Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1881-12-30
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CAhn AMI VhhuLIfs
If flannels are washed in boiling hot
suds and rinsed in boiling hot soft water
they will not shrink.
1t may not be known to all good
housewives that they can effectually re-
move dust from their oil paintings by
washing them with soft cloth dipped
in lukewarm suds. Wipe dry.
Stale Bread-Stale bread should be
cut in slices, dried in the oven, crushed
with a rolling-pin, and put away in a
jar. 1t makes capital crumbing for cro-
quettes, veal outlets, or thickening soup.
Young trees-both fruit and orna-
mental--currants and gooseberry BUSH
es set in the fall should have the soil
banked up against the stem or trunk,
and forming a mound which supports
the tree and prevents heaving out.
"A ready method for hot fomenta-
tions is to place flannels in the steamer
of an ordinary potato steam kettle. They
readily become permeated with the
steam when tho kettle is placed on the
fire, and can be readily changed without
any fear of scalded fingers during the
attempt to wiring them sufficiently dry,
as in the ordinary method.
Homemade Crackers. Beat two
eggs very light, whites and yelks to-
gether; sift into them quart of flour, q
teaspoonful of salt; and tablespoonful
each of butter and lard and nearly a
tumblerful of milk; work all thoroughly
together; take fourth of the dough at
time and roll out half as thick as a
milk cracker, cut in small rounds, and
bake quickly to light brown.
1t may be well to remind those who
grow window plants, that by removing
them away from the window, and ar
ranging cover of newspapers over
them, they may be preserved from harm
in severely cold nights. With the plants,
as with ourselves, it is not SO much that
cold comes in, as that the heat goes off,
and often slight protection will pre-
vent the escape of heat.
--Smothered Steak.--Take one dozen
large onions, boil them in very little
water, until they are tender One
pound of steak, season it with pepper
and salt, put it in a pan with some hot
,beef-dripping, and fry it till it is done
Take it out, put it on dish, where il
will keep hot. Then, when the onion:
are soft, drain and mash them in the
pan with the steak gravy, and add pep
per and salt to taste. Put it on the fire
and, as soon as it is hot, pour it over thu
steak, and serve it. g4s
Quail on Toast -Dry-pick them
singe, cut off the heads, then the legs a
first joint, split down back, draw, pu
into salt water for fifteen minutes, drain
dry with cloth, lard them with littl
pieces of bacon, and broil over goot
fire. If one does not care for the bacol
ldip each into melted butter two or thre
times. Have ready as many slices O
,buttered toast as you have birds, AM
serve bird breast up on each piece
Thin slices of broiled bacon are very goo
served with the quail.
-Scab.--T disease in sheep is anal
.ogous to the scratches in horses, and
caused by minute insects termed acari
They bred in great numbers. The sea
is exceedingly contagious. From tn
woolly covering of the sheep the cur
of the soab is often very troublesom
and difficult to accomplish. The bes
adapted domestic treatment is to di
the animal in solution of arsenic, in
mediately after washing the animal wit
carbolic soap and warm water, mad
|, into strong suds, to be applied with
scrubbing- brush. The washing will il
sure the arsenic lotion thorough
reaching every part of the skin wheI
J the scab appears. Great care must
exercised, however, that the solution
not made too strong. The formula
: half pound of arsenic, mixed thorough
ly with twelve gallons of water.-N
I World. nFt a-a.
The relative merits of hauling ar
|, spreading manure during the wint'
months and deferring the operate
Z until spring provide a question abo
> which there is much debate amor
farmers. Those who advocate u
!, former course peason in this wis
4 There is more time in winter, the Lar
= is dry and hard, the teams are in fiji
4 condition and more ground can be gol
a over with green manure than after fe
Il mentation has taken place. The acti'
a of the frosts and rains will decompo
i and pulverize the manure, mixing
y with the earth The soil will be d
d several days earlier in the spring tn
Il without the application OF manure a
h | an earlier seaSOn 10 VIC icSuif NPF
= nents to this practice contend that N
/ nure spread in the fall loses its ammon
Collie in horses is often brought
bv feeding hay passed through the COZ
sfalk cutter, mixed with meal, mi
al dlinys or bran, and then wet up. L
le horse eats this food, thus prepared,
"a rapidly, that it is not properly mas
Is Gated, and consequently becomes
n. clied in the stomach as to cause indig
Is ton, followed by collie; more especia
=. II directly after eating he is allowed
A. drink heartily OF water; and the cold
is this is, SO much the more liable to bri
M on collie. The best way, when a hol
ID IL brought into the stable, is to let b
in stand a short time, particularly II swe
ING. then give him three or four qua
of water, not over cold, then some
cut hay; after this feed OF grain
" meal; and half an hour or SO after u
'li Is eaten, all the water he pleases,
IN IN drink. Some horses will eat cut !
III with impunity, others cannot, or at ie
" not till after they have first eaten SO
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