The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-08-09
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

THE best place to feel the pulse of the
horse is on the under Jaw about half wav
from the lower lip to the neck, or perhaps
. little more than halfway. When the
pulse reaches fifty or fifty. five there is
some fever. Seventy and seventy five in
dicate high fever and absolute danger.
ONE pound of corn is equal as food to
about three and three-quartcrs pounds Of
potatoes, or eight and one-half pounds Of
cabbage, or to eleven and one-half pounds
of white turRips. Analysis gives the nu.
tritive value of corn to be, compared with
that of oats, as 70 is to 60. An average
OF several tables takes the value of a
given quantity of oats to represent 100,
while the value of the same quantity of
corn would be 95, weight being identical
in each case. In practice, one bushel of
corn is equal to two of oats for fa.tening;
but oats are altogether better for the grow.
ing animals than cOrn.-Fasm0r's Friend.
OUNCE JELLY.-Pare, core and quarter
some ripe. but perfectly sound ounces as
quickly as possible, and throw them as
they are done into part of the water in
which they are to be boiled, allow one
pint Of this to each pound Of the fruit.
and simmer it gently until it is u little
broken, but not 90 long as to redden the
juice, which ought to be very pale. Turn
the whole into q jelly bag, or strain the
liquid through fine cloth, and let it
Drain very closely from it, but without
the slightest pressure. Weigh the Juice,
put it into very clean preserving. pan,
and boil it quickly for twenty minutes;
take 1t from the fire, and stir in it, until en-
tlrely dissolved, twelve ounces of sugar for
each pound of juice, or fourteen ounces, if
the fruit should be very acid; keep it
constantly stirred and thoroughly cleared
from scum from ten to twenty minutes
longer, or until it jellies strongly in fall
ing from the skinner; then pour it di.
rectly into glasses or molds. If properly
made, it will be sufficiently firm to turn
out of the latter, and it will be beautifully
transparent and rich in flavor. 1t may be
made with an equal weight of juice and
sugar, mixed together in the first instance,
and boiled from twenty to thirty minutes.
-Erchangs.
HARVEST DRNKs.-At this season of
the year it is common to find in the
columns of our agricultural exchanges
numerous recipes for "harvest drinks"
which, in many cases, are strongly recon-
mended, when any medical man could
say that they were at any time useless and
often injurious, and at no time more
likely to be 80 than in harvest. No doubt
we shall differ with many of our readers
on this point, but after passing through
many warm summers, and having been
carried in more than once, we can but
testify that there is nothing better than
good pure water, and that not too cold.
If not too cold there is but little danger OF
drinking too much, for the surplus soon
finds its way out of the system through
the pores of the skin, especially it a
scythe or cradle is swung vigorously for
an hour or two. Many of the much
lauded drinks, favored with ginger,
sugar, acids and often worse, have q
tendency to disorder the digestive appara-
tus at time when it is most liable to
arrangement from other and unavoidable
causes. Pure water df cold enough with.
out ice, all the better), used whenever the
craving is felt, but not in too large
amounts, will in the end prove most salts
factory, and be least dangerous.--Phita-
delphia Times.