The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-04-18
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.

large pan and rub them with it, using
no water, nothing but dry meal, and
they will look as good as new.
RASPBERRY ICE CREAM - Stain the
Juice from fine garden raspberries, if
procurable; otherwise the field raspber-
ry may be used, but will, if course,
make an ice of inferior quality and less
inviting color. To one pint of juice
teen ounces of white sugar.
MoLAssEs FOR CArTLE.-Successfu
cattle-feeders in Europe give molasses
constantly TO fattening cattle and mich
COWS. A large German farmer gives a
pint day, mixed with oilcake, to his
cows, largely increasing their milk.
We know one very successful American
farmer who gives his cows molasses in
their feed with very good results.
CoRNED BEEF.-Corned beef should
never be boiled. It should only sim
mer, being placed on part of the range
or stove where this process may go on
uninterruptedly from four to six hours,
according to the size of the piece If it
is to be served cold, let the meat remain
in the liquor until cold; Tough beef
can be made tender by letting it remain
in the liquor until the next day, and
then bringing it to the boiling point
just before serving.
GRAIN Is CHEAP.-Half a pound of
grain per day to each 100 pounds live
weight will not hurt either horses, COWS
or sheep, but, on the contrary, will do
them a great deal of good, and pay far
better than feeding hay or straw alone.
Fattening animals have one pound of
grain per day for each 100 pounds live
W light. This is the average, but it is
we'll to give little less at first, and in
crease gradually as the animals get used
to it. In very cold weather they may
have little more.
IRONING SHIRT FRONTS. SIN a first
class laundry starch is made in the usual
manner: To q pail of starch a whole
sperm candle is used. When the linen
is dry, it is dipped in the cold starch
and ironed in the ordinary way; then
it is dampened with wet cloth and the
polishing iron pressed over it. This is
an ordinary smoothing iron, ground off
To this last manipulation the linen is
indebted for the peculiar laundry gloss
which all admire so much, but which
many housekeepers have vainly striven
to leave upon the wristbands and bo-
SONS of their husbands shirts.
LONG BURROWS IN PLowING.-A Ger
man agricultural journal prints plea
for long burrows. The turning of the
pillow and the commencing of new fur
row require more exertion in the plow-
man and the team than continued work
on straight line; and how great may
really be the loss of time from frequent
interruptions in short turns may be
shown by the following calculations ::
In field of 225 feet long, five and a
half hours out of ten are used in re-di-
recting the pillow; with length of SIS
feet, four hours are sufficient for the
purpose and when the pillow can pro-
coed without interruption for 800 feet,
one and a half hours of the daily work.
ing time are consumed.
EARTH PoULTICEs. -The value of earth
as disinfectant and deoderizer is well
known, and the treatment of liberated
sores and gangrenOus wounds with it is
becoming very general. A new applica-
ton has lately been described by DR..
E. s. Bunker, who states he has recent
ly used clay as a dressing for the face
in two cases of continent smallpox,
busting 1t in powder over the faces of
the patients as soon IS postules became
fairly developed. This formed clean,
dry, wholesome scab, absorbing the in
fictitious material, and scaled off during
convalescence, leaving an underly ing
skin in its natural and normal state.
The painful itching, which is one of the
wost characteristics of the disease, was
entirely abated. The earth used is fine
pipe clay.
CURE FOR HORSES PULLING AT Hal
terra year ago 1 had four-year old
horse which had contracted the habit of
pulling back whenever she was fastened.
She would be sure to break loose, if
what held her could be broken by her
drawing in such backward way. She
was cured of the habit by taking a rope
two feet long, fastening one end around
her body just back of her shoulders,
and passing the other end through the
ring of the halter and tying to the post.
She lay back for her usual pull for a
few times when fixed in this way, but
soon found she was drawing from her
body instead of her head, which she
did not relish, and soon gave it up en-
tirely. She can now be left anywhere
with perfect safety, as nothing will in
duce her to pull back when fastened
Country Gent.
CARAMEL Ice CREAM. Put on to boil
three quarts of new milk, beat up the
yelks of fifteen eggs very light, adding
three quarters of a pound of sugar
When the milk boils, pour it gradually
into the beaten sugar and eggs, return
to the fire, letting it remain for about
hn
time. Meanwhile, in small iron skill
let, place over the fire a half-pound of
brown sugar, which must melt and be
burnt until of a dark-brown color;
when properly Drowned, pour into the
skillet, little at time, boiling GUS
tard from the kettle, not minding the
sputtering consequent therefrom. When
the skillet is full, mix altogether in a
bowl, and set in some cool place until
ready to freeze. If not sweet enough,
add little more sugar. If the sugar
is TOO burnt, so as to impart bitter
flavor, add cream until the fault is rec
tilted.
To SPICE ROUND OF BEEF.-One
ounce of powdered Cayenne pepper,
half an ounce of allspice, and two nut
megs. Rub into your beef an ounce of
SalUpeUer, tnen cupIu41 Oh sugar ana
two handfuls of salt. Break up the
spices fine, and add them, laying the
round in large bowl or other covered
vessel tight enough to hold the brine
that will be forming. Turn the beef
every morning, rubbing the spices in
with the hand. 1t may be cooked in a
fortnight, or left for six weeks. Stew
in pot, with beef suet strewed fine
over it. Add some beef gravy, or
quart of water and bottle of port-wine
or claret. 1t must be done slowly, TAX
ing care to keep in the steam. 1t will |
require three or four. hours, perhaps |
five, according to size. Cook it also in |
the pickle drawn from the beef, adding |
three or four gallons of boiling water. !
Take care it does not touch the vessel |
it is boiled in. If you choose you may |
tie it in cloth, or wrap it in a coarse |
paste mad for the purpose. A large |
round often keeps until too hard and
dry to use; it is better than ever then
for relish if grated up fine, and is es-
pecially nice for tea.
Doves in Pekin.
The city of Pekin abounds with doves