The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-07-07
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.
If rats or mice infest any part of
your house find their holes and stuff
them with rags dipped in strong solu-
ton of cayenne pepper. No rodent
will ever take q second nibble at that
rag.
Bread Cakes.-Take one quart of
milk, stir in enough bread crumbs to
make a thin batter. Beat three eggs
well and put them in, adding a little
salt; and two tablespoonfuls of flour.
Bake on the griddle and serve hot.
As soon as he has his poultry houses
cleaned, Mr.. Kern tells the Ohio Far
nler, he takes the manure and spreads
it over his wheat field, or a poor spot in
his meadow, and you can take his word
that a man with one eye can see where
he puts it. To put hen manure in a box
or barrel and keep it one year before it
is put to q crop he thinks is wrong
way.
Some crops are what is known as
coarse-feeders, and thrive on fresh ma
nure, and some require the manure to
be well rooted and reduced to its min
eral elements in great part. For in
stance, wheat, barley, peas and pota-
toes and beets require the manure to be
decomposed, while corn, cabbage and
oats will do better on fresh manure.
To remove iron rust stains from
linen and cotton garments use oxalic
acid. Get ten cents worth of the acid
crystals, and dissolve in a quart of wa
ter. Heat until the solution boils, then
dip the rust spots, and Immediately
wash out in warm water or soap and
ha e ,at sl.l "a
will destroy the cloth. The acid solu-
ton may be cooled and put into bottle
for future use-
Green Pea Soup-Boil a pint of
green peas in water with salt. head of
lettuce, an onion, carrot, a few leaves
of mint, and a sprig of parsley, some
pepper and salt to taste, and a lump OF
sugar. When thoroughly done, strain
OF the liquor and pass the peas, etc.,
through a hair sieve; add as much of
the liquor as will bring it to the right
consistency; put the soup in a saucepan
with a small pat of fresh butter; let it
boil up, and serve with dice-shaped
bread fried in butter.
Blackberry JellY.-Put the fruit in
a stone jar; set the jar in pot of cold
water; put few small sticks on the
bottom of the pot to keep the jar from
| breaking. When the water boils
around the jar and the fruit is soft take
it out and squeeze out the juice by put
ting the berries in bag. To each pint
of juice put one pound sugar; put it in
a skillet, and when it comes to a boil
watch it that it does not burn. Let it
boil until it jellies. 1t takes about
twenty minutes.
"A prominent symptom of navicular
disease in horses is the stretching for
ward of the foot and resting it on the
toe. When this is seen it may be con-
sidered that the navicular bone of the
foot (the so-called coffin bone) is dis
eased. The treatment is to remove the
shoes and let the horse stand with the
fore feet in a puddle of clay. Wrap a
warm poultice about the coronet and
upper part of the hoof and give the
horse twelve ounces of epson salts and
repeat it the third day. Rest is neces-
sary.--N y Times.
"A correspondent of the Rstrdl Mes
senger has had good results from the
application of lime, wood ashes and old
iron put around the roots of fruit trees
that were not doing well, thus restoring
the trees To a healthy condition and
| improving the quality of the fruit. As
a wash for messy trees, he gives the fol.
lowing: Heat an ounce of sal soda. to
redness in an iron pot and dissolve it in
one gallon of water, and while warm
apply it to the trunk. After one appli-
cation the moss and old bark will drop
OFF and the trunk will be quite smooth.
| Mothers Crullers.-Four eggs,
five tablespoonfuls of sugar, fouI
tablespoonfals- melted butter,
or part lard. Mix very hard
with flour, and roll out nearly as
thin as pie-crust. Cut in oblong piece:
with a wheel such as is used in orna
menting pie crusD, about two and &
half by six inches, then cut in strand:
of three or four and braid quite loosely
not separating the strands at one end
Fry in hot lard, the same as doughnuts
taking care especially to have them &
light brown. To have them look wei
is considered of equal importance with
having them taste well.
Horses hoofs are subject to q
canker or inflammation of the interior
of the sole an consequence of standing
in manure or other causes. The In
flammation thus produced may some
times extend to the tendons and cause
swelling of the lower limbs and stiff
ness which may seem like rheumatism
To treat a case of this kind the fee
should be washed with a solution o
one dram of chloride of zinc in quar-
of water. This should be injected int
the cracks of the hoofs as far as posi-
BILE, and all the foul-smelling discharg,
removed. 1t is quite possible that th'
trouble may be produced by ulceratet
frog, in which case all the ragged hori
should be cut off and pared away, tn,
zinc solution to be freely applied
Give brisk dose of salts and repeat
in few days.-M Y. Times.