The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-10-20
FARM AND PRESIDE.

Vegetable charcoal is highly REQ
ommended by English army veterinari-
ans as cheap and efficient dressing
for wounds.
When cows are found gnawinR
bones or rotten wood it signifies they
are troubled with indigestion. Give
each COW a pint of linseed oil or sweet
olive oil, and repeat in a week if necea-
sary.
Tossed POtatoes.-Boil some pota-
toes in their skins; peel them and cut
into small pieces. Toss them over the
fire in a mixture of cream, butter rolled
in -four, pepper and salt till they ara
hot and well covered with the sauce.
Lemon Butter for Tarts.-Lemon
butter is excellent for tarts. 1t is made
as follows: One pound pulverized whit9
sugar, whites of six eggs and yelks Of
two, three lemons, including grated
rind and juice. Cook twenty minutes
over slow fire, stirring all the while
BY using sirup or molasses for mus
tard plasters, they will keep soft and
flexible and not dry up and become
hard, as when mixed with water. A thin
paper, or fine cloth, should come be-
tween the plaster and the skin. ThG
strength of the plaster is varied by tha
addition of more or less flour.
The simplest and best remedy foE
the cabbage-worm is said to be "a
sprinkle air-slacked lime on the plants
in the morning, on the dew, till tha
plants are white with it. One who has
tried it for several years says that, at
most, two applications are sufficient
The lime is also good fertilizer for thu
cabbage.
Peach Butter. ripe peaches
and put them in a preserving kettle,
with sufficient water to boil them soft;
then sift through cOlander, removing
the stones. TO each quart of peaches
put one and one-half pounds sugar, and
boil very slowly one hour. Stir often
and do not let them burn. Put in stone
or glass jars and keep in a cool place.
"A poultry house may be freed from
lice by first thoroughly cleaning out all
the manure, then removing the roosts
and everything in which lice may har-
Dor. Next take a gallon of kerosene
oil and saturate every crack in which
lice may gather; take out the floor and
leave the earth, and lastly give the
whole a thorough soaking with hot
lime wash. Lastly, grease the roosting-
poles with lard and kerosene oil so that
it gets upon the fowls feathers.
A deep punctured wound, such as
one made by a horse stepping on a nail
which enters the foot, should be imme-
diately enlarged as much as possible by
cutting away the horny sole, and should
then be thoroughly washed with solu-
ton of salt in warm water, injected by
means of a syringe. Some compound
tincture of benzoin may then be in
jected, and a plug of tow soaked in the
tincture should be kept in the woupd.
The foot should be thoroughly soaked
in warm water twice a day and dressed.
If the wound is closed much mischief
will result, and it must be kept open
until it heals from the bottom.-N. y
Times.
Drying Apples. Apples sliced may
be dried very fast under a suitable
kitchen stove by taking up the ashes
clean every morning. Have three extra
wide boards of suitable length to fit
under the stove, nail strips of lath
around them to keep the fruit on; raise
the back end to get all the heat you
can. When the fruit gets hot, take the
board out and stir the fruit well and let
cool while another board of fruit is
heating; change often. A rack made
of laths and hung over The stove should
also be used to save the heat. The
quicker apples are dried after being cut
the whittier they Look.
The advice to pour hot soap suda
over an ants nest as a means of extir-
patton will not always be found effect
i've. These insects are almost as diff
cult to eradicate completely as a cancer,
and never saw gardener more non
plussed and despairing than one who
tried everything conceivable to relieve
the ladies of the house from the annoy
ance of an ants nest near the summer
house, for two or three seasons, without
getting rid of them. He said he had
tried scalding hot water, used coal oil,
sulphur, blasting with powder, ETC.,
and yet they would soon reappear.
That was before carbolic acid came into
common use, which, poured into dibber
holes, deeply sunk here and there,
might have proved effective.--COr. NJ
Y. Tribune.