The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-08-20
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

-Raisin Pie.-Pare one lemon, chop
ana Doll the peel; to the pulp add two
thirds OF cup of chopped raisins, one
egg, one cup of sugar, two-thirds of a
cup OF water and the peel when boiled
Bake with two crusts.
Weeds should he kept down every
where. Thistles, wild parsnips and car.
rots, mulleins and burdocks, in neglected
corners and fence rows should be cut up
by the root, and the tops gathered and
burned. Many weeds are now ripcnins
their seeds and if neglected will make
work for many years to come.
Poor Mans Pudding.-One cup of
sirup; and if desired, one or two spoon.
fuls Of sugar, half cup of butter, one
cup OF sweet milk, one cup of raisins
one pint of flour, one or two eggs, one
tcaspoonful of cream of tartar, half tea
spoon of soda, a little salt. Put in a
pudding dish and bake or steam. To be
eaten with liquid sauce.
Cement for Glass, China and Wood.
Steep Russian isinglass twenty -four
hours in white brandy, gently boil and
stir the mixture until it is we'll com.
pounded and drop of it, cooled, will
become thick jelly; then strain it
through linen cloth, and cork closely.
A gentle heat will dissolve it. Apply to
the edges, place them together, and hold
them five minutes.
-Dyeing Ornamental Feathers Black
Place them for twenty-four hours in a
soda bath that is not too strong, then
rinse we'll and place for twelve hours in
an per cent. solution of nitrate of iron
rinse we'll again and dye with logwood
and fustic. If the black appears reddish
draw the feathers through dilute sui
phuric acid and boil short time in a
weak bath of fustic.
-Stiffening GauZc.-Good wheat starch
and white wax are employed, either cold
or warm, according to the color. The
gauze on removal from the starch is per.
fcctly UNFINISHED, pressed out and clappcd
with the hands so that the starch may be
uniformly distributed. Any mcshes that
may still appear filled with starch may
be freed from it when the gauze is
stretched on the drying pad by brushing
it with the hand or, better, with soft
brush. Small starched pieces can also
be placed on the finishing drum, since
the starch remaining in any mcshcs will
stick to the drum when the gauZe is re-
moved. In this case, however, it will
unavOidably have Il spotted lustcr on the
side next the drum.-Horpe,'s Buzor.
I'm Massachusetts there is State
Board of Health, which has been paying
attention to the sanitary condition OF
farmers. Its fourth annual report is
published, and an article on the above
subject, based upon the reports of country
physicians, appears. Tins testimony, in.
Guiding evidence collected the past
twcnty-eight years, shows that the aver
age life of the Massachusetts farmer is
sixty-tive and one-fourth years-a greater
longevity than tina, of any other class.
Yet it is claimed that farmers might live
much longer if they were better and
more carefully fed, lived upon more nu-
tritious and wholesome diet, ate with
greater delibcration, and were careful
not to engage in active exercise too soon
after eating. They should eat more
fruit and vegetables, less of pork, pies,
cakes, salcratus biscuit, take pains to
protect themselves better from sudden
changes of temperature, dcOdOriZe cess
pools, sinks, out-houses, and keep clean
back yards; change clothing and battle
more frequently. Such statistics and
suggestions are valuable, and deserve the
attention of farmers.
Pork Raising.-My own theory of
pork raising, based upon experience, OBJ
scrvation and probably Il little philoso-
ply of things, if written for the benefit
of others, would be about as follows:
During the hot summer months should
feed very little solid feed, such as corn
in the ear or uncracked. would keep
hogs upon green feed constantly, either
grass, oats or rye, and feed them at reg
ular intervals, once or twice per day,
upon mashed feed, either shorts, chopped
oats or rye, buckwheat, etc.; feed in
troughs. When fed in this way, and at
the same time allowed access to water
and shade, hogs will bear crowding
through the hot months, Il very good time,
if not the best, to take on flesh. This
puts them in the best condition for corn
feeding, which should commence about
the LIST of September, when the new crop
is still soft and tender. Treated in this
way hogs become probably as perfect as
any method could make them. Upon the
whole, too, believe it the cheapest and
most enonomical.-Cr. Of Germauto"m
7elegrupM.