Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1858-06-02
USEFUL and DOMESTIC RECIPES.

keeps bees, but it is in the old fogy hives, and
the bees left entirely without care or attention.
They continue this for q few years until the
bee-lnoth destroys the broodS, and the flnal
conclusion is that "bees do not payF NOW,
let the bce-keepcr get Langstroth's Movable
comb Hive" and tue accompanying book OF In
structions, and We may venture to assert that,
with little attention, the difficulties OF bee
keeping will be entirely removed. In TINS hlVe,
the operations of the bees may be viewed ~
any time without the least danger to tue oo'er-
yer, or interruption Of the work OF the oees'
Our limited space prevents US from more ex-
tended notice in this number, but we shall re-
cur to it hereafter. In the meantime we invite
an examination of the Hives, and the bees at
work, at the residence of Col. II. II. Kellogg,
26 Broad-street, or at the office Of the Inventor
charleston Inrentor.
THE FARMERS CREEp.-One Of our exchanges
gives the following first rate advice undor the
heading of "The Farmers Creed:"
nWe believe in small farms and thorough
cultivation. The soil loves to cat as well as Its
owners and therefore to be nurtured. We be-
liere in large crops, which leave the land better
thar they found it-making both the farm and
farmer rich at once. We believe in going to
the bottom Of things, and therefore in deeI
ploaghiBg, and enough Of it-all the better II
with a subsol plough. We believe that the
best fertility of any soil is the spirit of industry
enterprise and intelligence without this, limo
and gypsum, bones and green manure, mari or
plaster, will be of little Use. We believe in
clean Kitchen, neat wife in il, a spinning pla-
no, clean cupboard, dairy and conscience. We
firmly disbelcve in farmers that will not i'm
prove; in farms that grow poor every year
in starved cattle; in farmers boys turning into
clerks and merchants; in farmers daughters un'
willing to work and in all farmers who are
ashamed Of their vocation"
RrcElrr ron MAKING LIGHT DREAD.-Take
pint of milk and let it come to boil put II
enough cold water to make it q little more thar
milk warm; put in one teaspoonfpl OF salt, two
large teaspoonfuls of corn meal, and enough
-four to make it as thick as you can convenient
" stir it. Keep about milk warm; if water
rises to tue surface, stir your yeast up-and ii II
does not begin to rise in four or five hours, still
in little more meal. When your yeast rises
-sift your flour; put in a little salt and piece
of butter half as large as hens egg; mix uE
with warm water; grease your pans and warn
them and fill them full, and when the dough
rises to the top of the pan, put it to bake Bake
to light brown, then take it out Of the par
and wrap it up. Bread ought not to be cut
under twelve hours after erbaking.- Talley Farmer
BIZ CAREFUL WITH TIE GUASo-It may moi
be as generally known as it should be that grea
danger may be incurred by the reckless hand
ling of guano. We understand that cases have
occurred Of persons having cuts upon their lin
gers who, in handling this manure, have received
deadly poison into the system. The guant
contains an organic element which is just a
certain to operate against life if it once reaches
the blood, as the corruption of body that get
into q wound upon tho person of the dissector
Farmers should be aware of this fact and b'
cautious. We hear Of . death from this cause
occurring within few days in neighborins
county Philadelphia -4merican.
To MAKE GOOD T1NECAR.-The juice of one
bushel of sugar-beets, worth twenty-five cents
and which any farmer can raise with little cost
will make from five to six gallons of vinegar
equal to the best made of cider or wine. FlrS
wash and crate the beets and express the juice
in cheese press, or in any other way which :
little ingenuity can suggest, and put the liquor
into a barrel; cover the bung with gauze, ane
set it in the sun, and in fifteen or twenty day.
it will be fit for use. BY this method the very
best of vinegar can be obtained without any
trouble and hope all who like good vinegar
will try it.
To MAKE GLOSSY SHIFT BosoNs.-Tske TIVE
ounces white gum arabic, powder 1t in pitcher
and pour on it pint or more OF water, accord
ing to the degree Of strength you desire, anc
then, having covered it, let it set all night. Ii
the morning filter it carefully from dregs into {
clean bottle, cork it and keep for use. A table
spoonful of gum water stirred into pint o
starch, made the usual way, will give to either
white or printed shirts a look Of newness tha
nothing else can restore to them after washing
CoNuoS BAKED CCsrARD.-Mix quart o
new milk with eight well beaten eggs, strain the
mixture through fine seive, and swseten itwitt
from five to ei ght ounces of sugar, according tt
the taste; add small pinch Of salt, and poul
the custards into deep dish, with or without 1
lining or rim of paste CRATE nutmeg or lemon
rind over the top, and bake 1t IN very $40"
oven from twenty to thirty minutes, or longer
should it not be firm in the centre.
CHERRY BouScE.-Take peck Of morella
cherries, and peck of black hearts. Stone the
raorelas and crack the stones; put all the cher
ries and the cracked stones into demi John with
three pounds of loaf sugar, slightly pounded OF
beaten. Pour in two gallons Of double rectihed
whiskey; cork the demijohn, and in six months
the Cherry Bounce will be fit to pour off and
bottle for use; but the older it is, the better.
To REMOVE DAHDRrrF.-Take thimblefu
of fine powdered refined borax, (can be had al
auy druggist or country store, let it dissolve in
a teacupful of water, first brush the head well
then wet brush with the mixture and apply tc
the head. Do this every day for a week, snt
twice q week after, for q few times, and you vii
effectually remove the dandruf So says lady
friend who has tried it.
A Cement which gradually becomes as hare
as stone may he made by mixing twenty parts
BY weight OF clean sharp sand, two of litharge
and one of whiting, and making them into thin
putty with linsecd OIL For seams i'll roofs, il
may be formed Of white or red lead, thinncd Will
linsecd oil, and dry sand added.
HoRsE's AppErlrE.-A horses appetite may
be improved by rubbing common salt gently on
the roof of the mouth The salvary glands are
thus excited into action, and digestion is promo,
ted. Or, put lump Of rock salt in his manger
and his licking ii occasionally will improve bis
appetite.
How TO EXCLUDE FLlEs-Suspcnd net o
light cord thread in window, and no flies will
pass through, although the mcshes are large
enough to pass dozen through. This plan is
only effective when there arc windows on one
side of the roonl-no opposite lights.
TO PRESERVE TlMBER.-It is said that il one
pound of sulphuric acid is mixed with forty
&c ,,otor t;n,l,o, fhoran