The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-03-22
HOME AND FARM.


Sickness of the stomach Is most
promptly relieved by drinking teacup-
full of hot soda and water. 1t brings
the offending matter up all the better.
White leaves and variegated white
and green leaves indicate degeneracy in
plant A branch with leaves entirely
white Is no longer capable of propaga-
ton; 1t is in the last stage of its exist
ence.
Farmers, take care of your health.
There Is no comfort of life or ability for
physical energy without health. Keep
your feet warm and dry, and you will in
measure be able to bid defiance to
storms and oold.-IllirsOis State Register.
TO make gooh mustard, take three
teaspoonfuls Of ground mustard, tea
spoonful Of white sugar. Mix together,
pour over boiling water and mix to a
smooth, thick paste. When cold add q
teaspoonfui Of salt and vinegar to make
thin enough for use.
Dried Peach, Pie: Stew the peaches
until perfectly soft, mash fne, sweeten,
add 9. small piece of butter to each pie,
bake with two crusts and Just before eat
ing take'ph the top crust, pour over q
halt cup of thick, sweet cream, return
day baked. s-s....
"A Sonoma, CAL, farmer has raised
hve cork trees, which are now twenty
i've to thirty feet in height and from ten
10 twelve inches in diameter. One coat
Of cork, one and a quarter inch thick,
has been stripped off. The tree re-
sembles the live oak in foliage. The
seeds were brought from Spain twenty
years ago. -s 81. p
--A Amill-pick maker advises that in
grinding picks the pressure be not too
great, and that sufficient water be used
% that heating, which always Injuries
the temper, be prevented. 1t should be
borne in mind that cracking picks should
not be used for furrowing, and no pick
should be used after its edges are worn
too blunt. When picks are blunt grind
them to q straight level, one-eighth or
three-eighths long. -
AT the annual meeting of the North
eastern Beekeepers Association the
question of bees puncturing grapes was
brought up. This Is important among
beekeepers, and it is one over which le-
gal difficulties have often been threat
bneds 1t was the unanimous opinion of
Al present that honey-bees r1erer under
any circumstances puncture the, skin of
, grape. Tests heve been repeatedly
made, and in no ease has any bee ever
been known. to touch q grape that was
not punctured. Black ants are tbs ene-
mics of the grapes. Two bills were in-
troduced in the California Legislature to
do away with all bees on this account.
a careful examination and an extended
debate proved that there was not a sim
gle case of bees puncturing grapes.
MANY people who handle wood do
not know that If they wish the bark to
come off they should pile it bark down.
IL they wish to retain the bark the op-
posite course should be taken. A cor
Respondent writes to the Detroit Post
and Tribune, giving his experience, as
follows: al have sold-wood for over
forty years in Michigan, and find that
when wood Is corded bark up the bark
remains on until I sell and measure up
the wood. and all that is piled bark
down the bark falls off and mea sures
nothing; beside, there is more heat in
the bark than in the sap of the log. The
most and best ashes are also in the bark.
I have on my place now some maple
wood that was chopped nine years ago
and corded bark up, and. the bark
would hold on If 1 would draw the wood
s18 miles and cord up and measure; be-
side, the bark is lighter to draw. Where
the bark is piled down the water runs in
around the wood and makes it dozy, wet
and heavy. Tell your neighbors to try
it. Railroad companies would save
thousands of dollars by piling their wood
bark up.