Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1873 — FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. [ARTICLE]

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

—lndelible Ink.— Four drachms nitrate of silver, four ounces of rain-water, six drops solution ot nut-galls, and one half a drachm 'glim Arabic. This.will make an ink which will not fade, and costs very little. — Cor. Western Rural. —Alum and plaster of Paris well mixed with water, and used in a liquid state, will form a very useful cement. It will be found quite handy for many purposes. It forms a very hard composition, and for fixing the brasses, etc., on lamps, nothing' could be better. —How to Fit Collars to Horses’ Shoulders.—The collar should be purchased of the proper size ; just before putting it on the first time, immerse it in water, letting it remain about a minute, and immediately put it on the horse, being careful to have the hames so adjusted at the top and bottom as to. fit the shoulder-, and then put the horse to work. The collar by being wet will adapt itself to the shoulder, and should dry on the horse. When taken off it should be left in the shape-it occupied on the horse, and ever after you will have a snug-fitting collar and no wounds.— Valley Farmer.

—Mr. Charles White, of 'White’s Station, Mich., has devised a method for packing butter to keep for long periods, which he claims has proved entirely successful. His pian eonsists in putting the buffer in a sack fitted to a peculiar-shaped tub, and so arranged that when the packing is completed, and the tub turned so as to rest on the large end, the butter will drop down an inch or so, leaving a clear space between the tub and the butter. Strong brine is now poured through a hole in the small end of the tub to fill this completely. The brine floats the buffer and wholly surrounds it, excluding the air. The ofificfeAS then closed up and the butter set away in a cool place. Butter packed in this way has been found fresh and good at the end of ten months. —Water may be preserved pure and wholesome in rainwater cisterns by letting the supply-pipe connect at the bottom of the cistern. The fresh water being heavier than that already in the cistern, will force the stale water to the top so that it can be used before it becomes offensive. It is well known, however, that cistern water becomes impure from the organic matter it contains, and if this can begot rid of by destroying its vitality and precipitating it to the bottom, it wilfleare the water pure. It is claimed that there is nothing better to effect this than permanganate of potassa, used in the proportion of about an ounce to fifty gallons of water. This causes the inorganic matter to sink to the bottom an innoxious sediment. But the permanganate must be continued as long as the water has a purplish appearance, indicating that the offensive matter has not all been precipitated. Though this is not a poisonous drug, and is, we believe, in no way hurtful, still no more should be used than necessary. Every druggist lias it for sale. — Care must be taken to have—tire cistern thoroughly cleaned atieast- twice a year, as well as the troughs upon the buildings supplying the yf&ter.—Cincinnati Times. The Country Seems to hk Filled with Specific —For the cure of. Lung Diseases, that one scarcely knows which to use, for want of confidence in their medical properties; but from the remarkable cures and the high order and extraordinary efficacy of Allen’s Lungi Balsam, that we are compelled to regard the evidences of our senses, and confidently state for Cough and Cold, and that Hydra-headed Monster Consumption, we think that preparation a safe and certain cure that is now before the public. For sale by all Medicine Dealers.

The New World’s Grand Remedy.— The Old World has played its part in vegetable medication. Bat the botany of the New World is, as yet, imperfectly explored. One new and most important revelation from that land of wonders— California—has astonished the scientific, and accomplished such cures of diseases of the stomach and bowels, bilious complaints, malarious fevers, nervous affections, and all diseases proceeding from a vitiated condition of the blood, as have never before been witnessed. Before Walker’s California Vinegar Bitters all the alcoholic and mineral medicines are rapidly falling into disuse, They cannot resist the overpowering evidence brought forward every day, of the immense superiority of this medicine. Not a drop of any variety of distilled or fermented liquor or mineral poison enters into its composition. It is a gentle aperient, a tonic, derived from entirely new vegetable sources, an unrivaled stomachic, admirable in ail pulmonary diseases ; and, in fact, as near to universal remedy as botanical discovery and scientific skill can hope to attain. Dr. Walker considers it a cure for all diseases not organic, and really the great variety of diseases in which it issuccesstul seems to warrant the opinion. Every family needs such a remedy. It saves pain, anxiety and doctor’s bills. We know what trouble it is to keep the bowels of children in order, and any remedy that ■will strengthen and regulate their weak and variable digestion must be a domestic blessing. - - - _ pN the death of one of England’s most eminent physicians, all his effects were sold by auction, and among other things was a sealed packet, marked “Advice to Physicians,” which brought a great price. The purchaser, on opening the packet read as follows: “Keep the head cool, the bowels open, and the feet warm.” If physic is necessary, use Parsons' Purgative Pill's; they are the most scientifically prepared pill that has appeared in the last hundred years. We received a very pleasant letter- of thanks from our old friend Kendall, since his return home, for a bottle of Johnson's Anodyne Liniment which we gave him, and which he says has entirely cured him of the troublesome and dangerous cough he had when here. An Article of True Merit.—“ Brown’s Bronchial Troches” are the most popular article in this country or Europe for Throat Diseases and Coughs, andtjhis popularity is based upon real merit. \ As Quick as a Flash of I.HiHTXING (in.’s Ckistahoko’s Excelsior Hair Dye act .upon t he hair, whiskers and moustaches ; no chameleon tints, but tlic purest Raven or the most exquisite Browns will he evolved. In- One to Five Minutes, Headache, Earache, Neuralgia. Lame Back, Diarrhoea, Croups, Sprains, and all similar complaints, are v> /itcAJ, by Flagg’s Luxury, Health. Economy insured by using Dooley’s Yeast Powder. Elegant Light Rolls, Biscuits, etc., prepared in ten minutes. Try it." - n-..., ■

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