Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1856-09-24
Waluable Bettipts.

WASHING SILVER WARE.-It seems that
housekeepers who wash their silver ware
with soap and water as the common prac.
tice is do not know what they are about.
The Philadelphia Ledger states that the
proprietor of one of the oldest silver es-
adjustments in that city, says that
housekeepers ruin their silver ware by
washing it in soap suds; it makes it look
ike pewter. Never put particle of soap,
about your silver, then it will retain its
original luster. When it wants polish,
take piece of soft leather and whiting
and rub it hard"
To KEEP SMOKED HAMs.-A writer in
the Farmers Companion, published at
Detroit Michigan, states that he has for
many years preserved his hams through
the summer in the most perfect condition
by packing them in barrels with LAYERS of
corn cobs between them, so that the hams
would not come in contact with each 9TH
er. They should be taken out and dry
rubbed once during the summer. The
cask should be placed upon bench in a
cool cellar.
POTATOES PLANTED IN THE FALL.--A
gentleman writes in the Maine Farmer :
| left last fall some potatoes in the ground;
in July they were more than as big again
as my others. He strongly recommends
to farmers to plant some in the fall, and
try the experiment. I have raised. he
says, planting in the fall and they were
excellent-better potatoes than he ever
saw before-very large, sound and hand
some,
PUMPKINS The most effectual method
Of preserving pumpkins, during the win
ter, is to select the largest and most per-
fectly MANFRED, and having deposited a
stratum of dry straw on close floor. place
| them thereon-not SO near as to touch
each other, and cover them carefully with
straw, taking especial care to fill In the
interstices or space between the pumpkin,
till the receptacle is filled, or until you
have laid by as large a quantity as your
inclinations or necessities required.
BLACK KNOT ON Plum TREEs.--A wfi.
ter in the Cultivator says that Mr.. Will.
liam Smith of Ballston Center, this season
removed all the diseased branches from
his trees, and around portion of them
set cut the tomato plant, leaving part
uncared for. Those with tomatoes at the
roots have no knot whatever, while those
not treated in this way, we're full of black
punches the same as last year"
BUcKwHEAT PoRR1DGE. Take quart
of rich milk, and after boiling it hard,
stir in as much buckwheat meal, as will
make it of the consistency of thick mush,
adding one teaspoonful of salt and a table
spoonful Of fresh butter. In FIVE minutes
after, it is thick enough to take it from
the fire. If the milk is boiling hard, and
continues to boil while the meal is being
stirred in, very little cooking will be re-
quired. 1t should be placed on the table
hot, and eaten with butter and sugar, o.
with molasses and butter. This is some
times called a FIVE minute pudding; it is
excellent for children as plain desert, or
for supper. Some add seasoning OF
ginger or grated nutmeg before sending to
table.
TOMATO PRESERVES. the round
yellow variety as soon as ripe, scald and
peel; then to seven pounds of tomatoes
add seven pounds of white sugar, and let
it stand over night. Take the tomatoes
out of sugar, and boil the syrup, removing
the sl1um Put in the tomatoes, and boil
gently fifteen or twenty minutes: remove
the fruit again and boil until the syrup
thickens. On cooling, put the fruit into
jars and pour the syrdp over it, and add
few slices of lemon to each jar, and you
will have something to please the taste of
the most fastidious.
Nsl A correspondent of the Country
Gentleman says -" One year ago | had
fine young mare that had no less than
half dozen warts, from the size of pea
up to that of half dollar. After many
unsuccessful trials / applied muriatic acid
land feather) daily. and had the pleas
ure of seeing them disappear rapidly, and
in a few weeks there was not one to be
seen. 1t is safe and speedy cure"
How TO GET RID OF FLIEs.-A French
paper, the Courier du Havre, in abiding
to plan lately suggested for driving
away flies, (the use of laurel oily states
that no fly will enter room in which a
wreath Of walnut leaves has been hung
up.