The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-06-10
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.
Grained wood should be washed
with cold tea.
Good stock is best. Always "bresd
from the best"
Cut hot bread or cake with hot
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
q kerosene lamp should be washed off
with soda water.
Buff window shades keep their
color best, and while admitting more
light than green, keep out the red or
hot rays.
"A heaping teaspoonful of sulphur,
added once week to the feed OF
cow, will keep it free from vermin.
The same quantity is recommended for
every ten fowls for similar purpose.
Paint the inside walls of q corn
house with coal tar and it will drive
weevils from the corn. 1t costs q 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-year old 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 q
cupful of tapioca, a cupful of sugar, and
the juice of four or five lemons. The
addition of q 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.
4-Cracker Gruel.-Four tablespoon
fuls of powdered cracker, scant; one
half pint of boiling water, one-haH 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. red rasp-
berries in a 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 time, till
the water has soaked in.
One bushel of sugar-beets, mixed
with nine bushels of apples, makes a
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; it
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 a
good pie crust, roll out quite thin, cut
out round as large as a pie plate and
bake on fiat tin. When a light brown,
take out, lay Strawberries rolled in
sugar over it, and cover with a meringue
made of the whites of four eggs and
four tablespoonful of powdered sugar.
Return to the oven and bake until the
top is Drowned. Eat cold.
Much trouble can often be saved
by marking tools with their owner
name, which can be easily done in the
following manner: Coat over the tools
with thin layer of wax or hard tallow
by first warming the steel and rubbing
on the wax warm until it flows, and lei
it cool. When hard, mark your name
through the wax with graver and ap-
ply aqua FORTS (nitric acid); after few
moments, wash off the acid thoroughly
with water, warm the metal enough to
melt the wax and wipe it off with soft
rag. The letters will be found etched
into the steel.
--Glycerine is a substance produced
from animal fat in the process of soap.
making. 1t consists of carbon, hydro
gen and oxygen, and is not poisonous.
Its soft, agreeable qualities fit it emf.
nently for use in cosmetics and per.
fumery; it is used in many diseases,
and is an excellent Ingredient in toile,
soaps, hair tones, etc. A glycerine
ointment of much repute for chapped
hands is made as follows: one hall
ounce of spermaceti is melted together
with a drachm of white wax and two
fluid ounces of oil of almonds, by a
moderate heat. The mixture is then
poured into wedgewood mortar, then
a fluid ounce of glycerine is added to
it, when it is rubbed till the ingredients
are thoroughly mixed and cold. Nitro.
glycerine, powerful explosive il
formed by treating glycerine with con.
centrated sulphuric and nitric acids.