreme suffering from felons on
| the fingers. These Affections not unfre
quently occasion permanent crippling of
the member affected The following
simple prescription is recommended as a
cure for the distressing ailment: Take
common rock salt, such as is used for
sailing down beef or pork; dry it in an
oven; then pound it fine, and mix it with
spirits of turpentine in equal parts; pat it
IN rag and wrap it round the parts
affected, and, as it gets dry, put on more,
and in twenty-tour hours you are cured
the felon will be dead
Lemonade from Currants.-Citrica acid
may be prepared from ripe currants in the
following manner: The currants are
| first broken up by pounding or squeezing;
the juice is then pressed out and allowed
| to terment. When fermentation ceases.
the alcohol is distilled off and the residue
neutralized with fine chalk In this way
| citrate of lime is formed, which is after
ward decomposed by sulphuric acid, and
| the citric acid set free. From 10 pounds
of fruit there should be obtained about
one pound of citric acid, beside con-
| siderable quantity of alcohol A dilute
solution of citric acid furnishes a pleas
ant and healthful drink, and, although
lemonade is usually made from lemons,
we would not says the Journal Of applied
chemistry, be far wrong in calling this
| drink lemonade, although prepared from
currants.
Baking Apples.-"I do not think, ;" said
! a correspondent, that hOusekeepers have
| cooked apples nearly as often as they
should. There is nothing more whole
some for dessert than apples baked in
various forms. They should be cored
| pul III d tlSH " llll ii HUE WARM wafer,
each with a teaspoonful Of sugar over it :
bake until soft, and serve cold, with
cream or good milk Or make an apple
float by taking dozen tart apples, stew
and prepare them as if for sauce; when
| cold, add the whites of two eggs, beaten
then beat the whole until quite stiff; hav-
ing made previously a soft custard with
the yolks using about pint of milk.
Or make an apple pudding, by filling the
cored apple with nutmeg, sugar and but
ter; make a batter of one egg, flour and
| milk, and pour around the apples. Or
pare, core and spice say ten large apples
bake until nearly done; put away to get
cold; then prepare icing as usual. Pour
of the juice, lay the feelings on the tops
and sides as thickly as you can; then re-
turn to the oven, to just harden and set
70 be eaten with cream, but if you
haven't that, as the article is scarce nova
days, good milk will answer, if you can
get it."
Shorts as Manure.-A Vermont cor
respondent of the Neoo England Farmer
writes: a tOwnsman, and one of the best
farmers in town, has used shorts by the
ton for number of years. He says that
in preparing piece Of land for corn, he
spreads his barn-yard manure on the sod
and plOWs it in, as is the common practice
here. 1t is also the common practice here
to draw out manure in the fall, and put it
in large heaps to be used in the spring to
put into the hills for corn. Now, instead
Of this, his practice is to purchase wheat
bran, which can be had here for 81 80 per
hundred, and, going through the rows,
drops in the hill what he can clasp in
one hand, which he covers with hoeful
Of dirt, drops his corn and covers that
This man says he would rather have this
handful of bran in the hill than
shOvelful of the best barn manure-hOg
manure included The corn comes up
nicely, has good color, and grows rapid
ly from the start. Now for the compare
tive cost with other manure. Enough of
the shorts To manure an acre costs about
four dollars. The man referred to above
says it is worth more to him than any of
the superphOsphates in the market pound
for pound, as | understood him; while
four dollars in shorts will manure an
acre, ittakes about fiftee, hundred pounds
of superphosphates to do the same.
PHILADELPHIA has 81 lager factories.
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