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Parent Issue
Day
16
Month
January
Year
1880
Copyright
Public Domain
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- Hors may be kept from measles, trichinosls, etc., by mixing a hsndful of good wood ashes with their iood twice a week. - The value of a cow dependa mach H)ire apon the length of the milklDg geason tb&n npon Üie qnaliïy of milk {Jiven for a iow weeks. - Cincinnati Tinif s. Smal! cora cakes to balie on a griddle are excellent made wiih one pint of buttermilk, one pint of meal, one e?r, teaspoonful soda, sait; bake haif an hour. - The foilowinfr rule in piowing is reccmmen'led: M;vnr turn up over one or two inohesof unfertile subaoil in one geason, and when so turnea up, the should reoeive a dressing of manure. - Waffies. - To oneqimrt of milk add four beaten eggs, a tablesponnful of nielted buttcr, one large gill of yeast, a Hule salt, and tlour to niake them a3 thick as gnddle cakes. Set thern to rise, and bake in waffle irons. A person who has tried it says that a handlnl of tobáceo sterns placed in a box in which the (Jog sleeps will entirely rid him of fleas, and that a leaf or tvVo of the caico weed pnt in a sitting hun's nest kef-ps vermin at a regpéctful distanoe. These are two raoro things tobáceo is goed for. - Coras are nothing more ha.n thiokened cont'ensed soarf-skin, whiob, rising above the general surf ace, produce paiD and pressure. They are always the result of an unequal pressure, made by un ill-fitting boot or shoe. A tight shoe, simpiy, unver prodnce3 a porn. provided the shoe fits well, is nqually Hght at all points, so as not to p-oduc3 unequal pressure. A tlght sioe, hoiyever, ehould never be worn, as 't impodus circulation and causes resulte equally as bad f.3 corna. A sboe or boot too large is productiva of .Tns, MpeciftÜJ if the lestber is hard and nnyielding. Such a shoe will be very apt to produce a corn wherever it touches sensitivo parts oí the foot. The proper way is to have boots and shocs made to iit, noither too largo ncr too gmall, but just richt - then bathe the teot froquently ia warm water, to remove the scarf-skin. Thi3 is the bost cure also for corns. Bathe the feet every night in warm water, and rsmove all the scarf-skin possible, and only wear well-fltting shoea or boots made of soft, pliable Ie ither. Ignore fasbion, and use commoa sense in seleeting your shoes or boots, and

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Old News
Ann Arbor Argus