Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-06-27
Farm, Garden and Household.

FnFlns Unrutn anu HOUScnOlu'
WHITE MOUNTAIN CAKE.-One pound
of flour, one of sugar, one cup of butter
one cup Of cream, six eggs beaten sepa
rately, teaspoonful of soda, two of cream
of tartar, then beat in the eggs and add
the other ingredients.
To DRY PUMPKIN. and cut as
for cooking, then slice very thin, spread
on tin or other driers, and expose to O
moderate heat in the stove oven. Thus
dried, the pumpkin will retain it's natu-
raj flavor. TO prepare it for cooking,
soak it in water few hours
LICE ON CHIcKENs.-I am o farmers
wife, and am very fond of raising poultry.
I have always found the following to be a
sure cure for the above malady. When
the chickens are two or three days old,
take little salt butter and rub the top
of their heads with it once will be suffi
cient. This will prove a preventive
ALSO
BUTTER PT.-Cover your pie tin with
crust as for custard pie. Take piece of
fresh butter the size of an egg, o.thirds
cup of sugar, one cup Of sweet cream,
one tablespoon of flour, stir butter, flour,
and sugar together, then irin the cream.
Pour in the tin and lay strips of crust
across. Bake till brown. This is most
excellent pie.
MILK designed for butter making, as q
rule, should be agitated as little as posi-.
BILE until the cream has risen. We cannot
say that such moderate agitation of the
milk las would arise simply from skimming
as above described would lessen the guam
tity of cream but any excessive agitation
has tendency to diminish the quantity
OF cream. This has been abundantly
proved by experiments made on milk, q
portion of which has been retained at the
farm, and the rest sent by wagon and rail
to the city. In numerous instances
where careful test of such milk has been
made, the milk which has been less dis.
turbed threw up most cream.
POTATOES. An Indiana correspondent
of The Journal Of the Farm says he saved
labor by dropping his potatoes in every
third furrow and covering them by the
next passage of the pillow. Nothing more
was done until the tops were about ready
to appear above the surface, when
the ground was thoroughly melIowed
land the weeds and grass all killed. by
the use of heavy two-horse harrow.
There was little subsequent cultivation
and little dosing of Paris green, and
when harvest time came there was an
excellant yield despite drought and Col
orado bugs, and the fact that the potato
crop in that neighborhood was generally
failure. The only drawback was lit
tie extra trouble in digging, which was
owing to the extra depth at which seeds
were placed.
STAGGERs IN PIGs.-"D. W. NJ" York,
vile, Pa, had some pigs affected with stag
gers; they ran round and dropped in con.
WILSON'S. F. D. Curtis of the club said il
was worms which caused this if farmers
would learn to treat their pigs just as they
treat their babies, all this trouble would
cease. Little pigs need as much care as
little children and should be given the
same kind of physc, only in double doses
the same food and should be put in Their
little beds with equal care. Pigs arewonder.
fully like folks, more so than any other
animals. Prof Berthollet said, how did
Mr.. Curtis know it was worms it was
more likely to be the same complaint
which made those pigs we read of rur
down into the sea and be choked. Mr.
Curtis-well, physic it out out of them
that is all there is aboutit.
HELPING CHICKENS OUT OF THE SHE'LL
The Illustrated Book of Poultry says
eve formerly made many attempts at
such assistance in vain, and, like many
others, rushed to the conclusion thai
chicks could not be thus saved but al
accidental discovery put another face OF
the matter. Keep the Gag. in orarm ,catc,
(about 1000 while the assistance is being
rendered, and success may be hoped for
The shell must be cracked very gently
and the inner membrane very tenderly
peeled off till the chick be at liberty
keeping all but the beak under water I'm
til nearly clear. The operation must b'
performed in warm place, and tenderly
as if touching raw flesh and it will b,
found that the water greatly facilitate
matters, liberating the membrane if GLUED
to the chick, and enabling it to be sepa
rated without loss of blood. The latte
occurrence, nine times out of ten, is fatal
but if the operation be completed withou
blood, flowing, success may be anticipated
and the nearly dead chick may be put b,
the fire in flannel, or under the hen, if
quiet, good rnother-under her at night
in any case-and next day may probabl,
be as we'll as the Others"