Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-10-27
Practical Suggestions.

Practical Suggestions.
CASTOR OIL is found to be the best
and most durable lubricator for buggy
axles.
THE average cost of fences in the
state of Pennsylvania is $114O an acre.
In Rhode Island it is $40. so an acre.
Do not allow trees to grow over and
shade your dwelling. They are I'M.
healthy. =
The best oil for making boot and
harness leather soft and pliable. is cas-
tor oil.
GLYcERINE is excellent 20 rub on
chafes, burns Or chapped hands or sun
scalds.
KEEP your boots we'll oiled in winter,
and they will last longer, while your
| feet will be both drier and warmer.
/ Raw hide makes the best and most
durable betting for farm, or other ma
chinery. Put the hair side next to the
pulley.
WHITE LEAD, ground in oil is an ex-
cellent application for saddle cnafes or
harness or yoke gals, on horses or cat
| tie.
| A FEW drops of diluted carbolic acid
In kettle of glue. will keep it frc N
| spelling tor several days, in the warm
est weather.
On the contrary, vines and creepers
on the walls, protect them, and make q
house warmer and drier, and also make
it look much better.
BEYOND any sort of doubt, seeds
| soaked In weak camphor water will
sprout and grow vigorously, when the
same seeds, not thus treated, will refuse
to show any signs whatever of vitality.
The surplus heat wasted from COM
mon stove, viii, if conducted through a
drum into another room, warm the
room as much as a stove would, and
will compel the fuel to do double the
| duty and give double results.
AUTUMN is the proper season to pre-
pare gratis and cuttings. Of the latter,
cuttings of grapes, curranss, ounces,
gooseberrles, poplar and many other
plants, taken off in fall and buried in
the ground all winter, will grow with
facility In the spring. Crafts should
| always be taken off in the fall and kept
In moist sand or sawdust till ready to
use.
ENGLAND washes most of the manure
made by her people into the ocean, and
then hunts over the globe, from Egypt
to Peru, for more to waste. The
United States does no better. But the
| natives of Japan and China maintain
the fertility of their soil by saving what
those who pretend to be civilized throw
away. They have no worn out, aban-
doned fields.
The cost of fences in the United
States is estimated to be greater than
the national debt, Or more than two
thousand, three hundred millions of
dollars. The cost of repairs and in
| terest is more than four hundred mil
lions OF dollars a year. Are all the
cattle they are built to fence out worth
that enormous sum? Is there no
chance for reform and economy here?
What says the grangers.
Choice Recipes.
SODA CRAoKEas.- IA cups of -four
with 2 teaspoonfuls of soda and 4 of
cream tartar; after which rub in two
cups OF shortening-lard or butter; mix
N uNoOA, AAO1u 0LO POuuO udu
an hour. Bake In quick oven.
BosToN Brown BREAD.-Three pints
OF yellow corn meal, pint of rye -four,
| cup of molasses, 2 teaspoonfuls of
saleratus, 2 teespoonfuls of salt, tea
cup OF good yeast; mix thin with luke
warm water, and let it stand in warm
place to rise, which will take about two
hours; wet the top of the loaf with warm
water, and bake in a slow oven about
two hours. A deep pan is best
PoACHED EGGS WITH FRIED HAM
Fry the ham, take clean frying or
omelet-pan, nearly fill ii with boilin g
water, set it over p gentle fire, break
the eggs singly into cup and slip each
into 'olling water, cover the pan for
four ~: five minutes when done, take
them mp with a SKINNER on a dish.
sprinkle little pepper and alt over.
add small bit of butter, and serve in q
dish or ovel the ham.
TAPIooA PUDDING WITHOUT MILK OR
EGas.-Soak tea-cup OF tapioca in one
and one-half pints of water over night.
Pare and punch the cores from six APP
pies, fill the holes, with sugar, flavor
with lemon or nutmeg, and pour in
one teacup of water. When baked