Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1880-06-26
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.
1t is wicked. as well as unlawful. to
violate the game laws.
Let the boys have plot of ground
10 cultivate for their own benefit.
The farmers way to wealth and
prosperity is TO take care OF what he
has and what he produces.
To Clean Zinc.-Dissolve two ounces
alum in one quart Of vinegar and clean
tue zinc with this as hot as you can use
it.
To Clean Straw Hats.-Rub the
soiled straw with cut lemon. and wash
off the juice with water. Stiffen with
gum-water.
Vinegar for sweet pickles: To one
gallon of vinegar add three pounds OF
sugar. two tablespoons cloves, ditto cas-
STA. and bring to a good boil.
Several agricultural journals are
recommending bitter aloes as lice ex-
terminator on cattle. 1t is to be applied
in powdered form, by busting it into the
hair on the animal.
Furniture can be washed with warm
soap-suds. quickly wiped dry, and then
rubbed with an oily cloth. To polish
il, rub it with rotte.stone and sweet oil.
Clean off the oil and polish with chamois
skin.
Vermont is the greatest maple-sugar
producing S ate in the Union. Its av-
erage yield is about 9.000,0 900 pounds.
worth 300. 900, or about an average al
lowance of thirty pounds for each in
habitant.
Liquid Bluing.-Take best Prussian
blue, pulverized, one. ounce; oHalic
acid, also pulverized, one-half ounce;
soft water, one quart; mix. One or two
tablespoonfuls of it is sufficient for atub
of water, according to size of tub.
Danish butter commands the high
est price in any market in London dur
ing the winter months. 1t is said to
be the best because the COWS in Dem
mark calve between the months OF
November and January, and they and
their product are much better cared for
than in any other butter-p producing coun-
try in Europe.
Cutting the Hair.-Cutting the hair
does not, as commonly thought, pro-
mote its growth. Most of the specifics
recommended for badness, not except
ing petroleum, are mere stimulants,
and are seldom or never permanently
successful. Some of them give rise to
congestion of the scalp. When slim
ulant is desirable, ammonia is the best.
1t is safe.
-Ginger-Snaps.-M together one
large cup of butter and lard (mixed)
with one cup sugar, one cup molasses.
one half-cup water, one tablespoonful
each of ginger and cinnamon, one tea
spoonful ground cloves, one teaspoon
full soda dissolved in hot water, and
flour enough to make a pretty stiff
dough. Roll out thin and bake in a
pretty hot oven.
AT the National Butter. Cheese and /
Egg Convention held recently at Indian |
apolis, one speaker said he knew of but |
one process by which eggs could be
kept from two to four months in cold |
storage. Use clean old oats. and pack
fresh eggs in temperature of from
thirty six to forty degrees. The trouble
with Western eggs, it was explained. is
that they are not gathered and packed
when fresh.
|-Cucumber Catsup.-Grate three
dozen large cucumbers and twelve
white onions; put three handfuls of
salt over them. They must be pre-
pared the day beforehand, and in the
lay them to drain; soak cup
full and half of mustard-seed, drain it
and add to the cucumbers, with two
spoonfuls of whole pepper; put them in
q jar, cover with vinegar and cork tight;
keep in dry place.
The refuse fat of the kitchen may
be turned to economical use as feed for
hens-said to be good to make them
lay. Of course where soap is made it
will all be thus used, but it is a question
whether it is not much easier and more
profitable to buy the soap and make the
hens lay by feeding them the fat. Ev-
erything that is not wanted for cooking
purposes, should be boiled up with the
for the fowls.
Bun Loaf.-Take five pounds of
Hour and five teaspoonfuls of soda, mix
well; add one pound raisins. one pound
currants. two ounces candied peel, two
ounces citron, half-pound brown sugar,
treacle. hall-pound lard or
butter. two teaspoonfuls allspice. When
these are well mixed add as much fresh
outtermilk as will make it the right
Bake slowly in deep tins.
IS it will rise considerably.
Prof. Kedzie. of the Agricultural
Department of the Michigan Urivers ty,
said that paint or wash made i
Of skim milk. thoroughly skinned. and
water brine will render wood unintlam-
nablc. and he proved it by experiment.
He said this paint. or whitewash, is
durable. very cheap, impervious to wa
.er. of agreeable color and as it will
prevent wood from taking fire. he
Urged its use. particularly on roofs, ,
barns, etc.
"A correspondent of the Rural Men
Yorker says that good washing fluid
which will not injure the clothes may
pc made by dissolving one pound OF !
potash in one gallon Of water, add one
ounce of ammonia. and enc ounce salts
,f-tartar. When you wash add one
eacupful of this duid to a boiler OF
clothes. Soap must be added, and the
clothes soaped on the most soiled
places. The clothes should be soaked
,ver night. In the morning wiring S
hem out, and boil as stated above.
Tomato Salad Peel and slice the {
omatoes, put into salad dish and
,our over them dressing prepared rs
ollows: Three yelks Of hard-boiled 9
gigs, pounded; one beaten raw. egg, :
me teaspoonful of cayenne, one tea
poonful of white sugar, two tablespoon
uls of salad oil, one teaspoonful OF {
made mustard, one-half teacupful vine. {
;ar. Mix yelks. mustard, pepper. salt. !