The Brussels Post, 1980-10-08, Page 5The
• Seventeen Day
Advantage
It arrives every Fall -- seventeen days to get final cheres done
before harsh weather bloses in on your farm. You might call it
the Seventeen Day Advantage because a farm operator can
efficiently apply P & K fertilizer to his acreage during that Fall
period, rather than trying to work it into the already-tbo-short
Six or Seven Days of Spring that are available for seedbed
preparation prior to your optimum planting date. And effidient
time management is only one of the numerous and profitable
benefits.
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by. DEBBIE BANNEY . •
R.R.Bill McCall of . #2
Blyth who recently brought
an, old newspaper into the
Brussels Post has made a-
nother discovery.
In the very same Cupboard
drawer ii} 4440 lie,"0.0441he:
old, newspaper, he found' a4
old Home „ . gaNie cook.-
prohablY
sometime around the -late
This' book • speaks
'proudly of the manyacebni7
lishments Of, the company,
including awards, at the New
Orleans Exposition in 1885
• and at the World's Colum-
bian in 1893. .
An advertisement appears
from' the Culver Military,
AC00/fly, in „Culver, Indiana
in an effort to.get cadets.
The there are pictures, of
some of the proMineot places .
tIlat,uses- these ranges-as
well as testimonals of . the
stove's -quality from their
owners. New. Glasgow, Nova
Scotia, places using them
included Norfolk House, Ho-
tel Vendome and the. Wind-
sor. Other places included
the. Victoria Industrial School
in Mimico, Ontario and.
Walker House in Towonto.
The Great Northern Tran-
sit Co. in Collingwood report-
ed their pleasure in the
efficiency ,of the ranges
which they had •purchased for
their, steamers, the Atlantic
and, PaCific. A home Comfort
Range was also furnished for
the company's new Steamer,
"Majestic."
The. Hotel. Quinte in Belle-
ville, the Nam, County In-
sane Asylum in Stellarton,
Nova. Scotia, the New Union
Station in Toronto, the New
Union • Station in St. Louis,
the. New Planteri.Hotet in: St.,
Louis and the International.
Navigation :.Company's
,Steamship Company,- St. •
Louis all reported similar
satisfaction.
Recipes for beakfast, din-
ner and supper.'are contained
in the book. Ever thought
about serving meatballs for
breakfast?
There's even. a joke in with
the ,dioner recipes under the
heading, "Something Got
Away:'The joke is as follows:
Landlord- You say the chic-
ken soup isn't good? Why, 1
told.the cook how to make it.
Perhaps she didn't catch the
Bodider-N5, fthink
was the chicken she
catch."
Since people have now
started to send their recipes
in for the Christmas Cook-
bOok, maybe the following
could be slipped in awith all
the rest.
RECIPE FOR SHEEP'S
BRAINS ROASTED OR
BAKED
, Four or six brains will be
required for dish. Prepare
the brains for stewing and •
procure as many slices of.
bacon as there are brains.
After they have been boiled
;and thrown into cold water,
drain and dry them perfectly;
brush over with oil and roll
them in "highly ' seasoned
bread. crumbs. Pui them in,
the bacon before the fire in a
Dutch oven or bake in a
well-heated oven, turning
them about that they may be
equally Cooked and basting
them occassionally. When
they 'are nicely browned, take
them up. Lay the slices of
bacon on toast, put the
brains on them and send
sharp sauce or tomato sauce
to table in a ttireen. Time to
bake, thirty to forty minutes.
Sufficient for six or seven
person.
It really whets your ap-
petite,' doesn't it?
Of course no book of this
time period would be com-
plete without a list of home
remedies for every kind of
ailment How 'bout this rem-
edy for Night Sweats?
"Take on good sized nut-
meg, a lump of alum, same
size and a heaping teaspoon-
ful of clover; pulverize all
and.' add to half a" pint of
brandy or good whisky.
Dose, a tablespoonful three,
or four times a day, shaking
well each time before using.
Or, take twenty drops of
elixir vitriol in a little water,
three times a day, and drink
freely in a cold infusion sage.
The warm sponge bath
THREE PHASE
Electric
"EVERYTHINGAECTRICAL"
?A\ * ECONOMY
it SERVICE
QUALITY
BARRY BUCHANAN
482-7374 .
GLENN McLEAN
8874264
P.O. BOX 1136 CLINTON ONT,
should be used at night, and
cold sponging, of the body in
the morning on-rising; wipe
dry each time, and make use
of severe friction or rubbing
with a coarse dry towel.
Bathing or washing the body
occasionally with. a weak
decoction of white oak bark
will be found serviceable;
also ., with vkiegar and
whisky. Thirty drops of the
acetic blood- root, taken-three
times a day is also a good
remedy for night sweats.
DIRECTIONS -.
There are directions on
setting the table to 'make it
look nice and proper table
etiquette. This is followed' by
a. short item on wages in.
,1800. To quote from the first
paragraph;, "In 1800 'on - the
Pennsylvania canals, the'dig;
gers at the coarsest diet,
were housed in the rudest
sheds and .paid fs6, a month
from M ay 'to November and
15 a month from November to
May. Hod-carriers and mor-
tar mixers, diggers and chop-
pers, who from 1793 to 1800
labored on the public build-
ings and cut three streets
and avenues of Washington
City, received $70 a year, or
if they wished, $60 for all the
work they could perform
from March 1 to Dectinbtr
20. The hours of work were
invariably from sunrise to
sunset.
For a household hint, the
book gives this one: "An old
•
. housekeeper says that the
cleariest and best dishwasher'
is a round whisk broom made
of the finest and best broom-
corn. It is cleaned readily by
holding under the spigot and
running hot water through it;
after which hang it in the air
to be dried. This does away
with the annoyance of A
discolored. and often, musty
dishcloth."
People might long,for ffie
' old days when they hear the
' rates of postage as letters
addressed, to places in Can-
ada had to be at least
partially prepaid and those
!addressed' to' the United
States had to be prepaid at
least a full rate, (3 cents).
Otherwise they would be
sent 'to the ' Dead .,Letter
Office. Newspapers and per-
iodicals posted from the of-
fice of publication were au-
thoriz ed to pass, free of
'postage, to regular subscri-
bers in Canada and the
United States.
Heaven help, you, if you
,got bitten by a mad 'dog, as
the only safe remedy in those
days apparently was to burn-
out the wound throughly with
red-hot iron, or with lunar
caustic for fully eight se-
conds so as to destroy the
entire surface of the wound.
This was to be done as soon
as possible with the expecta-
tion that the parts touched
with the caustic oil would
turn black.