Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-11-14
Farm, Garden and Household.


Co1p WATER SPONGE CAKE-Three
eggs, beat ten minutes: one and one
half cups OF sugar, beat five minutes
one cup of -four, one spoonful of cream
of tarter, beat one minute: one-half cur
of water, one half spoonful OF saleratus
one cup of -four, little salt; beat one
minute.
GRAHAM BREAD.-To make Graham
bread, to each quart of -four take &
heaped teaspoonful of saleratus, adding
salt and little molasses or sugar, with 9
sufficient quantity of sour milk to make
the dough. We consider it very much
better to steam an hour or two, and then
put it in the oven to brown over.
A HINT FOR TIE COMING WINTER
The London Spectator is responsible
for the following suggestion. The ex-
pertinent can be easily and economically
tried by any one using a CRATE: "The
most practical suggestion yet made to
wards economy of coal seems to be the
use of solid bottoms in ordinary fire
CRATES. 1t is asserted, and indeed proved,
that in any fire place not excessively
small, plate of iron placed upon the
crate, will halve the consumption of coal,
reduce the smoke, and leave a cheerful,
free burning fire. Quite sufficient air
enters through the bars, no poking is
necessary and the fire never goes out till
the Goals are consumed. There is no
ash and no dust, every particle OF fuel
being consumed. Any householder can
try this experiment, and reduce his coal
bills say thirty per cent, at the cost OF
q shilling"
How EASILY BUTTER Is SPoILED,-A
farmers wife writing to the Ohio Fdrme,
says :-"Of all the products of the farm,
butter is most liable to be tainted bv
noxious odors floating in the atmos-
phere. Our people laid some vealin the
cellar, from which little blood flowed
out, and was neglectedNntil it commenc-
cd to smell. The result was, that a jar OF
butter which I was then packing smelled
and tasted like spoiled beef" Another
ladV reader observes that there is pond
of filthy, staenant water few hundred
feet from her house, from which an offen-
sive efluvium would be borne on the
breeze directly to the milk room, when
the wind was in certain direction, the
result of which was that cream and but
ter would taste like the disagreeable
odor coming from the pond. As soon as
the pond was drained We had no more
damaged butter.
BUTTER SPoMED.-A lady writing in
TIE Ohio Farmer, relates this incident
illustrating the propensity of butter to
spoil itself by absorbing noxious odors
"Our people laid some veal in the cellar,
from which little blood flowed, which
presently commenced to be offensive.
The result was that jar of butter that
L was then packing smelled and tasted
like spoiled meat" Another lady, at
another time, observes that when the
wind is in the right quarter, nose-ele-
waiting efiuvium is borne from q stagnant
pool - distant several hundred feet
directly to her milk-room, and that this
odor fastens itself in cream and casino.
She induced the men folks to drain the
pool, and thenceforth there is no further
trouble. No, sisters, however it may be
in morals in butter making you cannot
give cleanliness any second place.
THE AMERICAN FARMERS CLUB.-Tt was
said by Mr.. Fuller, in reply to q Question,
tnat chestnut is not the best tree for
"hard-pan land" 1t naturally grows in
loamy soils, and dislikes lime. Better in
the hard pan plant white ash and hickory
two of the b> st of timber trees. Mr..
Geddes said, that clover is, of course, the
best crop to plow in, and that the farmer
whose land is too poor to grow clover
might wisely consider the propriety Of
"moving West"
An inquiry with regard to the best
green crop for nilch cows, drew from Mr..
Geddes remark concerning certain care
fol experiments made by Harris Lewis,
and which resulted in proving that or.
chard grass is much superior to corn.
This grass, with sufficient manuring, will
give in one season three cuttings, or six
feet of growth, and is more easily wilted
and handled than corn.
A South Carolina correspondent wrote
that he once had an old COW, blind and
likely to give up the ghost, at the ap.
?roach Of winter. He penned her, fed
her on clay peas as much as she could
eat, and after awhile, though still seeming
poor and bony, shew slaughtered, and tc
his agreeable surprise her meat proved
unexceptionably sweet and tender. Since
that experience he never allows an old OK
or COW to die without extra food and the
assistance of the butcher.
The same writer told how he utilized Q
defunct, water toundered plow-horse; Ihad
killed and put up fatted beef with the fol
lowing preparation, viz: one ounce sal,
petre, one pound brown sugar, one quart
salt, rubbed on the meat, and packed and
weighed down. I directed the horse to
be skinned, cut up and packed in barrel
and the pickle made with the above bQet
poured over it for my hounds, of which
kepta pack, and to my surprise the meat,
although very offensive, Immediately be,
came inodorous, which gave me great
faith in my recipe for curing beef.