The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-10-06
Farm, Garden and Household.


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MoLAssEs CASDY.-Two cups molas.
ses, one cup sugar, one tablespoonful
vinegar, butter size OF a hickory nut.
Boil briskly twenty minutes, stirring
all the time. When cool, pull until
white.
ExcELLENT DRoP CAKRs.-Two cups
Of sugar, ono cup Of sour milk, three
teaspoons Of soda; two eggs, one tea
spoon of cloves, one teaspoon OF CHINA.
msn. Stir very thick and drop on but
tered tins.
oRUIbRRs.-Four eggs, four table.
spoons OF brown sugar, and one Of -four,
well beaten together; add four table.
spoons melted butter; mix hard; roll
thin; cut in two-inch squares; set in
bars; Try in very hot lard.
TEA-Water for making tea should
be used the moment it boils. The
reason assigned is, that il it is boiling
for some time, MI the gas that is in it
escapes with the steam, and it will not
then make tea Of the best flavor.
FILTER ron CIsrERN WATBR.-Per-
forate the bottom of wooden box with
a number Of small holes; place inside n
piece Of flannel, cover with coarsely-
powdered charcoal, over this coarse
river sand, and on this small pieces of
sandstone.
Bread O,HLET. into n 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 M OmelOt.pan aud roll
up.
REMOVAL OF INK sPors PROM Colonel
FADmcs,-A solution Of pyro.phosphatG
OF soda, it is said, will quickly remove
fresh ink stains (old ones less sol with.
out affecting the colors OF the fabric, rs
is the result when oxRlic acid, chloride
OF lime, or chlorine water are made use
Of.
October Farm-NVork.
October is the best month in the yea,
IN which to do such work as 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 mowing.felds,
may often DO done to as good advantage
during the first half Of this month as In
August. So il there is any more work
OF this kind to do, it had better be hur.
RED up now, before the fall rains come,
that may soon be expected. On many
farms October is comparatively leisure
month. On some farms all the months
afford the occupants n good deal Of lei
sure time; and it is from these farms
that we hear the most complaints nbout
hard times, and the appropriateness of
farming. The wide.awRke, enterprising
farmer, vile has any taste for, or faith
in his business, will find enough to do
III this as in all other months. There
will DO fences to build or repair, gates
to hang, where now are bars to take out
and put up evory time q team passes
through; rocks to remove from moving
and tillagO lands; drains to dig, and old
pastures to clear upj carriages and farm
implements TO paint, or a cistern 10
make or repair, or IN aqueduct.pipe
needs relaying, or the buildings need
shingling, or additions are to be built
to make the house or barns more con-
venient-indeod, there is no end to the
work that needs to be done.-MeC.E Eng.
land Farmer,
Preserving Pears and Apples.
The following is plan which is sim.
pie and eilicacious. The apples and
pears should be placed in glazed earth
on vessels, each containing about a gal.
Ion, and surrounding each fruit with
paper. These vessels being perfect
cylinders, about foot each in height,
stand very conveniently upon each
other, and present the means OF
preserving n large quantity of fruit in
very small room; and if the spaces
between the top Of one vessel and the
base Of another be filled with cement,
composed OF the two parts Of the curd
Of skinned milk aud one OF lime. by
which the air will be excluded, the later
kinds OF apples and pears will be
preserved with little change in their mp
pearance, and without any danger OF
decay, from October till February and
March. A dry and cold situation, in
which there is little change Of temper.
nture, is the best for the vessels but
the merits Of the pears are greatly in.
creased by their being taken from the
vessels about ten days before they art
wanted for use, and kept in warn
room, for warmth at this, MS ut othel
periods, accelerates tho maturity Of the
pear"
Salt for Hogs.
An English agricultural paper, the
Gardeners Chronicle, relates the
death Of ono SOW in pig, another with Z
litter, and OF eleven small pigs, Of what
was called "strike on the brain" The
pigs we're taken with what seemed To
DO epileptiC fits; they suffered great
pain, uttering occasional shrieks, and
constantly throwing back their heads
convulsively. They died in few hours
after the first seizure. On examining
these pigs, the brain was found all
right the stomach and intestines were
intlnmed in large patches, showing that
death was caused by irritant poison
taken in the swill. On making inquir.
les, ii was found that quantity Of
wAste salt had been cast into tho swill
barrels to get rid OF it. The lesson to
be learned is, that while dry salt is
wholesome for pigs when taken volun.
tarily, when it is given in in excess in
such way that they are obliged to
take il. il is n leadly Doison.