Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-06-26
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

TRAGAcANrH MucnAGE.-Take of pow
dered tragacanth, one dram; glycerln,
six drains; water enough to make in all
ten ounces. Rub the tragacanth in q
mortar with the glycerin, and then add
the water This will produce mucilage
at once of excellent quality.
How FAST DOES ASPARAGUS GROw?-
A gentleman who lives on Fairchild ave-
nue., AM. who has fine bed of asparagus,
had the curiosity, one day this week, to
test the growth of the plant by actual
measurement He selected a thrifty stock
and measured it accurately at eight O'Clock
a. M. At five O'Clock p. M, on returning
from the city, be measured the same stalk
carefully again, and found that 1t had
grown exactly four inches.-HarJord
Times
To CLARITY PICKLEs.-Horseradish
seems to be specific for this purpose. A
lady who is highly successful with her
table, says that she enjoys happy state
of feeling whenever she thinks how secure
she is against the nuisance of white specks
ON her pickles, mangoes, ketchup, etc.
1t is simply putting a little horseradish
into the jar. The white scum does not
gather afterwards, and if present when the
horseradish is put in, it soon sinks down
as sediment, leaving the vinegar quite
clear.
LEMON JEIIY-To the juice of one
| common-sized lemon add one cup white
| sugar and one large egg. Mix well to-
gether, put into coffee saucer, and bake
| in a very slow oven. The sugar must be
dissolved before the mixture is put into
| the oven. When done, it will be clear
jelly. Frost the pie all over when filled.
Some substitute cream filling for lemon
jelly, but it is too sweet for most people.
| When filled with cream, it is called "cus-
tard cake" You can make tie sheets any
size and shape you choose. After frost
| ing, you can put spots Of apple or currant
| jelly over the top, improving the beauty of
| the loaf much.
GREAsING HORSES FEET-A writer in
| the Canadian Farmer says: Il had an
| excellent opportunity of observing the
effect of greasing the feet whilst working
| in a shop where horses were shod for a
large undertaking establishment. The
| treatment of the horses by the horse
sheer was the same as that Of hundreds of
| other horses shod at the same shop; but
| the feet Of the funeral horses were creased
| every time they went out, to make them
| nice and black; and, as the fruit of this
| practice, the hoofs almost ceased growing
l They were exceedingly dry and brittle
The sole was not hard and glossy, as after
paring but of dry nature, and in many
cases could be crumbled by the fingers
PLowING PAsTUREs.-A correspondent
| of the hume Farmer advocates from ex-
perience the frequent blowing of pastures
| for the purpose Of renovating them and
| increasing their product. He says: "Most
any OF our pastures plowed up and seeded
down will bear ton of feed to the acre.
And tive-acre lot will, in four years,
yield twenty tons. Now, there is the ma
nure of twenty tons of feed on this five
| acres in four years. Turn this over and
seed again, and it will bear, at least, two
tons to the. acre, which will make forty
tons. Now, this forty tons of feed on the
five acres (cattle kept on the ground) will
SO enrich it, that on being turned over
and seeded again, it will yield an amount
almost incredible
ToP-DREssING MEADows-In my ex-
perience, the best results can be obtained
by applying the manure on the surface of
the meadow as soon as possible after the
grass has been cut. If it is cloudy or
rainy weather at the time, or soon after
wards, so much the better, as the LIQUID
from the manure will then be carried into
the soil, to be taken up by the roots of the
grass at the time when they need the slim
illus the most, as they receive severe
shock by being laid bare to the action of
the suns rays at season of the year when
the weather is usually the driest. have
noticed that if grass is not cut close to
the ground, it will start much sooner. If
manure is applied at the time stated in
a short time it will be covered with a
heavy aftermath, furnishing a protection
from the heat of autumn, as we'll as from
the frosts of fall and spring.-Cor. of
Exchange.