Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-02-02
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

An Economic Breakfast Dish
Small pieces of meat, one teacupful milk
put in the frying pan with little salt
and pepper, small tablespoonful butter,
six eggs beaten up and stewed In the
moat.
The standard bushel of the United |
States contains 2,150.4 cubic inches. !
ANY box or measure the contents Of
which equals 2, 1904 cubic inches will
hold bushel of grain.
Ginger Snaps-One cup of New
Orleans molasses, one cup of sugar, one
cup of butter, one large spoonful of soda
dissolved in little boiling water, two
spoonfuls cinnamon, one of ginger.
Roll as stiff as possible with flour; cut
thin and bake In quick oven.
Moths will infest carpets in warm
rooms in winter as we'll as summer. To
remove them pour strong alum water
upon the floor to the distance of half a
yard around the edge before the carpets
are laid down. When sweeping, once
in while sprinkle dry salt upon the car.
pet.
Worms in swine may be got rid of
in the following manner: Give each
animal affected with the pests half an
ounce of tin filings in three ounces of
decoction of wormwood or tansy, with
little salt. Repeat it for three or four
days, and then give one or two ounces
of lard oil.
"A correspondent of the MdSsd.
chusetts Plougman says: "To prevent q
horse from forging or oyerrcaching, have
him shod with beaVy-heeled shoes In
front and heavy toed shoes behind; this
will enable his front feet to pass out of
the way before the hind ones meet them.
If he travels with his head low, elevate
it trife with a check rein"
Tomato Soup.-Take the thin part
of q can of tomatoes; stew half an hour;
season with butter, salt, pepper and
, sugar; have ready one pint of milk
! thickened with two tablespoonfuls of
-four, or enough to make it like draw
butter; salt; at dinner:time pour both
through q colander, stirring them in the
tureen; be careful to have it served hot;
tureen should be heated.
Baked Indian Pudding,-One cupful
"granuTated" yellow meal, one-half cup
full wheat flour; mix with these enough
cold water to thoroughly moisten; stir
into one pint boiling milk; put into a
pudding-dish, add small piece of but
ter, one beaten egg, one small teacupful
molasses, one tablespoonful supar, one
II pint cold milk, salt and ginger to taste
{ bake three hours.
= "A member of the Elmira Farmers
: Club recently stated that he had tried
:. German millet for fodder, but it did not
succeed we'll. He had not succeeded
a with Hungarian grass as a soling crop
" not producing one-fourth part the fodder
!, of corn, and horses and cattle not liking
! 1t so we'll. He had grown eight tons OF
y dry corn-fodder per acre, at twelve dol
!, lars per acre. Rye makes the best early
soiling, but it must not get too ripe
W Beets are an excellent crop for feed.
d Ribbon Cake.-Two cupfuls sugar
C one cupful butter, one cupful milk, fou
cupfuls -four, four eggs, one teaspoonfu
,r cream tartar, half teaspoonful soda; hav,
n two tins ready of equal size; put one
e, third in each and bake. To the othe
third add three teaspoonfuls molasses
% one cupful currants, and little citrol
to and spice to suit, and bake in same siz,
re tin; when done put layer of light, thel
n alayer of jelly, then dark, then jelly
IN then light; lay piece of paper on top
re and turn it over on one of the tins an,
or press it with two flat-irons till cold.
The Spanish ladies use the following
I'd preparation to give polished whtenes
I'd to the neck arms: Infuse wheat bran
le well sifted, for four hours in white win
vinegar; add to it five yelks of eggs an
~ two grains of ambergris, and distil tn
IT whole. 1t should be carefully corked fo
~ twelve or fifteen years, when it will
st fit for use. 1t is an excellent preparG
st ton to give q luster to the skin. A DaI
bury man has tried it on pimple, an
nd what was once an unsightly object is no.
re so polished that it shines out like heat
ty light on locomotive. .-DaRbury Ne,o
n An eminent English physician say
ey he has found sulphur almost q specif
for scarlet fever lie anoints the patier
ed twice daily with sulphur ointment, give
~ from five to ten grains of sulphur in
IN, little jam three times day, and burr
ng sulphur in the room of the patient twiC
ur daily. He says that he has given tn
re treatment extended trial for over tw
TO years, and that under it not one of h
patients was more than eight days
gs making a complete recovery, althoug
It's the cases were well marked, thesurfaC
'Gt skin on the arms coming away like Il
ell skin of a snake.
nc The american Agriculturist say
nU u" For some years we have spread manu-
ou during the winter upon meadows, Glove
'oI sod to be plowed forscorn, and grour
nS plowed for spring crops. The practi,
l'S is economical of labor and convenien
no and we have no reason to believe tn
~ the manure loses any valuable constit
W ent. The ammonia of fresh manure
in nascent or inactive condition, al
"a. "a. is not wasted during the cold weathe
~ Those who may find it convenient to u
d" manure in this manner can do no har
"a "a by making the experiment. Dairy farI
III nn ers cannot do better than spread manu-
50, upon their meadows and pastures as fa
~ On as it is made"
10 The best coloring for butter is
good mess of corn chopped with cut ha
.ou My butter is rich yellow the ye
nd round from this feed, and have no
ooi derney or any other fancy stock, b
ali common cattle, which give an abunda
,n' supply of milk and butter; good feed
nd the secret. If farmers feed on dry fo
,vo der and straw, and want yellow butte
no they must use what some of my Aldern
nos friends do-a small quantity of annatt
1nr costing ten cents an ounce, enough I
,ev several hundred pounds of butter. ID
solve in little warm cream; add a fC
md grains of super. of soda, viii
W develops the peculiar yellow principle
To-, the annatto, which think is the base
,o,, all the cOloring matter for butter O.