Morris tribune., 1880-12-23
FARM AND GARDEN.
Farmers Notes

A Wisconsin farmer, twenty three years
ago, planted piece of waste land, unfit for
cultivation, with black walnut trees. The
trees are now from fifteen to twenty inches
through, and have been sold for 1927, 900.
There was an Inter- State meeting of the
directors, officers and friends of the State
Fairfield at Springfield, ILL.,, few days ago.
All Of the matters of State Fairs were dis
cussed, and majority of the disputants
were in favor of getting at the fairs as many
fast nags, saloons, side shows, and pretty
woman as possible.
Flour Of sulphur is simple and effective
remedy against worms in pigs, and the ami
mails readily partake Of it, when mixed in
cruel or other sloppy food. For pigs under
three months old, teaspoonful is dose,
and for older ones small tablespoonful. 1t
may be given four days in succession, morn
ing and evening, and repeated every other
week. Give plenty of sour milk, green food,
celery tops, acorns and sliced raw onions.
Avoid stagnant and putrid water. Give ac-
cess to charcoal and ashes.
Good stock, superior stock, pays for it.
self all the time. A herd Of cows are we'll
worth wintering that will pay in milk and
butter many times more than the cost of their
keep. No other kind ought, therefore, to be
uLONeQ Oh IL NO business man ever
expects to make headway against competi-
ton by holding stock of goods that is of in
ferior value and is out of fashion; and far
mer ought to observe the same rule, and
carry on his hands no stock that is not of the
very sort to give him good footing in the
produce market. He never can get good
milk, good butter, or good beef from poor
runts of creatures whose existence comes
under the head Of accident rather than de-
sign. Superior stock is the only kind an
enterprising and thrifty farmer can afford
to keep.
Household Information.
CRACKERs.-One cup of butter, rubbed
into two quarts of flour, wet up with cold
water. Work and beat well. Bake thor
oughly in moderate oven
RELIEF FOR BURNING FEET.-To relieve
burning feet first discard tight boots. Take
one pint of bran and one ounce of bicarbo-
nate of soda, put in foot bath, add one
gallon Of hot water; when cool enough
soak your feet in this mixture for fifteen
minutes. The relief is instantaneous. This
must be repeated every night for week or
perhaps more. The bran and bicarbonate
of soda should be made fresh after weeks
use. Bicarbonate of soda can be bought
for small price per pound from wholesale
druggists. The burning sensation is pro-
duced by the pores of the skin being closed
so that the feet do not perspire.
A RICH DUTCH CABBAGE PICKLE.-My
pickles gave out too early this winter, and
used this old recipe, which is dutch, for an
old woman gave it to me in Albany just 40
years ago. Take cabbage head and cut it
down into eight peices and cover it with
coarse salt, letlingit remain in a jar ~ hours;
take it out, squeeze it, and chop it fine with
two onions put it on the fire in china lined
| vessel, covering it with vinegar, and boil
for full hour; add to it then one ounce of
turmeric, ia tea-spoonful of curry will do
instead of turmeric,) one spoonful of
ground pepper, spoonful Of celery
seed, a table spoonful of allspice, two table
spoonfuls of ground mustard, and half an
ounce Of white mace, with one and q half
pounds of brown sugar; cook one hour
more.
Plaster of Paris mixed with water about
like paste is good for closing cracks in stove
| ovens, fire bricks, old coal scuttles, water
pots and great many other things.
Cologne is quite expensive if bought at
the druggists, but can be made at home with
but little expense and trouble, and better
article of cologne than that which is usually
| bought can be made by thoroughly dissolv-
ing fluid drachm of the oil Of bergamot,
orange and rosemary each with half drachm
of neroli and pint of rectifed spirit. An
other, equally good is produced by mixing
with one pint of rectiied spirit two fluid
drachms each of the oils of bergamot and
lemon, one of the Gil of orange and half as
much as that of lemon together with three
quarters of drachm of neroli and four
drops of the essence ofambergris and musk.
If this is subsequently distilled it makes
what may be called perfect cologne, but it
becomes exceedingly fine by being kept
tightly stoppered for two or three months to
ripen and mellow before use.
Says Shirley Dare, If you wish to have
your surroundings make good impression,
with economy, there is but one short and
easy rule to follow Buy everything Of the
simplest sort; get your stone china of the
plainest shapes, eschew acorn tops for your
sugar bowl and scroll handles for your tu-
reens and figured borders for plates. Get
straight legged chairs, with as little mould
ing as the makers allow, buy your carpets
and lounges of small and modest figuring:
don't get that vivid crimson carpet because
it looks warm, or you have an eye for col
Or or that red and white, OF that green and
white pannel pattern because it is the last
out. Take the Oldest, cheapest thing in the
shop, if it is in taste and will look well with
the rest of your belongings. So many old
styles are coming up again that yours will
have chance of being modish any day, ,and, D.,
if they suit each other, they will please in
spite of the style of Your immediate. neigh
borhood, which may be the remnants of a
city dealers stock out of date three years
ago. '-ErchanJe.