The Husbandman and Housewife/Index

by Thomas Green Fessenden

INDEX.

Ants, how destroyed		5
Apple Jelly		161
Apples, how preserved		5
Apples, sirup of		161
Apple Tree, how propagated		6
Apple Trees, best mode of setting out		Ib
Apoplexy, remedy for		162
Ascarides, or Pin Worms, remedy for		Ib
Asparagus, how to cultivate		Ib
Asthma, remedies		6, 7, 163
Barley, to increase a crop of		7
Barn-Yard, how constructed		Ib
Beans, how cultivated		8
Bed bugs, how destroyed		Ib
Beef, mode of preserving, See Meat.
Beef,— — — receipt for pickling and curing,		164
Beer, Spruce		10
Beer,— — — Molasses		Ib
Beer,— — — Household		Ib
Beer,— — — Ropy, how cured		11
Beer,— — — to feed and give a fine flavour to		Ib
Beer,— — — Pea pods in		Ib
Bees, how preserved from worms or butterflies		Ib
Bees,— — — method of taking honey from		11
Bees,— — — sting of, how cured		12
Bells, how hung		Ib
Beverage, for a weak constitution		164
Black Ball, how made		Ib
Blacking, shining		165
Black Tongue, or Burnt tongue, remedy for		13, 166
Botts, remedies for		13, 14
Bread, improvements in making		15, 16
Breath, shortness of		165
Bruise, application for		Ib
Bull, when used		Ib
Bunns, how made		166
Burns and Scalds, remedies for		16, 17, 166
Burnt Clay, how made		17
Butter, how made		Ib
Butter,— — — to take the rancid taste from		19
Butter,— — — made from scalded cream		Ib
Butter,— — — receipt for curing		20
Butter,— — — application to a bruise		165
Cabbages, how cultivated		20
Cabbages,— — — method of preserving		Ib
Cake, Sponge, how made		166
Canada Thistes, how destroyed		21
Cancer, remedies for		21, 22, 166, 167
Candles, to purify tallow for		22
Canker, in trees		23
Caterpillars, remedies for		23, 24, 167
Cathartic pill, mild		167
Cattle, hoven or swollen		25
Change of Seeds		167
Cheese, method of making		25
Cheese,— — — sage, how made		168
Cheese,— — — Stilton, how made		28
Cheese,— — — skippers in, how destroyed		Ib
Cheese,— — — to prevent its having a rancid flavour		29
Chilblains, remedies for		Ib
China, how mended		Ib
Chintz, mode of washing		30
Cholera Morbus, remedies for		30, 31, 169
Cider, how made		31
Cock-Roaches		33
Cod fish, how cooked		33
Cookies, how made		169
Coffee, art of making		34
Coffee,— — — of Rye, how made		114
Cold, remedies for		35, 68
Cholic Bilious		Ib
Consumption		36, 38
Corks of wine bottles, how secured		36
Corn, musty cure for		Ib
Corns, remedies for		37
Cosmetic, elegant		170
Cotton, how died with madder		Ib
Cough, Whooping, remedies for		37, 38
Cough,— — — in the early stage of consumption		38
Cow, marks of a good one, &c.		170
Cramp, remedy for		39
Cream, quantity & quality of augmented		19, 43
Croup, remedies for		39, 180
Cucumber, how raised		40
Cucumber,— — — and squashes how preserved against bugs and flies		Ib
Cucumber,— — — to render wholesome		41
Cud, lost by an ox or cow remedy for		171
Curculio, how to preserve fruit trees from		41
Currants, how to cultivate		Ib
Currants,— — — Wine, how made		42
Currants,— — — Shrub how made		121
Custard, cheap and excellent		172
Dairy secret		43
Deafness, cure for		43
Dentifrice		Ib
Die, black		44
Dropsy, remedies for		45, 172
Drowned persons, directions for recovering		46
Dysentery, remedies for		47, 48, 172
Ear ache, remedy for		48
Eels, method of roasting		Ib
Elder juice kills skippers, &c.		Ib
Eggs, how preserved		Ib
Eggs,— — — mode of boiling		49
Elixir, Stoughton's		Ib
Epileptic electuary, for the cure of falling sickness		50
Eyes inflamed, cure for		50, 51, 173
Eyes— — — weak and weeping		51
Feathers, bones, &c. how coloured		Ib
Fellon, cure for		51, 52, 173
Fever, yellow remedy for		52
Fever— — — typhus, remedy for		52, 53
Fever— — — bilious remedy for		54
Film, cure for		Ib
Fish sauce		Ib
Flax, how to dress to look like silk		173
Fleas, to keep off		55
Flies, to destroy		Ib
Founder in Cattle, remedy for		Ib
Fowls how fed		57
Fowl, Bombay method of dressing		57
Frost-bitten feet		Ib
Frozen limbs, treatment of		58
Fruit trees, how forced to bear		174
Garlic sirup and oxymel for cold and Asthmatic Cough		59
Geese, how fed		Ib
Gingerbread		175
Glass seasoning		59
Gluten		Ib
Gout, recipes for		60
Grape vines		175
Gravel remedies for		60, 61
Green Dressing		175
Grease spots, to remove		61
Gripes in Horses or Cattle		62
Gun barrels, to give a beautiful brown to		Ib
Hæmorrhage remedy for		63
Hams, receipt for curing		Ib
Hands numbed or trembling		Ib
Harrowing grain in the spring		63
Heart-burn, remedy for		64
Hessian Fly, remedy for		65
Horses, how to shoe		Ib
Horses,— — — diseases in		65, 66, 135, 138, 139, 155, 159
Hydrophobia		68
Indian Corn, to raise a great crop of		67
Indian Corn,— — — preparation for planting		68
Indian Corn,— — — seeds of how selected		119
Infected air, how purified, &c.		175
Influenza, Coughs or Colds, cure for		68
Ink, indelible		Ib
Ink,— — — a good writing		69, 176
Ink Powder		69
Insects that infest apple trees		Ib
Iron Stoves, cracks in, how mended		70
Itch, cure for		176, 177
See likewise, Ointment.
Jaundice, cures for		70, 71, 177
Lambs not, owned by their dams, how fed		72
Lambs— — — shearing of		Ib
Leather, how made water proof		72, 73
Leather,— — — German mode of blacking		73
Lice on Apple Trees		Ib
Lice— — — on Cattle		74
Lip Salve		Ib
Lock Jaw		Ib
Lungs, weakness of		Ib
Mangoes, how made		75
Manure, on the different kinds, &c.		76
Maple sugar, how made		79
Mead or metheglin, how made		80
Measles in swine, how cured		81
Meat, how preserved, pickled, &c.		81, 82
Meat,— — — when putrid how cured		81
Meat,— — — Russian mode of salting		83
Meat,— — — preserved in snow		129
Meat,— — — cakes, how made		84
Mildew, or rust in wheat		111
Moles, how guarded against		84
Moths, to preserve furs & woolens from		84, 177
Murrain, remedies for		85
Muslin, a composition for washing		Ib
Musquetoes, to prevent the bite of		86
Mustard, how mixed		Ib
Nail, to extract poison from		87
Nettle, virtues of		Ib
Oil essential, how obtained from flowers		88
Oil or Tallow, how extracted from papers, &c.		Ib
Oil of balsam of Gilead, how obtained		89
Ointment for Itch		89, 176
Ointment— — — for excoriations		86
Ointment— — — for ulcers, &c.		178
Ointment for weak joints		178
Ointment— — — for the piles		179
Ointment— — — for Scab in sheep		116
Opodeldoc, how made		90
Panada		178
Pancakes, of Rice		90
Pancakes,— — — of a pink colour		Ib
Paper, water proof		91
Paper,— — — hangings, to clean		Ib
Plaster of Paris		Ib
Pease Split		92
Peas, Russian mode of preserving green		Ib
Pickle, Pococke's		93
Pickle,— — — Hambro		Ib
Pickling, receipt for		94
Piles, cure for		94, 179
Pimpled face cure for		94
Plate, silver, to give lustre to		95
Plum cake, how made		179
Plums peaches, &c. how kept fresh		95
Poisons, remedies		95, 179
Poll evil, in horses		97
Pomatum, how made		Ib
Potatoes, late make the best seed		Ib
Potatoes,— — — how to obtain new varieties		98
Potatoes,— — — to raise early		Ib
Potatoes,— — — a good method of planting		Ib
Potatoes,— — — harvesting		99
Potatoes,— — — feeding stock with		Ib
Potatoe Pudding		99
Potatoe— — — Starch		100
Poultry, on feeding		Ib
Pruning fruit trees		Ib
Puddings, various kinds		101, 179, 180
Pumpkin seeds, oil from		102
Radishes,		Ib
Rattles, or Croup,		39, 180
Rats, modes of destroying		102
Rattle snake, cure for the bite of		103
Rennet how made		Ib
Rheum, Salt, remedies for		115
Rheumatism, remedies for		105,180
Rice Jelly		106
Ring worm, cure for		106, 180
Rocks, blasting of		107
Rollers, use of		Ib
Rolls, how made		180
Roofs of houses, materials for		109
Rotation of crops		Ib
Rowell in horses		110
Rust in wheat		111
Rye mode of sowing		113
Rye— — — spring, how to prevent its blasting		Ib
Rye Coffee		114
Salt for manure		Ib
Salt Rheum, remedies for		115
Sand, uses of		Ib
Sausages, Bologna, how made		116
Scab in sheep, ointment for		116, 119
Sciatica, remedy for		117
Scouring in Horses		66
Scratches in Horses		66, 117, 118
Scurvy, sirup for		122
Sealing wax, how made		118
Seeds, how preserved		Ib
Seeds,— — — of Indian corn how selected		119
Shad, how fried without butter or lard		181
Sheep, scab in		115, 119
Sheep,— — — foot rot in, cure for		181
Sheep,— — — fish, food for		119
Sheep,— — — Ticks, remedies for		120
Sheep,— — — smearing of		Ib
Shoe blacking		121, 164, 165
Shoeing horses		65
Shrub, with brandy or rum		121
Shrub,— — — Currant		Ib
Sick head ache, pills for		122
Sirup for coughs		Ib
Sirup— — — of sugar		Ib
Sirup— — — for scurvy		Ib
Size and form of stock		123
Slaughtering of cattle		128
Smut in grain		152
Snow, to preserve meat in		129
Snuff, Cephalic, how made		129
Snuff,— — — Collins' Cephalic how made		130
Soap, receipt for making		Ib
Soap,— — — hard, how made		181
Soap,— — — saving of		131
Soda, in washing		Ib
Soiling		Ib
Soot, its uses in Agriculture		133
Sowing, directions concerning		134
Spavins in Horses		135
Spectacles, directions relating to		181
Spitting of blood from the lungs		136
Spots of oil removed from books, &c.		Ib
Spots— — — how removed from woollen cloths &c.		136, 137
Spots— — — of Ink, how removed		137
Spots— — — iron mould, how removed		Ib
Sprains, cure for		138
Staggers in horses		Ib
Stains, ink, how taken from mahogany		139
Starch, how made		Ib
Steel, mode of polishing		140
Stifle in a horse		139
St. Anthony's fire, cure for		139, 140
Stock, rules for managing		182
Stone, cures for		140, 141
Strain, in an ox by overdrawing, cure for		141
Straw, mode of whitening		Ib
Stubble, burning of		142
Swine, fatting of		143
Tanning leather		144
Tea, economy in		Ib
Tea kettles, to remove lime from		Ib
Teeth, to cleanse		145
Teeth,— — — to preserve		Ib
Throat, sore		35, 183
Tincture of Peruvian bark		Ib
Tincture— — — of rhubarb		184
Tools, how tempered		145
Tooth ache, remedies for		146
Top dressing		147
Trees, new method of inoculating		148
Turkies, how raised		Ib
Turnips, how preserved from insects		149
Varnish for boots and shoes		184
Vinegar of roses		149
Vinegar of orange flowers		150
Warts or Corns remedies for		150, 151
Weeds, how destroyed		Ib
Wen, Indian mode of curing		Ib
Wen,— — — another remedy for		184
Wen,— — — in cattle, remedy for		Ib
Wheat, disorders in		152
Wheezing in horses		155
Whooping Cough		37
Windgalls, remedies for		155
Wine, white currant		156
Wood, new mode of preserving		157
Worms in agriculture		Ib
Worms— — — in the human species		158, 184
Worms— — — in the head of sheep		159
Wounds, a remedy for and preventative of lock jaw		Ib
Yellows in horses		Ib
Yellow, patent		160
Yest, how made in Persia		Ib