Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-10-25
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.

or PURIFYING cellars and rooms, without
liscommoding patients. 1t NAV be
made OF forty parts black oxide of man
ganese and sixty parts of common salt,
and may be distributed on plates.
In ANY apartment capable of being
closed, which has been infected by dis
charges or carnations 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 disinfectipg
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 seve-
raj days and nights. Personal cleanli-
ness and ventilation should in all cases
be attended to.
To MAKE TOMATO FIds.-Pour boil
ing water over the tomatoes in order to
remove 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 then pour it over the toma-
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
di,hes, 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.
My chickens are never sick, conse.
quently l have no doctoring to do.
Think sickness among fowls is more the
result of bad management than any
thing else; and that doctcring 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 i'll 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
well covered with fresh earth has been
the medicine that saved my chickens
Mary c. West.
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 hearth-stones, but there
are other Injuries which do not frighte1
us that are much more costly and not
nearly so well worth the money that is
paid for them. Apart from its health,
~fulness, of which so much could be sale
that We will say nothing, a fire in the
fall is a luxury. Not only because il
the mornings and evenings it soften'
the indoor air, as the sun softens tn,
air out of doors at noon, but suggest
the joys Of winter at a time when it,
hardships are not yet known it gives
us the rose without the thorn. And il
we are so conditioned as to be able tc
command a wood ire-never so suitable
as in the mildly cold days of October
and November-how can we reconcilei
to II conscience to deny it to our
selves?
SAcHETs OR SCENT BAGs.-A CORE
spondent Of the Country Gentleman
writes Various powders, ETC., placed
in silk bags or ornamented envelopes
are agreeable to smell of, and also econ
omical for imparting a pleasing odol
to linen and clothes as they are packed
away in drawers, for they prevent
moths. For heliotrope powder tax,
half a pound of orris root, oue-quartel
pound of ground rose leaves, two
ounces powdered tonquin bean, ont
ounce vanilla bean, one-half drachn
grain musk, two drops otto of almonds
mix it all by sitting through a coars,
sieve. This is n of the best sachet
ever made, and perfumes table-cloths
sheets, pillow cases aud towels delici
ously.
For lavender powder, take one poun,
Of powdered lavender, one-quarte
pound of gum benzoin, and one-quarte
of an ounce Of otto of lavender.
For patchouli, use one-half a poun,
Of patchouli ground fine, and n yer
little Of otto patchouli. This herb j
often sold in its natural state as in
ported, and is tied up in half-poun
bundles.
Sandal wood satchet powder is good
and consists of the wood ground fine
Cedar wood, when ground, forms
body for other satchet powders, an
will keep moths at a distance. Dire
%fennel, when ground. is also used fc
sCent-bags, and ground nutmeg is like
for this purpose.
DRIVING HORSES Feed at least on
hour before hitChing up a driving
horse v harness in a hurry if 70
can avoid it. Start out on a walk for
quarter or half a mile; increase I'll
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