Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-09-20
,cRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

The Prairie Farmer says, if there
;s any danger of wheat injuring from
vet or dampness in the bin, a few
stones or dry bricks scattered through
the grain Will make it come out dry
and sweet.
To make grape jelly, have your
cranes clean; put them in your stew
ing-pan, and boil till quite soft. Then
mt them in clean cloth. and let them
drip. Don't squeeze them. After
thev have done dripping, put in your
sugar pound for pound. Let it boil
fifteen minutes Then while hot, pour
into your jelly tumblers.
To make rich sponge cake, take
ten eggs, three-quarters of pound of
sugar, half a pound of -four, grated
rind and juice of one lemon. Beat the
yelks and whites separately, then mix
and stir in the flour lightly, then the
lemon. Sift sugar over the top just
before putting into the oven. This
makes two large sheets. Bake twenty
minutes in a quick oven, watching
closely.
The average price for hogs, gross,
in the past fifteen years has been about
40 per hundred. This would give
the farmer who feeds his corn about
sixty cents bushel, whereas the aver
age price of corn sold on the market in
the West has not exceeded thirty to
thirty-five cents in the same period on
an average. This is a strong argument
in favor of raising stock and feeding
the surplus corn. The stock can be
taken to market on foot, and the corn
has to be transported. Notwithstand-
ing the rapid increase in the growth of
hogs. the prices have been well main
tanned, and are likely to be.-Indi0n0
Farmer.
Turkish rice pudding is thus
made: Pick and wash half a pound of
rice: prepare also half pound of
Zante currants, which must be care
fully picked clean, washed through
two waters, drained well, and spread
cut to dry on fiat dish before the fire !;
pat the rice into saucepan with a
quart of rich milk, then add four
ounces of broken-up loaf sugar, on
which you have rubbed off the yellow
rind of a large lemon and squeeze the
Juice stir in two ounces of fresh but
ter divided into small pieces; when
the rice is well swollen and quite soft
take it from the fire and mix with it
eight well-beaten yelks of eggs; trans
fer it to deep dish and put it in the
over for half an hour. Serve up warm.
A nice sauce for this pudding is the
whites of the eggs used in it, beaten to
Il froth, with powdered sugar and fla
vored with lemon.
"A correspondent writing to the
Practical Farmer, in relation to the
use of salt and lime for bathing the
feet of horses, says: 81 have tried
StrOnp brine fo,,IIueItu or MOOT
Dvtnd horses, and with good results.
| made solution of salt and applied
1t three times day by washing the
legs and pouring upon the bottom of
the feet, and holding them up few
minutes to let it strike in. ! saw the
wonderful effects in few days. | ac-
count for it in this way: Salt viii ex-
tract moisture from the atmosphere,
which keeps the feet moist. Salt OPP
crates nearly like grease upon the foot.
The hoof becomes soft, yet pliable.
Like chunk Of wood saturated with
salt or brine, it is tough yet moist.
Thus it is with horses feet. Here let
me add that the practice Of rasping a
cracked hoof to tougher it is folly. APP
ply brine, and you will effect a cure.
a horse that is driven upon a hard
road is liable to get stiffened. | have
seen valuable horses, driven upon our
own plank roads few days, get quite
lame. | reasoned to myself as to the
cause, and adopted the use of brine as