Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-07-03
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

OLD horses are like old minds--you
must exercise them If you wish to keep
them in working order.
PELEG WHITE's SALvE.-Three pounds
OF resin, one-half pound Burgundy pitch,
one-half pound beeswax, one-half pound
mutton tallow.
AN old bee-keeper says that coal-oil
sprinkled about the entrance of the hive
Is sure remedy to drive away robber
bees. He says he has tried 1t many times,
and never failed to get the best result
from II.
EVERY bee alighting upon the large
podded milk.weed either adheres to the
plant or else bears away small scale
sticking to its feet and cripples itself
fatally in attempting to remove the an
noyance.
WooDMCE In frames or in pots may be
trapped with piece of apple or potato
as bait, loosely incased in dry moss; but
a correspondent tells the Garden that no
plan has worked 80 successfully with him
as the expeditions and easy one of pour.
ing boiling water close round the Inside
of the frame, taking care not to let 1t
reach any portion of the plant.
GRAHAM BIscUIT.-To pint of butter
milk add two eggs beaten to cream.
Crush all tire Jumps In the soda and add
teaspoon level full to the flour, Put
in pinch of salt, and have the batter
thin enough for pancakes. Heat the
gem pans, and pour two tablespoonfuls
in each pan. Have the oven moderately
hot, so they will rise before forming u
crust.
To PLANT and transplant flowers, take
lob mt Il
and double il in the shape of funnel (;
fill with dirt and plant seed in each
one bury it in q box filed with earth
The seeds will soon germinate. When
the plants are ready to be removed to the
flower bed lift the paper out and plant it
like roots. The paper will soon rot, and
the plants will never wilt.
"SwEET PICKLE" OF APPLEs.-Take
three pounds of sugar, three quarts of
vinegar mot very strong), ten pounds of
sweet apples; pare, quarter and core the
apples put the sugar and vinegar to-
gether boil and skim il, then take half of
the syrup out into another vessel, put as
many of the apples into your preserving
pan as will boil conveniently, and boil
until tender; then skim those out and
add more apples and syrup and nutmeg
FOR CALCIMTNING WALLS.-Iake "a
bucket of whitening or Paris white (say
twenty pounds) and one pound of white
glue, the evening before using, and cover
with cold water separately. Let them
stand over night. Then melt the glue
over a slow fire, and add. hot water until
dissolved. Put the glue and whitening
together, and thin with water until of the
proper consistency to put upon the walls
The walls should be previously prepared
with lime water, and all the cracks filed
with plaster of Paris and flick lime
Cor. Ne1 York Sun.
For cold feet the best remedy is to dip
them every night and morning in a basin
of cold water, and afterward rub them
dry with coarse towel. To harden the
feet tannic acid has been used with sue
cess. Employ it in the proportion of
five grains to a fluid ounce of water. To
correct offensive smell of the feet, bathe
them in weak solution of permanganate
of potassa; one scruple to eight ounces of
water. For absorbing excessive perspi-
ration of the feet, mix together seven
ounces of the carbonate of magnesia, two
ounces of powdered calcinen alum, seven
ounces of orris root, and half dram of
powdered cloves.-InterOcedR