The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-06-30
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Steamed Corn Bread.-One quart
buttermilk. one pint wheat flour, one
heaping tablespoonful sugar, one large
teaspoOnful soda, two eggs, corn meal
to thicken and a little salt.
Many turkeys die off very sudden
" from salt carelessly left in their way.
Sometimes the old brine is turned out
from meat or fish barrels. Sometimes
it is left upon rock or in troughs where
cattle and sheep have been pastured.
Put your refuse salt where the turkeys
cannot find it.
Speaking of farmers horses, the
National Livestock Journal says the
kind of animal needed by most farmers
is one weighing from twelve hundred
to fifteen hundred pounds, and fifteen
and half to sixteen hands high. COM
pact, vigorous, hardy, active and docile.
II, beyond this, it has fine form and
style allied to good action, so much the
better.
Experience proves that lime-water
and milk are not only food and medicine
at an early period of life, but also at a
later. when the functions of digestion
and assimilation are feeble and easily
perverted. A stomach taxed by glut-
tony, irritated by improper food, in
famed by alcohol, enfeebled by disease,
or otherwise untitled for its duties-as
is shown by the various symptoms at
tendant upon Indigestion, dyspepsia,
diarrhea, dysentery and fever twill re-
sumo its work, and do it theoretically,
on an exclusive diet of bread-and-milk
h0,r rs 20
milk may have four tablespoonsfuls of
lime-water to it with good effect.
In nearly all the directions for
making labels or permanently marking
ornamental and bearing fruit trees, u
hole is to be punched through the
metal plate or card, and a wire inserted
to be twisted around side branch for
securing it to the tree. This requires
labor, and the wind swings the label
which wears into the bark, and unless
the wire is quite stout it ultimately
cracks off. A cheaper, easier, more
secure and safer label for the tree is to
cut the zinc plate into narrow strips,
wider at the end to be written on, and
narrow at the end to wind around the
branch. The wind does not rattle it,
and the concentric coil expands as the
limb grows.
"A Tribune inquirer asks show to
waterproof canvas stack covers made
of unbleached muslin" l have used
the following method for over ten
years, on tents, awnings and wagon
covers. which not only renders the ma
terial waterproof but mold proof as
well, and, to a satisfactory extent, fire
proof: Take common rosin soap, dis
solve in cold water to the consistency
of paint, give it good coat thoroughly
rubbed in, let dry forty-eight hours,
then soak in alum water for another
forty-eight hours, occasionally turning
the cloth so as to expose every part to
the action of the alum; dry, and the
article is ready. This should be re-
peated at least once in two years when
used and exposed to the weather, as an
awning usually is. Cost is trihing. Will
not rot or crack, as with paint or OIL
Cor. N. y Tribs1se.
--Grape-vines can be trained to
stakes as we'll as on trellises, and
wherever a man has room enough to
grow a currant bush he has enough for
a grapevine. OF course, you cannot
expect vine confined to such circum-
scribed limits to bear as much fruit as
one spread out on a trellis; still, what
it does produce will be as good as
though the vine was allowed more
room. Vines trained on stakes should
receive the same kind of treatment as
those on trellises, except that they
must be pruned more severely, and it is
well to check the growth in Summer by
pinching off the ends of the young
shoots, from time to time, in order to
keep within prescribed limits. We
know that many of our vineyardists
assert that the American vines must
not be subjected to as close pruning as
the foreign varieties, but this is sheer
nonsense, as has been proved hundreds
of times. Christi an at Work.