The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-10-23

10 Horsemen.-A veterinary surgeon says it is
TACT that seed of the sunfower is the best reme-
dy ever discovered for the speedy cure of founder
IN horses. Immediately on discovering that
horse is foundered, put about pint of whole
SEEDS into his feed. 1t will work perfect cure.
GOOD Soap For soap to clean clothes with
out rubbing Take pounds sal soda, pounds
yellow bar soap, and 10 quarts water. Cut the
soap in thin slices, and boil together 2 hours;
strain, and it will be fit for Put the clothes
in soak the night before you wash, and to every
paiiul of water in which you boil them add a
pound of soap. They will need no rubbing, but
merely rinsiDg.
To Make Good Cider.-An exchange says: "Let
the cider stand about one week, then draw it off
gradually, rinse out the barrel clean and then re-
turn the cider; then mix I 10. ground mustard
and one pint Of sweet milk, put them into the
cider together, stirring the cider all the time.
After letting it stand two weeks draw off gradu-
ally, rinse the barrel again, return the cider into
the barrel, then bung tight, and in one month you
will have cider equal to any Jersey champagne"
+ Fine Gloss to Shirt Bosoms-To laundry shirts
to give the fine gloss to the bosoms, take of white
wax one ounce, spermaceti two ounces, melt them
together with gentle heat. When you have pre-
pared sufficient amount of starch, in the usual
way, for dozen pieces, put into it piece of the
polish about the size of large pea, using more or
less, according to large small washings. Or
thick gum solution (made by pouring boiling
water upon gum arabc) may be used. One table
spoon to pint of starch gives clothes beautiful
gloss.
Pumpk ~ Pie.-Cut the pumpkin into as thin
slices as possible and in stewng it the less water
you use the better; stir that it shall not burn;
when cooked and tender stir in two pinches of
salt; mash thoroughly and then strain through a
sieve; while hot add a teaspoonful of butter; for
every measured quart of stewed pumpkin add
quart of milk and four eggs, beating yoks and
whites separately; sweeten with white sugar and
cinnamon and nutmeg to taste, and saltspoon
>ef ground ginger. Before putting your pumpkin
into your pies it should be scalding hot.
Economy an Fuel.-A correspondent says: zone
of he most difficult things to teach girl is econ
omy in fuel. Nothing seems to satisfy but con-
tinual piling on of coal. As soon as little gas
has been burned off vigorous shaking and rak-
ing out of ashes follows; then the stove filed
anew, touching and lifting the covers, which soon
become red hot, and the process is repeated from
morning till night. Teach her, in order to obtain
and secure good draft the coal ought never to
be above the lining, and in this connection I am
reminded of another practice, which seems to come
to kitchen girls by intuition or handed down by
tradition that is to put sadirons, fatirons, as
hours before use consequently they are ruined, for
if once heated to redness will after retain heat
but short time and loose their smoothness too.
I would rather lend almost anything else to
neghbor than fatiron. In ironing have two
holders to use alternately, thereby lessening the
heat of the hand and insuring greater degree Of
comfort"
Remedy for Diphtheria.-Numbers of children
are suffering from diphtheria, and the skill of the
best physicians frequently proves useless against
the attack of the dread disease. 1t often happens
that simple remedy is of more value in some
cases than the most skillu treatment, and just at
this time all suggestions which bear the evidence
of worth are interesting and valuable. A COM
munication to the St. Louis Post Dispatch gives
remedy which the writer declares was tried with
success in the of the of one of The city
letter carriers, and which is believed to be very
effective 1t is at least harmless, and there can be
ill result from test of its efficacy The recipe
is as follows: Place black oxide to the depth of
half an inch in an ordinary tumbler and put in
enough muriatic acid to form paste. This mix
ture should be placed On the floor of the room or,
what is even better, under the bed occupied by
the patient. The fumes of the mixture will rise
and viii; be breathed by the sufferer in this way
the germs of the disease will be killed and relief
will be afforded in few hours time.
OTeUEy DUTeT.-A WTiteT says many UutteT
makers are sOrely troubled with notified or streaky
butter ami are at loss to tell what causes it.
Many attempt to throw mystery around the
subject by attrbuting the trouble to milk,
age of the cream, food the cows cat and many
other causes that may possibly have done it, just
as it may possibly have been caused by any other
foreign substance getting into the milk, cream or
butter. Why bring about all this confusion while
the fact is that in ninety nine in every one hun
dred cases where notifies appear in the butter it
is caused directly by the salt put in it? To prove
this, take point of toothpick and taste some
from the different coored parts of the butter and
the fresh taste of some and salt taste of others will
satisfy the most skeptical The remedy lies in
LEO directions. FirsS use very fine grained salt
and spread it thoroughly over the butter Will, it
is worked out irto thin sheet. Put the salt in
little at the time, and after it is pretty we'll incor-
porated with the butter, set the mass away for at
least two hours, and then rework it sufficiently to
destroy all streaks or notifies. The other way is
to stop the churn and draw off the buttermilk
when the butter is the size of wheat grains or
little smaller and then thoroughly wash the butter
in a strong brine. The only trouble with this
last method is that it hardly gives a salt enough
taste the butter to suit the open market, though
it is sufficient for the better higher priced Gus
toners. The butter maker must be governed by
the tastes of those who buy his butter.