Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-03-03
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n HORSE once spaVineu Is Always
spawned. SAYS writer in the National
Lire Stock journal. the assertions of
patent-nostrum and sure-cure pretend
ers to the contrary, notwithstanding.
Snow melts away upon drained lands
sooner than ON those undrained, hence
the drained soils are ready for blowing
much sooner. In Scotland il is claimed
that the harvest is from ten to fifteen
days earlier on drained than on I'M
drained lands. This is only one out of
many advantages resulting from a good
system OF drainage.
A CEMENT FOR RUBBER.
boots may be repaired by a cement
made As follows: Cut gutta-percha in
small pieces. and dissolve il in benzine
toa thin mucilage. Clean the rubber
free from grease with benzine and a
sponge, and apply the patch covered
with the gutta-percha cement. The
cement should be warmed BY putting the
bottle in hot water before it is used.
ARRowRoor PUDDING.-From
quart OF new milk take a small teacup-
full and mix it with two large spoonfuls
of arrowroOt. Boil the remainder of
the milk and stir it amongst the arrow
root; add when cold four well-beaten
eggs, with two ounces loaf sugar, and
the same of fresh butter broken into
small pieces; season with grated nut
meg. Mix it well together and bake in
buttered dish fifteen or twenty min
utes.
TREATMENT FOR SCRATCHES
Scratches is disease OF the blood
which breaks out in the heels because
of some provoking cause at that place.
If it did not appear there it would APP
pear elsewhere. The treatment should
be to give 4 dose of twelve ounces of
EPSON salts, and then one ounce of
hyposulphite of soda daily for two or
three weeks. The diseased legs should
be washed with warm soap and water
and then with a solution of one dram
OF chloride of zinc in q quart of water
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MoLassEs CANDY.-Heat kettle hot
and butter it. then pour in a quart of
molasses and cup of sugar. Boil
steadily for twenty minutes. stirring to
prevent burning and boiling over. Try
it by dropping a little in cold water: if
If hardens immediately it is done, 9TH
erwise it must be boiled longer Stir
in teaspoonful of pulverizcd soda be-
fore turning out. Walnut, hickory-nut.
or hazel-nut meats may be added TO this
candy, and Il little OF il saved to make
popcorn balls. Use Just as little candy
as possible in these balls and let none
of i; get on the outside, where they
should look perfectly white.
The journal OF Chemistry publishes
a recipe for the destruction of insects.
which. if it be one-half as eificacious
as il is claimed to be. will prove in
valuable: Hot alum water is recent
suggestion rs an insecticide. 1t will
destroy red and black ants. cock
reaches, chinch-bue and all the crawl
ing pests which iIfest our houses.
Take two pounds of alum and dissolve
it in three or four quarts of boiling
water: let il stand on the fire till the
alum disappears; then apply it with a
brush. while nearly boiling hot, 10
every joint and crevice in your closets,
5edsteads, pantry shelves and the like.
Brush crevices in the floor of the skirt
ing, or mop-boarGs, l. You suspect
they harbor vermin.
ECONOMY IN THE CELLAR.-In the
majority of cellars there has been
stored for family use. for feeding do
nestle animals. or for future market
ing. quantity of fruits and vegeta-
bles, such as apples, turnips. beets.
pumpkins, etc. A certain portion OF
these fruits and roots will, during the
winter. commence to decay. especially
if the condition of the cellar is not
favorable for keeping them. Another
portion will be found, upon asserting
them over, 10 be unfit for market or for
table use. These affected or infirm
specimens should not be allowed to re-
main in the cellar TO poilpte the air in
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