The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-09-15
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water, Will cure stye on the eyeliG.
For earache, dissolve asafetida in water
warm few drops and drop in the ear 1.-The
cork the ear with WOOL II.
The American Daaaynaaa says that wild pen
permint scattered around in corn cribs. &c
will keep the rats away
Take new flower pot, wash it clean wra,
it IN wet cloth, and set over butter, it vii
keep it as hard as if on ice.
Milk, if put into an earthen can, or even
tin one, will keep sweet for a long time, i
well wrapped in a wet cloth.
Mix little carbonate ofsoda with the water
In which flowers are immersed, and it will
preserve them for a fortnight. & e =
| To cure or save girdled trees, connect the
| glrdled space by twigs inserted in the bark on
each side, and cover the wound with grating
| wax.
The true physiological way oftreating burns
and scalds is to at once exclude the air with
cotton batting, flour, scraped potato or any
thing that is handiest.
Use fresh water Water which has stood
in an open vessel over night, should not be
used for cooking or drinking,a it will have-ab-
sorbed many foul gases. sfu
Common soda is excellent for securing tin as
it will net scratch the tin and make it look
Like new. Apply with piece of moist news
paper and polish with dry piece
The best way of saving soap-grease during
summer is to throw it into kettle of strong
lye; keep it covered, and if standing in the
sun it frequently results in very good soap. :
Red ants may be banished from pantry or
storeroom by streWing the shelves with q
small quantity of cloves, either whole or
ground. Some use the former, as not being so
likely to get into food placed upon the shelves.
Green corn, cut before the ears are formed,
is poor trash to feed to stock. 1t is thin, slop-
Ply stuff without substance. Let the ears form
and the stalks gain solidity before feeding, or
your soiling experiment will prove failure.
CoCoANUT CAKE.-Beat the whites of four
eggs to stiff troth, add one cup of sugar, one
half cup of butter, the same of sweetmilk, the
same of corn starch, one of flour, two tea
spoonfuls of baking powder and three table
spoonfuls of dessicated cocoanut. =
PURE BEEF-TEA WITHOUT WATER.-Fill a
quart self-sealing glass can with beef cut into
very small pieces, close it and place the jar in
Kettle OF warm water. Let the water come
to boil gradually, so that the jar may not
break, and let it remain on the range about
three hours then strain it off and you will
have large cup of the pure juice of the beef
Then put in little salt and cayenne pepper.
DELICIOUS MANGO PEAJHEs.-The yellow
openings are considered the best for this pur-
pose if not too ripe. Cut the fruit in half.
take out the stones, and fill all the cavities with
grated horseradish and few white mustard
seed. Put the halves together again and tie
then put them in jar and pour over
them sweetened vinegar, boiling hot with
some cinnamon sticks and a less quantity of
Glove in it. Tie up and put away until needed
and they are surely nice. The only trouble
this season will be in getting the peaches 90
PoTTED TOMATOES and slice half a
bushel of tomatoes; put them in stone jar,
first layer of tomatoes, then heavy sprinkle
of salt; let them stand three days, then take
out the tomatoes and put them in another Jar,
hrst layer OF tomatoes, then one of onions,
sprinkled with mustard, powdered mace, and
cloves, and little sugar. Continue this until
your tomatoes are exhausted. Half bushel
of tomatoes will require one pound of mustard,
two ounces of cloves, one ounce of mace,
twenty five good sized onions, one pound of
sugar.
JAPANESE METHOD OF COOKING RICE.-A
letter from Japan says "The japanese know
how to cook rice. Only just enough cold wa
ter is poured on to prevent the rice from burn
ing to the bottom of the kettle, which has a
close-ftting cover, and is set on a moderate
ire. The rice is steamed rather than boiled,
until it is nearly done, then the cover of the
pot is taken off, the surplus steam and moist
ure are allowed to escape, and the rice turns
out mass OF snOwWhite kernels, each sepa-
rate from the other, and as much superior to
soggy mass we usually get in America as fine
meally potato is to the water-soaked article"
GRAHAM BREAD-Bol pint of milk and
thicken with Graham flour; then add cold
milk enough to make the whole as thin as
batter. AS soon as cold enough not to scald,
odd half-a teacupful of syrup-or sweeten
to taste-and as much Graham flour as can
be stirred In with spoon. Sprinkle little
fine flour on the dough board, and mold the
brown bread until it works clear from the
board and hands, being careful not to let it get
too stiff and dry. Put it into a round basin
that will tit nicely in your steamer) and re-
turn to the warm place to rise When light
enough to bake, put into the steamer over
boiling water and let it cook an hour, then
bake twenty minutes in the oyen Do not
open the steamer while the bread is cooking or
the bread will be heavy.
September is the best time to SOW winter
oats For seed the winter oats sown in the
spring is preferable. Prepare the ground
use plenty of seed-not less than
two bushels to the acre, and finish off with the :
roller. When put in early IN September a
splendid pasture is afforded all winter for
calves, colts and sheep. Every farmer should
SOW literally of winter OATS especially in view
OF the great scarcity and probable high price e
OF feed the coming winter. Persons having
seed oats tor sale, would do well to advertise
or.,,.,r
chase. sta -,
Never whip frightened horse If he be-
comes frightened at any object on the roadside,
such as stump log, or anything unsightly,
and while cycling it in passing you hit him
with the whip, it is the stump, log, or object
that Is hurting him in his horse way of reason-
ing, and the next time he sees like object, he
will be more frightened. Don't get impatient
or become fretted, but give him time to smell
all these objects, and use the bride and lines
gently TO assist in bringing him carefully to
those objects that have made him to fear
Horses have far more sense than we generally
give them credit for, and not infrequently a
great deal more than those who drive them.
There is money in black walnut culture.
The demand for the valuable timber has been
active for the past twenty years, and with the
supply much reduced the prices have CORE
spondlngly increased. We see it stated that
farmer in Texas planted a ten-acre grove ten
years ago with 1900 black walnut trees. He
now estimates the value of the nuts at 81 900
a year, and IN another ten years he expects
the grove to be worth $780, 900. Another in
stance is where Mr.. Horace Everett, twenty
three years ago, planted on his farm near
Council Bluffs Iowa, twenty-three acres of
waste land with it. The trees, which attained
an average thickness of about seventeen inches
through the trunk, were lately sold for
1927 900, the sum thus made, at an original
trifiing outlay, being much greater than the
returns from any crop which could have been
grown on similar number of acres of rich
land. With these instances, we would urge
upon our people, wherever the black walnut
will flourish, to give trial on as large scale
as practicable, There is money In it.
W. D. Twyman, of Madison county. is the
Democratic nominee for the State Senate in
the district composed Of Madison, Orange, Gull
pepper and Rappahannock counties. Robert R.
Campbell, one of the principals in the recent
Scott Campbell duel, and Readjuster nominee
for the House of Delegates of Fauquier, will