The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-07-26
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

The 0ardsner's Monthly says: IN
trees. especially evergreens, should hav'
grass permitted to grow around the root
or year or 90 after planting: Gras
aos0r0s moisture, and the tree will prOba
bly, want all about it for ITSELF"
szATERPRooF PAPER.-It may be wortl
Knowing that by plunging sheet of pa
/ perant0 an ammOniacal solution of cop
per Tor an instant, and then passing i
between cylinders and drying it, it is rem
dered entirely impermeable to water, anG
may be even boiled in water without dis
integrating. Sheets 90 prepared, if ROLLED
I, together, become permanently adhefent
and acquire the strength of wood.-Ee
change.
PREsERv1Na WooD-The america,
C"esnist says that Western farmer discov
cred many years ago that wood could be
made to last longer than iron in tn
ground. Time and weather, he says
seem to have no effect on it. The post,
can he prepared for less than two cents I
piece. This is the recipe: Take boiled
linseed oil and stir in it pulverized char
coal to the consistency OF paint. Put q
coat OF this over the timber, and, he adds
| there Is NOT man who will live to see i,
rot.
SCALE IN FowLs.-Clean up the legs Of
the fowls by washing with carbolic soap
An ointment made IF coal tar and lard
| or the various preparations of carboliC
acid, applied two or three times. will usu.
ally effect cure. Give the fowls sulphur
once week mixed with their food, and
do not neglect to thoroughly clean the
| whole hennery by washing with lime water
or some disinfectant. The disease is moi
hereditary, but scaly-legged fowls should
not be used for setting.
HOT-wATER MOLAssEs- CAHE.-Put one
half.cup of lard in an earthern bowl and
two cups of mOlasses. Pour in one cup
of hot water, and set on the back of the
range until the lard is dissolved. When
cool, stir in two tablespoonfuls of ginger
and teaspoonful of salt. Dissolve one
teaspOOnful of soda in hot water, or sift
two teaspoOnfuls of sea- foam through two
cups Of flour. The batter should be quite
soft, but as cups vary in size, judgment
must be used as to the quantity of flour.
Bake in a quick oven and eat hot. This
is nice fof lunch with chocolate.
A Goob DtsINFEcrAkr.-One pound of
green copperas, dissolved In one quart Of
water, and poured down water. closet,
will effectually concentrate and destroy
steamboats,, about hotels and other public
air. Simple green copperas, dissolved in
pital or other place for the sick free from
unpleasant smells. In fish markets,
slaughter houses, sinks, and wherever
there are offensive gases, dissolve cop
peras and sprinkle it about, and in few
days the smell will pass away. If cat,
rat or mouse dies about the house and
sends forth an offensive gas, place some
dissolved copperas in ah open vessel near
the place where the nuisance is, and it
will purify the atmosphere.-N. r.
Herald.
WAFERs.-Rub a piece of butter the
size of q walnut into pint of sifted -four
Beat the white Of an egg to stiff froth,
put saltspoonful of salt into very little
wcrm milk, and stir both into the flour;
mix into a smooth, stiff paste, using
enough of the milk to make it of the con-
sisteficy of pastry. Beat this with the
rolling pin until youf patience OF your
arms give out the longer you beat it the
better will be the waters. Roll out por-
ton of it as thin as you Gun get it, cut out
with cake-cutter and roll again. No
matter how irregular the shape, 80 that
the wafer be thin. Flour your pans light
ly and bake in hot oven. Bake on the
CRATE of the oven, for if the floor is very
hot they may be scorched. They are
scarcely brOwner than milk crackers when
done, and should be very brittle. This
quantity of dough will make fifty waters.
They are very nice with cheese after din
ner, for lunch, or for an invalid with tea
or SOUP.