National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-10-03
Farm, Garden and Household.
Household Recipes.


OF cream tartar, one-half teaspoonfl
soda, and two cups flour Flavor wit
extract of lemon.
MoLAssEs CANDy.-Two cups molas
ses, one cup sugar, one Tablespoonful
vinegar, butter size of hickory nut
Boil briskly twenty minutes, stirrinI
all the time. When cool, pull unit
white.
EXCELLENT DRop CAKEs.-Two cup
of sugar, one cup of sour milk, tire,
teaspoons Of soda; two eggs, one tea
spoon of cloves, one teaspoon Of CHINA
mon. Stir very thick and drop on but.
tered tins.
CRuILERs. -Four eggs, four table
spoons of brown sugar, and one OF flour,
well beaten together; add four table
spoons melted butter; mix hard; roll
thin; cut in two-inch squares; set in
bars; fry in very hot lard.
TEA.-Water for making tea should
be used the moment it boils. The
reason assigned is, that if it is boiling
for some time, all the gas that is in it
escapes with the steam, and it will not
then make tea of the best flavor.
FILTER FOR CIsTERN WATER.
forate the bottom of wooden box with
number of small holes; place inside n
piece of flannel, cover with coarsely-
powdered charcoal, over this eoarse
river sand, and on u Is small pieces of
sandstone.
BREAD OMELET Put into stew. pan
one teacupful of bread crumbs, one
tablespoonful of butter, with salt, pep
per and nutmeg; when the bread has
absorbed the cream work in two beaten
eggs; beat them up little with the
mixture; fry On an omelet-pan and roll
up.
REMOVAL or INK SPors FROM CoLoRED
FABRICS "A solution of pyro- phosphate
OF soda, it is said, will quickly remove
fresh ink stains (old ones less so) with
out affecting the colors of the fabric, as
is the result when oxalic acid, chloride
OF lime. or chlorine water are made use
OF.
October FARM Work.
October is the best month in the vear
IN which to do such work NJ we could
not get time to finish in August. Dig
ging meadow-muck, laying up stores of
dry earth for the stables, sowing grass.
seed, and top dressing moving fields
may often be done to as rood ADVANTAGE
during the first half of this month as in |
August. So if there is any more work |
OF this kind to do, il had better be bur.
i,eu up now, before the fall rains come,
that may soon be expected. On many
farms october IL comparatively leisure
month. On some farms all the months
ahord the occupants n good deal of lei
sure time; and it is from these farms
that we hear the most complaints about
hard times, and the unproftableness of
farming. The wide-awake, enterprising
farmer, who has any taste for, or faith
IN his business, will find enough to do
IN this as in all other months. There
VIII be fences to build or repair. gates
to hang, where now are bars to take ont
ana put up every time team passes
through; rocks to remove from moving
and tlllage lands; drains to dig, and old :
pastures to clear up; carriages and farm
implements to paint, or cistern to :
make or repair, or an aqueduct- pipe !
needs RELAXING, or the buildings need /
shingling, or additions are to be built .
TO make the house or barns more CON .
venient-indeed, there is no end to the I
work that needs to be done. -New- Emu
tand Farmer. n
Preserving Pears and Apples. fl
The following is plan which is sim u
pie and eilicacious. The apples and r
pears should be place, in glazed earth y
en- g vessels, each containing about gal !;
lon, and SUR unding each fruit With Ii
paper. Th SO vessels being perfect
cylinders, about foot each in height. " ~
stahd very conveniently upon each :,
other, and present the means of q
large quantity of fruit in -
a very small room; and if the spaces =
between the top of one vessel and the ~ Il,
base of another be filed with cement q
composed of the two parts of the curd u u
OF SKINNED milk and one of lime. bv ~
which the air will be excluded, the later \,
Kinds OF apples and pears will he a.
preserved with little change in their M "
pearance, and without any danger Of u! ~
decay, from October till February and III
March. A dry and cold situation in ~
which there is little change of TEMPER 50 So
allure, IL the best for the vessels INIT a
The merits of the pears are greatly in ~ ~
creased by their being taken from tbe ci'
vessels about ten days before they are ~
wanted for use, ald kept in warm 81
room, Tor warmth Mt this, as Mt other &C
periods, accelerates the maturity of the pc
pear" Vi VIZ m
Salt for Hogs. ",
An English agricultural paper the W,
gardeners Mronicie, relates the ag
leath of one SOW il pig, another with n an
litter, and of eleven small pigs, of what he
vas called ''strike on the brain" The
'igs were taken with what seemed to
De ep 'eptic fits; they suffered great we
'aln, uttering occasional shrieks, and lal
constantly throwing back their heads dr.
onvulsively. They died in few hours tai
iter the first seizure On examining Gle
hese pigs, the brain was found nil
light the stomach and intestines were go
nilamed in large patches, showing that to
cath was caused by irritant poison pal
u ",, - A. In. o., nIahiug iiIutur- ! sig
es, 1T was found that a quantity of the
taste salt had been cast into the swill 10
arrels to get rid of it. The lesson To 80
e learned is, that while dry salt is rcr
for pigs when taken yolun- n.
arliy, when it is given in in excess in for
UGH way that they are Obliged To
nix IL ~ 10 Il