Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-04-17
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

TOMATO SoUP.-Boil one pint canned
tomatoes for twenty minutes in one pint
water, then add one pint milk very gra-
dually, that it may not curdle; season as
for oyster soup, and serve with hot crack
ers or squares of toasted bread.
CHILDREN's BIBs.-Do all mothers know
that children's bibs, made of light rubber
cloth, and pinked, or bound with ribbon
are very serviceable for table use, only
needing to be cleaned by rubbing with a
damp cloth?
PoTATOPUFF.-Two cups cold mashed
potatoes; stir in it two tablespoons melted
butter, beating to cream; add two we'll
beaten eggs, one cup cream or milk; pour
into deep dish; bake in a quick oven.
To WASH OIL CLoTH-Oil cloth may
be made to have fresh new appearance,
by washing it every month with a solution
of sweet milk with the white of one beaten
egg. Soap, in time, Injuries oil cloth. 4
very little "boiled oil' freshens up an oil
cloth very little must be used, and rubbed
in with rag Put equal parts of copal
varnish; it gives gloss.
VITALITY of CUTTINGS AND CIONs.-The
London Garden records an experience
going TO show that cuttings and cions re-
tain their vitality much longer than has
been generally supposed, those of vines,
plums, figs, apples and pears taken from
England to the colony at Victoria, South
Australia, having been worked with sue
cess nine months after being severed from
the parent stock.
LANES TONGUES PICKLED.-Soak over
night in a little salt water; in the morning
put them in boiling water; let them boil
until a spear of broom-corn will run
through them easily; remove the skin
boil enough cider-vinegar to cover them;
add to it a little cloves, cinnamon, etc.
boil ten minutes and pour over the tongues
They will keep for several weeks.
To STOP THE RAvAGEs OF MoTHs.-Cam-
phor will not stop the ravages of moths
in carpets, after they have commenced
eating Then they pay no regard to the
presence of camphor, cedar or tobacco
A good way to conquer them is to take a
coarse crash towel and wiring it out of
clean water Spread it smoothly on the
carpet, then iron it dry with a good hot
iron, repeating the operation on all sus-
pected places, and those least used 1t
does not injure the pile or the color of the
carpet in the least, as it is not necessary
to press hard heat and steam being the
agents; and they do the work effectually
on worms and eggs. Then the camphor
will doubtless prevent future depredations
of the miller
DESTROYING THE MAY BEETLE-The
white grub or Larvae of species of May
beetle so destructive in meadows, accord
ing to experiments made in Europe, NAV
be destroyed in large numbers. The man
ner OF so doing was suggested by observ-
ing that these beetles always select warm
and loose ground for the deposition of
their eggs. Consequently, seventeen arti-
fetal breeding places were prepared by
covering fresh cow-dung with fine earth ::
and by the middle of July these were
found full of eggs or grubs of one-quarter
inch III length on the sides most exposed
to the sun. After carefully collecting
these eggs, etc, they were burned There
is another grub found in rotten manure
and compost, closely resembling the white
meadow grub, that must not be confound-
ed with the first one we have mentioned
this is the larvae of dung beetle, Scara-
b0US re5ictus.
GIRLS KEEPING FARM ACCoUNTs-"Mv
daughter keeps my farm accounts sir; and
she is as systematic and particular as
even Bob was, who kept them before he
left home. | tell you it does girls land he
might have added boys also) good to give
them some responsibility, and set them to
watching things about the farm and
household. They learn, find, economy
by it, and soon discover that their re-
spectacle old father is not, necessarily, a
grabbed old curmudgeon because he
doesn't loosen his purse-strings whenever
they see something they happen to fancy;
for they discover the real reason why the
purse should not be opened" SO said
progressive farmer, a kind, appreciative
and proud father, and a big-hearted man
on general principles, the other day.
What he said was worth recording
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