Connecticut western news., 1876-05-12
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD,
Medical Hints.

FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
 Medical Hints.
 HEARTBURN AND AcDrTY. wa ter, five ounces; carbonate of ammonia, two drachms; syrup of orange peel, one ounce. Mix. Dose, one tablespoonful. TURNrP SYRUP FOR A ConD.-Roast twelve or more fine turnips in an apple roaster, press the juice from them, and add sugar candy to your taste. Take a teacupful at night and in the morning. A NEW DIsINFECTANT.-Anot new disinfectant has been introduced which is extremely useful from its solubihty. It consists of mixture of common salt and chloride of calcium, to which is add ed about fifteen per cent. of white vit- riol. If wanted for use in the form of powder it may be mixed with cinder dust, wdust, or similar mechanical dryer.
 HAIR WASHES (FoR DANDRUFF, SouRF, ETo.-Rosemary wash: Rosemary wa ter, one gallon; rectifed spirits of wine, one-haf pints pearlash, one ounce; tipted with brown coloring. Athenian water: Rose water, one gallon; alcohol, one pint; sassafras wood, ole-quarter pound; pearlash, one ounce; boil the wood in the rose water in a glass vessel; then, when cold, add the pearlash and spirit. This wash is even more efficient than the rosemary preparation for cleansing the hair, strengthening it at the roots, and improving it in every re- gpect.
 DEPmAToRIRs Gro TAKE OFF SUPER FLUoUs HAR.-Lime, twelve ounces; starch, ten ounces; orpiment, one ounce. Mix them together. Sulphuret of arsenic, one ounce; -quicklime, two ounces. This application, being viru- lent poison, must be used but seldom. Orpiment, one ounce; quicklime, nine ounces. Mix with little soap lees and powdered starch. Quicklime, two ounces; salt of tartar, four ounces; char coal, quarter of an ounce. Quicklime, eight ounces; dry pearlash, one ounce; sulphuret of potassium, one ounce. It must not be applied more than two or three minutes.
 SARsAPARmIA.-Take of sarsaparilla root, sliced, four ounces; boiling water, four pints. Maoerate for four hours in vessel lightly covered, and placed near the fire; then take out the sarsaparilla, and bruise it. Return it again to the liquor, and macerate in similar manner four hours more, first adding of raspings of guaiacum wood, bark of sassafras root, Ecorice root, bruised, of each, one ounce; bark ot mezereon root, three drachms. Finally strain. It is com monly given in conjunction with some mild mercurial pill. The dose is ouar ter of pint, repeated three or foul times day, or half pint twice day.
 To Capture Hawks and Owls.
 A farmer writes to the Ohio Farrnel that he has succeeded in taking abou twenty hen hawks in a steel trap, by set ting the trap on the upper end of square pole some twenty feet high, witl the butt end firmly planted in tn, ground. B. Gaylord writes in relation to capturing owls: When suspect tn owls are about to commence their mis chief I get stick suitable for the place anu fasten small steel trap on the top and set 1t up some three or four fee above. If an owl comes anywhere near he will be very sure to settle down il the trap with as calm and as graceful al air as an owl can put on. This is trait in the owl quite peculiar to him self. He seldom pounces on his victin the first thing, like other birds of prey but first comes slowly along, and settle down on some conspicuous site near tn victims, and takes very calm and COG survey of all the surroundings. As 500 as all things appear to him to be favor able, he quietly lets himself dow among the fowls, hoping to induce som of their number to fly of or drop dow from the roost, when he, quick a thought, embraces the opportunity t swoop down and carry off the fowl.
 used to fasten the trap with staple, o top of the stick, but I find this give them much better chance to tear then selves out of the trap. Now, I fasten slightly on top and firmly to the sticl some two feet below the trap, with chain or cord.
 Hew It Pays to Have Gcod Cows.
 I herewith send you, writes a CO respondent of the Vermont Farmer, statement of the income of eight Jerse COWS for the year ending January, 196' Twenty-Five hundred and sixty-si1
 pounds eleven ounces of butter
 made and sold at forty cents per
 pouno ....................$1,O $1, ,O26.t Cream sold. 2l Eight calves (6 heifers) raised ...,.. 1851 Ten pigs raised and fatted on sour
 milk and twenty-five bushels of
 Total ...................... s1, 1,421. Less twenty-five bushels of meal. 25.
 Total. ........................ .$1 ,S96.
 My COWS are full-blooded Jerse and three grades. I feed meal all u time they are giving milk. In tl summer they have two quarts of cor and-cob meal per day. Fall and winte three quarts, one-half corn-and- cob met one-half bran. We never have any SC butter in warm weather. I feed ] roots of any kind, nothing but meal al all the good, early-cut hay they will es
 value of Understandings.
 P. T. Quin, in his work entitl Gardening for Profit" says a certa German leased twelve acres of land ne Jersey City for ten years, at $1OO p acre. It was heavy, wet land, and aft heavy manuring for three years he cou snly make a living. Some of his neig hors, better posted, told him he wou have to underdrain it. As his lease h only seven years to run, he was afraid would not pay; but as the only alterl tive he took the advice. It took $6O I acre, only one-haH of what he had ps for manure yearly. The result was
 the end of his lease he paid $12, ,O00 the land and owned it.
 A man in Indiana recently sent twen i've cents by mail, pasted on the back a r,oafal card