Show t I INDOORS AND OUT I f f The Firm Orcfiara Garden and Household i > f L HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL Frost Bites Stable Rules Cattle Thirst Neuralgia Cold Feet Cheese etc Glaze the bottom crust of fruit pies with wKife of egg and they will not be soggy To stop the nose from bleed Ing stick wadof brown paper as far up under the upper lip as possible Invalids who are fortunate in haying hay-ing soapstone foo warmers will find bags of sand heated in the oven an excellent ex-cellent substitute Dr Doane recommends equal parts of vaseline and turpentine spirits I with a little carbolic acid as an excellent application appli-cation for frost bites If you have a csae of neuralgia gradually grad-ually coming remaining at its height for a time I and gradually leaving exhibit ex-hibit a dose of stannum and you will certainly relieve yourself in a short time and the neuralgia will not return ExIt Ex-It is said the French have discovered that a mixture of oil naptha quicklime quick-lime and water will destroy the winter eggs of the phylloxera without injuring the grapevines The remedy is efficient and cheap and winter is the best time to attack the scourge When plants in the seedbed by the kitchen window come up long and slender slen-der it shows that the temperature is too high This is the most common fault with amateurs in hothouse gardening Experienced gardeners take care te air frequently making the plants more hardy Unless this is done large numbers num-bers will be lost in transplanting and the labor in growing them will be worse than wasted Some interesting experiments have been made in France on the advantages of giving water to milch cowswarmed instead oMn its natural cold state At agricultural school of St Keray two cows were fed on the same food but one was supplied with cold water and the other with water heated to 113 ° Fahr The latter yielded onethird more milk Veterinary Professor Cornevia has obtained ob-tained similar results Sippel recommends the following as the best way to obtain nearly all the juice of raw meat Cut one pound of best lean beef in slices about onethird inch thick and lay the slices one alongside the other on a strip of muslin six inches wide and a yard long sprinkling with fine salt Now roll up the whole strip tie a string several times around and put in an ordinary or-dinary press After half an hour about onehalf pint of red transparent juice will obtained BeeKeepsrs should impress on the minds of their customers that extracted honey is far superior and nothing like the old strained honey For it is a fact that not one person in fifty understands that by machinery specially prepared for the purpose the comb is rapidly revolved re-volved the honey is throw out of the cells and the combs replaced in the hive to be filled again and again extracted extrac-ted This gives pure honey I not strained honey containing dead bees beebread scraps of comb etcEx The following directions are credited to Lord Hampden They are worthy of a conspicuous place in every stable Up hillwhip me not Down hill hurry jne not On level roadspare me not Loose in stableforget me not With sponge and waterneglect me notOf Of clean waterstint me not Of soft dry beddeprive me not Tired or hot leaveone not Sick or coldchill me not With bit or reinsoh jerk me not When you are angrystrike me not Every farmer should keep a can of the following mixture Kerosene two quarts linseed oil one gill rosin one ounce Melt the rosin in the linseed oil and add to the kerosene Coat all steel or iron tools wherever bright with this when they are to lie idle if for only a few days It will not tnke half a minute min-ute or nail a teaspoonful of the mixture to coat a plow when one has finished using it and it will prevent all rust and save half a days time in cleaning it when it is again needed besides saving the team many thousands pounds of extra pulling Coat the iron work of the mowers and reapers with it when they are put away for the winter A little rust is only a little thing I but it makes much difference in the aggregate I know whereof I affirm when I say that during every hard winter upon these western plains especially in Montana Mon-tana and Wyoming thousands of cattle perish from thirst It is impossible impos-sible probably I to form an adequate conception of the dumb misery of the poor brutes as they wander painfullY over the bleak plains in search of water which is everywhere frozen but enough may be realized to render its contemplation contem-plation by persons of ordinary sensi bility sufficiently appalling The horrors of thjrstas experienced by shipwrecked ship-wrecked mariners and desert explorers have often been the theme of moving songand story We cannot conceive ot a wretch base enough to wantonly leave a horse or a cow to perish in their I stalls for lack of water The man who would condemn the meanest cur to I die of thirst would be justly execrated I Yet such is the fate which I under the only methods of conducting the stock business that our present land laws favor annually befalls thousands of our domestic cattleEx doctor in the Phrenological Journal says that he has tried this cure for a felon in many cases and has never known it to fail Take common salt roasted on a hot stove until all the chlorine gas is thrown off or it is as dry as you can make it To a teasnoon ful and also a teaspoonful of pulverized pulver-ized castile soap add a teaspoonful of Venice turpentine mix them well into a poultice and apply to the felon If you nave ten felons at once make as many poultices Renew this poultice twice a day In four or five days vour felon will if not opened before your I poultice is first put on present a hole i down to the bone where the nttip matter was before your poultice brought out If the felon has Pj cut open or opened itself or is aboutvto1 take off the finger to the first joint no matter put on your poultic it will stop right there and in time your finger will get well even if one of the firs bones is gone Of course it will not restore the lost bone but it will get well soon In the report of Dr Hopkins veterinarian veter-inarian of the Wyoming association I a cause of the death of states bulls and cattle was brought out that has escaped es-caped the notice of our cowmen It was supposed that states cattle die in larger numbers than others because the cold was more intense and the feed of a different kind It appears that they do not die as much from this reason however as from the fact that these changes bring diseases common to all pilgrims on the range The fact has now been established beyond all doubt that bulls and especially pilgrims cannot run with the herd the whole year without serious loss They must be taken up and fed If they are not disease in some shape and death are sure to attack them In view of this fact we prophesy that the time is close at hand when the cowmen will see it is to their interest to not only take up their bulls for seven or eight months in the year but also to feed them well and give them some kind ot a shelter besides a wire fence I i Cheese is generally thought nowadas to be less digestible than other articles of food rich in what the chemists call protein The same opinion prevails in Germany I where the custom as in France and England where cheese is more largely consumed of eating it at the close of a meal to aid in digestion is laughed at and has led to the saying that cheese eaten in this way digests everything but itself A noted German chemist Dr Van Kleuse has carefully investigated the digestibility of the prominent kinds of cheese with meat and milk by artificial gastric juice There The-re ut was favorable to cheese those the beat ripened being the easiest of digestion diges-tion Comparing cheese and other kinds of food rich in protein it would appear that the opinion that cheese is a particularly indigestible form of such food is not well founded provided that it is good in quality and well ripened its protein the casein is then as completely com-pletely dissolved by this artificial gastric gas-tric juice as is the protein fibrin of meat or the protein albumen of eggs and much more so than when the same casein is taken in fresh milk Now that this question is settled wont it be well for our country girls to try their hands at cheese making What is better luncheon than good doughnuts with a bit of old cheese Ex A lady correspondent of the Prairie Farmer writes About twenty years ago I applied to a celebrated German physician of New York City for treatment treat-ment of a disease in which other physicians physi-cians had failed He gave me some medicine but said he It will do you very little good while you are suffering with cold feet Go home soak your feet for twenty minutes in water just as hot as you can bear them in and keep adding hot water so that it will remain at about the same temperature Put about two tablespoonfuls of mustard must-ard in the water When you take them out rub them briskly with a coarse towel until they are dry and keep them away from the stove or any artificial heat But doctor said I they will soon be cold again what shall I do if I cannot put them near the stove1 Soak them every time they are cold if it should be six or eight times a day I obeyed the instruction but thought for several days that my feet would certaiuly freeze Finally however how-ever the circulation was restored and I have never suffered with cold feet since When the pores are open and the bloooa circulating freely in ones feet they are as warm as any other part of the body I soak them regularly regu-larly once a week using mustard two or three times during a winter Frequently Fre-quently at church lectures and social gatherings I hear others complaining of cold feet while I who wear thin cotton stockings all winter I can not wear woolen never have cold feet I wear either goat or calf shoes with thick soles I have written my exprri ence hoping that others may be much benifited 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