Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-02-14
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Hints That win be Found Useful To the Ear.
mer and His Family

anu give IL 70 the chickens. This is a
help alike to the chickens and to the
dish-washers.
To beat the whites of eggs quickly, put
| In pinch of salt. The cooler the eggs
the quicker they will froth. Salt eools
and also freshens them.
Apple Shortcake: Make the cake of
biscuit dough, with teaspoonful of su-
gar added to it; or take one-half cupful
OF butter and cut them into a quart of
-four.
Rose leaves dried in the shade. cloves
beaten to a powder, mace scraped. Mix
them together and put the composition
IN bags. 1t makes nice perfume for
linen.
Sprinkle salt Immediately over any
spot where something has boiled over on
the stove, and the place may be more
easily cleaned. This also counteracts the
bad ordor.
The most charming decorations for a
plate is good piece of beefsteak with
well cooked potatoes, and just asuf6ciency
OF gravy. 1t will lay over trailing vines
or sunfower any day.
A carelessly kept coffee-pot will impart
a rank flavor to the strongest infusion of
the best Java. Wash the coffee-pot
thoroughly every day, and twice week
boil borax and water in 1t for fifteen min
uteS.
For profit don't keep old fowls year
after year, except for extraordinary mer-
its. Some few old hens are famous
mothers, and are worth keeping on that
account, sometimes. But as rule work
them OF IN two years or so.
Take some plain boiled rice, put it into
a saucepan with lump of butter, and
add as much tOmato-sauc as the rice
will take up, and plenty of grated cheese
Mix well and keep stirring on the fire
till hot. Serve piled high on the dish.
LUMPs ON Cows.-About six weeks ago
l noticed an enlargementnuder my cows
belly. 1t has grown larger rapidly, and
is now as large again as an egg, hard,
somewhat Infamed, but not very sensi-
tive to the touch. For some distance
around the hide feels hard and thick,
as if adherent to these places. The rest
of her hide is loose and natural. She
eats well, but is losing flesh, seems dull
and stupid, and gives much less guam
tity of milk. I have fed no grain, but
| plenty of good, clean, bright timothy and
clover hay, and some fodder She is
about ten years old, and one of my best
COWS having given as high as IS pounds
per day on grass. Y. F. West Camden,
N. Y. Give her II pints of raw linseed
| oil, half an ounce of compound tiUcture
of aloes, and 2 OF. of spirits of turpentine
Repeat on the second day. Rub the
swelling with the following twice daily
for four days, then repeat: Powdered
iodine, DIR; powdered iodide of POTASH
I'm o., and vaseline, 3 OF; mix. COW,a-
ry Gentlemen.
Cabbage makes a valuable food for
poultry, as it contains large per cent. of
phosphoric acid. It is all the more valu-
able, because where cabbages are kept in
the cellar or used in winter, there is al
ways supply of green food forthe fowls.
If there is large accumulation OF
course manure, put it where the fowls
can reach it. They will not only scratch
it to a fine condition, but be benefited
| by the exercise.
Do not overlook the fact that sheep re-
quire shelter now, as well as other ami
mails.
A writer in the London Garden says
that for plants under glass, infested with
bug and scale insects, parafhne has proved
most efficient remedy, and will do more
in an hour than could be effected in a
day by sponging and brushing. But its
powerful nature should never be forgot
ten, and it must not be applied too strong,
or without continual stirring. The crud-
est and least pure oil, being heavier and
less inclined to float on water, is best.
Two or three tablespoonful to q gallon
of water isstrOng enough to kill any OF
the above named insects. For bugs on
wood work it isused unmixed, and brush
ed over like paint into every crack. On
some tender growth it may prove hurt
full, even if largely diluted.
WART.-Have a colt that has wart OF
cancer, low down on the hip. l took ii
off with acid but it broke out again. Take
carbolic acid, pure. and touch the surface
as often as convenient.
SURFETr IN PIGs.-Have two pigs thai
have been fed mill feed all summer; they
will not eat corn; seem to have some
kind of fits. You have Overfed the hogs
and having no outdoor exercise they art
the subjects of such attacks.
THUMBS IN HoGs.-What is good fo
thumps in hogs? We presume you NEAR
what will cure the distressed breathing
Keep the hog in comfortable, dry quar-
tiers feed bran slop for few days, Will
salt and sulphur, and wood or coal ashe
as d tonic.
FRS IN CALF-Have a calf month
old that has fits. The stomach contain
some foreign substance, that is baked OIL
the walls of the third stomach. TAX
molassess 1 pint, carbonate of magnesi
} o., pint of warm flax-seed Cruel; mil
and give every morning; do not give an.
hay till the bowels are relaxed.
/
, SECURING IN STEER.-Have a steer tina
has secured for three or four months;
not thriving. Take EPSON salts l pounC
molasses 1 pint; mix in quart of warn
; faxseed Cruel; give every evening TO
one week; then 20 drops of tincture {
nux vomica in the water to drink, tire
times day; till the bowels respond t
treatment. Feed Drowned oats occasion