The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-08-20
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To REMOVE TAN AND FREcKLEs.-1
ounce glycerine, / ounce liquid ammonia,
ounces rain water. Mix and apply at
night.
TRAINING ToMAToEs.-Iti is an excellent
plan to make trellis as for grapes along
your tomato rows and train the plants to
| it. Keeping them cut back-not allowing
them to grow more than four feet high.
CANNED FRUITs.-Make the sirup for
| them with sugar and water, averaging a
quarter of pound of sugar to each pint
of juice /; boil the fruit until done, fill the
| lars boiling hot, seal up Immediately.
/ Keep the jars warm before filling with the
/ fruit.
SULPHUR FOR STOCK.-A small quantity
| of sulphur fed with salt once week TO
cattle. sheep and horses. is a real benefit to
/ the system, besides tending to prevent lice
remaining upon them. 1t is equally good
/ for pigs. 1t should not be fed in large
quantities to any stock.
Corn STARCH CAKE.-Take cup of but
| ter, of sugar, of sweet milk, l of corn
starch dissolved in sweet milk, 2 of flour,
| | teaspoOnful cream-tartar, l of soda, the
whites of four eggs. Flavor with nutmeg
or rose water. 1t is better if baked in
patty pans.
/ 4 Coon. MATTRESS FILLING.-lff farmers
would save their Oat chaff and sift it, an
| excellent filling for beds could be made OF
il, rs it is soft, light, elastic and very sweet.
| 1t can be renewed every year at little cost,
/ while for children's beds it is nice. Keep
a sack or two stuffed full of oat chatf in
a dry place and then filling is always at
hand.
RICE WATER.-Take of rice 2 ounces !;
| let it be well washed, and add TO it water, 2
quarts. Boil it for an hour and a half, and
| then add sugar and nutmeg as much as
may be required. To be taken Gd Hbit1uus.
Rice, when boiled for considerable time,
assumes a gelatinOus form, and, mixed
with milk, is a very excellent diet for chill
dren. 1t possesses, in some measure, con-
| stipatlng property which may be increased
by boiling the milk.-1he Druggist.
RoLY-POLY PUDDING.-Take a crust of
equal parts of Graham flour and fine corn
meal, wet with rice boiled quite soft in 3
parts of water Knead lightly and roll out
9s thin as it will hold together. Then
spread on whertleberries or black berries or
rhubarb or gooseberries, and beginning at
one end, roll it over upon itself. Sew up
in cloth and boil or steam one hour and
half. Then take off the cloth and cut in
slices, crosswise, and serve hot, with straw
berry pudding sauce or some other sweet
ened fruit juice.-JitliG COtntan.
GREEN TOMATO PICKLEs.-1 peck green
tomatoes head of good sized cabbage,
punches of celery, or what is better, a
little celery seed, pint of white mus
tard seed also 3 or 4 small carrots, using
only the red part. onions, . large bell
peppers. Chop them and mix them to-
| gether, sprinkle over a cup of fine salt, let
it remain over night; drain well, sprinkle
in the seeds and pour over pint of mo-
lasses. Take pints of vinegar, 2 table
spoonfuls of ground allSpice, , tablespoon
flls of ground cloves, 2 tablespOOnfuls of
ground cinnamon, tableSpOOnfuls of
ground yellow mustard. Heat the spices
in the vinegar and pour over scalding hot.
This should be kept four or five months
before using.
BEDBUG POIsON.-COrrOsive sublimate,
/ ounce; common whisky, ] pint; shake
occasionally until the sublimate is dissolved
and then add teaspOonful of spirits OF
turpentine, more TO give smell than
anything else, to prevent accidents by be-
ing mistaken for something to drink. Too
much turpentine will precipitate calOmel
from the solution. This is certain death
to the night crawlers and can be applied
with goose quill to their quarters with
out injury to furniture. Another equally
sure in killing, as well as preventing their
collecting in Joints of bedsteads, is mercu-
rial ointment, l ounce; spirits of tUrpen-
tine. pint; mix well together until thor
Oughly incorporated and use with feather.
This is not so nice a preparation as the
first. Another formula often used is to
take /! an ounce of quicksilver and beat up
with the whites of eggs and use as above.
AS the eggs are only intended to suspend
the mercury, the writer thinks the yelk
would be much better, but has not tried
either, knowing the first two to be good.
In using any of them it is very necessary
to watch for the breeders, and when found
stick pin through them. All the above
remedies owe their killing qualities to the
poisonous effect of mercury.-COr. Couu-
t7y Gentleman.