The Western advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1872-1874, 1874-06-20
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

The poisons contained in tobacco
smoke find ready exit from the system
when exhaled during period of fasting
their injurious effect on the heart is to be
apprehended.-Lancet. ,"@ x
.-Molasses Pie.-One and one-half cups
OF molasses, one.half cup vinegar, one
egg, two tablespoonful of flour, one cup
OF ralslns; season with lemon or nutmeg;
thls makes two pies; bake with two
crusts.
"A California medical amateur pub
fishes the discovery that if you get your
lace lnf1amed by the poison-ivy the appli-
cation OF good strong mustard-plaster
Will speedily make you forget all about
the smarting caused by the irritating
vine.
preservation of Milk.-Dr. SAGE, of
Switzerland recommends as preservative
OF mix tor two days from coagulati0n,
even during the greatest heats, spoonful
OF alcohol per gallon of milk. French
dairymen, judging by the odor, employ a
preparation Of chlorine.
TO Cook Asparagus.-Skint the white
part, turn the points together, and tie in
punches. Have the water boiling; add
salt lay IN the asparagus and boil briskly
half an hour. Toast slices of light bread,
and pour over little of the asparagus
water; butter it well; put on tue aspara.
gus and serve hot Or serve with drawn
butter and parsley, emitting the toast
Variety Pickle.-One gallon of cab
bage finely chopped; half pint green pep
pers; half gallon green tomatoes; one
quart onions Chopped fine and the juice
drained from toll fill
mustard; two of ginger; one OF cloves;
two Of tumeric; one ounce celery seed !;
two pounds sugar; little salt, and half
gallon good cider vinegar. Mix we'll and
boil twenty minutes. Anything like snaps
or cucumbers can be chopped in before
boiling.
The exclusion of damp from brick
| work has loEg been an important prob
lem. One of the most effective methods
Of accomplishing this object is the fol-
lowing: Three-quarters of pound of
mottled soap are dissolved in one gallon
of boiling water, and the hot solution
spread steadily with flat brush over the
| outer surface of the brickwork, care be-
ing taken that it does not lather; this is
allowed to dry for twenty-four hours,
when solution, formed of a quarter of a
pound of alum dissolved in two gallons
Of water, is applied in similar manner
over the coating of soap. The soap and
alum form an insoluble varnish, which
the rain is unable to penetrate, and this
cause of dampness is thus said to be ef-
fectually removed. The operation should
be performed in dry, settled weather. An
other method is to use eight parts of lin
seed oil and one part of sulphur, heated
together to 278e, in an iron vessel
Western R,ral.
| "A horse will consume eighteen
pounds of hay and twelve quarts of mixed
oats and corn, ground into coarse meal,
per day. A cow will need eighteen
pounds of hay and six quarts of meal if
she is milking. If at pasture three quarts
of meal may be probably fed per day.
One hundred hens will require 100 bush.
els of corn in year, in addition to what
they can pick up on their range. They
will need very little corn in the summer,
but at least a quarter of q pint a day in
winter. The quantity of corn needed by
a hog depends much upon its size, breed,
and appetite, in all of which hogs differ
very much. 1t would be safe to allow
half bushel of corn, ground into meal, a
week for hog of 100 to $50 pounds, and
more IN proportion for larger ones A,
fattening time there can be no limit given
the hog should have all it can be in
duced to eat or made to digest-American
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