Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-03-07
.cRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.


Ivy keeps house warm in winter
and cool in summer.
There is no dish for the farmer
breakfast table in the winter which is
% healthful AMI nourishing as a por-
doe made of corn and oatmeal equal
Quantities, and eaten with milk. 1t
y food and drink.-IO1Cd State Regis
ter.
All sorts of animals delight in a
apst bath. Chickens who have easy
and continued access to it will never
he troubled with vermin, either in
their houses or on their bodies. Cattle
delight to stand in dusty road
scraping it up with their fore feet and
ainginC it all over their backs. The
cheapest and most effectual cure for
lice on cattle is to scatter "A quart of
drv dust along the spine from the
horns to the tail. In winter. when
they cannot get it, many animals be-
come covered with verniin.-N. Y.
Herald.
To make mock sweeybreads, take
tbree-ouarters Of pound of veal well
or bacon, the yelks OF two eggs and a
spoonful (scant of bread-Gumbs. Mix
all well together, season with pepper,
a very little mace and salt add great
spoonful of cream. Roll up this COM
mound in the shape of sweetbreads,
and brown before the fire or in the
oven. Serve with gravy OF brown
-four. wet up with cream; stir into the
gravy in the bake-pan till smooth, then
let it boil up once. If too thick add
more cream, or a little boiling water.
Christian Union.
Has it ever occurred to our read
prs that it is easier to take the milk
away from the cream than to skim tho
cream off the milk? The former proc
ess insures a better result in quantity
of unbroken cream, in facility of hand
ling and in saving OF time. To take
the milk from the cream requires the
mans to be made smaller at the bottom
than at the top, and to have hole
made in the bottom, with piece of
zinc pipe, an inch or two long, soldered
on of such diameter that common
sized cork would fit into it. The pans
NAV rest on frames, or on small
stands elevated from the floor Sutfi-
cient height to admit of placing skim
milk cans underneath. This process
is simple, effective and worthy of a
trial. american C1titi0dtor.
A useful hint may occasionally be
derived from humble sources, and we
lately noticed plan, III cottager s
dwelling, of keeping cauliflowerS,
which is not known or practiced by
every gardener in the three kingdoms.
The owner of the cottage was DESTROYS
of having caulitioWers for Christmas,
and five weeks ago cut some close
heads, and which are now as fresh
and firm as ever. These are suspended
in a cool pantry. with their stalks or
cut parts upward. The stalks are
followed out by scooping away the
pth, and the cavity in each is filled
with water AS this is absorbed or
eyaporated it is replenished, and the
result is that the heads remain as fresh
and firm as when cut from the garden.
! The owner says he has thus preserved
| caulihOwerS for more than two months.
London Journal Of Horticulture.
i saw an article recommending
pounded glass for poisoning rats.
After several years trial, allow me to
name the German plan, used in game
preserves, safe for winged game but
death to rodents: Mix calcined plas-
ter such as plasterers use to make
hard finish" on walls, one-tnird of
the plaster with two-thirds corn meal !;
mix dry and place it where it will keep
dry under stable floors, for instance !;
the action of the mixture, as soon as
1t comes in contact with the moisture
of the stomach, is this: The plaster
sets, becomes stone, and death to the
rat is the sure result. and should your
pigs. cats or dogs eat the rats. no
trouble ensues, as the plaster is already
set. Poultry readily grind it in their
crops, a neighbor to whom l had
gwen a lot of plaster few days ago,
rushed over to know if it would kill
pigs; his boy had put handfHl of the
preparation into pail of milk and fed
tAe pigs. No trouble ensued, for the
milk set the plaster before it reached
The pigs trough.-Ohto Farmer.