Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-06-27
FARM AND FIRESIDE

/ FARM AND FIRESIDE
e New REMEDIES FOR INsECTs.-The fol
o lowing valuable remedies for Insects ar
furnished by Charles R. Dodge. Assistsp
Entomologist of Department Of Agriculture
: They are recommended as simple and relia
BILE:
Pear Slungs.-Ths insect, which some
times plays such sad havoc with the foliage
of plum and cherry trees, may be destroyed
by frequent applications of mixture of
lime, SCOT and soap-suds, by means of a
garden SPRINGS. The mixture is made by
adding to twelve gallons Of cold water, one
bushel of SCOT and a half a peck of unslack-
ed lime, allowing it to stand one day to set
tie, after which is added one pound of soft
soap dissolved in warm water
| The White Grub. This destructive in-
sect, producing in this country the May
beetle Oachnosterna), and in Europe the
| beetle, known by the common name of
| 'Cockchafer, is we'll known to many Of
our readers through the damage it does to
pasture and grass lands. Their mode Of
causing warfare is to devour the roots of
| the grass. causing the sod to die out in
spots. and it is said that simply applying to
the affected places water in which petroleum
has been stirred, will extarminate them II
is also recommended to keep down insects
IN plants The small quantity of petroleum
seems to impart it's disagreeable properties
10 large amount of water and applied in
this manner the plants are uninjured,
Destroying Caterpillars An excellent
remedy, which has been used on large
scale in Southern France. consists in d.
lutte solution of sulphids of potassium, at
the rate of about one part in five hundred.
The infested plants are to DO sprinkled with
the decoction by means of a garden syringe,
and it is said that vegetation is not in the
least injured by its application.
TREATMENT TO HAMs.-To preserve hams
through the Summer, make a number of
cotton bags little larger than 20 ur hams.
After the hams are well soaked, place them
in the bags, aud got the best kind of sweet
we'll made hay Gu! it with katie, and
with your hands press it we'll around the
hams in the bags tie the bags with strings
put on card of the year to show their age.
and hang them up in the garnet or some dry
room, andssthey will last FIVE years, and will
be- better for boiling than on the day you
hang them up. This method costs but lit
lie and the bags will last forty years. No
flies or bugs will trouble the hams if the hay
is well pressed around them ; the sweating
of the hams will be taken up by the hay,
and it will impart fine flavor to the hams
The hams should be treated il this way be-
fore the hot weather sets in
TREATMENT OF TYPHOID FEVER If the
body can be sustained till the fever has gone
its course, health will result. Milk, of all
things, seems best adapted for this pnrpose;
for it is digestible, is relished by fever pa
tients. contains all the requisite material
for the nourishmens of the entire body-the
nervous system especially, which in fever is
always greatly affected. Furthermore, in
fever there is great thirst, and patients ar
IDENTIFY long for that which will cool tie
parehed mouth. Thus, by interdicting tte
use Of water an toto throughout the fever,
nourishment can always be given in the
shape OF cold new milk. Cold beef tea is by
40 means to be desp;sed but it is much
less relished, and not unfrequently loathed
when the fever is intense, while milk is then
taken with much gusto.
APPLE DUMPING. Peel and core ths sp
pies and pus them in a two-quars basin
Make crust Of either sour crem and soda
or with baking powder, the same as Of RIGS
biscuits. Put water enough to cook the
apples, aad cover with the crust. Put an
overlapping cover over the basin and COOK
on top of the stove, or bake in the oven if
you prefer. A sauce made of butter, sugar
water and nutmeg, or lemon, is excellent.
as is also sweet cream. where the apples are
not acid. Twenty-Five minutes is long
enough to cook ordinary apples. Peach
cobblers are made similarly with peaches
instead of apples, and arc bsss with cream
for sauce.
Low vs.. HIaH TREES AN Illinois fruit
grower, who has Il, 900 apple and from L.
900 to 5000 psar trees, finds that "those
with the low heads of the same varieties
show at least two-thrds more fruit, as large
or larger, and as high colored as those with
high tops" To test the matter, he cut off
IN certain rows ell the limbs from four to
six feet from the ground, and in others en-
couraged the limbs to start close to the sur
face, and in the latter case neither thinned
nor pruned, except occasionally to lop away
too lusty shoot in order to preserve sym.
metrioal appearance, or an evenly balanced
head and tho above is the result.
SUGAR BETTER THAN THE WHIr "A cor
respondent writes have a colt five years
old. quito fast, aud high spirited 4; but l
have never struck him With the whip since
| bought him last March. have taught
bin to obey my slightest wish by means of
lump sugar of which he is very fond. He
will ask for it by nodding his head and neigh
ing. When l first had him, he would not
stand quiet for one to get into the carriage,
and determined to try sugar. gave him
lump, and from that day to this he never
offered to move until I was entirely ready.
Wasn's that better than whipping
BosToN BROWN BREAD.-Four coffee cup
fuls Of sifted Indian meal two cups coarse
flour, either wheat or rye; one teaspoonful
salt; one teacup molasses, and boiling wa
ter enough to make 1t az thick "A cridjIe.