The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-01-09
MAY,
JUNE. DECEMBER.
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

PUSH all fattening animals. But no
fresh food should be given until the re-
fuse from the last feeding is removed
from the troughs.-IoUG State Register.
CoRN-STARCH CAKE.-One cup SUI
gar, one-half cup butter, three eggs,
one-third cup milk, one and one-half
cups corn-starch, one teaspoonful cream
of tartar, one-half teaspoonful soda;
flavor with rose or vanilla.
A GERMAN physician recommends
powdered quiuine for neuralgia tooth
ache. The sufferer should dip finger
into fresh water and then into the quiz
nine powder, and rub it thoroughly on
the gum in the neighborhood of the
painful tooth The application should
be repeated two or three times in sue
cession. The bitter taste of the medi-
cine should be borne as long as posi-
BILE.
MILK AS A ' EHICLE FOR QUIN1NE.-
Milk is good solvent, and effectually
DISCUSSES the bitterness of this drug.
One grain of quinine dissolved in an
ounce of milk scarcely makes it bitter.
An ounce of milk, indeed, will dissolve
two grains of quinine without impart-
ing much bitterness to the taste. When
five grains are dissolved in a tumbler-
full of milk, all bitterness disappears
Exchange.
CEMENTs for joining metals or glass
and wood are made as follows: Melt
resin, and stir in calcined plaster until
reduced to paste, to which add boiled
oil sufficient quantity to bring it to
the consistency of honey; apply warm.
Or, melt resin. 18O parts, and stir in
burnt lumber thirty parts, calcined
plaster fifteen and boiled oil eight
parts. Or, dissolve glue in boiling wa
ter to the consistence of cabinet-ma-
ker,s glue, then stir in sufficient wood
ashes to produce varnish-like mix
ture. While hot the surfaces to be
united must be covered with this COM
pound and pressed together.
THE potato containing the greatest
quantity of starch is the most valuable
variety, and ready means of testing
different sorts may be found beth in
teresting and economical. The spe-
cific gravity of the tubers is, it appears,
a fairly correct method of estimating
the food value of different samples,
and, in rough-and-ready, but never
theless approximately accurate way,
this may be ascertained by putting
cleaned potatoes into strong solution
of salt and water. If the solution is
strong enough, all the tubers will float;
but, by adding water to dilute the So
luton, some will be found to sink.
These are the best potatoes, so far as
nutritive value is concerned; those that
float after repeated additions Of water
being the worst.-N. Y. Times.
To AVOID CATCHING CoLD.-The
mistake is often made of taking great
great care to put on extra wraps when
preparing for outdoor exercise. This
is not at all necessary in robust per-
sons. Sufficient heat to prevent all
risk of chill is generated in the body
by exercise. The care should be taken
to retain sufficient clothing after ex-
ercise, and when at rest, to prevent the
heat passing out of the body. Indeed,
persons very often catch chills from
throwing off extra clothing after ex-
ercise, or from sitting about in gar
ments the material Of which is not
adapted to prevent the radiation of
heat from the body. Linen and cotton
underclothing, when moistened by per-
spiration, part with heat very rapidly;
whereas flannel and silk, being nom
conductors, prevent the rapid loss of
heat Young Folks Rural.