Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-20
HOME AND FARM.


New PAINT.-Newly painted rooms
are very unpleasant for many days, but
IL a handful of hay be strewn on the
floor upon which is sprinkled little
chloride of lime, after q couple of hours
the offensive smell will have entirely
disappeared.
To CORN BEEF.-This should always
be done in cool weather if you wish it to
keep more than two or three days
Wash the beef well after it has lain
while in cold water. Drain it and trim
it and rub plentifully with coarse salt
and very small piece of saltpeter add
ed TO it. In cold weather warm the salt
by placing it before the fire.
DELICIOUS PUDDING.-Take deep
pudding dish and butter it; cover the
bottom and sides with thin slices of
bread, white or brown, then layer of
pared and cut apples or pears, or both,
mixed with any other fruit you fancy;
then sprinkle some sugar; then a layer
of bread in slices or bits; then fruit, and
so on until the dish is full. Lay thin
slices of bread over; fill up with any
fruit-juice, or water, lacking this; cover
with plate and bake in slow oven four
hours. Hot or cold, it is most delicious.
Any sauce would spoil it.
SOAR SUDs.-No wise woman who has
flowers in her house or garden will
throw away her soap suds. They are
most valuable fertilizer for flowers, and
especially for the verbena. If this floral
favorite is plen;ifully watered with soap
suds and its seed vessels picked off it
will flower profusely. Soap suds are
good for vines and currant bushes and
fruit trees indeed, they are the food for
! plants corresponding to milk for ami
mails, and it is very wasteful to throw
them away if there are plants any
where within reach that may be bene-
flied by them.
SELECTING SEED CoRN.--It is as inn
! portant to make good selection of the
seed that is to produce the next crop, as
| it is to choose the live stock that will
! grow the future herd. The selection
should not be left until the time of husk-
ing, but be done now. Go through a
portion of the field and select those that
are well cared and unusually vigorous
in fact, the best the field affords-and
give them an extra chance for further
development by removing the other
stalks from the hill Any thing that
will increase the vitality and perfect the
development of the grain that is to be
planted for the next seasons crop,
should not be forgotten. We should
seek for stalks with one good ear, rath-
er than those with two small ones.
AN old farmer in the New York
Tribune says: "How absurd are the
stories Of fleeces of wool weighing all
the way from 20 to 10 pounds, shorn
from animals not weighing perhaps over
100 to 100! | wonder any agricultural
paper that has the least regard for its
reputation will ever allow such weights
to be recorded in its columns Such re-
ports are grossly false, and ought to be
secuted by the whole community. These
feeces are full of filth, dirt, yolk and
grease; cleanse them thoroughly, which
must be done before the wool can be
manufactured, and they will not give
over one-fourth to one-ffth the weight
of the fleece in the dirt. That is to say
one represented by the owner of the
sheep as weighing 20 pounds would no
turn out of clean wool over to
pounds; one of 30 pounds, 6 to pounds
and one of 40 pounds, 8 to 10 pounds
On the strength of the reports of sucl
heavy fleeces breeders often sell thei
sheep to the ignorant and unsuspectins
at extra high prices. Is this any bette
than rank swindlingP"
DON'T imagine that it makes no diff
ference how your chickens have beer
brought up. Don't suppose that the.
will be good anyhow. Chickens hav
been carefully dressed, deliciously stuf
fed, and yet they were not fit to eat
There was flavor about them that n,
soda rinsings could cleanse and n,
seasoning conceal. These were chicken
that had picked up their living round pi,
styes and other unclean places. A chick
en- may be spoiled in dressing it to cook
If killed with full crop, and allowed t.
lie for hours before it is "drawn ~ o
relieved of its internal organs, it gets al
unpleasant flavor. Fowls should b
caught and shut up without food TO
twelve hours before they are beheaded
Then the crop and intestines will b
,, empty, and the task of picking an,
dressing it will be greatly lessened. OIL
fowls are not necessarily tough-onl
! cook them long enough. They are NOR
tender twenty-four hours after they ar
killed than if eaten Immediately.