The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-11-13
FOR THE FARMERS HOUSEHOLD.
Domestic Hints.

Domestic Hints.
To KILL BEDBUes.- Dissolve ten
grains Of corrosive sublimate in a hall
pint OF alcohol. Cork the bottle, make
hole in the cork and insert a quill
through which to pour the MIXTURE
Pour into every crack and c%revlce; it will
not only kill, but prevent the bugs from
returning. The mixture being poison,
should be labeled by a druggist.
CoDDLED APPLEs.-Take green APP.
pies, put them to boil nearly covered
with water; when they are perfectly
tender pour away part of the water;
mash through a colander, or sieve, il
you wish them very smooth; melt a
lump OF butter in them: add a liberal
supply of sugar and flavor with nutmeg
put them on the ice to get very cold,
then eat with rich cream.
DRY BREAD AND Cold MEAT Utilized.
Chop your beef very fine, and soak the
bread in cold water until soft, having
%two-thirds as much bread as meat, and
after pressing out the water through q
colander, mix with the mass three eggs
well beaten, and salt to the taste; make
into balls the size of a biscuit, and fly
slowly in butter or lard until brown on
both sides. A most excellent dish for
breakfast.
BOILED PoTAToEs. Steam, peel and
slice the potatoes. Lay the slices on q
gridiron and place it over o rather slow
fire. Have melted butter, and spread
some over the slices with a clean camels'-
hair brush. AS soon as the under part
is broiled, turn each slice over and
spread butter over the other side. When
done, dish, salt and serve them hot. A
little butter may be added when dished,
according TO the taste.
Notes About the Farm.
An old standing ringbone is incurable
because the bony deposit has become
hard and permanent. In its early stage,
when beginning TO form, blistering may
both cure the disease and cause the de.
post, which is soft and immature, to
disappear.
Raise plenty of sunfowers. The seeds
are excellent for chickens and q valuable
medicine for horses. Half a pint of flax
seed or-one pint of sun1ower seed in q
horses feed, three or four times q week,
fall and spring, does much to keep them
in good health.
Founder, orfever of the feet, is caused
by high feeding and hard work on hard
roads; but many horses are preiisposed
to ii by constitution. The usual treat
ment is to give salts in twelve.ounce
doses, once or twice, followed by half.
ounc doses of saltpeter, to cool the sys.
tenn; then take eff the shoes, put the
feet in hot water baths, and give the
horse q rest.
Hogs require a moderate quantity of
salt; but they cannot use as much as
sheep without injury, because of the
different character OF their intestines;
the swine's stomach is small, end is
easily affected by acid substances, while
the sleeps paunch is large, and q largo
quantity of salt may be eaten with impu.
nifty, as it is largely diluted 10y the half
liquid contents. Half en- ounce of salt
may be given occasionally to each hog,
aeparately--not when in q bunch-other-
wise some will take too much,
Sandy Soils.
Of all soils to be cultivated, or to be
restored, none are preferable to the
light, sandy soils. BY their porousness
free access ia given to the powerful eff
fects of air; they are naturally in that
state to which draining and subaoil
blowing are reducing the sitter lands Of
England, Manure may as well be
thrown into water as on land underlaid
by water. Drain this, and no matter
if the upper soil be almost ~quicksand,
manure will convert it into fertile, arabic
land. The thin covering of mold scarce
ly an inch in thickness, the product of q
century, may be initiated and produced
in a short time by studying the laws of
its formation. 1t is O we'll recognized
inct that, next to temperature, the water
supply is the most important factor in
the product of n crop. Poor soils give
good crops in seasons of plentiful and
well distributed rains, or when skillfully
irrigated; but insufficient moisture in a
soil is IN evl that no supplies of plant
food can neutralize.
Sandy soils are rich in mineral con-
s%titueuts, and fail to give good crops in
time of drought only on account of their
INABILITY to retain moisture. This can
be obviated by the application of peat,
or clay, or the sowing Of clover-all of
these enable it to retain moisture in
times OF drought--and the decay oil the
vegetable substances in the soil gives off
carbonic acid, a powerful solvent Of the
soil. Peat contains two per cent. of
nitrogen, or the same quantity as barn
manure; but ms it is dug out, its nitro
gen is locked up in insoluble combina.
tons, and, applied to land in this condi-
ton, brings in sorrel and coarse grasses;
composing it with soda ash to neutral
iga its acid, renders it soluble aud Ats il
food for plants at a cost OF about two
cents a pound for nitrogen,