Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-03
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

COOKING ONIoNs.-If they are large GU,
them in slices and cook them in plenty OF
water nearly an hour or until they arc
tender, then turn them into a colander to
drain. When dry return them to the dish
in which they were cooked, sprinkle on
some salt and pepper and large table.
| spoonful Of butter, set the dish on the tor
| Of the stove and let them simmer a few
minutes, stirring often enough to keep
them from burning.
A RELIABLE authority estimates that II
costs $40 to winter good, able bodied rat
about as much as II does to fatten hog.
AT this season of the year they are, like
men, always hungry, and will eat food
that in the winter or summer they would
not touch, and they can thus be easier
caught or poisoned now than at any other
season of the year. A good poison for
rats or mice is to take squills powder,
mix IL with lard and spread II on slices of
bread and place II in their runways under
the barn floor or in the granary. One rat
killed will reduce your stock next spring
by twenty.
THE horticultural gives an account of
two novelties among flowers, which it is
almost tempted 10 treat as fables until
their verify is established by personal in
spection. The following is the descrip.
tion of them: Zone is a black lily in
Santa Clara, Cal, with three large bios
SONS, each nine inches long and perfect
ly black outside the green petals. The
other is to be seen at Constantinople and
described by an eyewitness as belonging
to the narcissus genus ofbulb. The flow
er represents n perfect humming- bird.
The breast, of perfect emerald green, is
"a nTiata nf ahfo t.I nj l,a
throat, head, beak and eyes are perfect
imitation. The hinder part of fhe body
and the two outstretched wings are of a
bright rose color, one might almost say
fesh-colored.
LET me tell how to make what call
a convenient milking stool: Take a piece
of board about eight inches wide and two
feet long; nail short pieces across the
ends to increase its strength and to bore
holes through; put two legs eight or ten
inches long in one end, and one trihe
shorter in the forward end. Place the
stool where you intend to sit, the one
legged end where you usually set the pail
Place the pail on that end of the stool and
sit on the other. II you do this you will
have the pail out of the dirt and the cow
cannot easily put her foot in it, as often
happens when the pail is on the ground.
Some COWS are so low that you are obliged
to set the pail on the ground. In such
case turn your stool around Farmers
Daughter, IN Western Rural.
AS A general rule too much food is
given, and too much of this is hay. Ten
pounds of hay and twelve pounds of oats
constitute good days fodder for a work
ing horse, whether the work be fast or
slow. Herbert's advice in nregard to feed
ing horses is to give lock of hay and half
a pail of water the first thing in the
morning. After grooming give the other
half pail of water, and, if he is not going
out, four quarts of oats, after eating which
he may have four or five pounds of hay.
If going out early, feed six quarts of oats
and no hay. If TO be put to work in the
afternoon they should be again watered
and have four quarts of oats and the re-
mainder of their hay. Half bushel of
washed carrots a week, given at time,
will improve the coat and be beneficial to
the stomach. The feeding is ample to
keep horses in good working order
Vermont Chronicle.