The Placer herald., 1873-05-10
HOUSE AND FAR I'M.

CJ6UItS Uc WASDcu Ill Wd1lu WdtCl lhceS '"SA'
cold to clean them from the sand and insects? F.?
The hot water, which must be hotter than
tepid, causes the insects and sand to fall out
ut once.
Insects do not always dislike cold water
and salt, but hot water kills them.
Il must be understood that only small
handful of greenes or one head of cabbage at
a time must be washed, an1 then instantly
thrown into cold water, which crisps and
thoroughly cleans them. Spinach, leeks,
celery and seakale, are thus rendered very
clean, and, moreover, are very rapidly
cleansed
1t is worse than useless to attempt to
cleanse vegetables in salt and water. The
hardness which salt creates in the water pre-
vents all cleansing properties. The salt may
kill the insects Git does not always do this),
but they stick on hard and fast; the hot wa
ter makes them fall out at once, and the cold
water crisps and also bleaches the vegeta-
bles--Mrs. Warren.
MILK, TEA AND COFFEE. LOOMS
thus speaks of milk, tea and coffee.
"Milk contains in solution not only due
proportion of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and
nltTOScu, OQt all illC OtiItl NiCihOhbS hSeSS'y
for the construction of bone, nerve, etc. land
hence is always proper food in all clrcum-
stances of health. Tea derives its beneficial
qualities not from its direct supply of nutr-
ton, but from its affording peculiar sub
tance called theme, the effects Of which in
the system is to diminish the waste, thus
making less food necessary. Tea thus has
positive economic value, not as supply
ing but as a saving nutriment Coffee,
though of a taste SO little allied to tea, de-
rives its value in precisely the same manner
and from nearly the same substance. Its
value and effect in the system are therefore
the same as those above stated. 1t is hence
evident that milk, tea and coffee are valu-
able articles of food under all conditions of
temperature.
Uses OF RAwIIDE. skin of an ami
NAL, whether cow, calf, colt, or horse that
dies on the farm is worth more at home than
at the tanners. Cut it into narrow strips,
and shave off the hair with sharp knife
before the kitchen fire, Or in your workshop,
on stormy days or evenings. You may
make them soft by rubbing. A rawhide
halter-strap an inch wide, will hold horse
better, and last longer, than an inch rope.
1t is stronger than hoop-iron and more dur
able, and may be used to hoop dry casks
and boxes, and for hinges.
Try it on broken thill, or any wood
work that has been split. Put it on wet
and nail fast. Thin skins make the best
bag-strngs in the world. A rawhide rope
is good substitute for chain. 1t is val
liable to mend broken link in trace-chain.
For some purposes it is best to use it in its
natural state. For other purposes it may
be dressed soft.
CooK1Na PEAs.-No vegetable depends
more for its excellence upon good cooking
than peas. Have them freshly gathered
and shelled, but never wash them. If they
are not perfectly clean, roll them in a dry
cloth; but this is seldom required, and then
only through carelessness. Pour them into
the dry cooking dish, and put as much salt
over them as is required; then pour on boil
ing water enough to cover them; boil them
fifteen minutes if they are young; no pea is
fit to cook which requirss more than half an
hours boiling. When done, put to a quart
&c &C peas three tabiespoonfuls of butter, and
pepper to your taste. Put all the water to
them in which they were boiled. The great
mistakes in cooking peas are in cooking too
long, and in deluging them with water.
HEAVY FLEECE AND PRoIIIo SHEEp-C.
d. Thompson, one of the travelling agents of
the Rural, writing from Princeton Colusa
county, says that one of John Boggs Silesian
Bucks which was sheared on the 18th of
Sept. last, on being sheared on the goth of
March, yielded II pounds of WOOL Has
one yearling buck that sheared II pounds
and has 400 full blood ewes, the average
weight of wool from the whole number being
IL pounds per head. He has 4,03O ewes
that aggregate 1850 lambs; whilst Mr..
Hlard Of the same neighborhood has AIS
lambs from 375 ewes, 1t is believed by
stock growers there, that no better sheep
ranges can be found in the State, than those
of Colusa county.
MEDICAL VALUE OF AspARAGUs.-A med
ical correspondent Of an English journal says
that the advantages of asparagus are not
sufficiently estimated by those who suffer
with rheumatism and gout. Slight cases
ofrheumatism are cured in few days by
feeding on this delicious ulent; and more
cronic cases are much relieved, especially il
the patient avoids all acids, whatever in
food Or beverage. The Jerusalem artichoke
has also similar effect in relieving rheu-
matsm. The heads may be eaten in the
usual way, but tea made from the leaves Of
the stalk, and drank three or four times a
day, is a certain remedy, thou gh not equally
agreeable.
LEMONADE IN FEvERs.-A cotemporary
says that in most cases OF fevers we have
no doubt that an attack might have been
prevented and the patient well in few days
without particle of medicine, by rest,
partial fasting and free use Of lemons and
lemonade. The virtue of this article in bill.
ious attacks and incipient fevers has beer
tested with best results and we commend
its use as a preventive of these diseases.