The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-10-09

OUNCE seeds are said to be good for
sore or inflamed eyes. Take, about one
half dozen ounce seeds, put about a
tablespoon full Of scalding waterI on
them; let it stand till cold, and bathe
the eyes just before going to bed and in
the morning.
In showing how extremely sensitive
butter and milk are to foreign odors, and
how rapidly they absorb theH,p DR..
Nichols states that he has known a
choice pan of butter spoiled by a farmer
walking in the dairy room with his
cow-stall boot on, covered with. animal
excrement. 94' - A "a A"H@
If troubled with wakefulness, follow
these rules: Eat nothing hearty after
sunset; calm your mind before retiring;
20 to bed at a regular hour; when you
wake, rise and dress at once, no matter
how early in the morning; never sleep
in the day. These FIVE rules observed
will insure sleep. lHI '9 4aSis 8di II
AN old poultry raiser, who believes in
milk for fowls, says: 1T is meat and
drink both. Some of the finest chickens
/ ever saw were. raised upon the free
use of milk with their food. Hens lay
as we'll, or better, when furnished with
this than upon any known articles of
fered them" -seHouH Il + .5st
GIVE the chickens liberty at this sea-
son of the year. If confined, they will
not thrive we'll The hens may Je shut
up in roomy, coops, and the little ones
can roam about outside to the best adj
vantage. There are a thousand things
that they covet from among the herbage
and the grass. :air-t
p For WARTS Dissolve as much common
washing soda as the water will take; wash
the warts with this for minute or two,
and let them dry without wiping. AM
other way is to get little bullock's gall
and keep it in a bottle; rub a little on
the warts two or three times a day, and
in short time they will disappear, +
!, sGREATER neatness, about, dwellings
would be an improvement to nearly all
farm residences, even among the thrifty,
intelligent, rich and money-rnaking. A
very few farm places are germs of neat
ness There are too many half-decayed
structures, or boards lying on the ground,
burdocks, or the lack OF, q neat lawn and
some shrubbery. ,.+,-..-I....'''.- 80 - -
LIME is an old-fashioned fertilizer, bu
it should not for that reason be neglected.
1t is cheap, and rarely fails to pay well
for its use when land is to be seeded to
grass and clover. Forty bnshels per acre
of air-slacked lime is usually spread from
the wagon with long-handled shovel
upon the plowed ground, and narrowed
in with the seed. 1t will do no harm
to put on, the lime Immediately after
manure if it is narrowed in at once. sg
OUNCE Neutrality-suspicious. the
fruit when quite ripe pare, quarter and
core it; boil the skins in the. water meas
uring teacupful' to a pound Of fruit;
when they are soft, mash and strain them,
and put back the water into the pre-
serving kettle; add the ounces and boil
them until they are soft enough to mash
fine; rub through a sieve, and put three
quarters of pound of sugar to a pound
Of fruit; stir them well together, and
boil them over slow fire until it will
fall like jelly from spoon. Pour it in
pots, or tumblers, and secure it, when
cold, with paper sealed to the edge OF
the jar with the white of an egg. i'
TOMATO CATsUP.-Mrs. Endicot
says in the Rural Neay Yorker: Sc
lect perfectly ripe sound tomatoes,
cut in slices, and boil them, until
the pulp is cooked out. Rub it through
| sieve to take out the skins and seeds,
| and return to the kettle for cooking. To
each gallon of the pulp add three table
spoonsful each of salt, ground pepper
and mustard, and one each of ground
cloves and allspice. Cook it until it
is thick enough to run slowly from a
| bottle. Let it get cold, bottle and seal
| I made what we call farmers rice,
| for dessert for dinner to-day. We all
enjoyed it so much that there was not
enough left for baby Katy's supper, as
| intended there should be. 1t is SO easily
and quickly made, wonderit is not oft
| ener found on country tables. Iaput
| about three quarts of milk on the stove
in pan. While,it was coming to a boil
mixed two eggs with -four until it wal
| dry enough to roll through my fingers il
/ grains. Then stirred it intO the mi
| quickly, SO as to keep it cooking all thu
time. Five minutes are long enough tt
| finish it. Turn into dish and eat while
warm with plenty of cream and sugar.
COOKING PoTAToEs.-The potato il
by no means nutritious, even when prop
erly cooked, being but little more than
mass of starch and water, mainly water
1t contains, however, certain more yalu
able salts designed for and adapted to th'
developments of the bones, and also nov
supposed to aid in the prevention an(
removal of the scurvy. The starch
more easily digested than that of peas
beans, ETC., does but little toward sus
tanning the, body, save to fatten ant
to evolve animal heat. To be fat is moi
to be in health; both fatness and clean
ness, in the extreme, being equal evi
dence of impaired health. Recen
chemical investigations have demontra
ted the fact thata large percent. of thes'
more valuable elements intended for tn,
true nourishment or for strength ant
solidity, is wasted by the ordinary boil
4 ing process, as may be easily proved b,
an examination, of the water in whic'
they are boiled. 1t is far better to bak,
them, though it is we'll to allow them t,
soak for few minutes-half an hour
in cold water before baking. Or the,
may be steamed, the skins remaining Of
that the least possible amount of thes
salts, may escape, 1t is evident that par
ing them before baking or steamin,
must accelerate the escape of these salts
4 If baked, it is proper to SAY, that i
eaten as mostare without the removal o
the parings, these when rough or unusu
ally tough must materially irritate tn
coat of the stomach, tending to diseas
inflammation. The same remark apple
to the coarse and rasping hulls of som
grains, as. those of oats, ETC., and tn
tough rinds of fruit.-D2r.n j. H. Hama
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