Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-08-16
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

ana has health, an honest heart and
willing hands.
-Molasses Cookies. One cup but
ter, two cups molasses, one teaspoon
cloves, one tablespoon ginger. Flour
to make batter. Mold into cakes,
and bake in slow and steady oven.
Cheap Refrigerators. "A Aower-pot
wrapped in wet cloth and placed
over butter-plate will keep the con-
tents Of the plate as hard and firm as
If they were set on ice, and milk will
not sour If the can containing it be
wrapped in wet cloth.
Bleaching. White goods are usu-
ally bleached by immersing them in
dilute solution of chloride of lime
(bleaching powder), and then trans
ferred to vat containing very dilute
sulphuric acid. This treatment may
be repeated if necessary, and the mate
rial finally thoroughly washed.
Beet Root. t.--Beetroot affords very
grateful food for cattle, sheep and
swine, and is better raw than boiled
or steamed. The fattening qualities
are not equal to the Swedish turnip,
but for milch cows and for nursing
ewes, in the spring, it exceeds any
turnip plant in the juicy property. 1t
is highly beneficial to store pigs
throughout the winter.
As you value forty years of happi-
ness, do not enter into the marriage re-
lation until your homestead, free of
debt, is secured. 1t is not safe to rely
upon woman as helpmate to a poor
man. She is not as much so as she
was forty years sago. The falsities of
the fashionable and indolent world
have nearly spoiled the majority of the
young women, especially in the vicin-
ity of cities and towns.
An excellent recipe for the exter-
mination of red ants is as follows:
"Dissolve some camphor in a small
quantity of methyIic alcohol, precipi-
tate it by addition of water, and inject
a little of the suspended camphor into
their haunts. A very small quantity of
carbolic acid used in similar manner
will answer as well or better-espe-
cially if the solution contains glycerine.
Tobacco water and powdered borax are
said to be effectual.
Cape Cod Gingerbread. d.-One cup of
molasses, two tablespoonfuls of lard
and pinch of salt, one teaspoonful of
soda dissolved in one-third cup of boil
ing water, one-half teaspoonful of gin
ger. Mix stiff; roll out one-half inch
thick and bake in moderate oven.
Mark it off gingerbread pattern when
ready for the oven. 1t will keep for
weeks, and age improves it.
To Rid Barn of Rats. The meth
cd is as follows: Procure several empty
barrels and put quantity of bran OF
grain in them, and leave them for the
rats to feed in without disturbance fol
few days. Then remove the bran and
half fill the barrels with water, cover.
ing the surface with bran. The rats
will go into the barrels without hesita.
ton, and many will be caught. Tc
prevent the increase of rats avoid hav'
ing any hiding-places, leaving the floor;
open to the entrance of cats; raise al
the sheds and buildings above ground
on posts, and have no wooden floors.
-Oatmeal.--Many children are best
nourished on oatmeal diet because il
causes them to grow strong, and nc
better food can be found for them. Il
is quite as desirable for the student a;
for the laborer, and for the delicate
lady as for her hard-working sister
indeed all classes would be greatly
benefited by its use, and dyspepsia, with
all its manifold annoyances, can bt
kept at a distance. Oatmeal is more
substantial food, it is said, than veal
pork, or lamb, giving as much, or more
mental vigor, while its great desidera
tum consists in one not becoming weary
of it, for it is as welcome for breakfas
or tea as is the best wheaton bread
1t can be eaten with syrup or butter
as hasty pudding, or with cream anc
sugar, like rice. 1t is especially goot
for young mothers, upon whose nerv
Gus forces too great demand has beer
made, by which they lose the equilib
rum of the system and become de
pressed and dispirited. Oatmeal re
quires to be cooked slowly. and tn,
water should be boiling when it il
stirred in. A pinch or two of salt i'm
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