Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-06-04
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FARM AND FIREsIDE.

FARM AND FIREsIDE.
BUTTER MAKING.-If I have made a.
discovery, or if anybody knew it before me
I will tell it all the same. AS soon as the
cream shows signs of coming pour into
the churn two or three quarts of water,
as near ice-colM as it is possible to get, and
the butter will gather great deal quicker
and come hard and firm. I tried the cold
water (ice- water) on the start, and found
it made the cream too cold. and kept the
butter from coming; but put in at the last
end, it is a capital idea and will save hours
of churning in the course of the season.
Butter will come in fifteen minutes, as a
rule, if the cream is in the right condition
and temperature. "A cool cellar is cool
enough to start the churning, and as near
right as most farmers can get it without
the thermometer and ice, and cold well
water will lower the temperature for gath
ering. The temperature of our cellar is
GA degrees, and the butter invariably comes
quick, with the help of cold water, which
is PROBABLY TWO degrees colder. When the
cream stands too long on the milk before
skimming, the butter will not come so
quickly; it is always poorer, and such but
ter will not keep we'll. This is one reason,
and the main one, why there is so much
rancid butter. Better churn often and
have good. sweet butter; and skim oftener
also.-Rurol New Yorker.
How TO CLEAN BRASS AND COPPER
The following mixture will be found the
best for cleaning brass, copper, tin, stair
rods, taps and even windows, and it is
quite worth the trouble of making once
year, as the quantities given will last the
time and the best way to store it is in wide
'mouthed picked jars Of glass orstone one
pound whitening, one pound rotten stone,
one pound of soft soap, one teacupful vim
egar, as much water as will make it thick
paste. Let it boil fully ten minutes, and
when nearly cold add half a pint Of spirits
of turpentine. When you use it put very
little on rag rub the article you wish to
clean well with it until it becomes bright,
and then polish with leather dipped in
powdered Bath brick. Unless you use
Bath brick it soon furnishes, but Bath
brick preserves the polish.
TREATMENT OF SCARLET FEVER
Scarcely winter passes that the scarlet
fever is not more or less prevalent through
sections Of this State, and no disease
proves more fatal among children. For
eign medical journals generally notice, the
successful treatment of scarlet fever by
DR.. 81. Pigeon by the use Of sulphur. It
appears that all the cases he treated were
well marked, and the epidermis On the
arms came away like the skin of a snake.
The patient was thoroughly anointed twice
day with sulphur ointment, and had five
or ten grains of sulphur given in little
jam, three times day. Sufficient sulphur
was burned in the room twice daily, and.
of course, was thoroughly inhaled by the
patient. DR.. Pigeon says that under this
treatment each case improved Immediate
ly, and none were over eight days in max
ing complete. recovery.
a
change tells of a man who plants. two or
three weeks after the crop is planted, a
new hill of corn every fifteenth row, each
way. And this is the reason: If the
weather becomes dry after the filling time,
the silk and tassels both become dry and
dead. In this condition, if it should be-
come seasonabIe, the silk revives and re-
news it's growth, but the tassels do not re-
cover. For want Of pollen, the new silk is
unable to fill the Office for which it was
designed. The pollen from the replanted
corn is then ready to supply silk, and the
filling is completed. He says nearly all
the abortive ears so common in corn crops
are caused by the want Of pollen. and he
has known ears to double their size in this
filing.
KEEPING M1LK.-Butter, cream, milk,
and flour are peculiarly liable to absorb
effluvia, and should, therefore, never be
kept in mouldy rooms. or places where
there are sour liquids, aromatic vegetables.
such as onions, cabbage and turnips, or
smoked fish or bacon, or, indeed, any kind
of food or thing of strong odor, lest they
absorb their flavor. But, alas, how much
more essential is it that the utmost care
be used in the prohibition of bedside food
and drink in the nursery and the sick
room; practice fraught with constant
danger to the sick, and of spreading dis
ease to the well THE Sdnitarian.
OVEN SoUP.-One pound of good soup
beef cut in small square pieces. two on
ions, two carrots and two potatoes, peeled
and cut into slices, two tablespoonfuls Of
rice, half pint of split peas, pepper and
salt to taste, one bunch Of pot-herbs mine
ed fine, and one gallon of cold water; put
all these ingredients into an earthen YES
sci, cover very close and put the jar in a
moderate oven for four hours; good dish
when the top of the stove is wanted for
other cooking.
| SOFT MOLAssEss GINGERBREAD
cup Of molassess, QUE teaspoonfal of sala-
ratus, one Of ginger, one tablespoonful of
butter or lard and a pinch of salt (if you
use lard). Stir this together, and then
pour on half cup of boiling water and
stir in one pint of flour. Bake about one
one inch deep in sheet. This is very
nice if pains are taken to have the water
boiling and to beat well, when the flour is
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