The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-07-15
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

BE kind to your sheep; use no loud
and boisterous language nor allow Others
to do so. Never frig hten them. Treat
them kindly, and they will show an ap'
probation Of it and will pay you, in wool
and mutton, more than an hundred fold.
Anything which is kept from air is
preserved indefinitely, and if it is kept dry
the effect is measurably the same. Paint
upon buildings prevents the contact of air
and moisture. If the whole fence cannot
be painted, the heads, at least, of the nails
therein should be touched.
TO make pepper-sauce take two dozen
pepper and cut them up fine, with double
the quantity Of cabbage; one root of horse
radish grated; one handful of salt, one
tablespoonful of mustard seed, one table
spoonful of allspice, one dessert-spoonful
of cloves, two tablespoonful of sugar and
little mace. Boil the spice and sugar in
two quarts of the best cider vinegar, which,
as soon as removed from the fire and while
yet boiling, pour over the other ingredients.
When cold, put it in jars, cover close and
keep in cool place.
I'm driving cattle from the pasture to
the stable they should never be hurried or
made to 60 faster than walk. Good
cows at this season have well-filled udders,
which makes it painful to move over the
ground faster than walk. Besides, in
warm weather, by hurrying the animal
there is always danger of overheating her
blood and milk, and thus not only injur-
ing it, but all the other milk with which
it comes in contact. Dogs should never
be allowed in a dairy. They are the
source of infinite mischief.-New York
Herald.
I'm hot weather it is almost impossible
to prevent the sinks becoming foul unless
some chemical preparation is used. One
pound of copperas dissolved in four gall
Ions of water, poured over sink three or
four times, will completely destroy the Of
fensive odor. As disintecting agent to
scatter around premises affected with any
unpleasant odOr, nothing is better than a
mixture of four parts dry ground plaster
of Paris to one part of fine charcoal, by
weight All sorts of glass vessels and
other utensils may be effectually purified
from offensive smells by rinsing them with
charcoal powder after the grosser impu-
rites have been secured off with sand and
soap.-Erchange.
An earthly compound for removing
greasespots is made as follows: Take full
ler's- earth, free it from all gritty matter by
elutriation with water; mix with half Il
pound of the earth so prepared half a
pound of soda, as much soap, and eight
yolks of eggs well beaten up with half a
pound of purified ox-gall. The whole
must be carefully triturated upon a
porphyry slab; the soda with the soap in
the same manner as colors are ground,
mixing in gradually the eggs and the OK
gall, previously beaten together. Incor-
porate next the soft earth by slow degrees,
till uniform thick paste be formed,
which should be made into balls or cakes
of convenient size and laid out to dry. A
little of this detergent being scraped off
with knife. made into paste with water
and applied to the stain will remove it.
Boston Journa! Of Chemistry.
The following method Of starching
linen is recommended by a German jour
nal: Make liquid paste with good fine
wheat starch and cold water, and then stir
in boiling water until stiff paste is
formed, and Immediately add white wax
or stearine, say about one ounce of wax to
a pound of starch the exact proportions,
however, in any case can only be deter
mined by experiencc). If it is desirable
that the linen should be very stiff, pow
iered gum arabic may be added to the cold
water with which the starch is mixed.
The strained starch should be thoroughly
rubbed into the articles after they have
been we'll wrung out, after which they
should then be placed between dry cloths
and passed through the mangle, and then
rubbed on an ironing board in one direc-
ton with soft rag, to distribute any
Jumps of starch. Collars, etc, should he
ironed dry with hot iron and considera-
BILE pressure. The sticking of the iron
may be prevented by drawing it while hot
over wax, and wiping it with rag dipped
in salt