Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-07-10
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

To ASSIST THE GROWTH OF HAIR
| in clean soft water, with two or three
| drops Of aqua ammonia added.
CIDER CAKE-Two pounds of -four
one pound sugar, quarters pound but
ter, one pound currants one pint cider,
six eggs, one teaspoonful soda. Spice to
your taste.
POTATO FRY-Slice 0hin) cold boiled
potatoes into pan; cover them with good
milk; add salt and pepper as soon as the
| milk boils; hash them while cooking),
adding little butter.
LEMON JELLY CAKE-Two cups of
sugar, one small cup of butter, one-half
cup of sweet milk, two and one-half cups
| Of flour, four eggs one teaspoon of cream
tartar, one-half teaspoon of soda. Bake
in thin layers For the jelly take the
juice and rind of three lemons, or five if
small, one pound of sugar, one-quarter
pound of butter, six eggs; beat together
and scald like custard When cool spread
between the cakes. Ice the top.
THE Oyster and Fruit Packers Board
of Trade, of Baltimore, at recent meet
ing, resolved that the standard bushel for
peaches shall be box 8 inches deep, IA
inches wide, and 221s inches long, in the
clear, with half-inch partitioR-that the
standard halfbushel for tomatoes shall be
basket 10 inches deep, 1913 inches across
the bottom, and Is inches across the top
and that the barrel for measuring peas
shall hold not less than two and half
standard bushels
THIN SEEDING-A correspondent of the
Western Farmer says: From my expert
ence last year, shall SOW much less seed
of wheat, oats, and barley, than is custom
ary-scy IL bushels wheat, IA bushels
oats NORWAY and White Schonen), III
barley (SaxOnia and Chevalier) | am
satisfied that the above amounts, sown
early and well worked in, are abundant
Early sowing requires less seed than late.
and well prepared, level seed bed, re
quires less than rough, cloddy, uneven
one. I SOW only on fall ploughing.
CANNING FRUITS AND NEGETABLEs-
These should be fully ripe, without blem-
ish, especially Ofdecay In the first place,
them in the cans quite full, and having
put on the covers loosely, set the cans in
kettles of cold water over a moderate fire;
let the water boil gently, then remove the
cans, close them tightly and set them in a
cool place. Glass cans are much used
now, but as these admit light, which is
supposed to injure the fruit, they should
be placed at once in a dark closet. Fruit
keeps better without sugar. wellsealed
and kept cool. Vegetables should be boil
ed longer than fruit, especially corn, peas
and beans
DRY AND CRACKED FINGERs-The New
York World in answer to a correspondent
says: eve know by experience something
about dry and cracked fingers for we
once worked on a farm and were careless,
as many men and boys are, about properly
cleansing our hands. 1t was our own
fault that we had sore hands, as it is
yours. We finally learned to avoid the
suffering by washing our hands clean
with CASTLE soap and hot water, and wip-
ing them dry before exposing them to the
cold air. Before going to bed at night we
used to rub them with glycerine and dry
it in before the fire. We never had any
trouble afterwards. If at our work we got
ur hands wet when they were dirty, we
took pains to rub them dry as soon as
we could before exposing them to the air.
DAMP STABLEs-Damp stables are es-
pecially to be avoided, whether from new
ness, or from being partly underground,
or from being badly drained. Whatever
the cause, it Injuries the health of the
horse, and he can never be kept free from
colds, coughs, etc, while in one so con-
structed as to produce damp. 1t should
therefore be prevented by removing the
cause, which may be effected in nearly
every case, even underground, by proper
drainage. If stable must be under the
surface, it is better to curtail its proper
tons by building an inside wall, leaving
an air drain all round between 1t and the
old wall, than TO allow it to remain damp,
and this is generally the cheapest way of
effecting the change, for in order to get at
the outside there is often vast deal of
valuable surface to be interfered with.