The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-03-12
Farm AND FIRESIDE.

SOFT GINGER CooKIEs.-2 cups molasses,
/ cup lard, teaspoonful soda, teaspoon
ful salt, | cup hot water, / teaspoOnful
ginger. Mix very soft.
Quick PUDDING.-1 egg, cup of sugar,
/ tablespoonful of melted butter. cup of
sweet milk. teaspoonful of soda. cups
of flour. Bake half an hour or more. Eat
with sweet sauce.
BOILED ONIONs.-Slice them fine latter
paring), boil until tender in enough water
to cover. When tender, season with but
ter, pepper and salt. They are better than
when boiled whole.
THE AgricttLturist states that very fine
white vinegar may be made from the juice
of the white part of watermelons. At a
certain stage the fluid is bitter, but when
perfected acquires true vinegar flavor.
LAMP-SBADE.-A very pretty lamp
shade may be made in the following man.
ner: Cut eight pieces, of the same proper
ton, from perforated cardboard; by 6
inches is good size. On each pieae ar
range autumn leaves and ferns tastefully,
and fasten them in place with mucilage,
cover with lace, and bind with narrow rib
bon of bright color. When all the eight
pieces are thus finished, sew them togeth-
er and place the OctagOnal figure over the
usual wire support for the lamp-shade.
Very pleasing effects may be produced in
this way at slight expense of anything but
time and taste.
STARTING SWEET PoTAToEs.-FOr start
ing sweet potato sprouts | have used the
following plan, which has the advantage
of not needing a sash | dig out a trench
two feet deep. Into this put a foot of
fresh loose manure in the month of April,
Upon the manure | spread six inches OF
sand or light sandy loan, and plant the
potatoes in this sand. If the weather is
cold | cover with marsh hay or straw dur
ing the day, but always at night, and if
there is an extra cold snap with frost |
spread barn sheet or blanket over the
straw. As soon as am ready to plant, |
furrow out the ground three feet apart
each way, drop shoveltul of manure at
each check, draw four hOesful of earth
over the manure, making broad hill, and
plant the sprOut.-COr. ". y. ITibuue.
MICE IN HOTBEDs.-When mice get into
frames, as they often do, they produce a
fearful amount of mischief in a few days,
| if not destroyed. This may easily be done
by mixing sugar and butter or lard smooth
| " together, in which little strychnine Is
| Incorporated spread this on thin slices of
bread and cut into small cubes and distrib-
ute them among the plants, and at the
same time place vessels of water in some
convenient place, where they may drink:
Or, if preferred, the phosphorus compound
sold by druggists for this purpose may be
used, but we have always had the best sue
cess with the first named mixture. In
either case care must be taken that the
children do not have access to the prepared
bits of bread.
SEwAGE-GROWN CROPS.-lt Is certain
that all kinds of crops may be grown with
sewage, so that the farmer can grow such
as he can best sell. Nevertheless, the sta
pie crops must be cattle food, with Occa-
siOnal crops of corn and it is also certain,
from the analysis of the soil, that it has be-
come very much richer, and that the ma
nurial constituents of the sewage accumu-
late in it. Cattle should be fed on the
! farm, which leads to a vast increase in the
production of meat and milk, the great de-
siderata of the population producing the
sewage. Thus the system of farming
must be specialized and capital concentrate
ed, the absence of which conditions has
proved a great barrier to the satisfactory
practical solution of the sewage question.
I-PODuLdT Science Monthly.