The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-06-16
HOUSE And FARM.

warts on cows teats may be readily removed
by washing frequently with alum water
made by dissolving two ounces OF alum In
pint of soft water
Protect your melon, squash, and cucum-.
Der vines thus: take sticks four inches long
and one-half inch in diamcter-pine is best.
Wrap one inch of one end in piece OF cot
ton or linen. Dip this in turpentine, and
stick one or two in each hill, leaving only
the wrapped part above ground. The odor
OF the turpentine does the business.
A writer in the Western Rural gives the
following remedy for hen lice: " Grease
them (the hens, not the lice,) with salt grease,
on the breast and under the wings. The
first symptom of the attack on little chicks
is blindness. Grease their heads, breasts,
and under their wings, and wet their eyes
open with water. On or two applications
have always effected cure with me-"
FRENCH ToAsT.-Beat four eggs very
light, and stir with them pint of milk;
slice some bakers bread, dip the pieces into
the egg, then lay them in pan OF hot lard
and fry brown; sprinkle q little powdered
sugar and cinnamon on each piece, and serve
hot. Ii nicely prepared, this is an excellent
dish for breakfast or tea; quite equal to
waffles.
HAM ToAsT.-Melt small piece of but
ter in stew pan until it is slightly Drowned;
beat up one egg and add to it; put in as
much finely minced ham as would cover a
round of buttered toast. adding as much
gravy as will mosten when quite hot. When
all the ingredients are in, stir them quickly
with a fork pour on to the butter toast,
which cut in pieces afterwards, any shape
you please. Serve hot.
THINNING PLANTs-The thinning OF seed
ing crops is very necessary thing to be
done in time before the young plants have
drawn up so much as to become weak. All
plants grow stronger and ripen better when
the air circulates freely around them, and
the sun is not prevented from an immediate
influence In thinning close crops, as on
ions, carrots, turnips, &C., be sure they are
not lett too near, for instead of reaping
greater produce it would assuredly be less.
When they stand too close they will make
large tops but smaller roots.
COFFEE CUsTARDs.-For six cups, meas
ure out four cupfuls of boiled milk; put it
in a basin with one cupful of very strong
coffee add five yolks of eggs and one ounce
of powdered sugar; mix well and strain.
Fill the cups with the mixture; skim off
carefully all froth from the surface; put
them in a fiat stew pan, with boiling water
to half the height of the cups; put the stew
pan with live Goals on its cover, on a very
slow fire for fifteen minutes; the water
should only bubble slightly. When set, let
the custards cool in the water; wipe the
cups clean and serve.
A HINT TO PLowMEN.-A. c. Thomas,
of Wisconsin, says in the Western Rural,
that eff you wish to plow land ten rods
WIDE instead of striking out land that
width, take one-half that width, pace off
five rods from the end, and set in your plow
and pillow to within five rods of the other
end and stop; now back harrow as usual
the required width and then turn square
corner at the end, observing to have the
end furrow on parallel line with the out
side. BY this means you will always tnrn
round on the stubble, thus leaving the land
untrodden, and instead of dead burrows at
the corners you will have ridges
To CLEANSE NEW BUcKET-A new
keg churn, bucket, or other wooden vessel
will generally communicate a disagreeable
taste to anything that is put into it. To
prevent this inconvenience, first scald the
vessel well with boiling water, letting the
water remain in it until cold then dissolve
some pearlash or soda in lukewarm water,
adding little lime to it; wash the inside
of the vessel well with this solution. After
wards scald it well with hot water and rinse
with cold water before you use it. The
reason for this is, the ready combination of
resinous matter with alkalines to form COM
pounds soluble in alchohol- Coleman's Ru-
raj World.
CAKES AND CooKIEs-Poor Mans Cake.
Break two eggs into a teacup-fill up
with good sour milk cup sugar. cups
f1our-small teaspoon soda or saleratus--lit-
tie salt-hayor to taste-beat wel-bake
quick.
Composition Cake-1 cup sugar, eggs,
cup sweet milk, % cups flour, teaspoon
cream tartar, spoon soda; flavor with nut
meg or lemon.
Cookies.-1 cup butter, 2 cups sugar, small
teaspoon saleratus dissolved in two-thirds
tcacup hot water-mix hard enough to roll
nice, roll thin, bake quick.-A farmers
Wife an Country Gentleman.
PENNINGTON GINGERBREAD.-Stlr to-
gether till quite light a quarter OF apound
Then mix half pint of molasses. Sift
in rather less than pint and half OF flour.
Beat four eggs very light, and stir them
gradually into the mixture alternately with
the stted flour, a tablespoon OF ginger and
teaspoon of cinnamon. Stir all we'll.
Dissolve level teaspoon of soda or pearl
ash in as much warm water as VIII melt 1t,
then stir in at the last, and set Immediately
oh h, tri, Int
not too hot, and bake well. Spice to your
taste, as the spices vary in strength
Germantown Telegraph.
WHEAT PROSPECTS, the Chicago
Journal of recent date: "We are in re-
ceipt of reports relative to crop prospects,
from reliable correspondents, over the ex-
tent of country from Minnesota to Delaware
and from Virginia to Texas. They are
pretty unanimous in assuring us that the
winter wheat is not only safe, but in good,
thrifty condition, and at this late day we
may consider it safe beyond any ordinary
danger. 1t is noteworthy that the usual or
binary ominous reports of excessive winter
killing do not as usual reach us this season,
and from this fact alone we might be led
to anticipate prosperous and healthy con-
dition of the growing CROP"
TRAINING RAsPBERRIEs AND BLACKBER-
RIEs.-The old custom of tying or twisting
the tops of the canes from one stool to an
other along the row, in the form of an arch,
is one of the most ready, economical and
satisfactory systems of training that we
have ever practiced. With pair of stout,
thick gloves, man will do the work very
rapidly and if the canes are long and strong,
made by twisting them together. In this
| WAY the fruit is fnllu eynnsed to sun and