The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-10-01
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.
TOMATO SAUcE.-Eight pounds to
matoes, one quart vinegar. three pounds
sugar. one teaspoonful cinnamon. one
OF cloves, one of English mustard. and
one of red pepper; boil down till quite
thick.
ONE of the best remedies for sunburn.
especially when there is a tendency to
putting up of the skin or blisterinp, is a
mixture of lime-water and sweet-oil.
Battle the affected parts frequently, and
the heat and soreness will soon be sub
dued.
THAT often fatal disease, chicken
cholera, usually prevails during the
summer. 1t is often caused by feeding
too much whole corn when the fowls
are deprived of coarse sand and gravel.
Damp, musty corn, gases from manure
piles, and stagnant water to drink will
produce it.
A NOTED cure for neuralgia is hot
vinegar vaporiZed. Heat a fiat-iron
sufficiently hot to vaporize the vinegar,
cover this with some wooden material.
which is moistened with vinegar, and
the apparatus is then applied at once to
the painful spot. Application may be
repeated until the pain disappears.
HENS NBsr.-(A very pretty orna-
ment for table. )-One-half dozen eggs;
make hole at one end and empty the
contents, fill up with corn-starch made
stiff. When cold strip off the shells;
pare lemon rind very thin. boil till ten
der, then cut in narrow strips like straw
and lay in powdered sugar; fill deep
dish half full with cold custard, put the
eggs together in the center, and Law the
straws nest-like around them.
SHoRT-CAKE Gin layers)-One quart
OF flour, little salt, two tablespoon
fuls of butter; rub into the flour; two
tablespoonful of sweet milk, three
teaspoonfuls of baking powder, add
enough water Ito milky to roll out;
divide into three parts, and now take
one of those parts, roll it and put it in
a buttered jelly tin; then butter the
top of it; then roll each part the same
way, but do not butter the last layer;
bake; when baked separate the LAYERS
with sharp knife; have your fruit
prepared and place between each
layer.
MILK fever is disease of the blood
consequent upon disordered circula-
ton and is sort of apoplexy, the
brain being inflamed and congested
and the nervous system Frustrated.
Usually a COW affected with this dis
ease lies still, with the head on the
flank, but sometimes dashes the head
about violently. Mild cases alone are
amenable to treatment, which should
be to give strong purgative-sixteen
to twenty ounces of epson salts, with
half an ounce of carbonate of ammo.
mia, light feeding and rest in a dark,
clean, cool, quiet stable.-Anaerican
Dairynaan.
WHEN lice once take possession of a
poultry house, it is difficult to dislodge
them, and methodical means must be
used. First take up the floor and use
the bare ground; tear away every cleat
or other fitting behind which the lice
can harbor; these will be found full of
young lice and eggs. Then whitewash
the house with hot lime wash, in which
a pound of crude carbolic acid has been
dissolved. Do this thoroughly. Then
smear the roosting-poles with MKT
ure of grease and kerosene-oil so thick
~ that the hens get it upon their feet
and feathers. Keep the roosts thus
covered with grease for week or ten
days, and in time the lice will disap-
pear. Grease is fatal to all such in
sects, as it closes the breathing pas
sages, which are situated in their sides.
GRAPE JELLY.-Grapes that are too
coarse or acid for table use make very
good jelly, only have them firm,
sound, and ripe. Pick grapes from the
stem, wash them in cold water. drain
the water from them, and put them in
a stone jar; place the jar in pot of
cold water, and let it boil steadily I'M
til the grape skins are loose. Take off
the skins, saving all the juice-the
skins will darken the jel and make it
slightly astringent. Boil the pulps
once again, and pour all into flannel
bag and squeeze through; measure
your juice and allow pound of lump
sugar for every pint of juice. Mix
and boil steadily, but not too quickly,
until it will jell when you try on
saucer. Put up in small glasses,
which you wet first in cold water.
Tie up closely and keep in cool place.
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