The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1873-10-29
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for purifying cellars and rooms, without
discommoding patients. 1t may be
made OF forty parts black oxide of man
ganese and sixty parts of common salt,
and may be distributed on plates.
In N apartment capable of being
closed, which has been infected by dis
charges or emanations from the sick,
after thorough cleansing and white
washing, a fumigation by .burning-a
few ounces of sulphur, or by nitrous
acid from two Or three ounces of nitric
acid poured upon an ounce Of copper
filings, will be effectual in ~disinfecting
them. Or the rooms may be disinfected
with bromine. Before the fumigation
all chimneys and openings should be
closed and remain so for twenty-four
hours. After this, open all doors and
windows, and keep them open for
raj days and nights. Personal cleanli-
neas and ventilation should in all cases
be attended to.
To MAKE TOMATO FIds.-Pour boil
ing water over the tomatoes in order to
remOvo the skins then weigh them and
place them in a stone jar, with as much
sugar as you have tomatoes, and let
them stand two days then pour off the
syrup and boil and skim it until no
SCUM rises 3; then pour it over tho tomu-,
toes and let them stand two days as be-
fore then boil and skim again. After
a third time they are fit to dry if the
weather is good; if not let them stand
in the syrup until drying weather.
Then place on large earthen plates or
aiShes, and put them in the sun to dry,
which will take about a week, after.
which pack them down in small wooden
boxes, with fine white sugar between
each layer, Tomatoes prepared in this
way will keep for years. 90
My chickens are never sick, consey
quentIy I have no d~octoring to do.
Think sickness among fowls is more the
result of bad management than any
thing else; and that doctoring does
more harm than. good. Remove the
cause and the effect will remove itself.
| have on several occasions, when
chicken cholera was bad in my neigh
borhood, given, mixed in the food Of
my fowls, small proportions of pow
dered charcoal, oxide of iron and -four
Of sulphur. Never had a true case of
cholera, but do not pretend to hold that
the drugs administered should have
credit for~it Rather think that keep
ing the houses clean and their floors
we'll covered with fresh earth has been
the medicine that saved my chickens
Mary G.. We8t.
FALL FIREs,-The necessity of keep
ing warm naturally suggests fires. And
why can not we have them earlier in the
fall? What is there about a fire that
We should shrink from it until its
warmth becomes a necessity? Cost of
fuel has much to do with the. late
advent of warm "Reminiscences, but there
are other luxuries which do not frighton
us that arc much more costly and not
nearly so well worth the money that is
paid for them. Apart from its health
fitness, Of which SO much could be said
we will say nothing, q fire in. the
fail is a luxury. Not only because in
mornings and evenings it softehsI
indoor air, as the sun softens the
air out Of doors at noon, but suggests
the joys Of winter at a. time when it's
hardships are not yet known ; it gives
us the rose without the thorn. And if
are 80 conditioned as to be. able toll
command a wood ire-never so suitabIeI
in the mildly cold days Of October
and November-how can we reconcileit1
10 our Conscience to deny it TO our
jelvess2B alGa1 rl- 49, "a 5:E 80 Il"
SAoHErs OR SCENT BAas-A CORE
5pondent of the Country Gentleman,
Various powders, etc, placed
silk bags Oh Ornamented envelopes
agreeable to smell of, and also econ
omical for %imparting a pleasing odor
linen and clothes as they are packed
away in drawers, for they prevent
moths. For heliotrope powder take
lalf pound Of orris root, one-quarter
1ound Of ground rose leaves, two
ounces powdered tonquin bean, one
,uuoe vanilla bean, one-half drachm
mpsk, two drops otto Of almonds
nix it all by sitting through a coarse
'ieye. This is ut Of the best BachetsI
'yer made, and perfumes tableacloths,
'heets, pillow cases aud towels delioi.
Dusly, Wy liaE1 al
For lavender powder, take one pound
If powdered lavender, one-qlliaarter
,ound of gum benzoin, and one-quarter
4 an ounce of otto Of lavender.
For patchouli, use one-haIf a pound
u p~aVcnoul ground hne, and q very
title Of otto patchodli. This herb iB
sold in its natural state as i'm
and il tied MP in half-pouhd
bundles.
Sandal wood satohet powder is good,
nd consists of the wood ground fine.
ledar wood, when ground, forms a
'ody for other sstchet powders, and
Vil keep moths at a distance. Dried
ennel, when ground, il also used for /,
cent7bags, and ground nutmeg is liked
or this purpose.
-DMErNG HORSES Feed ut least one
our before hitching up d driving.
.orse never harness in a hurry if You
an avoid il. Start ont on a walk for a !
uarter or half a mile; increase the ,
peed gradually and quietly; never use
whip, A horse that requires the whip !
only ft fer hard work. He does not !