The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-07-28
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

1t is a mistaken idea to cover q
carpet with drugget in the belief that it
saves it. What wears out carpets is the
grinding on the floor, and the protec-
ton should come from beneath.
-Currant Preserves. To each pou I'D
OF fruit. add one pound of good white
sugar, and set it on the stove. Let it
come to boil; skim out the currents,
and boil the strip down till it will make
jelly; put back the fruit, and dip into
bowls. When cold, paste paper wet
with white of egg over the top, and set
away.
Picked Peppers.-Cut the tops
out in round circle with sharp pen
knife, and pre- serve them; fill each pep
per with q mixture of finely-chopped
cabbage, horSe-radish, mustard-seed
and salt. Before filling, mash the pep
pers in cold water, then fill, replace the
pieces cut out. tie with coarse thread,
pack them in stone jars, and fill them
up with cold, sharp vinegar. They will
be ready for use in two weeks.
"A Pennsylvania farmer who has
tried it recommends, that when spring
sowing of clover seeds does not catch,
that sowing clover seed upon the
stubble in August, or early in Septem-
Der will generally repair the damage,
either with or without narrowing in,
although narrowing is the most reliable
practice. The cost of the seed is but: a
trifie compared with the changing the
proper rotation OF the crops, established
upon every well-regulated farm. /
"A correspondent of the New York
Times recommends as a cure for grub
in the head, which is unusually preva-
lent this season, the use of drv air.
Stacked lime in fine powder. A guam
tity of this is put into small box or
dipper and applied to the sleeps nose,
so that some of the dust is inhaled into
the nostrils. This causes violent sneez-
ing and the election of the grubs. The
lime may also be used by scattering it
ON barn floor for an inch in depth and
drive the sheep through it, by which
the dust is raised and breathed and
sneezing produced.
Luncheon Cakes-Boiled ham or
tongue; butter; whites of eggs; slices of
bread; capers; celery seels. Cut the
meat very fine and pound it well, add
ing some butter and a little cream; fill
a mold with it, and set it for half an
hour in moderate oven: turn it out,
and cover the surface with the beaten
whites OF the eggs. Cut the bread in
thin slices, cutting off the crust; spread
each slice with the mixture, and sprin-
kle with capers or the celery seeds to
be obtained at confe tioners; then roll
the sandwiches, and tie them with fancy
Many devices have been used to
preserve newly planted corn from the
crows and blackbirds, but generally
without effect. The present season the
writer hit upon the device OF seasoning
the seed with carbolic acid, which has
a strong odor, and so far the crows
have let the corn severely alone, and
there is no injury whatever to the seed.
A teaspoonful of the acid is used to a
quart of water well stirred and SPRAYED
over the seed placed in heap on. the
barn floor. The corn is then stirred
with shovel ana more of the solution
sprayed upon it until every grain is
slightly with it. The seed
can be sown with a drill, as it dries in
five minutes, but it retains the scent
to keep of birds and cut