The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-03-12
HONE, FARM AND GARDEN.

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How to swallow pill is thus stated
BY correspondent: "put the pills un.
der the tongue and behind the teeth, and
swallow of water and he will neither feel
where 1t has gone, and / have seen them
look about the floor to see if they had not
dropped it."
"A Good Tonic.-Peruvian bark is q
good tonic and is employed very success
fully in intermittent levers. As q tonic
use the following recipe: "Peruvian
bark (powderedl two ounces; the peel Of
oranges (driedl one AMI half ounces !;
Virginia snakeroot (bruisedl three drains /;
saffron, one dram; cochineal (powdered),
two scruples; proof spirit, twenty ounces"
Digest for fourteen days and strain.-Er-
change.
An Illinois farmer determines the age
Of all animals over nine years old by the
following novel method: After the horse
Is nine years old wrinkle comes on the
upper corner of the lower lid, and every
year thereafter he has one well-denned
wrinkle for every year after nine. If, for
instance, q horse has three wrinkles, he
is twelve, if he has four, he is thirteen.
Add the number of wrinkles to nine and
you will get it. -
"A correspondent of an exchange says:
For collie in horses give the horse
twenty drops of oil of peppermint in .
half pint OF warm water, and you will find
him getting better soon. This I have
used when other old remedies have failed /;
and 1 used it in coughs and colds for my
self. To stop cough, take small lump
of sugar and drop two or three drops of
oil Of peppermint, and let it dissolve in
the mouth then swallow it, and you will,
feel better"
To Make Citrate of Magnesia.-Take
of magnesia, 100 grains; citric acid, $50
grains; bi-carbonate of potassa, 40 grains;
dissolve the citric acid in four fluid
ounces of water, and, having added the
magnesia, stir it until 1t is dissolved.
Filter the solution into strong twelve
ounce bottle, into which has been poured
two fluid ounces of sirup of citric acid.
Then add the bi-carbonate of potassa and
enough water almost to fill the bottle,
which must be closed with cork and
this secured with Irvine. Shake moderate
ly till all is dissolved.
-Toast-Warm your bread we'll, by
changing the sides of the slice when heat
ed through, brown as is desired; there
should be rather little than much brown
ing, and the slices should be quite thin,
say quarter or three eighths of an inch
no more. But do not scorch; avoid
that in all cases. The philosophy of
browning is to take your time until you
are done. Where the toast accumulates,
keep hot dish, but use as soon as posi-
BILE. What 10 desirable in toast is the
rich color and flavor formed by changing
the starch into dextrine, or gum. Heat
evapOrates moisture in bread as well as
elsewhere. The moisture that escapes
from toast leaves the bread light, soft and
porous inside.
-Founder.-H. J. E., of Medina, N. Y,
writes to the Spirit Of the Times as fol-
lows: II have horse which two weeks
ago l drove thirty miles. When l arrived
home he was little warm. Puthim into
the stall, and about eight O'Clock in the
evening, some three hours after getting
home, gave him some water. The next
morning, on going to the barn, I found
him so stiff and sore that he could not
move. went after our veterinary sur
geon, and he commenced bathing his feet
in warm water, and he also gave him
some medicine to physic him. He is
this morning just as Timber and apparent
ly as well as ever. He also stuffed his
feet with oil cake. What wish to know
is, did he Go right, and is there any
danger of his stiffening up againg" An
swer.-The treatment was in every respect
iudiciOus. With a little more than
ordinary care for short time to come
there need be no anxiety whatever in re-
gard to the horses powers of endurance
in the future. There is no call for further
treatment.