One of the most effectual means of entrapping garden mice is by an inverted flower-pot, of large size, buried in the soil with its bottom on a level with the surface. If this be baited with corn, the mice will enter by a small hole, and ...
Article : 252 wordsThree strawberry leaves, eaten green, are said to be an unfailing and immediate cure for the summer complaint diarrhoea and dysentry. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe following recipe " for making old silk look as good as new" is from a recent publication: " Unpick the dress, put it into a tub, and cover it with cold water; let it remain an hour; dip it up and down, but do not wring it; hang it ...
Article : 69 wordsRancid butter may be made quite sweet and fresh by washing it well in water into which chloride of lime had been dropped, in the proportion of twenty-five drops to 2lb. of butter, leaving it for an hour or two, then draining it and ...
Article : 56 wordsThe following simple remedy for the cholera which was given to one of the earliest settlers in this colony, by an eminent London practitioner at the time when that fearful malady raged in the Metropolis, will, it is hoped (if ...
Article : 111 wordsIn the New York Journal of Medicine, Mr Ross strongly recommends the application of a poultice for the part where leeches are required, for an hour previously to using them. He says it makes the part very acceptable to the leech, by ...
Article : 264 wordsThe following will be found a quick and excellent food for fattening chickens. Set rice over the fire, with skimmed milk; let it boil till the rice is quite swelled out, then add a teaspoonful of sugar. Feed them three times a-day in ...
Article : 264 wordsCows should be curried as often as horses, particularly when they are shedding their hairs. Independent of other consequences, it tends to prevent them from licking themselves, by which they too often swallow their hair and ...
Article : 42 wordsGentlemen,—Dr Ure with all his laborious and scientific knowledge has not given in his Dictionary one property of the hop, for which every settler residing up the country ought to cultivate it, namely, for the purpose of making ...
Article : 360 wordsThe leech which it is intended to apply is to be thrown into a saucer containing fresh beer, and is to be left there till it begins to get quite lively. When it has moved about in the vessel for a few moments it is to be quietly taken ...
Article : 94 wordsAn American paper gives the following hint on feeding ducks:—" The common duck of the poultry-yard, if fed copiously from the tops of the celery plant, will attain a juiciness and a flavour that must call forth unqualified ...
Article : 105 wordsDr Berthold, professor at the University of Gottingen, proposes the following method, which may be useful, in children especially, in whom the blood is stopped with considerable difficulty. According to the author it never fails, ...
Article : 138 wordsPut in yolk of eggs just before the butter comes, near the termination of the churning. This has been repeatedly tried, and it makes very fine sweet butter. It is kept by many as a great secret, but its great value requires publicity. ...
Article : 51 wordsAmong the mass of information furnished by the report of the Commissioner of Patents, which is highly interesting to farmers, is an account of a process, hitherto a secret, by which butter may be kept for years, fresh and sweet in any ...
Article : 272 wordsWe understand that the following method has been successfully practised by Messrs Loddiges in their hot-houses. One ounce of arsenic is mixed with four ounces of tallow, and the two are melted together in an earthen pipkin. ...
Article : 78 wordsCheese-rooms are frequently kept closed and darkened, to keep out flies, as the dairymaids say. Mr Liversay asserts that this practice, ruinous to cheese may be avoided by occasionally boiling a penny-worth of quassia chips in a ...
Article : 78 wordsTo fasten the canvasses together in lining old pictures, equal quantities of cobblers' paste and glue, applied hot, may be used; a few drops of creosote should be added, to prevent vegetation.— ...
Article : 40 wordsThe following simple method of detecting adulterated snuff may be relied upon:—Take a few pinches of snuff, lay it on a bit of paper, and indent a small hole in it with your finger, then fill it with vinegar. If the snuff beave ...
Article : 128 wordsDorothy Dumpling, gives in the Southern Planter her mode of making mince pies without wine or brandy. She says the best judges say, (and behind her back, too!) that her pies are as good as they ever tasted. Take 4 pounds of ...
Article : 122 words"Is your butter good?" said I to the farmer. "Good [?] my wife has made butter these twenty years, and I should think she ought to know how to make good butter by this time." ...
Article : 509 wordsWilliam Lever, of Fisherton Anger, near this city, having on [?]and some hundred thousands of spring cabbage plants, of a rare growth, and beautiful flavour, was sore dismayed on beholding the frightful havoc made on them by ...
Article : 109 wordsThose who would make fine jelly, should always avoid boiling the juice of the fruit, when it is desirable to have the article, when made, retain the flavour of the fruit from which it was prepared. After the juice is pressed from ...
Article : 74 wordsThe most aggravated wounds of domestic animals are easily cured with a portion of the yolk of eggs mixed in the spirits of turpentine. The part affected must be bathed several times with the mixture, when a perfect cure will be ...
Article : 47 wordsA pint of lime and a pint of salt, mixed with a pint of water, will preserve eggs for any reasonable length of time. ...
Article : 26 wordsIt is easy to have a supply of horse-raddish all winter. Have a quantity grated while the root is in perfection; put it in bottles; fill it with vinegar, and keep it corked tight. Note—It is very much improved by keeping it in this way, ...
Article : 56 wordsGather as many best matured pumpkins as will suffice to supply the stock with a mess daily throughout the winter, and deposit them carefully in a close and secure repertory, according to the following succinct and definite rules: 1st, ...
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Advertising : 92 wordsA valuable remedy for hydro[?]hobia, the bite of Rattlesnakes, Chunk head or Pilot snake, Spider, &c. Take a white onion, cut it across the grain into four equal parts; sprinkle fine salt on the onion, and apply it by bandages ...
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Adelaide Observer (SA : 1843 - 1904), Sat 11 Apr 1846, Page 2
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