Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-11-14
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD


Pay attention to the condition and
cultivation OF the SOIL and take no notice
of the phases of the moon.
Everlasting Cookies. Two cups sugar
one cup butter, one cup water, two tea
spoons treain OF tartar, ohe teaspoon
soda, flouf to roll thin.
--Mistfust the man who finds every.
thing good, the man who finds every
thing evil, and still more the man who is
Indifferent to everything.
Fact stands between many people
like double-woven screen: the threads
which make the bright pattern on one
side form the dark background ON the
other.
Surface drainage cannot now be safe
ly neglected. All natural water courses
should be widely and cleanly opehed-
the necessary burrows leading to them
should be cleaned down to the firm soil,
and the proper stays. placed to check the
flow down steep banks, and turn the water
into harmless chanRels.
Fowls can be fattened well in a fort
night If they are cooped up where they
can obtain gravel and lime and are fed on
scalded corn-meal, given three times a
day, while ears of corn are always at
hand. For drink, skinned milk is very
desirable, and If warmed a little will be
drank with eagerness. Pulverized char
coal, kept either in their boxes or mixed
with their feed, will materially assist the
fattening process.
Washing Fluid.-Take onehaif bound
sal-soda, four ounces borax, one and one
half ounces ammonia, one-eighth ounce
camphor gum dissolved in alcohol; put
sal-soda and borax in one gallon soft
water, stir till boiling. When cool, add
the ammonia and camphor gum. Direc-
tions for use-One teacupful fluid in half
gallon of water; make suds of the mix
ture, in which soak the clothes one hour.
Wash as usual
The following will be found cheap
and simple process for coating canvas for
wagon tops, tents, awnings, ETC.; it rem
ders 1T impervious to moisture, without
making it stiff and liable to break: Soft
soap is to be dissolved in hot water, and
a solution of sulphate of iron added.
The sulphuric acid combines with the
potash of the SOAP and the oxide of iron
is precipitated with the fatty acid as In.
soluble iron soap. This Is washed and
dried, and mixed with llnseed oil. The
addition of dissolved india.rubber to oil
improves the paint.
To Remove Iron Rust-Place the ar
ticle on the grass where the sun shines, or
ii more convenient fold an old piece of
cloth several times and put under it and
place where it will be exposed to the suns
rays. Dissolve some tartaric acid, using
as little water as will take it up, and wet
the stained parts thoroughly with the So.
luton; let it remain until the sDots are
removed, then wash out the acid. Or, dis.
solve some oxalic acid in water and rub
the spots in this until they disappear.
To Keep Sausage Meat-As soon as
convenient after making sausage, cut in
slices or make In cakes and fry till done.
Take stone jar, place your cakes closely
in the Jar and pour over the fryings If
not sufficient TO cover to the depth of two
inches when done, use fresh lard. Keep
the sausage in cool place. When want
ed for use, remove the lard, take out what
you want and return the lard to keep the
air from what remains. This will keep
till August.
-Chapped Hands. Take common
starch, and grind it with a knife until it is
reduced to the smoothest powder put it
in clean tin box, so as to have it con.
tinually at hand for use. Then, every
time that the hands are taken from the
suds or dish-water, rinse them thoroughly
in clear water, wipe them, and while they
are yet damp, rub pinch of the starch
thoroughly over them, covering the whole
surface. The effect is magical. The
rough, smarting skin is cooled, soothed
and healed, bringing and insuring the
greatest degree of comfort and freedom
from this, by no means insignificant an
noyance.
Value of Castor. Olive have used
neats-foot oil both In its simple form and
prepared In various ways, also the much.
pulled and highly-vaunted harness and
leather preservative oils, sold in cans at
the stores; also all the oleaginous, butyra-
ceeus, and other lugubrious substances
known to the farm kitchen, but we give
the preference over them all to castor oil.
We have had boots a year old that we
oiled with it and the leather was soft,
smooth and waterproof to the last time
they were used. We apply it clear, with
out heat. A little lampblack might be
used on old leather, but it is seldom
necessary on new, as the oil itself seems
to keep the backing on and renders the
Leather black and of fine appearance.
Those who have been annoyed with hard,
cracked, water-soaked boots, the surface
of the leather rough, without blacking,
and the leather shruhken and wrinkled SO
as to chafe, gall and otherwise punish
their feet, viii find castor oil, well applied,
to be in every way satisfactory. We have
Used it for wagons and buggies, and find
that 1t is in every way superior. 1t will
wear longer, lubrieate better, and is the
least Objectionable of anything we know
Of We use but very little at once, not
enough to cause it to run off and catch
dirt at the end of the hubs.-COr. German
toaon Telegraph.