The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-09
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

Green Salve. One-quarter pound
lard; one ounce rOsin one ounce bees
wax; one dram verdigris; melt and
stir WE'LL This is said to be one of the
best salves known for old sores, ulcers
cancers, scrofulous sores, cuts and
wounds.
Some weeds are so prolific in their
seed bearing capacity that the ground be.
comes full Of the little germs, which re.
main hidden in the earth for years, to
spring up and choke the growing crops
whenever the conditions are favorable
To prevent this farmers should not even
allow such to grow along the roadside.
Il would like to tell the friends also
what will cure saltrheum: Get sweet fern
if it does not grow in your locality you
can procure it at the druggists. Steep
and drink it for common drink, also
battle the parts affected, and it will cure
you. 1t is far better than any doctors
medicine.-Cor. Household.
To make chocolate russo, take one
pint of milk, three-fourths of a pound OF
sugar and one-half of box of gelatine
put these together in a dish, which place
in kettle of boiling water; after the gel
atine ia dissolved beat four eggs and stir
into it, cook until the mixture looks clear,
then cool it. Beat one pint of cream pre-.
viously favored with vanilla to a stiff
froth, add the eggs and beat again thor
oughly, line dish with cake, pour in
the mixture and put cake over the top.
Il would like to tell the sister who
though two or three have given their way
I~s, SrIy IL
mine: After washing it thoroughly with
soap-suds, wipe dry; then take three spoon
fuls of clear water, into which put one
teaspoonful of oil of vitriol. Take clean
cloth and rub it thoroughly with the Wit.
riol water, being careful not to drop any on
the carpet; then take clear water and
wash, and wipe dry, and you will not only
have clear but bright zinc also.-Cor.
Household.
To pickle peppers cut the stems out in
a round circle with sharp pen-knife and
preserve them; fill each pepper with a
mixture of finely chopped cabbage, horse
radlsh, mustard-seed and salt. Before
filling, mash the peppers in cold water
then fill, replace the piece cut out, tie with
coarse thread, pack in stone jars and fill
up with cold, sharp vinegar. They will
be ready for use in two weeks.
To cook eggplant, cut the eggplant
in slices half an inch thick, sprinkle a
thin layer of salt between the slices and
lay them one over the other and let them
stand an hour. This draws out the bitter
principle from the eggplant and also a
part Of the water. Then lay each slice in
flour, put in hot fat and fry it brown on
both sides. Or boil the eggplant till
tender, remove the skin, mash fine, mix
with an equal quantity of bread or cracker
crumbs, add salt, pepper and butter, and
bake half an hour. This makes deli ght
full dish, and a very digestible one, as il
has so little oily matter in it.
There are many more tons of hay los
annually than farmers are aware of, from
raking it the wrong way. When cut with
a machine the grass falls back, and if you
rake it in the same direction that you cut
you will get all the grass, as it all lays
back with the tops over the butts shlnglt
fashion. But if you rake in the opposite
direction it shingles the wrong way ani
instead of the grass back gathering that ir
front it slides over and loses constantly
But few farmers ever think Of so small ,
matter, but the millions Of grass-spear,
lost by raking the wrong way make hun
dreds of tons.-Ohio Farmer. T.,