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FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Recipes.

Recipes.
LOBSTER BAKED.-Choose small but
heavy lobster, and after boiling it, take
the meat out of the shells, leaving the
large body-shell whole, which wash
nicely cut the meat in small dice, with
a little parsley and shallot, few drops
of the essence of anchovies, spoonful OF
vinegar, little cayenne pepper and salt,
some melted butter, and the yolk of q
hard-boiled egg, rubbed with the butter;
put n little melted butter in the shell,
sprinkle some bread crumbs over it fill
with the prepared lobster, and cover with
bread crumbs and small Jumps of butter;
brown in the oven, and send to table hot.
CALF's TR1pE.-Procure very nice
white tripe; cut in small pieces season
with salt and pepper ; stew slowly until
very tender ; it will take quite long
time At the same time have in a sepa-
rate saucepan eight white onions boiled
soft and mashed the water in wh;ch
they were boiled pour off and -four, milk
and butter added let all stew together
when the tripe is tender dish on buttered
toast with squeezed lemon over it; the
onion sauce served in a gravy boat.
WATERMELON CAKE.-White part
two cupfuls white sugar, half cupful of
butter, half cupful sour milk, one tea
spoonful soda, two of cream tartar, the
whites of eight eggs and three cupfuls Of
-four. edpart-half apound ofred sugar,
half cupful butter, half cupful sweet
milk, one teaspoonful of soda, two OF
cream tartar, the whites of six eggs and
two cupfuls -four. Put half the white
part in the pan, then the red, with few
currants sprinkled in to have the ap-
pearance of seeds, then place the remain
ing white part on top.
SAUsAGEs. Grind your meat in a saul
sage-mill, and take ground black pepper,
pulverized sage-leaves, and red pepper
well powdered; mix small quantity
and cook to dry it, and then mix in the
pepper and sage to suit your taste.
CHOCOLATE SouAREs.-One cupful
butter, two of sugar, one of milk, two
and half Of -four, one and one half tea
spoonful of baking powder bake i'll lay
ers in biscuit-pan; place between them
the following mixture, cut in squares :
Icing Dissolve one sheet of isinglass i'll
one cupful boiling water mix with it
one cake of grated chocolate and one cup.
full powdered sugar, to the consistency of
cream for the top, mix the remainder
of the icing with n cupful sugar, favored
with lemon spread thin.
BREAD. dissolve one cake of com
pressed yeast in one-half cupful tepid
water take thr' quarts of four, one
tablespoonful salt, and warm sufficient
to m.ke a stiff batter, adding the yeast
last beat all we'll together; cover tight
". Early in the morning add a sma
lump of butter, two tablespoonfuls sugar,
and mold in flour sufficient to form soft
dough; must be well kneaded, but not
too stiff and hard. Cover and set in a
warm place where it will rise quickly
The quicker it rises the winter it will be;
should be perfectly light in, at most, two
hours. Mold on bread cloth, or folded
table cloth, with little flour dredged on
it. I like narrow, long tins, with per-
pendicular sides, for baking in. After
putting in pans, let rise about fifteen
minutes. Just before placing in the
oven, wash the top of the loaves over
with little melted butter or milk with a
paste brush or feather. Immediately OH
taking from the oven, roll each loaf sep
arately in bread towel.
Notes for Fnrmers.
Arrowroot culture, which formerly
was carried on quite extensively in
Florida is about to be revived by the
new settlers in the land of flowers.
The washing and shearing of sheep
should be deferred until the weather
is warm enough to insure them against
taking cold after the fleece is removed.
Filthy and wet poultry yards are likely
! to produce disease known as scurfy leg,
just as low, wet lands for pasture bring
on foot rot in sheep and cattle. 1t is
much easier to prevent such diseases
than to cure them.
The grasshopper commission, consist
ing of Profs. Riley, Thomas and Pack
ard, are soon to leave for the Rocky
ul.tains, for the purpose of inves-
tigating the life history of this great
pest of the Western States and Terri
tories.
The breeders of Angora goats must
begin to get discouraged, inasmuch as
the price of the animals has dropped to
almost nothing, and the fleece, which
we were assured would sell readily at SIS
or Sc pound, finds q slow market at
thirty-fve to fifty cents.
Those who may desire to raise Ameri-
can elm, scarlet end silver maple trees,
should not forget that the seed ripens in
the spring, and should be sown rs soon
as gathered from the trees. The seeds
of all our other species of naples ripen
in the fall, and may be kept over winter.
For bee pasturage there are few plants
that excel mignonette, asit grows readily
on light soils and blooms throughout
the hottest and dryest weather, when
many of the more hardy perennials
fail. If you keep bees, SOW a bed of
mignonette for bee pasturage in times of
droughts.
Allow me to give to the suffering pub
lie more effectual remedy than any l
have seen recommended for the destruc-
ton of all those pests that feed upon the
foliage of our crops. Dissolve dram
of corrosive sublimate in pail of water,
sprinkle it upon the foliage with fine
sprinkler. It is not necessary that every
leaf should be wet with it, as it is the
eating of the leaf that destroys the worm
or bug, and not by it's application to
their bodies. I destroyed the whole
crop of currant worms last year upon
my bushes by one application. There
being entire absence of taste to tile arti
Gle, it is eaten readily. The rain washes
it off, but it would not be safe to put it
upon fruit nearly ripe. It is Il most
violent poison, to man or beast there
fore the utmost care should be exercised
in cleansing ell vessels in which it has
been placed the water even in which
they are washed should not be poured
upon the ground where fowls might pick
up food. In the potato field there