The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-04-17
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
TO boil potatoes successfully, when
the skin breaks, pour off the water and
let them finish cooking in their own
steam.
I'm cooking fowl, to ascertain
when it is done put q skewer into the
breast, and if the breast is tender the
fowl is done.
Good flour is not tested by its color.
White flower may not be the best. The
test OF good flour is by the amount of
water it absorbs.
I'm boiling eggs hard put them in
boiling water ten minutes and then put
them in cold water. 1t will prevent the
yelks from coloring black.
There is greenness in onions and
potatoes that renders them hard to di-
gest. For health's sake, put them in
warm water for an hour before cook.
ing.
To make maccaroni tender, put it
in cold water and bring it to boil.
IL will then be much more tender than
If put into hot water, or stewed in
milk.
Don't buy untried machinery, farm
implements or anything else of travel
ing agents or irresponsible men. There
are legitimate channels through which
all our wants can be supplied. Any
thing offered outside of those channels
should be viewed with suspicion.-Er-
change.
Single cream is cream that has
stood on the milk twelve hours. It is
best for tea and coffee. Double cream
stands on its milk twenty-four hours,
and cream for butter frequently stands
forty-eight hours. Cream that is to be
whipped should not be butter cream,
lest in whipping it change to butter.
The Scientific american gives a
recipe for colds: Take ten drops of
carbolic acid and seven and half each
of iodine and chloroform; heat a few
drops over spirit lamp in a test tube,
holding the mouth of the tube to the
nostrils as soon as volatilization is
effected. Repeat every two minutes
until the patient sneezes a number of
times, when the troublesome symptoms
will disappear.
Potato water, or water in which
potatoes have been boiled, is now rec
commended in various quarters as not
only an effective but an immediate
remedy for lice on cows and other
cattle, also for ticks. The affected
parts are to be bathed with the potato
water; one application is generally
sufficient. This remedy (if remedy it
proves) has the merit of being exceed
ingly simple, easily employed and with
out danger of injury to the cattle.--N.
y World.
"A lady in the Inter- Ocean, gives a
remedy for diphtheria: Roast an egg
very hard; take of alum and copperas
each the size of large hazel nut, and
burn them in Il skillet or on the rim of
the stove, until it quits blistering; then
put the yelk of an egg and teaspoon
full of sugar with the alum and copperas
all together, and burn again, as above,
slowly, until black, stirring and mash
ing all the time. All children large
enough can eat it as candy; for smaller
children, dissolve and swab. Good for
any sore throat or sore mouth.
-Unslacked lime compressed into
cartridges, or used loosely or we'll
tamped down in the hole, using water
or other liquid to saturate and expand
it, is now proposed for use in blast
ing. 1t is claimed that the advan-
tages to be derived from its use are
economy in the production of coal;
making less slack than by using ordi-
nary blasting-powder; lives of Golfers
are in less danger; the breaking or
shattering of coal back of the charge
which is especially characteristic of
the use of gunpowder-is avoided, and
the quality of the atmosphere is rather
improved by its use than otherwise.
An Italian professor in making
some medical researches recently dis
covered that vegetable perfumes exer-
else a positively healthful influence on
the atmosphere, converting its oxygen
into ozone and thereby increasing its
oxidizing influences. Flowers desti-
tute of perfume do not develop it, and
those emitting only faint perfume de-
velop it in small quantities. On the
strength of this fact is based the en-
couragement of plant culture in marshy
districts and in all regions infected
with animal emanations. Now flowers
are come to be considered of import
ance from sanitary point of view, it
is trusted that the assistance of spade
and hoe heretofore grudgingly given
when not absolutely denied-to the
"WOmen's Flower Garden will be
Forthcoming with a readiness which
will not only surprise housewives but
makes homes bud and blossom in sweet
scented cheer and healthfulness.-M.
Y. World.