Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-05-29
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

IT has been suggested that when trees
are transplanted they will grow more Wig
orously when placed in the same position
| with reference to the points OF the CON-
pass as before transplanting.
ONE EGG CAKE.--One egg, one cup OF
sugar, one cup of sour cream, one tea
spoonful of saleratus, a pinch of salt, and
flour enough to make it about as stiff as
pound cake. Flavor with lemon.
SUGAR observation-disclosures cup of
sugar, one cup of sour milk, piece of
butter half the size of a hens egg, one
scant teaspoonful of saleratus, and flour
enough to make it as stiff as molasses gin
gerbread. Flavor with lemon or nutmeg
CHICKEN CHoLERA-The following pre-
scription we find in the Southern Cultira-
tor, and it is said to be very eficacious in
chicken cholera: Glycerine and water,
each halfounce carbolic acid, ten drops
When the first symptoms OF the disease
| are apparent give five drops, and repeat at
intervals of twelve hours. Usually the
second dose effects a cure. A neighbor
informed me that cholera was very de-
structive among his poultry, and at my
suggestion he tried the foregoing recipe
be reports that the progress OF the disease
| was promptly arrested, and in almost
| every case cure was accomplished.
BREAD OF BROWN OR GRAHAM FLOUR.
Measure one teacup of flour into the
pan the bread is to rise in, and on that
pour one quart of boiling water, and let IL
cool till you can bear your finger IN IL;
| then add a dessertspoonful of salt, tea,
| spoonful of brown sugar, piece OF lara
as large as walnut (the lard must be per
e. tyt-n ta
good yeast, and as much more flour as you
! can stir in with a stick; put in warm
place to rise all night; in the morning
grease well cast-iron baking pan tsh6et-
| iron burns too readily, pour the risen
dough into it, smooth it nicely on the Top;
bake. in half an hours time, just one
hour.
How TO MAKE PosTs LAST FOREVER
A CORRESPONDENT of the Western Rufal
saws: | discovered many years ago that
wood could be made to last longer thah
| iron, in the ground, but thought the pro-
| cess so simple and inexpensive that IL was
| not worth while making any STIR about IT,
| would as soon have poplar, bass"ood
! or quaking ash as any other kind OF TIM
| Der for fence posts. l have taken out
password posts after having been set seven
wears, that were as sound when taken up
as when they were first put in the ground
| Time and weather seemed to have no
effect on them The posts can be prepar-
| ed for less than two cents apiece. FOR
the benefit of others | will give the recipe:
| Take boiled linseed oil and stir IN 1t pull
verified charcoal to the consistency OF
paint Put a coat Of this over the timber,
and there is not man that will live to see
| it rot.
How TO MAKE MUSTARD PLAsTER.-
| How many people are there who really
know how to make a mustard plaster?
| Not one in hundred, at the most, per
| haps, and yet mustard plasters are used IN
| every family, and physicians prescribe
| their application, never telling anybody
| how to make them for the simple reason
that the doctors themselves do not know,
as rule. The ordinary way is to mix the
mustard with water, tempering it with a
little flour, but such a plaster as that
makes is simply abominable. Before it
has half done its work it begins to blister
| the patient, and leaves him finally with a
| painful, flayed spot, after having produc-
ed far less effect in a beneficial way than
was intended Now a mustard plaster
should nerer make q blister at all. If a bis
| ter is wanted, there are other plasters far
| better than mustard for the purpose.
When you make mustard plaster then,
use no water whatever but mix the mus
tard with the white of an egg, and the re-
| suit will be a plaster which will "draw"
| perfectly, but will not produce a blister
| even upon the skin of an infant, no matter
| how long it is allowed to remain upon the
| part. For this we have the word of an
| old and eminent physician, as well as our
| own experience-Hearh and Home