The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-09-28
oWaen Examiner
Household and Farm.

lliuhc 'hcii oWu uAic Rreusc, we pun
fish the following recipe sent to the
CoMier-Journat. II says:
"Takc one pint of castor oil, one
pint of beef tallow and one pint OF
rosin. Put them together in a kettle
and stir over the fire until the rosin
is thoroughly dissolved" II is said
to make n better grease than can be
bought in the market.
MUDDY WATER.-A recent mum
Dor of an agricultural paper calls at
tcntion to the habit which stabilized
animals have of eating earth from
time to time and points out that cows
prefer TO drink muddy water and
that the habit horses have of paving
> the water before drinking is proba-
bly, an action directed by natural
instinct. The therapeutics, we be-
lieve, have paid little attention TO the
medicinal effects of earth or clay
taken internally, but il opens up a
very interesting question in connec-
ton with the exceptional sanitary
record of st. Louis. May ii not be
possible that among the causes of the
city's hcalthfulness may be counted
the universal custom of drinking
water more or less muddy IL win
not do to ridicule the idea, for the
simple reason that diet of earth is a
part of the requirements of all ami
mails in sickness and in health, and
before insisting that ii is absurd to
claim any remedial or prophylactic
properties for the solution of mother
earth furnished us by the Water
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discover what are the facts.-iSt.
Louis Post.
SoRGHUM.--The Department of
Agriculture's statements about the
discovery of q process of crystaliz-
ing the syrup derived from boiling
the juice of ordinary corn-cane are
interesting if they will prove correct.
Commissioner lie Due of that de-
partmcnt is represented as saying
that by this process sugar of quail
ty equal to that made of sugar-cane
can be manufactured at cost of two
and half cents pound. OF the
$120,000,000 worth of sugar and mo-
lasses annually consumed in the coun-
try S72,0O0,000 worth, or more than
three-fourths, is imported. If we
can make our own sugar at home we
shall not only save the large amount
of money we now pay to tropical
countries for ii, but we will be able
TO add an important feature to Wos-
tern Agriculture. The supply of
corn-cane is practically iuexhausti-
bic. The prairics of Illinois and the
bottom lands of Mississippi, Missou-
ri and Ohio alone yield all that
would be required. At present this
corn-cane is virtually thrown away,
the ear alone being thought valuable;
but if il can be ground and the juice
made into sugar at two and half or
five cents pound, we may manufac-
ture our own sugar and syrup AZ well
as grow our corn. The sugar tax of
two and half cents pound is a
heavy burden on the people, adding
ppe-fpurth to one-half of the price
we have to pay for o necessary of
life. One object of this tax is to de-
vclop the sugar interest Of q single
State-Louisiana but 1t does not ac-
complish that object.-Austia'S States
man,
MIGHoNETTE AS A WINDOW
j LhNIs-NiNuN >
who are fond of this fragrant plant
have made efforts to cultivate plants
indoors with varying success. The
mignonctte Is, of all plants, one that
requires the most care, at least for
the first year, if good specimens are
wanted. II is, however, wen grown
by some persons, and, when il can be
had in flower during the winter
months, it is invaluable for cutting
from ut that season of the year.
Tho great difficulty Is to keep the
plants growing regularly, and TO pre-
vent them Towering sooner than is
required, Very young plants of mig
npnctte In pots are what have been
termed "rather touchy things, that
is to say. they want TO be managed
with some degree of delicacy, or they
are apt TO die Off; they stand neither
TOO much drynessn or too much water
and many promising young plant
has been lost for want of weather
wisdom, by leaving out of doors a
good set that nights storm has
ruined. The trce-mignOnettc is kept
in safety indoors but 1t should have
ms much mir and light rs possible,
ind should be turned round daily. 1t
Is hest 10 sow the seeds in small pots,
Ms mignonctte does not often answer
well when transplantcd. The plants
need to be shifteu forwards into
larger pots as they advance in growth,
taking care at each shift to give
plenty of drainage and charcoal
and pieces of mortar rubbish answer
well for this purpose. Loam-that
is, n good potting loan, with some
leaf MOULD aud little sand and
some rubbish added, makes a capital
compost In which TO grow mignon-
cite within doors.
Now, as to treatment, and, rcmcm-
Der, we are treating of seeds sowil
In window and of plants grown
In the place. The seeds having been
sown thinly, the pots should be kept
in the window till the young plants
appear u very little water should be
given ut first, and little green moss
or piece of paper laid oyer the top
of the pots is useful shade till the
seeds haye sprouted,
RED PEPPER IN THE GARDEN
With plenty of red pepper ! have
found that we can make IL hot for in
sect pests of all kinds. Having a
quantity of capsicum pods left over
from a year Of plenty, tried a strong
decoction of them upon the curranl
bushes when these were attacked
by the last brood of currant worms