Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1876-06-03
HOME AND FARM.

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BLACKBERRY ,JAM.-Merely add three
quarters of pound of sugar to each
pound OF fruit, boiling and well skim
ming for one hour.
CURE FOR CHIcKEN CHoLERA,- Take a
handful of soda TO a wash painful of corn
meal mix with water Gnd feed once a
day. 1 cured with this when had to
drench them.-Mrs Ellen Warfield.
To KEEP FLIES FROM HORsEs.-Bathe
the hide with a strong ley made from car
boIic soap. a few applications Of this
viii keep the flies away. Kerosene Is
still more effectual, Il th odOr from IL Is
not ofiensive.-Turf, Field and Farm.
The most easy way OF keeping hams
perfectly is to wrap and tie them In paper,
and pack them In boxes or barrels with
ashes. The ashes must fill all interstics,
but must not not touch the hams, as IL
absorbs the fat. II keeps them sweet
and protects from all kinds Of insects.
ELMsDALE CAKE.-Six cups of sugar,
three cups of butter, two cups of butter
milk, seven eggs, one teaspoOuful Of sal
eratus, ten cups of -four, some lfaisins,
one nutmeg. Rub the sugar and butter
together; add the butteTmilk; add the
saleratus the last thing. This is very
much like pound cake, only not quite 50
rich
e g Never give up a choice bat decaying
rose bush till you have tried watering
two or three times with SCOT tea. Take
SCOT from the chimney or stove in which
wool is burned, and make a tea Of it.
When all is used, pour boiling water
second time on the SCOT. The shrub will
quickly send out thrifty shoots, the leaves
will become large and and thick, and the
blossoms will be larger and richer than
ever before.
ORANGE JELLY.-Put one quart of wa
ter into a saucepan with two ounces of
isinglass broken small boil It gently un-
ill it is a strong jelly; take the juice from
four large oranges and two fne lemons,
an1 half the yellow rind from one orange
and one lemon. Put them to the jelly,
ami make Il sweet with loaf sugar; then
bent the whites of four eggs to a froth;
mix it aud let il boil ten minutes; then
rul it through jelly-bag once Or twice
until Il Is perfectly clear; put il in fancy
msstids.
CoTIoN YARN DIRECTLY PROM THE SEED
Corrosive have had, through the
courtesy of friend, placed upon our Ia
Bile specimens Of four sizes of beautiful,
evenly spun cotton yarn, manufactured
by the whitfield Manufacturing Com
pany," at Corinth. These yarns are spun
by the improved machinery known as
the "Clemept Attachment '.new pro-
cess for spinning yarns directly from
seed cotton, thereby saving from SO to 70
per cent, and dispensicg with "gin,
press, compress, wiliowcr, lapper, double
iaPper, breaker, three-fouTths OF the
cards, railway and railway drawing
heads, also all jack frames, stubborn
mules, twisters, evenerS, etc, together
with all the buildings, motive power,
and operatives necessary TO hold, drive
and attend said discarded machinery, re-
mir inn 10 fattr via nrd
drawing frame, speeder and spinning
frame" 1t saves One-half the usual
waste, and makes $50 clzimed) better and
stronger sliyers, rovings aud thread than
can be made Of baled cotton.
We are thus particular in describing
this new process from the fact that little
is known with reference to this wonder
ful Improvement, and we alse believe
this simplifed and cheap machinery, in
troduced in the cotton growing region,
wherever as many as three hundred bales
can be aggregated, will bring greater
prosperity to tile South than anything
else We az present know of. We viii
take pleasure in showing these samples
to all who may feel ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
an (Miss.) Mercury.
Why CATTLE REoURE SALr.-We know
why the animal Graves salt and why It
ultimately falls into disease If salt is for
time withheld. Upward of half the sa-
sists of common salt-and SO this partly
discharged every day through the skin
and kidneys, the necessity of continued
supplies of it to the body becomes sufli-
GENTLY obvious. The bile also contains
soda rs a special and indispensable con-
stituent, and so do all the cartridges of
the body. Therefore, if the supply of
salt be stinted, neither will the bile be
able properly to assist the digestion, nor
the cartridges be built up again as they
naturally waste.
And when we consider It to be a fact
that without salt man would miserably
perish, as among horrible punishmenfs
entailing certain death that OF feeding
culprits on saltless food is said to have
prevailed in barbarous times we may be-
come partially convinced, at least, of the
necessity of feeding salt 20 our stock
that il is one of the necessaries as well as
one of the luxuries of life for man and
beast; and it should be profusely provid-
ed at short intervals, in proper places, If
il cannot be kept by them continually, so
that each and every animal may satisfy
the demands Of his nature. Then it
shall not be said of us that while our
pudding is well seasoned and saited, our
stock are allowed to suffer for wait of
the same ingredient, which is as truly
necessary for their food as ours.
WORK! WORK The spring and sum
MGR is the time for farmers and laborers
to work. To get our living by the sweat
of our brow is the requirement Of our
Creator. Now is the time for constant,
steady and active labor. Time waits for
no man, and it behOOves every farmer to
press forward with all his energy tc make
good crop. The sluggard who says it
is time enough vet, will soon find his
mistake. Owing to the warm wintet, a
heavy coat of winter grass has coy-rd
the fields-this with the heavy rains has
caused the lands TO break up badly and
with the best preparation that can be
made will make the labor greater than
usual unless we have an unusually dry
spring, of which we have no prospect
The high rivers and full lakes indicate a
wet spring and a dry summer, and if you
want good crop you must pillow deep,
give thorough cultivation so as to enable
your crop to stand drouth. The slug
gard who sees lion in the way and,
turns aside at every difficulty, will lose
his crop, and be compelled, If he cannot
get credit, TO beg, starve or steal. Gods |
word says, "Six days shalt thou labor -
and it becomes every laborer to be up |
and doing. Rise early, work hard and !
manage well, and want will not enter 1
your dwelling. Remember that system
attic labor and good management are nee |
essary to success in everything. You /
cannot make a fair crop without a good |
team and tools-with an old, slow and /
starved mule, and old rickety pillow and |
dull hoe you cannot do reliable work. /
\ or may labor hard and long, but ac- |
complish little. A man trying to make a |
crop with a crowbar, displays a. much |
wisdom as som9 do with a slow mule, and |
worn out farm implements.