Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-09-22
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.


BAKED Sour APPLKs.-Wash well the
apples ; place them in a pan ; pour in a
~teacupful 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 Cen
He11Gn that, if each farmer had a good
two horse railway power, 1t would be
better economy to thresh grain In winter
as the straw was wanted for use than to
thresh in the field with the larger ma
chimes. 'a-tt ~
Sort SOAP FOB ChoLERA-7J. T.. Bush
by, of Lancaster, Ohio, writes to the Ohio
Farmer that he has given soft soap to his
pigs-at the rate of q teaspoonful to a pig
-tor the hog cholera, with very satisfac-
tory results. he put soft soap into the
swin for his well hogs, and 1t improved
their appearance. 49,. ri lgis
BAKED SWEET APPLEs.-Wash well
the fapples; place them in q pan with
very little water, hat the juice may not
burn, if they are to be cooked In a brick
oven; then put the apples in a jar, cover
them close, and bake them five or Six
hours. Sweet apples should be baked
long after they are tender. 81. es5 ~.
A CORRESPONDENT of the american
A~gricultuyTst dissents from the advice to
kill pigs at eight or nine. months old. He
says II there is profit in keeping q pig
nine months while b e 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. 1H0
SHEEP TIcKs-A writer to the Ameri-
can Institute Farmers Club gives the fol-
lowing method to expel sheep ticks al
feed sulphur. q 1t not only keeps them off
sheep, but drives them. I feed it with
salt mixed in equal parts, at the rate of
three pounds of sulphur at one feed to
one hundred sheep. Then after Eve days
I give another dose, the same as the first.
Before / begin dosing, I let them get salt
hungry. rr
THE APPLE TREE.-What plant we in
this eapple-tree? Sweets for a hundred
1owery springs, to load the May-wind's
restless wings, when from the orchard
row he pours its fragrance through our
/ open doors. What plant vein this apple
tree? Fruits that shall swell in sunny
| June, and redden in the August noon,
and drop, when gentle airs come by, that
fan the blue September sky; while chill.
dren come, with cries OF glee, and seek
them where the fragrant grass betrays
their bed to those that pass at the foot o.
the apple-tree-
HAMS Journal of Health thinks thit
/ way: men may live long and in health
who never taste meat, but they eve car
excel in anything which requires energy
The nations which eat no meat, as to tho
masses, are always Inefficient and de
graded. The hundreds of millions o.
japan and China have failed .insthe cen
turtles of the past in aHthAti makes ana
ton or an individual grand in, conception
or magnificent in accomplishment. They
are today what they were ages ago, ana
they live mainly on rice and other Vege
tables" rug 1tliJsM n 4affh5 81.
ICNe FOB CAKEs,-Take of the bes
white sugar one pound, and pour over i
just enough cold water to dissolve thu
Jumps; then take the whites of tire.
eggs, and beat them q little, but not to
stiff froth; add these to the sugar anC
water; put it in a deep bowl, place tn,
bowl in a vessel of boiling water, and bea
up the mixture. 1t will first become thin
and clear, and afterward begin to thicken
When it becomes quite thick, remove j
from the fire, and continue the beating un
TIL it becomes cold, then spread it on witt
q knife. It is perfectly white, ,glisten
beautifully, and is so hard N smooth
when u that you may Write very wei
upon it with q pencil.