Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-23
RECIPES, ETC.


There is good authority for saying
that beets will do we'll if transplanted
when the roots are of a size ranging
from half an inch to an inch in diameter.
1t Is not safe to transplant if the roots
are smaller.
"A correspondent of the Practical
| Farmer advises the use of celery as a
cure for nervousness, and AYERS he has
known cases where cure of palpitation
of the heart has been effected by plen-
| tiful use of this delicious salad.
| According to French veterinary
surgeon, if the inside of the ears and
other exposed parts Of horses are painted
with few drops of the empyreumatic
| oil of juniper, flies will not annoy them,
| the OdOr being uncomfortable to these tor
mentors.
To cook artichokes with cream, slice
| and boil until very tender, which will
| take about twenty to thirty minutes.
| Skim them out of the water; turn d cup
! Of cream into saucepan; add the slices,
/ and season highly with pepper and salt.
! Boil up once, and serve upon q hot plat
ter, or thin slice of toasted bread.
For stumbling horses shoe the foot
as flat as possible, not having corks on
the shoe except in slippery going, and
| then as low and short as possible and yet
| prevent the horse from slipping The OPP
/ posite foot should be shod like the lame
| one. Never let the smith pare the frog
! of the foot, whether sound or other
wise
To cleanse a comfort. tie it up loose
| ly and plunge it in scalding water for an
hour or two, then spread it on the grass
and let the rain fall on it till it is thor
oughly rinsed, and dry in the sun, turn
ing it two or three times a day. Blank
cts are far more wholesome than com
forts and can be cleaned much more
readily.
An observing farmer much prefers a
| short-legged, broad-boned, full-bodied
COW that will keep in good condition on
| good pasture to a large, lOOse-built cow
that gives more milk in the season, but
will not yield as much taking the sea-
son altogether. He finds that the largest
mixer is by no means the most protta-
| BILE COW to own.
in a case of loOseness of the bowels
in horse give half an ounce of prepared
chalk and half an ounce of ground gin
i ger in the feed once a day. AS indiges
| tiOnis probably the cause, the feed should
be carefully selected, and what grain is
given should be ground. An ounce of
salt should also be given in the feed
daily Western Rural.
TO prepare Photographic tracing
paper, float good strong albumenized-
or arroW-rOOt-paper for about a minute
IN bath composed of water thirty-two
parts, nitrate of silver three parts, citric
acid one part and tartaric acid halfa part,
| then drying it, and finally drawing it
/ slowly through a weak solution of tar
taric acid. 1t will keep at least three
months if protected from light and
| moisture, and does not require Tuning
with ammonia. Toning, which is in most
cases superhuOuS, requires a very strong
and alkaline bath.
To prepare fine fast black, place
the cleaned and washed goods overnight
In cold bath OF one and quarter pounds
OF sulphate of iron for five pounds of
! half-WOOl goods drain them off well
! from this and work quarter of an hour
! in fresh bath with two ounces Of ChrO-
mate of potash and rinse well in running
water. Then boil for some time, until
the bath is spent, in kettle in which
half pound of sumac and two pounds of
logwood have been boiled in a bag, rem0v-
| ing the bag if the room is needed, and
rinse we'll On removal from this.
In making soft-soap, first put in the
! hopper about one bushel of ashes and
| pound it down; then sprinkle on a little
lime and put on more ashes and lime and
pound down; and so until the hopper is
! full. Then pour boiling water on until
! the strong I've is all run off, and then pour
on cold water to get some weak Iye
Then put two gallons of grease in ten
| gallon kettle and let it fry brown Then
put in pint of strong lye at each time,
until you get two gallons in; keep boil
! ing all the time. Then add one gallon,
and the next time two gallons. and when
the kettle is two-thirds full fill up with
weak lye; and when the kettle is full
| your soap is done,