Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1882-09-28
Farm And FIRESIDE.

For warts on animals, j. B.
Mathews gives the following Take a
small quantity of arsenic, and a good
sized piece of Irvine, dissolve the arsenic
in water, soak the Irvine in the solution,
then tie around the neck of the wart.
It Will come, off in a week, root and
branch. Have succeeded in it when all
other remedies failed.-PrGirGe Farmer.
Rats in Granaries A correspondent
of the Journal ~ agriculture PROGRESSIVE
suggests a method of getting rid of these
pests that has the advantage of having
| been most successful in his own case. It
| is to fill their holes with chloride of lime
and oxalic acid, when violent olsen
gagement of chlorine takes place, their
holes are filled with gas and they are
suffOcated.
The test as to whether a young tree
! is making sufficient growth or not is made
| by examining its new shoots. If these
grow twelve to fifteen inches annually,
neither manure nor additional culture is
probably needed. If less than this
| length of new wood is grown, something
is needed TO stimulate the growth and
increase the vigor of the tree.-N 7.
Examiner.
|
skin of sweet potato, after due remon-
| STRANGE, try to make it as nearly eatable
as possible. To do this the potatoes
should be baked in a dripping-pan; the
skin will then be baked uniformly, and
there is almost no danger of its burning
on one side. If you have enough left
from one meal to warm for another, do
not throw them away, but slice them
thin and fry them in butkor
"A pretty way to cover hair cushion
is to knit stripes of zephyr worsted or OF
yarn in different colors. Suppose you
have three stripes, one of red, one OF
blue, and the third of black, knit them
together, put them over the cushion, and
at each corner fasten a scarlet bow, or,
| instead of bows at the four corners, a
cord and balls made of worsted look
very pretty at the two front corners.
This cushion has soft, warm look
which is appreciated in winter.-M Y.
Post
Preserved Ounces: Ounces get
black if allowed to stand; pare them and
quarter them quickly; [ remove the
seeds, as it makes the strip in boiling
pasty; I use hot water to put them in
when they are to be boiled; when they
| SAAO OOlAOu DOI4NO4S OIbAC OlAG c1L1O
drain them; make strip with three
pounds of sugar to pint of water; re-
place the pieces of ounce into the strip
and cook very carefully; take out the
pieces and put in jars, and then add
sirup.-iSt. Louis Globe.
Most persons, no doubt, have seen
hogs eating hay during the winter
months, in but small quantities, it is true,
but still eating it. If clover is cut when
in fullest bloom, well cured and stored
away, the hay becomes valuable food
for hogs, especially when fed but little
else than corn. To utilize it, cut it in q
cutting box, a half to three-fourths Of
an inch long, mixed with bran, shorts
or cornmeal, and moisten it with swill
or even water; if made scalding hot the
better. Then let it stand for a few
hours before feeding it out. Any of the
grasses, if cut in bloom and made into
hay, will answer a good purpose, but
clover is preferable. Besides being
valuable as food, hay thus fed is pre-
ventive of disease in hogs full fed or
corn bicGgO Journal.