The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-08-26
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD
Medical Notes.

Medical Notes.
Ivy POISONING oil rubbed on
the skin is said to be sure antidote for
ivy poisoning
GARGhE FoR RELAXED SORE THRoAT.-
Cayenne pepper gargle, five ounces in
fusion OF roses, one ounce. Mix.
INFUSION OF Hops.-Hops, two
ounces; boiling water, quarter pint soak
Tor four hours. Dose, half wine glass
ful. Like Bass or East India, ale this
is good tonic.
WHoopING CoUGH.-Take powdered
cantharides, powdered camphor, of each
one scruple; extract of bark, three
drachms. Rub these well together, and
divide into powders of eight grains each.
Dose-one every three or four hours.
To be used only in advanced stages of
the disease.
The BEST FooD.-1t may be interest
ing to know, says DIR. G.. Moore in a
recent work, that the best animal food is
the flesh of the sheep, and the best of
vegetables that of wheat. We have rea-
son to believe that under divine instruc-
tion these were both cultivated by the
first human family, and we cannot doubt
that their cultivation is still essential to
civilization. The variety and proportion
of the Ingredients in pound of wheaton
flour will give us a clear idea of the
value of wheat as food: Water, 2 ounces,
LOG grains /; gluten, ounces, 81 grains !;
albumen, 126 grains; starch, ounces.
242 grains; sugar, 3S5 grains; gum, 119
grains; fat, 81 grains; fiber, 119 grains:
ashes (salts), 112 grains. These are ex-
actly suited to furnish what is wanted to
sustain the human body in health and
vigor.
How to Fight the Army Worm.
The worms may be prevented, as n
general thing, from passing from one
field to another, by iudicious ditching.
1t is important, however, that the ditch
should be made so that the field of grain
to be protected should be dug under.
About every three or four rods deep
hole in the ditch should be made. so
that they can be killed by covering them
with earth and pressing it. All along
the ditch, on the side of the field to be
protected, a space from three to five
feet should be thoroughly busted (when
the dew is on) with a mixture of paris
green and plaster of paris or -four, SO
that every worm which succeeds in
crossing the ditch will be killed by feed
ing upon plants so treated. This mix
ture should be in the proportion of one
part of pure paris green to twenty five
OF thirty parts of the other materials
named. If used in liquid form, one
tablespoonful of paris green to q bucket
of water, kept well stirred, will answer
the same purpose. Logs or fences over
running streams should be removed,
otherwise the worms will cross on them.
- World.
Keeping Poultry in Orchards.
Some farmers make it practice to
keep their poultry in their orchards
from early spring until cold weather sets
i'll and they find that it pays for doing
50. A picket fence should be built
around the orchard, high enough to
prevent their flying over, with suitable
buildings placed i'll one corner of the
yard to shelter them at night. Thus
situated, the poultry will thrive and
prosper, keeping them in good condi-
ton, and the increase Of eggs will be
greatly augmented and their usefulness
enhanced to their owners mt least, on ac-
count of the nryriads of insects and
worms they destroy, and which will more
than repay the cost and labor of building
the fence. By keeping them inclosod
III this manner, large number of fowls
may be retained i'll the orchard, and the
continual scratching which is done by
them will prove advantageous both to
the soil and trees themselves. s.-COlOnioL
Farmer.
Wheat Wccyiis and MOths.
After wheat is thrashed and put away
III the bins it is not safe from the attacks
of insects. Perhaps the most common
and destructive kind in this country is
the red grain weevil. 1t is small beetle
of pitchy red color, and attacks wheat
after it is stored, eating out the inside
Of the kernel hence it is not easily de-
tected except by handling the grain or
submitting it to n slight pressure, the
shell readily breaking when touched.
This weevil is sometimes exceedingly
numerous about old barns in the Middle
States, and considerable care is neces-
sary to preserve seed wheat in good con-
dltlon for sowing. Infested barns
should be well cleansed every season be-
fore new grain is put in, even to fumi-
eating with burning sulphur, as well as
dusting the cracks about the bins with
the same substance.
How TO Manage Old Potatoes.
At this season of the year some farmers
are at loss to know how to dispose of
their surplus potatoes, and for this rea-
son many are allowed to remain in the
cellars until spoiled and are then brought
out and thrown away. L will inform
them of method long practiced by
some of the best farmers in the country.
In June the potatoes are taken out of
the cellar and carried into q shed cham,
Der and spread on the dry floor, and al
lowed to remain through the hot wealth
er. They shrivel, but do not rot nor
sprout. In the hot part of the summer,
when the feed becomes short, these
shriyeled potatoes are fed out to the
cows; they increase the flow of milk
very much and are preferred by the COWS
to now potatoes.
Things Worth Knowing.
Keep tea in a close chest or canister.
Keep coffee by itself, as it odor affects
other articles.
Keep bread and cake in tin box or
stone jar.
Cranberries will keep all winter in a
firkin of water in cellar.
September and October butter is the
best for winter use.
Orangesand lemons keep best wrapped
i'll soft paper and if possible laid in