Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-09-24
HOME AND FARM.

PORK can be made cheaper in summer
than in winter. ....-.
THIN spots in grass fields SOW with
grass seed and scratch them in with
harrow, and give a light dressing with
some fine manure.
CUCUMBER CATsUP. One dozen of
large green cucumbers (grated), one
pint of grated onions and one pint of
grated horse-radish. Put in jar, and
season with cloves and pepper; scald
vinegar and pour on hot.
PAN PIE.-Line deep tin with pie
crust; fill with the best tart apples; cut
thin slices of pork and lay over the top;
sweeten with half brown sugar and the
best molasses; a little salt and sprinkle
of allspice. Bake three hours in slow
oven.
HovEN, OR BLoAT.-The German
method of curing cattle is TO pour sew
eral bucketfuls of cold water over the
backs of the animals, and placing a
piece of garlic in their throats. Half
teacupful of common baking soda, il
dissolved in water and given in the form
of a drench, is said to be equally as
effective.
DISEASE FROM Cows MILK.-Ac.
cording to the experiments of DR.. Boil
linger, the milk of COWS suffering from
tubercular disease is capable of commu-
nicating this affection to human beings.
AS five per cent. of cows, when ad.
vanced in life, suffer from this disease,
the danger is considerable. Boiling the
milk is not a safeguard.
RUsK.-Two eggs, one cup of sugar,
half-cup butter, half-pint milk, one
third cup yeast. Beat eggs and sugar
together, and mix soft with little flour.
Let them stand over night, and in the
morning mix again. When light, make
into biscuit, let them rise again, then
bake. When taken from the oven,
brush the top with milk and sugar.
THE Prairie Farmer gives the follow
ing remedy for saddle sore: Mix to-
gether equal parts of carbolc acid and
glycerine, and add thereto six times as
much raw linseed oil. After cleaning
the parts morning and evening, by
means of sponge and warm soap-suds,
apply portion of the mixture. The
horse ought not to be used; for so long
as the cause of the injury continues to
operate, there can of course be no cure.
Afterwards the saddle should be altered
or fixed so as not to cause such injury.
In THE LAUNDRY.-Boile starch is
much improved by the addition of
little spermaceti or little salt, or both,
or little gum arabic dissolved. Bees
wax and salt will make flat-irons as
clean and smooth as glass tie lump of
wax in rag, and keep it for that pur-
pose; when irons are hot, rub them
with the wax rag, then scour with a pa
per or rag sprinkled with salt. Kero-
sene will make tin kettles as bright as
new; saturate wooden rag and rub
with it it will also remove stains from
clean vanished furniture.
CANNED PEARs.-For the finer varie-
ties, such as the Bartlett or Seckel, pre-
pare sirup, allowing pint of water
and quarter pound of sugar to quart
of fruit. Drop each pear, after it is
pared, into pan of clear water. When
the Sirup has come to fast boil, put in
the pears carefully, not to bruise them,
and boil them until they look clear and
can be easily pierced with fork Have
the cans rolled in hot water, pack with
scalding sirup, which must be kept on
bllG uIG I'LL IUS WILLIS anu seal. ApplcS
may be treated in the same way.
ANY family can replenish their vine
gar keg indefinitely Put all the pairing
and cores of sound fruit, scraps of to-
matoes, scum and rinsings of preserv-
ing kettles, and the pulp remaining in
the jelly press, into stone jar, cover
with warm water, tie a thin cloth over
the top, and set it in the sun in sum-
mer; in cold weather, near the stove.
At the end of two weeks strain the
liquid through bag, and pour it into
the keg through q funnel, first drawing
out some Of the good vinegar for imme-
diate use. Where much fruit is used,
the refuse portion will be amply suffi-
cient for keeping a plentiful supply of
vinegar on hand.
THE farmer who lets all the liquids of
his barnyard run to waste is q spend
thrift, however ''close-fsted" he may
be with money. A practical farmer
said recently: son my farm on the
Hudson River I have built cisterns I'M
der the barn and stables, in which this
| liquid is collected These cisterns are
all connected, and one being built on
lower grade, they all empty into this
| one. When it rains put force-pump
into the cistern, and fill two water carts,
such as are used in watering our streets,
and scatter this liquid over my mead
ows in forty eight hours afterwards a
change is perceived in the color of the
| grass Another farmer who has a
similar arrangement in his barnyard
says he saves 100 loads every year, and
thinks the liquid worth as much as so
many loads of solid manure.