Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-05-27
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

All sorts of vessels and utensils NAV
be purified from long-remained smells
of every kind in the easiest and most per.
feet manner, by rinsing them out well
with charcoal powder, after the grosser
impurities have been secured off with
sand and polish.
-Cucumbers in the early part of July
are luxury, and eaten in moderation
are not unwholesome. They should
always be picked early in the morning,
when the dew is on them Gathered
later in the day, under broiling sun,
they are wholly unfit 10 eat. This is, no
doubt, one reason why they are consid-
cred unwholesome by many persons
Exchange.
1t takes more feed to make a pound
of beef than pound of butter, yet the
one sells for five to eight cents and the
other for thirty. Agood cow will make 200
pounds of butter in season, worth, say,
sixty dollars, while the same feed fed to a
dry COW will hardly add one-fourth that
amount TO her value. 1t would be
cheaper, therefore, to sell the dry COW in
the spring for what she would bring and
invest the money in a new mich COW
than to attempt to fatten her to turn off
in the fall. Farmers Union.
Hundreds of children have fallen
victims 10 scarlet fever in this city during
the past three months. Concerning the
treatment of this disease, an eminent
physician says that he does not fail in eff
fecting cure more than once in hun
dred cases, by giving the patient warm
lemonade with gum arabic dissolved in
it. A cloth wrung out of hot water and
laid upon the stomach should be renewed
as rapidly as 1t becomes cool. To this
simple treatment the most obstinate cases
seldom fail to succumb.-Chic0g0 Inter
Ocean.
Pianos should be closed when not
in use, in order to prevent the collection
of dust, pins, etc., on the sound board
and also to preserve the strings and
faction" from the ill-effects OF sudden
changes of temperature Nothing in
jures a piano so much as extreme heat,
whether arising from a bright fire in
front of it, or what is worse, the bright
air from the furnace. Care should be
taken to prevent moisture of any kind
getting between the keys, as it causes
them to stick. Moths are very destructive
to pianos, and should be kept out by
paper, in the inside corner.
To make alum baskets prepare a
foundation of wire and cover it with
strips of old linen and then dip the work
into hot alum water till thick coating
of that substance is formed. The wires
may be twisted into any shape that may
please the fancy, and good effect may
be obtained by leaving little tags of the
linen strips hanging in various direc-
tions. When incrusted with the alum
they will have the appearance of icicles.
The first dipping of the basket should be
somewhat prolonged, but after that 1t
may occasionally be immersed and dried
until enough of the alum adheres to be
satisfactory. In this way not only very
pretty baskets can be obtained, but
vases, card baskets, cornucopias and
other attractive ornaments may be pre-
pared.
The white of an egg has proved, of
late, the most efficacious remedy for
burns. Seven or eight successive appli-
cations of this substance soothe pain and
effectually exclude the burn from the
air This simple remedy seems to be
preferable to collodion, or even cotton.
Extraordinary stories are told OF the
healing properties of new oil which is
easily made from the yolk of hens eggs.
The eggs are first boiled hard and the
yolks are then removed, crushed and
placed over a fire, where they are care
fully stirred until the whole substance is
Just on the point of catching fire, when
the oil separates and may be poured off.
One yolk will yield nearly two teaspoon
fuls of OIL 1t is in general use among
the colonists of South Russia as a means
of curing cuts, bruises and scratches.