Hens will lay eggs perpetually, it treated in the following manner:—Keep no roosters; give the hens fresh meat, chopped fine like sausage meat once a day, a very small portion, say half an ounce a day to each hen, during the ...
Article : 259 wordsTake four pints of boiled linseed oil. four ounces of burnt umber in powder, three ounces of asphaltum. and oil of turpentine enough to give the whole a proper consistence. The asphaltum must be melted, and the hot linseed oil ...
Article : 65 wordsNot one housekeeper out of ten knows how to boil potatoes properly. Here is an Irish method, one of the best we know. Wash clean the potatoes and leave the skin on, then bring the water to a boil and throw them in. As ...
Article : 128 wordsNobody needs to have an offensive breath. A careful removal of substances from between the teeth, rinsing the mouth after meals, and a bit of charcoal held in the mouth, will always cure a bad breath. Charcoal used as a ...
Article : 366 wordsThe efficacy of this simple matter, enclosed in a bone generally thrown into the dust-hole, we mention at the earnest request of a town correspondent. He says, "A friend of mine had cut one of his toe-nails to the quick, ...
Article : 242 wordsThe common remedy for the pip or gape, is to peel off the membrane with the nails, and afterwards rub the tongue with butter and honey. Upon dissection, after death, there has been found in the windpipe, several ...
Article : 165 wordsThere are various sorts of fowls, and some excel in one point, and some in another. Large hens are generally shy layers; and great layers are apt to be poor for poultry, unsteady sitters, and careless mothers. What we need is ...
Article : 408 wordsBuy at a druggist's half-an-ounce of the best gum tragacanth, and a small portion of corrosive sublimate, scarcely the size of a grain of Indian corn.—They will cost but a few cents. Pick out carefully all the impurities of the ...
Article : 356 wordsA correspondent says he has used the following with success in all rheumatic affections, and consequently can appreciate its value. Take any quantity of castile soap, and shave it as fine as possible; let it fuse with a sufficient quantity of ...
Article : 187 wordsThe following is a simple mode of rendering water almost as cold as ice:—Let the jar, pitcher or vessel used for water be surrounded with one or more folds of coarse cotton, to be constantly wet. The evaporation of the water ...
Article : 159 wordsWarts are sometimes troublesome companions, and always unsightly. They are bard, indolent tumours, or tubercles, differing in structure from corns, as they arise from the true skin, and are composed of an elongated bundle of its ...
Article : 432 wordsThe most effectual remedy for flies is a strong infusion of Souchong tea, sweetened with sugar—as fatal a solution as arsenic. The skin of potatoes boiled in water for some time, and the water afterwards boiled down to a small ...
Article : 50 wordsA correspondent of a New York paper says—"I have had a large number of eggs the last winter, from following in part the advice I have seen in your and other papers. I have kept my fowls in a warm place, have given them as ...
Article : 145 wordsMake your tea as usual, then pour off the first, filling up with water, and instead of replenishing the teapot for a second cup, turn out the leaves on a plate. It they are the real tea, they will retain their usual colour, but if they are ...
Article : 101 wordsPerspiration in the feet may be relieved though not cured by immersing the feet as hot as can be borne in a mixture of two pounds of salt to a gallon of water, boiled for one minute. This should be repeated twice a week in ...
Article : 63 wordsTo ensure a plentiful supply of egg a in winter, let the fowls have a warm habitation, in which they can remain through the day, in cold severe storms, with room to move about. Place a trough, about four inches wide and four ...
Article : 212 wordsThe Echo du Monde Savant says, "An agriculturist in the neighbourhood of Brussels having succeeded in removing the bad smell and disagreeable taste of some butter by beating or mixing it in fresh water with chloride of ...
Article : 192 wordsA dose of half a drachm of muriate of ammonia dissolved in water, three or four times daily, will cure a species of face-ache which is sometimes mistaken for the tic doloreux. ...
Article : 33 wordsTake a basket just large enough to hold the required number of eggs; wrap each egg in flannel, cover the top of the basket with dung, and bury it in a hot-bed. In 21 days the chickens will be hatched, and must then be kept in a basket ...
Article : 98 wordsA correspondent requests us to say that, during the last eight or nine years, he has used gummed writing paper on ail kinds of wounds with the most favourable results; and, if it is applied before the atmosphere has acted ...
Article : 150 wordsA French chemist strongly deprecates the use of saltpetre in curing meat, and recommends sugar as more wholesome, and equally efficacious. He attributes scurvy, ulcers, and other diseases to which mariners, and other persons living ...
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Adelaide Observer (SA : 1843 - 1904), Sat 13 Dec 1845, Page 2
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