Potatoes offer health benefits

Potatoes for health: Eating a raw potato each day, skin and all, aids digestion. Eat a raw potato after a meal to relieve indigestion. Place a slice of potato on your forehead and lie down for 20 minutes to relieve headaches. Bailey's favorite potatoes for eating raw are round, red-skinned potatoes about the size of a golf ball.
Onions for health: Onions cut in half and placed in high-traffic areas where cold and flu germs are likely to be passed from person to person reduce the risk of transmission because the onions absorb the germs. Change the onions every two days. When Bailey speaks to large crowds, he places an onion half on the floor in the back of his car to absorb any germs he picked up during his talks.
To keep rabbits out of a garden: Soak strips of cloth in bacon grease and place them about three inches off the ground around the garden patch. Replace after a heavy rain.
For happy nightcrawlers: Attract nightcrawlers to gardens and flower beds by sprinkling coffee grounds where you want the nightcrawlers to go. They love coffee grounds, and their movement will create holes to help moisture sink into plants' root systems.
Bat removal: If a bat invades your house, put a light outside and open the front door or raise a window up near a table lamp. The bat will be drawn to the light and smell the fresh air and fly out.
Flea prevention: Place a line of lime around your house about five inches from the foundation. Bugs, including fleas, won't cross it.
Flea treatment on carpet: Sprinkle table salt, then talcum powder on the carpet. Put an extension cord on the vacuum cleaner and a couple of mothballs in the sweeper bag. Wait 30 minutes after covering the carpet with the salt and talc. Vacuum the area and take the sweeper outside without turning it off. Change the bag outside to keep the fleas from getting back in the house.
For fleas on pets: Use rubbing alcohol and rub it on the pet in the opposite direction the fur lays. Another remedy is to comb 20 Mule Team Borax through the cat or dog's coat with a fine-tooth comb.
Rodent control: Instead of using chemicals or poison, cut up a sponge and soak it in bacon grease. Place jar lids of dark soda pop around where rodents are. They love both and can digest neither.
Source: Harold Bailey, "The Friendly Trapper"