The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-06-10
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

AMI
Grained wood should be washed
with cold tea.
Good stock is best. Always "breed
from the best"
knife, and it will not he clammy.
Money expended for painting out
houses, wagons, implements, etc., pays
good dividends.
Ceilings that have been smoked by
a kerosene lamp should be washed off
with soda water.
Buff window shades keep their
color best, ard while admitting moro
light than green, keep out the red or
hot rays.
"A heaping teaspoonful of sulphur,
added once a week to the feed of a
cow, will keep it free from vermin.
The same quantity is recommended for
every ten fowls for similar purpose.
Paint the inside walls of corn
house with coal tar and it will drive
weevils from the corn. 1t costs a few
dollars barrel, and barrel will last
several years in hen houses and corn
houses.
"A farmer in Iowa estimates that the
profit of raising one two-yeatold short
horn steer for market is equal to that on
eighteen scrub steers which have to be
kept three years or more before they
are salable.
"A very nice dessert is made with a
cupful of tapioca, a cupful of sugar, and
the juice of four or five lemons. The
addition of little salt improves the
flavor. 1t is good plan to soak the
tapioca all night, so that there will be
no hard Jumps in the pudding.
5-Cracker Gruel.-Four tablespoon
fuls of powdered cracker, scant; one
half pint of boiling water, one-half pint
of milk, one-half teaspOonful of salt.
Pour boiling water on the crackers and
boil about two minutes. Add the milk
when boiling hot, then add the salt.
Raspberry Shrub.-Place red rasp-
berries in stone jar and cover with
good, although not too strong, cider
vinegar, and let stand overnight. In
the morning strain, and to each pint OF
this juice allow pint of sugar. Boil
ten minutes, then bottle and seal at
once.
When plants are to be transplant
ed, they should be well wet down sew
eral hours before moving, so as to al
low the water to soak well around the
roots, and if this must be done while
the sun is shining brightly, it will be
best to shade the plants for a time, till
the water has soaked in.
One bushel of sugar-beets, mixed
with nine bushels of apples, makes q
cider richer and of superior flavor to
that made from apples alone. Sugar.
beet juice can be converted into vine.
gar in the same manner cider now is; il
makes a stronger vinegar than cider
does, of equally good but different
flavor. An acre of beets will yield five
thousand gallons of vinegar.
Strawberry Meringue.-Make &
good pie crust, roll out quite thin, cu
out round as large as a pie plate ant
bake on fiat tin. When a light-brown
take out, lay Strawberries rolled il
sugar over it, and cover with meringu,
made of the whites of four eggs an(
four tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar
Return to the oven and bake until th'
top is Drowned. Eat cold.
Much trouble can often be savet
by marking tools with their owner
name, which can be easily done in tn
following manner: Coat over the tool
with a thin layer of wax or hard tallov
by first warming the steel and rubin,
on the wax warm until it flows, and lie
it cool. When hard, mark your nam
through the wax with a graver and ap
ply aqua fortis (nitric acid): after fey
moments, wash off the acid thorough
with water, warm the metal enough t
melt the wax and wipe it off with a sol
rag. The letters will be found etche
into the steel.
--Glycerine is a substance produce
from animal fat in the process of soaI
making. 1t consists of carbon, hydro
, gen and oxygen, and is not poisonou:
Its soft, agreeable qualities fit it EN-
, nently for use in cosmetics and pei
{ fumery; it is used in many disease:
and is an excellent ingredient in toile
soaps, hair tonics, etc. A glycerin
+ ointment of much repute for chappe
hands is made as follows: ,one-ha
D ounce of spcrmaceti is melted togethe
I with drachm of white wax and tw
fluid ounces of oil of almonds, by
: moderate heat. The mixture is the
, poured into a wedgewood mortar, the
E h fluid ounce of glycerine is added
it, when it is rubbed till the ingredient
are thoroughly mixed and cold. Nitrt
0 glycerine, a powerful explosive
formed by treating glycerinc with col
centrated sulphuric and nitric acids.