Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1880-08-05
noMR. rARM ANp GARpEN.

RArs, mice and insects win avoid
place that has been sprlnklee with
Chloride Of lime.
IN dusting. use soft cloth Instead
OF brush or wing; the cloth will catch
all The dust. and YOU can shake il from
the window, while the others set II
floating again.
APPLE MARMALApE. DO not peel
your apples, but core and slice them as
for tart Choose hard apples, Ike
russets, or any apple that does mob
mash in cooking; boil them very
rapidly in sirup Just enough TO cover
them. until clear looking. and, II liked,
add few cloves or lemon peel.
Eco MUFFINs. - Two well-beaten
eggs, one pint OF milk, one teaspoon
! fni Of salt, two tabespoontuls of yeast
and flour to make a batter; stand In y
warm place over night. In the morn.
| ing stir in tablespoonful of melted
butter and half teaspoonful of soda
dissolved in a very little hot water.
Bake in gem pans.
THE Aylerican Poultry journal says
| that the Bronze turkey is the most use
! ful of all the breeds 1t originated
! from the wild and common domcstI-
Gated turkey, and for rich plumage,
size and weight exceeds all others. 1t
is very hardy bird, and il allowed 10
wander about and shift for itself, has a
tendency to revert to wild state.
RYE sown in August will make excel
lent pasture for sheep. 1t may be pas
tured pretty close and still left for
grain next season, or it may be again
pastured and plowed for corn in May.
This is an excellent method OF prepar-
ing land for corn, oats or potatoes, and,
where market crops are grown, is used
extensively as a preparation Tor spring
crops.
CLEANING COMPOUND. - Mix one
ounce OF borax and one ounce of gum
camphor with one quart of boiling
water. When cool add one pint of al
cohol bottle and cork tightly. When
wanted for use shake well and sponge
the garments TO be cleaned. This Is
an excellent mixture for cleaning soiled
black cashmere and woolen dresses,
coat collars and black felt hats.
u GorFEE Tee CREAM Three pints OF
cream, one cup Of strong, clear eolfee,
two cups OF sugar, two tablespoons OF
arrowroot wet in cold milk; heat half
!
sugar. and when this is dissolved, the
coffee; then the arrowroot; boil all 70.
rether about five minutes; when cold
: beat up very light, whipping in the rest
of the cream by degreesi then freeze.
CHICAGO IcE CREAM. Irish moss
soaked in water one hour, and rinsed
well to cleanse it of sand and a certain
foreign taste; then steep in milk, keep
/ me- IL Just at the point Of boiling or SIM
! mering for one hour, or until a rich
/ yellow color is given to the milki with
| out cream or eggs, from one to one and
: a half ounces TO gallon only Is neees-
sary, and this viii do TO steep twice.
Sweeten and flavor with lemon ryanil'
) la, and freeze.
> ONION Sour WITHOUT EAT.--Drop
!, in a saucepan q bit OF butter half the
n size of hens egg. When hot add two
r or three large onions; slice them; stir
!, and cook them until they are red; then
add half teacupful OF -four. Stir this
also until red and do not let 1t scorch.
Next pour in a pint OF boiling water
u and season to taste with pepper and
q salt. Mix well and let boil a minute
then pour il into a soup kettle and plact
x at the back Of the range or stove unit
l; ready 20 serve. Add then one and .
q half pints of boiling milk and two oI
!, three well-mashed potatoes. Add tC
the potatoes little of the soup at first
10 then little more until they are smootI
u aud thin enough to put into the kettle
D: Stir all well together; test 10 see If th'
!, !, soup is properly seasoned; If not adj
Vyhatavsr of sdt. pepper or butter ma,
o be needed. Let 1t simmer few min
?" utes, Pour over toasted bread cut il
small pieces and placed in the bottoT
Up of the tureen.
lie The disease known as "big head
ed and "big Jaw is an enlargement q
as the bones Of the head or the lower jaw
as Both are the same disease, but appear
ot ING in different places. The characto
he of the disease is q softening OF th
ay bones, which become porous or spongJ
M lose their solidity and strength, an
ne become fractured, or the sinews an
'rt muscles lose their hold upon them
l Is common for the whole bony str1i'
at ture OF the skeleton TO be involved, fC
lot the disease is constitutional. II Is p'
- culiarly one special TO the Mississippi
Valley, where the rich alluvial sol
by inpart some quality TO the herbage,
az which causes Il 10 be defective IN SON
I'd qualities, so as 10 affect the nutrition
,as animals disastrously. There is no Gu
in advanced cases. but when the bon'
,er of the upper jaw and face or the low'
III law are found to be charging trea
ble ment by tonics should be- begun
les once. Phosphoric acid in sixty-dr'
md doses may be given TO full-grov
pes horse, and ten drops to yearllng,
I'm the drinking-water. An equivalent
fhe phosphate Of iron may be given. Y