Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-06-03
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

The best ink for postal cards is made
Of solution of ten grains hyposulphite
OF soda in sixteen teaspoonfuls of water.
This is colorless, but on being exposed
to heat turns black.
Bone meal is highly recommended
by those who have used it as substance
to be kept accessible to fowls. 1t is rec
commended to keep it in trough where
they can gain access to it without being
able to scratch it out.
Never paper wall over old paper
ndpaste. Always scrape down thorough
ly.. Old paper can be got off by damp
enlng with saleratus and water Then
go over all the cracks of the wall with
plaster of Paris and finally put on
wash of weak solution of carbolic acid
The best paste is made of rye -four with
two ounces Of glue dissolved IN each
quart OF paste; half an ounce of pow
dered borax improves the mixture.
Carrots for Eggs.-It is not generally
known that boiled carrots, When prop
erly prepared, form an excel!er: substi-
tute for eggs in buildings. They must,
and passed through coarse cloth or
troduced among the other ingredients of
the pudding, to the total Omission of
eggs. A pudding made up in this way is
and is much more palatable. On the
principle of economy, this fact is worthy
of the prudent housewives attention.
-Erchange.
Lemon Puffs-One quart of ilk,
the yolks of six eggs, two cups of white
sugar, two tablespOonfuls of -four, three
lemons. Beat the eggs, sugar and -four
together well; beat the eggs first, then
add the lemon juice; have your dish
lined with paste; do not add the milk
until you are ready to put it into the
oven. Beat up the whites, add fine white
sugar, large teacupful, and beat very
light; flavor to taste. When the custard
is done spread the icing over it, set it
back in the oven and let it brown nicely.
Eat as soon as cold.
Rabbit Cutlets.-Prepare the rabbits
as you would for stew; cut the differ
ent limbs into the size of cutlets--such
as the shoulders cut in half, also the
legs, with the ends of the bones chopped
off, and pieces of the back, even to the
half of the head. Have ready some
bread-crumbs and the yolk of an egg
beaten up. Drop each outlet into the
egg and then cover it up with bread
crumbs, as for veal outlets. Fry them a
nice brown, and when you dish them
pour round them some rich, brown gravy
which may be favored with tomato
sauce, if approved, and put round them
rolls of fried bacon.
Experiments in Sweden have shown
that the well-known effect of thunder
storms in souring milk may in a great
degree, be avoided or csunteracted by
artificial heat in the dairy. The plan is
to start a fire in the room where milk is
kept whenever thunderstorm is seen
approaching. This is done even in hot
weather, the purpose being to drive out
the excess of moisture. The explanation
given is that during the approach of such
storm the atmosphere becomes loaded
with moisture, and the damp, moist,
heavy air resting upon the milk pro-
duces acidity and spoils it. Dry air,
then, is important in the dairy, and when
ever there are atmospheric changes which
bring excessive moisture in the air of a
dairy fire should be at once started to
counterfeit the bad influence it would
have upon milk.