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Show PRACTICAL RECEIPTS. To Sweeten Water - Two ounces of permanganate of potash thrown in a well will render the foulest water sweet. Insect Stings - Bind over the injury a thick plaster of salt and saleratus moistened and watch it extract the venom. Cracked Heels - Take two drachms iodide potassium, mix with four ounces glycerine, apply to the horses heels twice a day. Charcoal - Place a small dish of charcoal in your larder, or near any food which requires to be kept from decay. It will keep food sweet and nearly as well as ice. To Cure Corns - Take the bark of common willow, burn to ashes, then mix with strong vinegar, and apply to either corns or warts. Horses Sore Back - Take half an ounce blue vitriol dissolved in a pint of water and dab the horses back four or five times a day. An Excellent Liniment - One of the very best liniments ever used on man or beast is composed of equal parts of laudanum, alcohol and oil of wormwood. Bedding For Horses - Reliable stable keepers affirm that they never have a horse with a bad foot, while bedding them with saw dust. Remedy For Freckles - Take finely powdered sulpho-phenate of zinc, one part; oil of lemon, one part; pure alcohol, five parts; collodion, five parts. To be well mixed by trituration and applied to the skin. Strengthening Mixture - Persons suffering from debility should take one tablespoon of the following, three times a day. Rose water, six ounces; syrup of orange peel, one ounce; and tincture of monastic iron, one ounce; mix. Wind-Galls - Wind-galls or puffs on horses may be removed or reduced in size by the application of briodide of mercury ointment to the part, which will cause a blister. If the first application is insufficient, apply again as soon as the part is nearly healed up. To Cook A Beefsteak - Have your frying pan very hot, wipe the steak dry, place in it and cover tightly, turn frequently and keep covered. When done, mix with the gravy one tablespoon hot coffee, a good sized lump of butter, pepper and salt to suit. Pour over the streak and serve hot. Sun Heat - Cold water applied to the head is very refreshing to those employed in the sun at this season of the year. Wading in water will abate thirst, but is not a safe experiment when over heated. A piece of silk fitted to the hat, at an equal distance between the top of it and the hair of the head is great protection against sun heat. Diet For Diarrhea - Roast rice as you would coffee, grind it in a coffee mill, then dissolve two ounces of gum Arabic in one pint of hot water; when dissolved put in a teacup of rice and then boil 20 minutes or until it is the consistency of mush. If too thick when eating it, thin with hot water. Desparate cases have been cured by this simple remedy. An Excellent Yeast - Boil one pound of good flour, a quarter pound of brown sugar, add a little salt in two gallons of water for one hour. Let it cool off till milk warm, then bottle and cork it. It will be fit for use in twenty-four hours. One pint of this yeast will make nineteen pounds of bread easily and expeditiously. Keeping Flies Off Horses - Take three handfuls of walnut leaves, lay in a bowl and pour over them two or three quarts of water, let it stand all night, in the morning boil together for a quarter of an hour. When cold take a sponge wet with the decoction and sponge he horse all over with it, which will prevent the flies irritating. Hot Cake - Sift a quart of good sweet corn-meal, pour boiling water over it, stirring all the time; when well scalded, still hot but not too soft, wet your hands in cold water and spread the meal on a board, set it before the fire to bake. When baked on one side turn it and bake on the other. Split open, butter and serve warm. Colic In Horses Or Cattle - Take one ounce of tincture of opium, one and a half ounces of nitric ether, half a ???? of oil of peppermint, mix with one pint of warm water. To be given as a draught in the earliest stages of the disease. Keep the animal moving as much as possible covered with sufficient blankets to promote profuse perspiration, afterwards rub thoroughly dry. In Transplanting Flowers, that have roots large enough to admit of the practice, it is best to dip the roots, immediately before planting, into water. This will obviate the necessity of after watering, and its consequent injurious effect. If the plants appear to flag, shade or put an inverted flower-pot over them for a few days. If this does not bring the plant to, it must have water. A Valuable Recipe - A laundress gave us the following recipe for doing up shirt bosoms. Any lady who desires to make home happy will do well to try the experiment. It will be found a sovereign antidote to the perilous stuff which weighs upon the heart - an ill-ironed and ill-fitting shirt bosom: "Take two ounces of fine white gum arabic powder - put it in a pitcher, and pour in a pint or more of water - and then having covered it, let it stand all night. In the morning pour it carefully from the dregs into a clean bottle, cork and keep for use." A table-spoonful of gum water stirred into a pint of starch made in the usual manner will give to linens, either white or printed, a look of newness when nothing else can restore them after they have been washed. |