American citizen., 1874-01-31
Farm AND HOUSEHOLD.

A thousand pounds of beef is worth in
one animal from 25 to so per cent. more
than if in two animals.
A farmer can do more work with a
good thinking apparatus than with the
best span of horses ever hitched to a
wagon.
A bushel of large potatoes usually
costs less for labor than a bushel of small
ones; while the large ones are salable at
profit, the small ones often do not pay
the labor bills.
Horse -shoeing is very important as
well as an expensive item. A horse should
be kept sharp shod in winter or not shod
at all. Many good horse is ruined for
want of attention to this matter.
Baked Indian Pudding-Four eggs ,
one quart of sweet milk; five large tea
spoonstuls of Indian meal; nutmeg and
sugar to the taste. Boil the milk and
scald the Indianmeal in it, then let it
cool before adding the eggs. Bake three
quarters of an hour Eat with butter or
sweet sauce.
Sheep should have dry quarters. Dry
cold is better for them than warm. wet
weather. Avoid close, damp, ill-ventilat-
ed easements; also be careful not to use
so much straw for bedding in the sheds
and yards that the manure will ferment
under the sheep. Nothing can be worse.
The Rural Neao Yorker gives the fol-
lowing recipe for removing freckles: :
One ounce each of lemon juice, boraX,
and rose-water, mixed. Rub on at night,
and in the morning bathe with soft water !;
no hard water should ever be used, if you
value the complexion.
Cheese Toast.-Take slice of good
rich old cheese, cut it up into small
pieces, put it in tin or iron stew-pan,
and to one cup of milk add three eggs; ;
beat eggs and milk together and pour on
to the cheese; set it on the stove, and
when it begins to simmer, stir briskly un-
til it forms thick curdle; then pour the
toast and carry to table.
Butter Pot-Pie-Pour quart of water
into kettle; put in half pound of but
ter, a little salt and pepper; make crust
of butter milk, little sour cream, and
saleratus enough to sweeten it; roll out
and cut into biscuit; drop one by one into
the boiling gravy and do not remove the
cover for half an hour, when it will be
done. Keep 1t boiling, but not too hard,
or it will be too heavy.
-Quaking Plum Pudding-Take slices
oc light bread, spread them with butter,
and lay in a pudding dish layers of this
bread and raisins till within an inch of
the top. Add five eggs well beaten, and
a quart of milk, and pour over the pud-
ding. Salt and spice to taste. Bake it
twenty or twenty-five minutes, and eat
with liquid sauce. Before using the rails
ins boil them in little water and put it
all in.
"A warm bran-mash is a good thing
to give horse when he is brought home
hot and exhausted from long journey.
Blanket him at once, and rub his ears and
legs, and then rub his belly and tianks
an M 10 a.
be got at without wholly removing the
blanket. If your man thinks this too
much trouble and will not do the work
willingly, discharge him. Better part
with a man than lose good horse.
Only those afflicted with chapped
hands can appreciate the sutferings of
many hard worker during the winter
months. We give a recipe that may be
relied on as cure for the malady: One
ounce each of spermaceti, white beeswax,
gum camphor, and two ounces of almond
oil, Put in a tin cup, place in vessel of
boiling water, and melt together. Every
time the hands are wet rub little of this
over them. Linseed oil and common
beeswax will answer the purpose, but
ointment is not so nice as the above.
Bean Porridge.-Boil a fresh beef
bone (salt beef would probably answer, if
sufficiently freshenedl in large quantity
of water, and use the meat for anything
you choose. LIE. the liquid become cool
and remove all the grease. Boil teacup-
full of beans in three quarts of this liquor,
until thoroughly soft and in pieces; add a
little rice, the necessary amount of salt,
and just before taking from the stove
little thickening of some kind of meal.
Use it about the thickness of Cruel or
gravies, and add a little milk when you
eat.
Judge +. NJ. Wood, of Barbour Coun-
ty, Ala, Is reported as having cultivated,
the past season, one acre of "poor, sandy
land" on which the only fertilizer used
was eighty bushels of cotton seed, with
the following result: He sowed it in Jan
uary with oats, from which he gathered
4 COG pounds in the sheaf, and, at 81 0per
hundred weight, realized $4,000. In June
he planted corr, and among it, at the suit
able time, sowed peas. He gathered 1424
bushels of corn, worth 81 per bushel; Sd
bushels of peas, worth 81 so per bushel;
and 4S6 pounds Of fodder, worth 81 per
hundred pounds; the total amounting to
$101 80. These crops having been all
harvested, the land was sowed in rye for
winter pasturage.
To Make Paper -prOOf.-Melt
in ten pints of hot water thirty ounces of
glue, gelatine or zinc, and three ounces of
gum m-arabic. In another thirty pints of
hot water melt twenty ounces of soap and
four pounds of alum. Mix both liquids
in one pot. This is composition No. 1.
In another pot heat half a gallon of ben
Zole and one gallon of parrafine, and melt
in it twenty four ounces of resin. Let il
boil till it attains a moderate degree of
consistency. To these materials resin,
oil, and copal or mastic varnish may in
some cases be added. This is composition
No. 2. First dip the article to be water
proof into composition No. in heated
state, and then dry it; next apply compo-
sition No. 2 in a cooled state, with a
brush, or in any other convenient man
ner.
Picking Hams.-The best method is
to rub the hams with coarse salt, to which
One-fourth the quantity of coarse brown
sugar is mixed once day, laying the
hams flesh side upward in pile upon a
table. AT each rubbing the top ham of
the old pile should be put at the bottom
of the new pile. After three weeks of
this treatment the hams are ready for
smoking. If liquid pickle is prepared, it
may be made by rubbing the hams as
above mentioned and packing them in a
tub or barrel with layer of sugar and
salt between the hams. When the hams
are pack ed the barrel is to be filled with
brine strong enough to bear an egg, boil
ed and skinned After smoking the
hams should not be returned to the
pickle, but hung up in cool, dry place
where flies cannot touch them.
The Pork Barrel.
A number of circumstances unite to
cause salt DOrk to be one of the leading