Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1882-02-11
HOME AND FARM.

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When 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. .a.a
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. ttt
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 pine-wool
vest which fits the body closely. In adj
dition to their being made of this fabric,
whose healing properties are well known,
they are lined with channels leather,
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. T., 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 bis 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 waterlng-pot.
1t is said that German experiment.
ers have successfully applied electricity
4 To bees when they were swarming. BY
tho uso of electric foreo the bees are
stupe6ed 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 a
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-
bread, take cue cup of butter, two OF
sugar, one of sour milk, two eggs, one
, tablespoonful of yellow ginger, one tea
, spoonful saleratus (heaping if the milk
be very Sour), and flour enough to roll.
, Beat the sugar and butter to cream,
then beat in the eggs, add the ginger
and sour milk, in which the saleratus is
dissolved and then the flour. Roll about
half an inch thick; mark it off with q
jagging-iron, in strips about three inch
es wide and six inches long. Bake on
= tin sheets in quick oven.-ChrjStidn
: Union.
The hemlock makes a beautiful
:. screen when kept moderately cut back
4 the foliage retaining its fresh green hue
through the winter, and growing better
in shade than most evergreens. Fol
I this reason the interior of the hedge doe:
:, not become so denuded and bare a
u those of the arbor VITAE and some othel
trees In addition to its beauty it ma,
o be made strong barrier by stretching
lengthwise through its center two gooC
!, galvanized barbed wires as the hedge i
d growing up and forming. The bes
plants can be had of nurserymen, VIII,
Is sell them by the hundred or thousand
$ and if some earth is retained on thei
d roots in removal they will live.
1t In cases of diphtheria, it appears t
70 us that fresh air is the first necessity
e we should allow diphtherial patient t
be near an open window. Next, W
a should use hot malt vinegar for fame
p wraps round the throat, gargles of tn
ID same diluted with water, and the mos
,. nor mineral t6hics, but hot, Stron
10 wines, yelks of eggs beaten up in stron
L beef tea; warm baths made of chamC
a. mile flowers; feet placed in mustar
and water, and flannel wraps soaked i
Of hot vinegar around the stomach. Th
! juice pressed from raw beef, heated in
\ farina boiler and given constantly, bu
"a above all, hot, red wine. Limitations {
nj the fumes of vinegar with open mout
7 and pencilings of the same within th
q mouth. The use of lemons is also to b
70 recommended. Diphtheria is a prt
! ventable disease, and when we kno
y. more of the conditions under which tn
a. health of human life can exist, and al
Z inclined to listen to it and act accordin
Ia to it, we shall have fewer epidemic
- such as those of diphtheria. FOOD al,
~ Health.