Fair play., 1881-08-27
FARM AND f1kE>iDE.

! Vegetable charcoal is highly rec
commended 10y English army vcierinari-
ans - cheap and efficient dressing
for wounds.
When cows are found g9awinc
bones or rotten wood it signifies thev
are troubled with indigestion. Give
each cow il pint Of lin>eed oil ar sweet
/ olive oil, anD. repeat in week if ncc.>-
sary.
Tossed Potatoes Boil some pota-
/ toes IL their skins; peel them and cut
/ INT" small pieces. loss them over the
fire IN 4 mixture # cream. butter rolled
III flour, pepper and salt till they sre
hot ard wei. covered with the sauce.
Lemon Butter for Tart>--Lemou
butter Is excellent for tarts. Il i> made
as follows. One pound puiver!zei white
sugar. whites OF six eggs and velks II
two. three lemons. including CRATE.
riud and juice. Cook twenty minutes
over . Slow ire. stirring all the while.
BY uS;u. strap or mola>>-S for mus
tard p.astrrs. they vii! keep SOFT and
flexible and not Grv up and become
hard. as v men mixed with water. Athin
paper. or line cloth. should come be-
tween the plastcf and the skin. The
strength of the plaster IS varied by the
addition OF more OF less flour.
The simplest and best remedy for
the cabbage is said To be 10
sprinkle. air-siacked lime on the plants
IN the morning, on the dew. till the
plants are white with II. Oue vino has
tried ii for several years saws that. at
most. two applications are sufficient.
The lime i also q good fertilizer ior the :
cabbage.
leach Butter.--Pare ripe peaches !
and put them in preserving kettle. /
with sufficient water IL boil them soft; I
then sift through 4 cnlander. removing !
the stones. 10 each quart Of peaches
put one and one -hlllf pounds sugar, ani /
boil very slowly one hour Stir often
and do not let them burn. Put in stone
or glass jars and keep in cool place.
A poultry house may be freed from
lice bv first thoroughly cleaning out all
the manure. then remnyIns the roosts
and ever. thing IN winch lice may har-
Dor. Next take Il gallon of kerosene
Oil and saturate every crack in which
lice may gather; take ont the iloor and J.
leave the earth, and lastly give the
whole Il thorough soaking with hot
lime wash. Lastly, grease the roosting-
poles with lard and kerosene oil so that
ii gets upon the fowls feathers.
A deep pmcturei wound. such as
one made 10y y horse stepping on 4 nail
which enters the foot, should be imme-
diately enlarged Is much Il, possible by
cutting away the horny sole. and should
then be thoroughly washed with solu-
tion Of salt IN warm water, injected by
means OF syringe. Some compound
t'nciure OF benZoin NAV then bo in
ected, ari - s'i,'r Of tow soaked in the,
linctnre Sh'nid be hcf- i'll the wound
The foot should he Thoroughly soaked
in warm water twice Il day and .ir,ss,,i
II The wound is closed much mischief
will result. and it must be kept omen
until it heals from the bottom.-N. J.
Itni-S.
-Drying Apples. Apples sliced may
be dried very fast under 4 suitable
Kitchen stove by taking up the ashes
clean every morning. Have three extra
"ide boards "f suitable length To fit
under the stove. nail strips of lath
around them to keep TIE fruit on; raise
he back cad TO ge, all the heat Won
AN. When the fruit gets hot. take the
board ont and stir the fruit well and let
'ooi while another board of fruit is
leating; change often. 4 rack male
u laths ani hung over the stove should
liso he used tn save the heat. The
quicker apples are dried after being cut
he whittier they look.
The advice to p0ur hot SOAP suls
'ver an ant : nest rs Il means OF extjr
'3tion viii not always be found effect
We. These insects are almost Is diff
ult 10 eradicate completed y as cancer.
nd never saw gardener more nom
luSse,i and d.Spairinr thar .-!,"
ried everything conceivable TO relieve
he ladies' of the house from the anuoy-
nee of an ant Hest Hear the summer
ouSe. for two or three seasons. without
citing rid OF them. He said 10 had
led sc;,iLing hot water, used coal oil,
llphur, blasting with powder. etc,
nd yet they would SOON reappcar. !
hat was before car5oiic acid came into
pnimon use. which. poured into ,lihbcr I
oles. deeply sunk here and there,
hight have proved etiec.iye.-Co Cor. n. / I
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