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SUMltlER BRINKS. 
A Cheap and G>od Drink for Simmer.— Careful 
house wives will cut out the following receipe for mak- 
ing a pleasant, palatable and wholesome beer, and paste 
it in their recipe book : 
It is made of honey. First press and strain your 
comb so as to obtain the clear honey. Then soak the re- 
maining wax and honey in hot water, and press it again. 
Boil and skim the sap so obtained. To every twelve 
quarts add one pound of dried apples and half a pound 
of hops. Boil again. Skim and strain the mass through 
a cloth. Then take a small portion out; add to this a 
little yeast, and keep it m a waam place until it works. 
Then pour it back into the main liquor, and let the whole 
work three or four days. Then draw it off into a clean 
tub; let it stand twenty-four hours; draw it off in bot- 
tles, and place these, well corked down, in the cellar. A 
few corks may fly, but the remainder will pay for the 
trouble. 
Domestic Ginger Beer. — Two gallons of ginger beer 
may be made as follows : 
Put two gallons of cold -water into a pot upon the 
fire : add to it two ounces of good ginger, and two 
pounds of white or brown sugar. Let all this come to a 
boil, and continue boiling half an hour. Then skim the 
liquor, and pour it into a jar or tub, along with one sliced 
lemon, and half an ounce of cream of tartar. When near- 
ly cold, put in a teacupful of yeast, to cause the liquor to 
work. The beer is now made ; and after it has worked 
for two days, strain and bottle it for use. Tie the corks 
down firmly. 
Vermin on Horses and Fowls. — A correspondent 
says — “ There is in my barn some kind of a louse that 
is very troublesome to horses and fowls. I wish to ob- 
tain a remedy.” If the horses are very much troubled, 
sprinkle snuff on the parts where the. vermin are most 
numerous. But they will get rid of most of the lice when 
they go out to grass and shed their old coats. As to the 
fowls, provide dry sand, 'with which some sulphur is 
mixed, for them to dust themselves in. Sulphur may 
also be put in the water they drink. Wash all places in 
the building where the vermin appear, with tobacco wa- 
ter, applied with a white-wash brush. — Boston Cultiva- 
tor. 
Vermin Riddance. — Half an ounce of soap boiled in a 
pint of water, and put on with a brush while boiling hot, 
infallably destroys the bugs and their eggs. Flies are 
driven out of a room by hanging up a bunch of the plan- 
tain or fleawort plant after it has been dipped in milk. Rats 
and mice speedily disppear by mixing equal quantities of 
strong cheese and powdered squills. They devour this 
mixture will greediness, while it is innocent to man. 
When it is remembered how many persons have lost their 
lives by swallowing mixtures of strychnine, &c., it be- 
comes a matter of humanity to publish these items. — 
Hall's Medical Journal. 
Stucco, or White Wash. — To make a brilliant Stucco 
white-wash for all buildings, inside and out, take a bushel 
clean lumps of well-burnt lime, slacked ; add one-fourth 
pound of whiting or burnt alum pulverised, one pound of 
loaf sugar, three quarts of rye flour, made into a thin and 
well boiled paste, and one pound of the cleanest glue, 
dissolved as cabinet-makers do. This may be put on cold 
within doors, but hot outside. 
GALLS ON HORSES, &c. 
One of the best means to prevent galls on horses is to 
wash the parts most liable to injury with whiskey satura- 
ted with alum. We find in one of our exchanges the fol- 
lowing recipe for an ointment for wounds and sores of 
all kinds, and for horses when galled by the saddle or 
collar, and also for broken chilblains: 
“Take of honey twelve ounces, yellow beeswax four 
ounces, compound galbanum plaster six ounces, sweet 
oil half a pint. Put the honey into ajar by the fire, then 
melt the other ingredients and mix them together, spread 
very thin on linen, and change twice every day.” 
INDIAN PUDDING. 
The Florida Sentinel tells us how to make this dish : — 
“ Add to 1 pint of cold milk, 1 pint of meal, 1 teaspoon- 
ful of salt, 2 tablespoonsful flour, 1 teaspoonful of the es- 
sence of lemon, one teacup full of sugar or syrup; and 
stir all to a batter, then add two quarts of boiling milk, 
stirring until well mixed, and bake three hours in an 
oven heated so as to boil. Serve hot with butter. 
The above is cheap, healthful, and one of the best of 
puddings. The essence or oil may vary according to 
taste.” 
For Fistula. — Salt, one tablespoonful ; soft soap, one ' 
tablespoonful ; whiskey, one tablespoonful ; turpentine, 
one tablespoonful. Mix in a tin cup, place on the horse’s 
nose a twitch, to prevent his moving ; have your mixture 1 
placed on a little fire and as soon as it boils up, pour im- j 
mediately upon the diseased part ; repeat the operation I 
every ten or twelve days, till applied three or four times, 
if necessary. It will not take off the hair or leave any 
scar. 
I procured the above from an old experienced farmer, 
tried it in one instance, and it proved successful. I took 
it early, though. 
Fragrant Oil. — Collect a quantity of the leaves of any 
flowers that have an agreeable fragrance ; card thin layers 
of cotton, and dip into tke finest sweet oil; sprinkle a 
small quantity of fine salt on the flowers, and lay first a 
layer of cotton and then a layer of flowers, until an earth- 
enware vessel, or a wide-mouthed glass bottle, is full. 
Tie the top well over with a bladder, then place the ves- 
sel in a southern aspect, so that it may have the heat of 
the sun ; and in fifteen days, when uncovered, a fragrant 
oil may be squeezed away from the whole mass. 
Grub in Sheep. — I send you this recipe, which will be 
found to effect a perfect cure for grubs in the head of 
sheep; 
Take one quart of whisky and two ounces of yellow 
snuff, mix and warm to blood heat. Let one man hold 
the sheep and another take a small syringe and discharge 
about a teaspoonful of the mixture into each nostril. It is 
a certain cure. My father met with quite a loss in his 
flock; he tried this remedy; found it satisfactory, and 
never lost another sheep. — Michigan Farmer. 
For Heaves in Horses. — Take smart weed, steep it 
in boiling water till the strength is all out; give one quart 
every day for eight or ten days. Or mix it with bran or 
shorts. Give him green or cut up feed, wet up with 
water, during the operation — and it will cure. 
Lice on Cattle— Remedy. — Take white oak bark, 
boil it in water— making a strong decociion ; wash the 
animals on the back and on the sides. In twenty-four 
hours the lice will be completely tanned. Tanner’s oil is 
also first rate. 
