Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-02-11
Agricultural and Domestic.

A gentleman says that after losing
one hundred chickens by cholera, he
found that 4. teaspoonful of soda mix
ell with quart of milk and given
with the food was cure.
In caring for your fowls provide
them with vessel Of lme-water for
an occasional drink. 1t is prepared
by pouring hot water over quicklime,
and after the lime is settled and the
water covering it becomes clear.
pour it off. 1t will keep fit for use a
considerable time.
10 make potato pudding, take one
pound of potatoes, boiled and well
mashed; one-quarter pound Of butter,
stirred In while warm; two ounces of
sugar; the rind of half lemon, chop
ped fine, with the juice; a teacupful
OF milk. Butter the tin, put in the
mixture, and bake in u moderate oven
for half an hour; two eggs may be
added.
To make French toast, beat four
eggs very light, and stir with them a
pint OF milk; slice some bakers bread,
dip the pieces into the egg, then lay
them in a pan of hot lard and fry
brown; sprinkle a little powdered SUI
gar and cinnamon on each piece, and
serve hot. If nicely prepared, this is
an excellent dish for breakfast or tea
quite equal to wafiles.
y good way to clean black cloth is
to dissolve one ounce of bicarbonate
of ammonia in one quart Of warm
water. With this liquid rub the
cloth, using piece Of flannel or black
cloth for the purpose. After the APP
pllcatlon OF this solution, clean the
cloth. well with -ie.,. ".>t-". dry. and
iron it, brushing the cloth from time
to time in the direction of the
fibre
Swiss or Potato Soup.-Boil two
OF three pounds of potatoes, we'll
mash them, add slowly good broth,
sufficient for your turecn; let this boil
well, and then add some spinach, cor
rel, a little parsley, lemon, thyme,
mmt and sage, all chopped fine
Boil all five minutes; pepper and salt
to taste. Just before taking it off
the fire add two well beaten eggs.
Ehervescing nk.-Mix ounces
of Tartarlc acid and 2 ounces of car
Donate Of soda with ounces of silted
lumpsugar dust, or like proportions,
as the case may be. A desscrtspoon-
ful in q tulmbler OF cold water, with
or without milk, will ctfervesce, and
form an agreeable beverage, either in
winter or summer. \ small quantity
OF moist sugar and powdered ginger
may be added for use, if required.
For the measurement Of corn in the
crib or wagon-bed, the following is Il
very short and accurate method:-
Multiply the length, width and depth,
III inches, together, and divide the
product by els, cutting off two pia-
ces from the right hand of the pro-
duet. The result will show the
quantity in barrels and hundredths
ola barrel Of shelled corn. Multiply
the decimal by five for the bushels,
cutting off two places as before, and
this last by four for the pecks. Math-
ematicians will at once see the pro
priety of this rule.
Every little while it happens ,hst
some one has stuck q rusty nail in
hts foot, OF some other part Of his
person, and lockjaw has resulted
theretrom. All such wounds can be
healed without any fatal consequence
following them. The remedy IS sim
pie, it is only to smoke such wound
or bruise that is inflamcd, with burn
ing wool or wooden cloth Twenty
minutes il the smoke of wool will
take pain out of the worst case of in
tlammation arising from wound we
ever saw.
Many people do not understand
how to have nice baked beans. Bake
the beans all day, and if convenient
let them stay in over night, baking
full twenty-four hours, and our word
for it, they will come out in the
morning with favor that will make
your mouth water 10 taste Of them
We sometimes see persons who only
have a moderate liking for baked
beans, who invariably bake them
three or four hours, and that is why
they do not like them any better. A
day and night is none too much time
to bake tkem, having parboiled them
ouly until the skins will crack when
the air comes 10 them.
The time to paint your house is in
autumn or winter. The Iechnologia,
a good authority, states that paint ap-
piled to the exterior of buildings in
autumn OF winter will endure twice
rs long as when applied i'll early
summer or in hot weather. In the
former it dries slowly and becomes
hard, like a glazed surface, not easily
affected atterward by the weather, or
worn off by the beating Of storms.-
But in very hot weather the oil in the
paint soaks into the wood at once, as
in sponge, leaving the lead nearly
dry and ready to crumble off. This
last difficulty, however, might in a
measure be guarded against, though
at an increased expense, by first 60
ing over the surface with raw OIL
Furthermore. by painting in cold
weather you escape the annoyance of
small flies, which invariably collect
during the warm season on fresh
paint,