Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-09-05
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

To Polish Tins.--First rub your tins
with damp cloth; then take dry Hour
and rub it on with your hands; atterward
take an old newspaper an Grub the flour
off, and the tins will shine as well as II
half an hour had been spent rubbing them
with brick dust or powder, which spoils
the hands.
Recipe for Picking Cherries--3 lbs
of sugar to one quart of vinegar; Qf your
vinegar is very strong reduce IL 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 Western RuraI.
To Pickle Sweet Apples.-To one
peck of apples make n 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 1t 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 eXtcrminating black ants
(or any other ants, can strongly recon-
mend the application of powdered cyanide
of potassium in and around the ant bed
An application of about quarter of an
| ounce is generally sufficient; but if neces.
sary, u second will surely give them their
| quietus. 1t Is, however, important to bear
in mind that this salt is a deadly poison
extreme care is required in its applica-
| tion.-Cor ". Y. Tribune.
Transparent Pudding.-Warm half a
pound of fresh butter, but do not allow il
to melt Mix with it half a pound of
| powdered loaf sugar, and stir them to.
| gether till they are perfectly light Add
"a 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 n fine flavor. Stil
| the whole very hard, butter n deep dish
nut in the mixture, and bake it half an
hour Serve it up cold. You may bake
this pudding in puff paste
In healthy condition, the skin is
kept supple by an oily secretion, which
answers the same purpose rs oiling leath
er During warm weather this secretion
| in common with all secretions of the skin
is more abundant than in cold. When j
is insufficient, the skin becomes dry anC
harsh; and in those parts of the body
where the skin is thick and subject tC
much motion, as on the hands, it readily
cracks or fissures. The amount of thii
secretion is so much reduced in colo
weather that the frequent washing of thu
hands with soap causes them to chap read
lily, and this the more certainly ifthc soaI
is not thoroughly washed off. The alkal
in soap is usually in excess, and this com
bines with the oily secretion, and so de
prives the skin of its natural lubricator
TO prevent the hands from chapping, then
be careful to wash all soap from them il
clean water. This will ordinarily suffice
If not, it will be nceoseery to make goo'
the removed oil by glycerine, honey, nut
ton tallow, etc.
Edmund Osborne, of Grecntown, Ind
writes to the Northeastern Farmer: I
few years ago, rather by accident thai
orchard, and as found they were doin
good work in picking up the windfall ar
Piles, allowed them to remain there. Du
ring the season all those that were not il
the orchard had the cholera, and more O
less of them had died, while those in tn
Notwithstanding like one.third of tn
whole lot--were thrifty and healthy al
the season, none of them dying with an
disease, and that, too, with nothing but
fence between the two lots of hogs."-
There is no doubt (says the Nati0no
Lire Stock J0urndl that in its seaso
fruit is conducive to the health of all an
mails, especially to such gross feeders a
swine. So far as it promotes geners
health, it assists the system in THROWN
off disease; but it can scarcely be regarC
: ed as a preventive, or a specific cure fC
any particular complaint.