The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-03-26
HOME AND FARM.

HOME AND FARM.
APPLY glue as nearly boiling hot as
possible, especially upon large joints.
Fowls seldom tire of milk They
may eat too much grain or meat for
health, but milk in any form is both pal
atable and healthy.
To MAKE SHOES WATERPROOF
coat of gum-copal varnish applied to the
soles of boots and shoes and repeated
as it dries until the pores are filed and
the surface shines like polished mahog-
any will make the soles waterproof and
make them last three times as long.
NEVER use anything but light blankets
to cover the sick. The heavy, imper-
vious counterpart is bad, for the reason
that it retains the exhalations from the
pores of the sick person, while the
blanket allows them to pass through
Weak persons are invariably distressed
by great weight of bed-clothes, which
often prevent their getting any sound
sleep whatever.
BAKED APPLE DUMPLINGs.-Select
good tart cooking apples. Pare, cut in
two and cut the core out. Make dough
as for cream or soda-biscuits, excepting
little shorter. Roll out and cut into
squares. Take half of an apple-or two
if the apples are small-and fold in each
square. Put into dripping-pan, and
pour around them, so that the pan will
be one-fourth full, sauce made of hot
water, piece of butter the size of an
egg, sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg.
Bake about half an hour, or till the APP
pies are soft.
CURE FOR THE BLACKLEG.-It is
said that certain cure for the black
leg in cattle is the application of salt
peter to the affected parts as follows :
When the leg begins to swell make an
incision in the hide and lay the ground
saltpeter in the flesh. The opening is
then closed and running sore is made,
which, it is claimed, will prove an eff
fectual cure for this destructive malady.
The remedy is simple one, and we ad-
wise cattle men whose herds are affected
to try it. 1t is said to have proved
highly successful in Kansas and other
Western States.
WOODEN ENTERTAINMENTS when
shrunken by washing can not be made
to resume their original proportions.
Something may be done in that direc-
ton, however, in pressing them with a
hot iron while stretching them to their
full length. To wash flannel so it will
not shrink, make a suds of boiling hot
water, put the flannel in and pound or
souse up and down till it is clean, then
wiring and put into scalding hot water
and rinse; wiring dry and hang at once
on the line. We have washed flanneIs
in this way without shrinking them till
they dropped to pieces from wear. Ii
the water is hard soften it with boraX.
A machine makes the cleansing of tlan-
nels mere play.
In the process of sailing and smoking
meat about one-third of its bulk is vast
ed, consisting of meat-juice, water, al
bumen, and the soluble Salts unless the
process is very carefully conducted but
little remains save fiber, and under the
action of salt and smoke this becomes
dry and hard and correspondingly indi
gestibie. Meats picked in time do not
lose materially in bulk, but nearly all
their nutritive elements are impaired
to the brine, which, of course, is unfit
for use. Fat pork is the only meat
which is improved by curing, as bacon,
since that process increases its digesti-
bility; lean smoked pork or ham is less
nutritious than fat bacon, because its
hard fiber is very indigestible. Dry
sailed fat pork is more digestible than
ham, and therefore shows less propor-
Tomato waste; it may be prepared as if
for bacon, and then dried without smok-
ing. Picked pork which has become
slightly tainted may be restored by boil
ing and Swimming the brine in which il
is preserved, and again pouring it scald
ing hot upon the meat.-Juliet COrSOn.
HARD SoAP.-Slake three pounds OF
lime in gallon of boiling soft water.
Add six pounds of washing soda and
three gallons of boiling soft water. Boil
together fifteen minutes, then let it set
tie and pour off the clear liquid, replac-
ing it with two gallons more of boiling
soft water. Put six pounds of clean fat
into the clear solution and boil it for two
hours; drain the second water from the
lime and soda and add it by degrees
when there is danger of the mixture
boiling over. 1t should be, when done,
of the consistency of honey. Try little
by cooling in saucer, and when thick
enough put in a teacupful of salt and
turn it into wet tub. When firm cut
it into bars, place on board to dry
slowly. Rapid drying will make it
crack. You will have about forty
pounds of good soap, tirmer than if made
with potash. 1t should not be used for
two or three months.