The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-06-26
FARM, GARDEN, AND HOUSEHOLD
Health Hints.

for fish bones sticking in the throat. 1t
is to be swallowed raw and will carry
a bone down easily and certainly. There
is another fact touching eggs which it
will be well to remember. When, as
sometimes by accident, corrosive subli-
mate is swallowed, the white of one or
two eggs taken will neutralize the poison,
and change the effect to that of dose of
calomel. ......... ... ... ..r-
BALSAM OINTMENT.-Two ounces of
balsam fir; two ounces of mutton tai
low; two ounces of beeswax, and two
ounces of spirits of turpentine must be
simmered together and well stirred, then
strained through bit of coarse muslin
into a tin box or wide-mouthed bottle
that can be kept close from the air. This
is one of the best oinments that can be
procured for burns, cracked hands. rum
rounds on the fingers, and is equally
good for wounds upon horses and cattle.
A CONVENIENT PLAsTER.-Take one
ounce of white rosin, one ounce of NUT
ton tallow and one ounce of granulated
sugar; simmer well together. Have
ready half yard of fine bleached cotton,
and with case knife spread the salve,
while hot, over the surface of the cloth;
spread it on evenly and quite thin. When
cold, lay thickness of tissue paper
lightly over the surface. This will prove
a constant comfort in little wounds, such
as scratches, cuts or burns. A bit cut
off and stuck over the place is quick
cure, as it excludes the air and is not
bulky or in the way, as finger rags always
are. .. ..- .. ........sr ,.
WEAK KSToMACH.-Where the stomach
is weak, its muscular action impaired,
and Its nerves over-sensitive, but little
food should be taken into it at time.
The best diet is skinned milk, half a
pint every four hours. When milk is
not we'll digested, lime water is COM
bined with it. Such foods as coffee, tea
and tobacco must, of course, be given
up absolutely and at once. A sovereign
article of diet is buttermilk. In butter
milk the casein of milk is coagulated and
broken up, so that the stomach is spared
two steps of the regular process of di-
gestion. Another excellent preparation
of milk is koumyss. 1t contains good
deal of carbonic acid. In all cases the
stomach's work should be made easier
by a diet consisting of eggs. milk, starchy
vegetables, stewed fruits and little but
ter, with stale bread -Medicdl Record.
Fruit Trees.
l find that lime, wood ashes and old
fruit trees have very beneficial effect.
These fertilizers restore the tree to II
healthy condition, and also greatly i'm
prove the fruit in quality a. d quantity.
[ made the application on a Windsap
and Never Fail; about half bushel of
mixed lime and ashes to each, and dug
it i'm with hoe some six feet around the
trunk, and put the old iron Immediately
around the base of each.
The trees put forth with renewed vigor.
bloomed abundantly, and yielded good
crop of fruit. An excellent wash for
trees may be made thus: Heat an ounce
of salsoda to redness in an iron pot, and
dissolve it in one gallon of water, and
while warm apply it to the trunk. After
one application the moss and old bark
will drop off and the trunk will be quite
smooth. The wash has highly recuper-
ative properties: making old trees bear
anew. ..... ... .... .......
have tried soft soap as wash with
good results, and also coating of lime
in the spring season, which is a fine
specific for old trees. The question is
often asked, is it best to manure trees in
the fall or spring? / have found the
summer season to be a good time; l
have much faith in mulching, especially
young trees, for several seasons after
they are planted. Apple trees are said
to have two growths during the season.
the secondary growth takes place after
midsummer, hence it is that top dress
ing of good manure, and also coarse
litter, facilitates the late growth, and
often produces very marked results in
the habit and formation of the tree.
The good effect that mulching has to
young trees is, that it wards off the in
tense heat of the sun from the tender
roots, and also has tendency to hold
moisture. A good top dressing of stable
manure in the fall, around young trees,
with a good many corn cobs cast over
the surface of the soil, give satisfactory
results.-Rural Messenger. .
Some Little Things Learned by Experi-
ence. . ..
If your coal fire is low, throw on a
tablespoonful of salt, and it will help it
very much. A little ginger put into
sausage meat improves the flavor. In
icing cakes, dip the knife frequently in
to cold water. In boiling meat for soup,
use cold water to extract the juices. If
the meat is wanted for itself alone,
plunge in boiling water ut once. You
can get a bottle or barrel of oil off any
carpet or woolen stuff by applying dry
buckwheat plentifully and faithfully.
Never put water to such a grease spot,
out salting. Salt draws the juices in
cooking; it is desirable to keep these in
if possible. Cook over a hot fire, turn
ing frequently, soaring on both sides.
Place on platter; salt and pepper to
taste. Beef having a tendency to be
tough can be made very palatable by
stewing gently for two hours, with pep
per and SALT taking out about pint of
the liquor when half done, and letting
the rest boil into the meat. Brown the
meat in the pot. After taking up, make
a gravy OF the pint of liquor saved. A
small piece of charcoal in the pot with
boiling cabbage removes the smell.
Clean oil cloth with milk and water; a
brush and soap will ruin them. Tum-
blers that have had milk in them should
never be put in hot water. A..spoonful
of stewed tomatoes in the gravy of either
roasted or fried meats is an improve
ment. The skin of boiled egg is the
most efficacious remedy that can be ap-
piled to boil. Peel it carefully, wet
and apply it TO the part affected, 1t
will draw off the matter and relieve the
soreness in few hours, Nf 'it
1 Pruning Peach Trees
Frequently old peach trees are made
thrifty and fruitful by severe cutting
back-cutting the large branches down
to the very stubs. Not long ago we were
told by a very intelligent and expert
enced fruit-grower that he was once very
much surprised by seeing some previous
ly fruitless old peach trees hanging full
of superior, largefruit. Inquiry led to
| tba Otatament that thew wnra apDarently