Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-10-16
Farm. GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD
Household Helps.

CHOW CHow.-Tako six eucumbers
Just before they ripen, peel them, cut
III strips, and remove the seed four
white onions, six good sized green toma-
toes, and half head of cabbage. Chop
all fine, let them stand in salt water over
night, then pour off the water and add
vinegar and spices to suit the taste.
MoRGAN's LINAIENT. following |
is contributed by Peter Prindle, who has
tried it, and says it is good for sore
throat, and good also for bruises and
sprains in man or beast One-half pint
alcohol, one-half pint spirits turpentine,
One-half ounce Canada balsam, one-haE
ounce oil of origanum, two ounces
spirits Of ammonia, one quarter ounce
camphor gum, one-half pint beef's
gall.
CURE FOR DRHTHERIA,-The follow
ing recipe is given by an old gentleman
of Charlottesville, Va, who states that
he has often known it to be usedin cases
of diphtheria, and has never known it
to fail in effecting a cure: Take hand
full of alder root, handful of dogwood
root, handful of the bark of persimmon
root, boil with pint of vinegar down to
half pint then add very little water,
q small lump of alum, and little honey.
Let the patient use it frequently as a
gargle.
PEACH PIE.-For those who cannot
eat pastry and yet love pie, the following
recipe is recommended For crust,
make dough with yeast powder and
cream as for cream biscuit, roll thin for
upper and under crusts, put between
the crusts thick layer of peaches peeled
and quartered, bake in quick oven,
and eat with sugar and cream. Those
who partake once of this pie will ask for
more of the same sort. 1t is simple,
perfectly wholesome, economical and
easily prepared.
For WoUNDs.-The aching and stiff
ness caused by wounds can be almost en-.
tirely relieved by holding the wound
over the smoke of burning sugar. One
of our correspondents, who gives us this
information, punctured his right leg
with large awl, and the limb became
in consequence very painful and stiff
so that he walked with great difficulty
A tablespoonful or two of sugar poured
on some live Goals in shovel and hel(
under the wound so relieved him tina
the day after he could walk as we'll a
ever. 1t is said that if a poultice o
pounded neach leaves is placed upon
wound so soon as it is received, lockiay
need not be feared.
Why Small Farmers are Prosperous.
We have often had occasion to call at
tention to the fact that those we are &C
customed to call "small farmers" al
generally the most prosperous farmer
in the South. They are not so becaus
small farms and very limited operation
are, in themselves, best, but becaus
these farmers are working in harmon
Nltu OilOlL SlLSuu4ootthOOo. AhoJ Inv
accepted the situation, and put their ow
hands to the pillow. Having small cap
tai, and often very limited knowledg
and skill, they go safely, as they see tn
way clearly before them. The larg
planter, on the contrary, often withou
any capital at all of his own, attempts o
borrowed money Cat fearfully high rate
of interesD to conduct large operations
without closely counting the costs Or th
risks, and fails, as any sound minde
man, not infatuated with cotton, woul
see that he must This does not prov
that small farms and small farming al
necessarily most profitable, but that OF
operations, both as to method and to e.
tent, must correspond with our capt.
and other circumstances. -Rural Car
lnian.
Kindling Wood.
Now is the time for housewives to s.
to it that there is in store o plentif
supply of kindling wood under cover,
that the fall rains cannot reach it. Tho
who depend upon wood for fuel ha
little time enough, if they have not
ready attended to the matter, to prepa
for the winters cold so fast coming