The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-09-22
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.
BAKED SorR APPLEs-Wash well

BAKED Sour APPLEs.-Wash well the
apples; place them in a pan; pour in a
teacupfull Of water and one of sugar;
bake them slowly till done. Eat them
with cream and the Juice that cooks from
them.
SUEL FOSTER writes the Country Gen.
hemaD that, if each farmer had good
two horse railway power, it would be
better economy to thresh grain ia winter
as the straw was wanted for use than to
thresh in the field with the larger ma
chimes.
SOFT SOAP FOB ChoLERA.-J. T. Bush
by, of Lancaster, Ohio, writes to the Ohio
Farmer that he has given soft soap to his
pigs-at the rate of teaspoonful to a pig
-i0r the hog cholera, with very sstistac-
tory results. He put soft soap into the
swill for his well hogs, and it improved
their appearance.
BAKED SWEET APPLEs.-Wash well
the apples; place them in d pan with
very little water, that the juice may not
bum, if they are to be cooked in a brick
oven; then put the apples in jar, cover
them close, and bake them FIVE or six
hours Sweet apples should be baked
long after they are tender.
IL COHREStONDENT Vi Tie american
| AgricuItu'1st dissents from the advice TO
kill pigs at eight or nine months old. He
| says ii there is profit in keeping a pig
nine months while he is making his
frame, there must be more profit in keep
| ing him a second nine months when You
have nothing to do but lay the flesh and
| fat ON.
SHEEP TIcKs.-A writer to the Ameri-
can Institute Farmers Club gives the fol-
lowing method to expel sheep ticks:
feed sulphur. Il not only keeps them Off
sheep, but drives them. l feed it with
salt mixed in equal parts, at the rate OF
three pounds OF sulphur at che feed to
one hundred sheep. Then after FIVE days
give another dose, the same as the first.
Before / begin dosing, let them get salt
hungry
The APPLE TREE.--What plant we in
this apple-tree? Sweets for a hundred
fOwery springs, to load the HAY winds
restless wings, when from the orchard
row he p0urs It's fragrance through Our
open doors. What plant we ia this apple
tree? Fruits thst shall swell Ia sunny
June, and REDEEM in the August noon,
and drop, when gentle airs come by, that
fan The blue September sky; while chill.
them where the fragrant grass betray
their bed to those that pass q. the foot o;
the apple-tree.
HALLS Journal Of HecIM Thinks this
way: "Men may 1--we long and in health
who never taste meat, hut they never can
excel IN anything which requires energy
The nations which eat no NEST, as to the
masseS, arc always Inefficient and de
graded. The hundreds of millions Q.
Japan anu China nave failed in the cen
turtles of the past in al that makes 3 ma
ton or az individual grand in conception
or magnificent II accomplishment. They
are to cay what they were ages ago, anf
they live mainly CT rice and other vege
tables"
ICING FOR CAKES--Take Of the bes1
white sugar one pound, and pour over il
just enough Geld water 10 dissolve the
Jumps; then take the whites OF three
eggs, and beat them little, but not to 6
stiff fEoth add these to the sugar anC
water; put it in g deep bowl, place tht
bowl III vessel of boiling water, and beat
up the mixture. Il Will first become thir
aad clear, end afterward begin to thicken
When it becomes quite thick, remove i
from the fire, ard continue the beating un
I'll ig becomes cold, then spread it on Will
d knife. 1t is perfectly white, glisteD
beautifully, and is go hard ard smooil
when dry, that you may write very wei
upon it With q pencil.