The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-01-15
HONE, EARN AND GARDEN.

TO Remove Rust from Cloth.-Take
three parts water and one part muriatic
acid i apply to- the spots: Press thor
-Varnish for Small Ornaments.-Seal-
ipg;wax of ilf coi9Es easily(4 tssQlves in
sttpde LcoK4l, AHd FORTS all excellent
vanish fol- small Ornaments.
Baked Eggs.-Beat up six eggs, one
tablespoonful Of -four, six of sweet milk;
melt your butter. in the frying. pan; when
hot, turn the whole in, we'll beaten, and
bake in q hot oven.
Potato Soup.-Pare two or three good
sized potatoes and slice thin. put in tin
dole: Turn 0Ht The potatoes aRi Hash
fine; salt them and put them back in the
water with enough butter to season them
quired quantity Of soup.
-"One who has tried IT, writes as fol-
lows: III any farmer wants a convenient
and cheap cushion to ride on, let him
take q sheep skin, as soon as it is off the
sheep, and scrape the flesh off, then lay
1t ON smooth place. Pulverize one
pound of alum and one of salt, and cover
the flesh side of the skin and let it lie for
y '" WIZ " sN:"S tsAu ~ Will I've VCll IduICu,
They make the best seat for the reaper,
raker, corn.planter, or to throw on the
horse to ride from the field to the barn:
and if one should be caught in sudden
shower they would answer for a protec-
ton"
The Best Way to Roast Beef.-Select
good thick piece, rub salt over 1t and
pepper 1t, put in the dripping.pan with
out any water, and cook in slow oven.
Three hours OF more are required for
thick piece. When nearly dont potit
little water over it u few times. Turkeys
can be roasted in this way much nicer
than to boil them first, as many do The
point of difficulty is to be sure and give
them plenty of time, for little hurrying,
especially in the beginning, spoils It all.
After the meat is taken up, pour in water
and make the gravy in the usual way by
stirring in flour beaten smooth in water
DIR. Revillod, of Geneva, who has
made special study of the various means
hitherto tried for preventing the develop
meat of smallpox pustules in the face,
discards collodion, because it cracks the
skin and causes too much pain; the sub.
Innate, because it sometimes produces
eschars; tincture of iodine, because it
does not prevent pustulation. He recon-
mends glycerine, which, through its ex-
osmotic action diminishes tho intensity
of the eruption, while he cautions as to
the uses of washes with wafer or any
other liquid which increases the eruption
His favorite formula is: Soap, ten parts;
glycerine, four parts; triturate, aud add
mercurial ointment twenty parts. This
ointment does not prevent swelling of the
face, causes no pain and prevents pustu-
lation. 1t must be applied before the
putules have been transformed into vesi-
Giles.
In the letter from Charles Alden,
which was read before the late horticul-
tural meeting at Rochester, N. Y, he
states that bushel of apples weighs fifty
pounds; that the cost OF cutting and pre-
pairing bushel for drying is about fifty
cents, and that bushel will yield nine
dried pounds, two pounds of which arc
cores and skins, which, when dried find a
ready market at six cents per pound, for
making jelly without sugar or boiling-a
new product. One bushel gives seven
pounds of good dried apples, which will
sell regularly at twenty cents per pound,
making after drying, $l.25 per bushel of
apples, with cores and parings. Tomatoes,
being very watery, yield only three
pounds dried per bushel; but two dried
ounces are found to be equal in substance
to one quart can, and will make as much
by adding one quart of water, and stew
ing properly. The evaporated tomatoes
sell for seventy-tive cents per pound |
Peaches yield seven pounds from bushel,
enc pound Of which is skin.
Cleaning Silk.-Silk is such an ele-
giant but expensive material, that every |
lady possessed of economy as we'll as
taste should study to preserve and reno |
vate every breadth as soon as it shows the |
first signs of fading and losing its original !
fine luster The following is an excellent
recipe for restoring that important item
in a lady's wardrobe. Use potato water
for all colors and kinds. Crate potatoes
into cold spring water, say cut large |
potato to every quart of water, of which |
five or six will do for couple of dresses.
If for very light silk, pare the potatoes;
if any way dark, merely wash them clean.
The pan of water must not be stirred in |
the least for forty-eight hours, then very
slowly and steadily. Pour off the clear
liquor, but not a particle of the sediment, |
into an open vessel-a bottle or such like |
Dip the pieces of silk into this liquid up
and down few times, without in the |
least creasing them then wipe them on
q fiat table with clean towel first on one
side and then the other. 1t is as we'll to
hang each one as dipped upon a line to
allow the drops to drain off a little before
wiping. Have damp cloth to co,er
them in till they are done; then iron one
way on the soiled side. The result of this
wash will be most satisfactory.