Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-06-19
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

1t is said that with the pruning saw,
as with medicine, more injury is done
by the ignorant than the skilled can
remedy.
For garget in cows a Wisconsin
dairyman recommends pint OF beans
bruised and put in ground feed and fed
once day.
Keep your farm buildings and all
your premises absolutely clean. Use
absorbents such as dry earth and ashes,
and all offensive gases will disappear;
thereby promoting health and pros
perity.
When insects get in the beds or
walls pour boiling alum water into the
joints and crevices and it is instant
death. Wash the bedsteads and sponge
the mattresses with it. Then scatter
pulverized borax in all the crevices and
corners and not an insect will be seen
or felt. Ammonia is also good and Kills
the egg as well as insects.
Ginger Bread Nuts.-Take two
pounds of flour, rub into it three-quar-
ters of pound of butter, then add one
| pound of sugar and one pound of trea-
| Gle, two ounces of best powdered gin
ger, two ounces of finely sliced can
died peel, and lastly two eggs well
shape and bake in the oven.
"A Providence correspondent gives
the following as cure for warts on an
imals. Take small quantity of scraps
of copper, cover them with cider vine
gar and allow it to stand forty-eight
hours. Pour off the liquid and apply
it to the warts several times, on alter
nate days.
Lemon Preserve.-One pound of
pounded loaf sugar, quarter pound of
butter, six eggs and the whites of four
well-beaten, the rind of two lemons
grated and the juice of three. Mix to-
gether and let it simmer till of the con-
sistency of honey. Be careful to stir all
the time or it will burn.
Keeping Butter with Borax.-The
Italian Minister of Agriculture gives an
Isaccount of experiments which have
been made at the experimental station
Florence, to the effect that butter, pur-
posely not freed from buttermilk, kept
perfectly sweet for upwards of three
months by the addition of about eight
per cent of borax. 1t is stated that the
borax should be dry, in a fine powder
and thoroughly mixed with the butter.
DIR. j. w. Gally. Watsonville, writes
thus in the California Horticmltmrist OF
birds and boys: GAS a general rule if
you see one bird going in flock by
himself Gf he is not hawk), he is do
ing a good work for the orchard and
farmer; but when you see more than two
birds in IL flock there is no good going
on. So far as teamwork is concerned
birds and small boys come under the
same rule-to wit: one boy is boy, two
boys are half boy, and three boys are
no boy at all. When you see a crow Of
blackbird walking in furrow behin6
plowman, that bird is catching grubs
and doing some good to humanity; bu
when you see either of these birds in {
larger flock then there is mischief up
The best farm birds, aside from the
toad, are those birds which climb arouno
among the limbs of trees-all the wood
peckers, sap-suckers, yellow-hammers
tieckers, nut-thatchers, butcher-birds
and in word nearly all birds which q
it alone.''
How to Cook Rice.-A recent travel
er in Japan says: "They know how
to cook rice here and for the benefit o.
grocers and consumers in the United
States investigated the matter. Only
just enough cold water is poured on t(
prevent the rice from burning to the
pot, which has close-ftting cover ano
is set on moderate fire. The rice is
steamed, rather than boiled, until it i!
nearly done; then the cover of the POI
is taken off, the surplus steam anG
moisture are allowed to escape and the
rice turns out mass of snow-white ker-
nels, each separate from the other anG
as much superior to the soggy mass WE
usually get in the United States as
mealy potato is to the .water-soakee
article. I have seen something ap
preaching this in o9r Southern States
but do not think even there they dc
it as skillfully as it is done here and il
the Northern States but very few per
sons understand how to cook rice prop
erly. am sure that if cooked as it Il
here the consumption of this whole
some and delicious cereal would large
ly increase in America