Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-07-06
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

Good soda biscuit can be made OF
Graham -four. Take six cups OF -four,
two teaspoonfuls Soda four OF cream
tartar. salt sufficient, and mix with half
c ' and half buttermilk.
-Toki bed-bugs, get a bottle oftthe
all of cedar, and with a brush paint all
the crevices in the bedstead, and after
one or two applications housekeepers
will be delighted to find that all the
buos have disappeared, and there is
nothing dangerous or unpleasant III the
remedy.
flood flour pancakes may be made
at rich buttermilk, with -four stirred
in to a proper thickness, little salt,
and sufficient soda dissolved in warm
wafer to make it sweet and entirely
neutralize the acid. The proportion of
coda will vary with the sourness of
the milk. and should be carefullyiad-
justed.
Cookies two and half cups
If sugar, one cup of butter, one egg,
one cup of water. one quart OF flour
prepared with baking powder. Spice
with caraway seed or nutmeg. Beat
the butter and sugar together well !;
then add the eggs without previous
beating: then the spices; then the
water. which should be slightly warm !;
lastly the hour-to be worked into Il
soft dough as quickly as possible; roll
ont and cut into cakes and bake i'll "a
quick oven.
To clean paint, procure a plate
with some of the best whiting: have
ready some warm soap water and "a
piece of flannel, which. dip into the
water and squeeze almost dry. Now
take as much whiting as will adhere to
if. Apply it to the surface, when a
little rubbing will instantly remove
dirt or grease. Then wash with clean
warm water, and dry with soft cha
mois. If you clean paint in this way,
ii will look as well as when fresh
PAINTED, and will not iniure the most
delicate colors. 1t is a much better
way than using soap, and will not re-
Quire more'than half the time and la
bor.
There are millions of acres of
grass upon tillable lands trodden down
by cattle, producing less than half the
net income they might if the grass was
cut and fed to the animals. Every
farmer who raises an acre of fodder
corn, and feeds it green to his cattle i'll
the fail, will find that this acre of
green corn produces as much food as
six to eight acres of pasture. Pastur-
ing is the most wasteful of all old
ways to use grass. Yet the farmer
goes on year after year, throwing away
large percentage of the produce of
his fields, because he has not the cour-
age or enterprise to change an old Gus
tom.-Pomeroys Democrat.
A practical florist gives the fol-
lowing directions for setting cuttings:
A healthy plant should be selected, and
strong looking woody pieces cut off /;
these, with a blossom Oh the end, rare
ly fail. Trim off the large leaves and
put them in water for few hours or a
day. Cuttings of ivy (tradescanfio),
wandering jew canary-bird flower
ttropd0lum peregri1un), and oleander,
should be started in water and kept in
water, in the shade, until little root
appears. Each cutting should have a
good sized pot, or several cuttings can
be put in Il wooden box. The best soil
for amateurs to use is half good earth
and half white sand, well mixed:
water well and keep in the shade, but
not III damp, until the cuttings have
taken, then give full sun. Transplant
ing geraniums requires skill. An anna
fanr shnlll M nnfs nnI EaAn tho
aniums in them, sinking the pots in
summer; and if the earth is not rich,
they can be watered with fertilizers in
winter. a tive-inch pot will do for "a
geranium for year.