The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-06-29
USEFUL ANn SUGGESTIVE.


All plants must have nitrogen sup
piled to them 1t is not taken direct
from the atmosphere by any plant, but
is obtained FROM the nitrates and ammo
MIA salts in the soil.
To clean a tea or coffee pot that has
become discolored inside, put into it a
teaspoonful of saleratus and fill two
thirds full of water, and let it boil two
hours. Wash and rinse well before US
ing. The Household
Mullins: Mix together two teacup-
fuls of buttermilk, one teacupful ofthick
cream or three even tablespoonfuls of
melted butter; four eggs and half a tea
spoonful of soda. Thicker to the con-
sistency of waffle batter.
"A cement for stoves: If the stove is
cracked, a good cement is made for it
as follows: Wood-ashes and salt in
equal proportions, reduced to a paste
with cold water, and filed in the cracks
when the stove is cool. 1t wiR soon
harden. #F&
Tomato sauce to pour over meat is
made thus: Stew half a dozen ripe to-
matoes with little chopped parsley,
salt and pepper tOsuit taste; strain it, put
it on the stove again, and when itbegins
to boil add spoonful of flour rubbed
smooth, with a teaspoonful Of butter,
and let it boil up once. IN Y. Post.
Curing Hay: When it is impossi-
bic to cure hay sufficiently in the field.
clover can be put in the NOW by placing
it in alternate layers of clean, dry straw
or old hay Never let clover or other
kinds of grasses dry so much in the sun
as to have the leaves or heads drop OH
when it is being handled or hauled. =
So. Louis Globe.
Moss on single roofs may be re-
moved by the following method: Take
a few pals of Stacked lime, according
to the size of the roof, and throw on the
roof just before a gentle rain or just
after a shower, while the root is wet,
and in a few days the moss will all
loosen and the wind will blow it clean
off the roof, leaving the shingles clean
and white. The moss being of a spongy
nature holds the moisture several days,
which causes the shingles to decay, and
also causes the roof to leak. The lime
also acts as a preservative to the shin
gles.-M Y. Tribune.
Cream Cake: Two cupfuls of
pulVerized sugar, two-thirds of a cupfuJ
of butter, four eggs, half cupful of
milk. half a teaspoonful of soda, one
IC1S DOOnIuA ClOdi11 u lttIJ1Is buItG cup
fuls of -four. Bake in jelly-cake pans
and spread between the layers the fol
lowing: Cream Half pint of milk,
two full teaspoonfuls of corn starch, one
egg, one teaspoonful of vanilla, half a
cupful of sugar; let the milk come to a
boil and stir in the corn starch made
into smooth paste with a little cold
milk; take out a little Of the boiling
milk and add it gradually to the we'll
beaten egg and sugar; stir this into the
rest of the milk and continue Ito stir
constantly until it becomes quite thick
and smooth. Germantown Telegraph.
Regarding the treatment of the
disease termed pink eye" of course
the symptoms vary in different cases,
but l viii give some general directions
which will be found serviceable. The
horse should be placed in a well-venti-
lated stall, but not where he is exposed
to any draughts. Warmly clOthe the
body and bandage the legs loosely with
flannel bandages. Feed only on mill
feed with a little cut hay during the
sickness-no grain or long hay. Give
one of the following powders on the
tongue twice a day: Nitrate of potash,
one ounce; pulverized gentian, One-half
ounce and thirty drops Of the following
medicine in water four times day;
TinctOre nux vomica, four drachms;
tincture aCOnite root, one drachm.-
american Farmer.