Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-02-16
HOME AND FARM.

VIXEN trees are transplanted the
roots are always more or less injured,
hence it is always best to cut off the
wounded parts of the roots and head
back the top to correspond with the
roots left.
To wash red table linen, use tepid
water, salt, and powdered borax. Dry
in the shade, stretch smooth, and iron
when partly dry with an iron not too
hot. A great degree of heat spoils the
color.
TO make yellow sponge cake, take
one and half cups of sugar, three
eggs, half cup sweet milk, four table,
spoonfuls of baking powder, one tea
spoon lemon essence; beat whites and
yelks separate,
"A new invention as preventive of
neuralgia or rheumatism is a pine-wool
vest which fits the body closely. In add
dition to their being made of this fabric,
whose healing properties are well known,
which is perforated, so as not to check or
retard the natural action of the skin.
Mr.. S. r. Hart, of Brighton, near
Rochester, n. Y, has used, during two
years past, water impregnated with gas
tar for the purpose of destroying insects
on his potato vines. 1t has proved more
effective than Paris green, and has been
used with equal effect on his currant
bushes. Two quarts of gas-tar to a
pailful of water are the proportions used,
and the vines or bushes are sprinkled
by means of watering-pot.
1T is said that German experiment
ers have successfully applied electricity
to bees when they were swarming. By
the use of electric force the bees are
stupefied for the period of time needful
to handle them, and without being in
jured. The first attempt was made up
on bees that had gathered upon trees,
the insects falling upon the ground in
kind of trance. which admitted of their
being safely handled. A hiveful was
next treated in the same manner and
with equal success, the bees remaining
inactive for half an hour, with no bad
results.
To make old-time sheet-ginger-
sugar, one of sour milk, two eggs, one
spoonful saleratus (heaping if the milk
Beat the sugar and butter to a cream,
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and sour milk, in which the saleratus is
dissolved and then the flour. Roll about
half an inch thick; mark it off with
jagging-i iron, in strips about three inch
es wide and six inches long. Bake on
tin sheets in a quick GENERALIZATION
Union.
In cases of diphtheria, it appears to
US that fresh air is the first necessity;
we should allow diphtherial patient to
be near an open window. Next, we
should use hot malt vinegar for flannel
wraps round the throat, gargles of the
same diluted with water, and the most
tonic diet possible. Neither quinine
nor mineral tonics, but hot, strong
wines, yelks of eggs beaten up in strong
beef tea; warm baths made of chamo-
mile flowers; feet placed in mustard
and water, and flannel wraps soaked in
hot vinegar around the stomach. The
juice pressed from raw beef, heated in a
farina boiler and given constantly, but,
above all, hot, red wine. Inhalations of
the fumes of vinegar with open mouth
and pencilings of the same within the
mouth. The use of lemons is also to be
recommended. Diphtheria is pre-
ventable disease, and when we know
more of the conditions under which the
health of human life can exist, and are
inclined to listen to it and act according
to it, we shall have fewer epidemics
such as those of iphtheria.-FoOd and
Health.