Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1881-02-24
m0ME. rARM AND aARpEN.

IN &NA"H 49, 49,
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Tiff dnieKest and best way TO boil
milk Is to put II into n tin dish and set
that into a kettle OF boiling water. THUS
scorching is avoided.
A HORSE once spawned is always
spawned, says a writer in the National
Ldre- St0ch Joarndl, the assertions ot1
patent-nostrnm and sure-cure pretend.
ers TO the contrary, Notwithstanding.
Snow melts away upon drained lands
sooner than on those undraineds hence
the drained soils are ready for blowing
much sooner.T In Scotland it is claimed
that the harvest Is from ten to fifteen
days earlier, on drained than on un-
drained lands This Is only one out of
many advantages resulting from a good
sgstem OF drainage. B .E@ FHl
A CEMENT FOR RUBBER Rubber
boots may be repaired by a cement
made as follows: Cut gutta-pereha in
small pieces, aud dissolve IL in benzine
to a thin mucilago. Clean the rubber
free from grease with benzine and n
sponge, and apply the patch covered
with the guttas perqha cement. The
cement should be warmed by putting the
bottle in hot water before it is used.
ARRowRooT PUpDING.-From a
quart of new milk take q small teaeup-
full and mix IL with two large spoOnfuls
of arrowroot. Boil the remainder of
the milk and stir IL 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 II welltogether am bake in
a buttored dish fifteen or twenty min
utes.
TREATMENr FOR ScATcHEs.
Scratches is a disease of the blood
which breaks out in the heels because
OF some provoking cause at that place.
II it did not appear there 10 would APP
pear elsewhere. The treatment should
be to give q dose OF twelve ounces of
EPSON salts, and then one ounce OF
hyposuphite Of soda daily for two or
three weeks. The diseased legs should
be washed with warm SOAP and water
and then with q solution OF one. dram
of chloride OF zinc in q quart OF water.
IN, Y. Times.
MoLAssEs CANpY.-Heat a kettle hot
and butter IL, then pour in a quart of
molasses and q cup of sugar. Boil
steadily for twenty minutes, stirring to
prevent burning and boiling oyer. Try
II by dropping . little Ia cold water; Il
il hardens Immediately it il done, 9th
erwise 1t must be boiled longer. Stir
in u teaspoonful OF pulveri1ed soda be-
fore turning out. Walnut. hickory-nut,
or hazel-nut meats NAV be added to this
candy, and n little. of it saved to mako
popcorn balls. Use just as little candy
rs possible in these balls and let none
OF IL get on the. outside where they
should look perfectly white.
THE Journal Of Chemistry publishes
q recipe for the destruction OF insects,
which, if IT be one-half as eficacious
as It is claimed to be, will prove in
valuable: Hot alum water is q recent
suggestion as am insecticide. II will
destroy red and black ants, cook
reaches, chinch-bugs, and all the crawl
ing pests which infest our houses.
Take two pounds Of alum and dissolve
it in three or four quarts OF boiling
water; let it stand on the fire till ths
alum disappears then apply it with a
brush, while nearly boiling hot, tc
every Joint and crevice nyonr closets,
bedsteads, pantry shelves and the like,
Brush crevices in the floor of the skirt
lug, or mop-boards. i you suspect
| they harbor vermin
EcoNoMr IN THE CELLAR. LII the
majority of cellars there has been
stored for family use, for feeding do.
nestle animals, or for future market
ing, q quantity Of fruits and vegeta-
bles, such as apples, turnips, beets.
pumpkins, etc. Al certain portion Of
these fruits and roots win, during the
winter, commences 10 decay, Especially
II the condition Of the cellar is not
favorable for keeping them. Another
portion will be found, upon asserting
them over, 70 be unfit for market or for
table use. These affected OF imfrm
Specimens should not be allowed to re.
main in the cellar 70 pollute the afr in
rooms above with noxious odors, but
they should be turned 70 good account
by feeding them TO stock.
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