The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-06-02
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

an SACudugc says, 10 CREAM grease from
old machinery and from clothes nothing is
batter than benzine.
NICE GINGERBREAD.-Four pounds of
flour, three pounds of sugar, two pounds
OF butter, nine eggs, four spoonfuls of
ginger.
GINGER COoKIEs.-Two cups molasses,
one of butter or lard, four tablespoons of
hot water, two of soda, two of ginger
bake quick
NEVER be worried at trif1es. If q spider
brtaks his thread twenty times, twenty
times will he mend it again. Make up
your mind to do good thing, and you
do il.
THE Boston Journal of Chemistry rec.
ommends mixture of equal parts of dry
white lead and rcd lead mixed into paste
with mastic varnish, and used as soon as
made, as a cement for aquariums.
FROIT OR WEDDING CAKE.-Four cups
OF Hour, two cups sugar, one cup molasses,
one cup butter, one teaspoon of saleratus
i'll one cup OF sour milk, four eggs, one
pound raisins, one and half of currants,
one teaspoon each of spice and cinnamon,
One-fOurth tumbler of wine
To TAKE INK-sTAISs OUT OF MAHOGANY.
Put few drops of spirits of inter in a
teaspoonful of water, touch the spot with
a feather dipped il the mixture, and on
the ink disappearing, rub it over lmme-
diately with a rag wefted in cold water,
or tht re will be a white mark, which will
rot be easily elfaced.
To ROAST LARGE FowLs-Take the
fowls when they are ready dressed, put
them down to a good fire, dredge and
haste them well with lard; they will be
near an hour in roasting; make a gravy
Of the necks and eiZzards, strain it, put in
a spoonful of brown -four; when YOU dish
them, put on the gravy, and serve them
up with egg sauce in boat
IF it be required to get good radishes in
winter, during the severe cold, an old casl,
should be sawed in two, and one half OF
it filled with good earth The radish seed,
beginning to shoot as before, must be then
sown in, the other half Of the barrel put
On the top of the full one, and the whole
apparatus carried down into the cellar
For watering, lukewarin water should be
used. as before. In the course of five or
SIX days the radishes will be fit to eat
LATE T'RANsPLANTING- 1t is quite often
necessary to transplant trees and shrubs
alter they have commenced growth in
spring. If cloudy, wet weather is select
eli IN which to perform this operation
there is little dancer Of loss. Even two
OF three days of cloudy weather with lit
tie or no rain vii have wonderful effect
in preserving the lives of tran. planted
trees. We always choose cloudy or rainy
weather for trans lanting any plants that
have been OgtrlOokei, or for any other
Cause have begun to grow, and we would
mucn rather wait two or three weeks for
Tain than to transplant in warm. dry
weather. This, of course, refers only to
late spring transplating- Hearth and
Home
How To PREPARE Corn FOR Crows
A correspondent sends to an exchange the
following account of the manner in which
a friend prepared a dainty dish for the
crows hich infested her husbands corn
field: "On the afternoon Of that day, in
stead OF her usual sewing, my friend took
plate of corn, q large needle, and a
bunch Of horse-hair, which her husband
brought in thas morning, and sat down to
work, or play, as it looked TO me.
Threading hair into the needle, she
would pass it through kernel of corn,
slip the needle off the hair, place the
ends together and tie knot, lay it by,
and proceed the same with another, till
she had some dozens prepared. Asking
an explanation. learned that it was to
scatter about over the newly planted corn.
tleld, together with other corn that was not
threaded, for the crows. After swallow
ing lew kernels of that with the hair
attached, they left in disgust, without
troubling that which was planted"
PRUNING TREFs-A subscriber asks if
he shall prune apple trees after they have
been planted some time and taken root.
He also desires information in regard TO
the best time to prune both apple and
peach trees. We prefer to prune Young
apple trees at the time they are planted /;
but ii this has been neglected, we would
perform the operation Just as coon as We
discovered our neglect, no matter at what
time OF year this might occur. June and
July are both good months i'm which TO
prune the trees named. Ii branches are
shortened at this season, a renewed yipor-
GUS growth will be more likely to follow
than II the operation is deferred until
later There are certainly seasons which
are far preferable to others for prunipp !:
but our rule is To cut off or shorten a
branch just as soon after we discover that
1t needs it as possible For a general rule.
pruning OF deciduous trees NAV be done
in the winter months, or lust after the
leaves are fully developed in spring or
early summer.-HearM and Home
q. 4. ALvoRD, Wilmington. VT. has
found, says the RuraL Nep RorIsr. that a
hens gizzard is good bone mill, and
their gastric juice practical substitute
Tor the burning acid. Then with a little
OF that patented material known az "dry
earth" placed under the roosts. 3 domestic
guano is produced which proves to be one
OF the most valuable manures that are
made on the farm or that can be bought
In the market. AS the bones are col
lected they are carried to fiat stone
under his shed and pounded with an old
Ak or hammer just fine enough for the
hopper OF his hen-power Lii: and this
is all the time or labor required to secure
q most valuable superphosphate As
hens IN winter are unable to obtain insects.
worms, bugs, etc, on which they feed in
summer, they eat the pounded bone
greedily, and pay for it not only nv the
manure PRODUCED, but by an Increased
quantity of fresh eggs, always acceptable
and always valuable during the winter
months.