Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-01-23
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

Damaged corn is exceedingly in
furious as food for horses, because it
brings on inflammation of the bowels
and skin disease.
Fruit Pudding. Stew currants, or
any small fruit, fresh or dried, with
sugar to taste, and pour over thin slices
of buttered bakers bread with crust cut
off, making alternate layers of fruit and
bread. Serve warm, with rich, hot
sauce.
To utilize feathers of ducks, chick
ems and turkeys, generally thrown aside
as refuse, trim the plumes from the
stump, inclose them in tight bag, rub
the whole as if washing clothes, and
you will secure perfectly uniform and
light down, excellent for quilting COW
erlots and not a few other purposes.
Crackers and Cream.-Split six
Boston crackers, place them in soup
plate and pour boiling water over them.
As soon as they are soft draw off the
water and sprinkle lightly with salt;
then pour over them nice sweet cream.
This is specially liked by little children
who are not feeling well, and usually
relished by grown people, too.
-Tumor on Colts Leg.-Procure a
string of the kind used by shoemaker's
or saddlers. Apply il around the base
of the tumor, close to the skin, and
draw it as tight as possible, making
double knot and avoiding to pull on
the tumor. If the tumor does not drop
off in the course of q week, apply an
other ligature of the same material be-
tween the former ligature and the skin.
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a few days, has dropped off, apply
twice daily portion of tincture of iron.
The operation will most likely require
the colt to be thrown in order to have
the ligature properly applied. The
tumor should not be cut off with
knife, because they are very vascular
and considerable hemorrhage would be
the consequence Prairie Farmer.
--Mince Pie.-Two pounds and half
of tongue or lean beef; one pound and
a half of suet; eight good-sized apples;
two pounds of raisins; two pounds of
sugar; two gills of rose water; one quart
of cider; salt, mace, cloves, and cinna-
mon to the taste. Boil the meat, and
chop very fine; chop the suet and apples
also very fine; stone the raisins, cutting
each in four pieces; dissolve the sugar
in the cider and rose water and mix all
well together with the spices. Twice
this quantity of apples improves the
pies, making them less rich. Line
your plates with a rich paste-puff
paste is best fill, cover and bake.
Measure the spices used to save tasting
next time and to prevent mistakes.
Farmers who are wide awake and
given to investigation don't SOW so
much wheat per acre as they formerly
did, and they don't SOW it so deep. The
great, heavy harrows of ten or twenty
years ago are not now employed by
them in covering seed, and the drill,
which can be depended on better, is
becoming universally popular. In
broadcast sowing, after the ground is
thoroughly prepared, light smoothing
harrow covers the seed deep enough.
A Wisconsin writer gives the result in
an experiment in planting at different
depths-on the surface, one-fourth
inch, one-half inch, three-fourths inch
and so on to several inches. That on
the surface lay two weeks before sprout-
ing; that one-fourth to three-fourths
inches deep came up in four or five
days, and so on, getting later as the
depth increased. The last to come up
was planted three and half inches
deep and was fourteen days in reach
ing the surface. None planted deeper
ever reached the surface. At the end
, of six weeks that planted one-fourth to
one-half inch deep stood far ahead OF
the rest.