National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-07-19
Farm, Garden and Household.

PLUM CAKE.-Nine pounds of flour,
nine eggs, three pounds of sugar, one
pint of yeast, one spoonful of rose water.
Spice to your taste; vet with milk.
To DISGUISE CASTOR On.-Rub mp
two drops oil of cinnamon with an ounce
of glycerine and add an ounce of castor
oil. Children will take it ms luxury,
and ask for more.
To DRIVE OFF RATS AND MoLEs. A
correspondent of the Pomologist has
found that potatoes in rat-holes and
mole-runs will clear the premises of
these pests in short time.
BuTTERMILK Biscuit Take half n
pint of buttermilk and one pint of flour ;
rub into the flour piece of butter half
AS large as an egg add little salt, dis
solve teaspoonful soda, add little hot
water, and stir into the flour. Add flour
enough to mould smooth Roll and cut
out like tea biscuit.
HONEY FRUIT CAKE.-Take four eggs.
and well beat Sieve in five cups of
-four. Add two cups Of honey, one of
sweet milk, two teaspoons cream of tar
tar, one of soda, one pound OF raisins
and currante, one quarter OF pound of
citron. one teaspoon each of cloves and
cinnamon. Bake in large loaves and
slow oven. This keeps fresh for months.
Coop SUBSTITUTE FOR CHICKEN Pr
Take corned beef; cook it tender; when
cold slice thin; have crust us for chick
en- pie; put in a layer OF meat and one of
light bread, and so on until your dish is
full then sprinkle n little salt and pepper,
and piece of butter the seize of an egg
FIJI up your dish with boiling water; put
on your top crust, and bake moderately
one hour.
BIGGER CROPS PER AcRE.-It is not
merely in the details of farming oper-
ations that should aim to render our
labor more effective--we must more than
ever strive to get larger crops per acre.
High wages will compel us to raise larger
crops or not to rise any. Ii costs no more
to pillow and plant and cultivate an acre
of potatoes that will yield 800 bushels
than one that yields less than one hun
dred, and where there are many weeds
little il any more to dig them. 1t may
cost twelve cents bushel to dig pota-
toes in the one case, and only four cents
in the other. A field of wheat yielding
less than ten bushels per acre, and so
full of thistles that it is impossible to
bind it, will cost more to harvest it than
clean crop yielding thirty bushels
per acre. And the same principle holds
good with all our crops.-A.gric,atmist.
SUMNER DRINKS. -Ice-water should be
drank but sparinely. A most excellent
substitute FOR it is pounded ice taken in
small Jumps into the mouth and allowed
to dissolve upon the tongue. This will
provv very refreshing and much more
enduring in its effects. Lemonade is a
simple and grateful beverage, To make
it Roll the lemons on something hard
till they become soft CRATE off the rinds,
cut the lemons in slices and squeeze
them in pitcher Ga new clothes pin
will answer for Il squeezer in lieu of
something better; pour on the required
quantity of water, and sweeten accord
ing to taste. The grated rinds, for the
sake of their aroma, should be added too.
After mixing thoroughly, set the pitcher
aside for half an hour then strain the
liquor through a Jelly strainer, and pnt
in the ice. Travellers who find it incon-
venient to use lemons can carry a box of
lemon sugar prepared from citric acid
and sugar, little of which in glass of
i"c-water will furnish quite refreshing
drink, and one that will help oftentimes
to avert a sick. headache and biliousness.
Ctric acid is obtained from the juice of
lemons and lines.
Two CRoPs AT THE SAME TME.-The
fact that it is possible to raise two differ
ent crops at the same time on the same
ground by mixing the seed is not very
widely known, or If known is very sell
dom made use of. The practice is not
new, for Scotch farmers have for
many years past been in the habit
of raising crops of oats and peas
together, with the effect of gain
ing nearly as much as could be
produced by raising these crops on diff
ferent fields. Two and half bushels Of
oats mixed with one and half bushels of
peas will yield crop nearly if not quite
equal in bulk to the two crops sown
separately. Turnips or rye sown in the
rows between corn and narrowed in
after the last working, when the corn is
laid by, will not effect the yield of corn,
while very considerable crops for Winter
feed or Fall pasture may be secured
with very little expense for seed and
labor. 1t is not at all uncommon for 300
or more bushels of turnips per acre to be
raised thus on a corn stubble which, with
the tops, has furnished very welcome
addition to the feeding resources of the
farm. Rye thus sown can often be
erazed by milking COWS until after
Christmas, and will have a marked eff
feet on the quantity and quality of the