Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1877-07-10
FIELD AND FIREsIBE.
Feed for Chicks.

Fill bin with corn meal. oat meal, mid,
dings, each fifty pounds and bran ten pounds;
add aud thoroughly incorporate with the lot
three ounces bone-mcal and one ounce best
Cayenne pepper. Pu, a pan of thick milk
on the stove till the whey is formed and it is
scaldiug hot add meal to make stiff batter,
salt little and bake in slow oven four
hours. If in setting nests you find clear
eggs add two or three OF them to the mixture
before baking. If you can afford it add eggs
any way. This cake, wet with either milk
or water. or crumbled dry. is the most eco>
nomcal feed that can be given. Economical
not for price. but because it gives the birds
growth material in perfection and in shape
that. permits waste from neither loss nor fo>
nentation. Enough eau be madc at once TO
last q week. If sour milk is not obtainable
make soup of few scraps of meat boiled
to rags add potato pariugs, then add meal
and bake as before.
TIE NAMES OF NAILs.-The terms "fourS
penny" six penny, "ten>penny," ETC., es
applied to nails, means this -"Four- penny
means four pounds to the thousand nails,
"six- penny" six pounds to the thousand, and
SO on. 1t is an old English term and meant,
at FIRST, ''ten pound" nails (the thousand
being understood j but the old Englishman
clipped it to "ten pun" and from that to ten
punuy; aud so il dcgenerated, until penny"
was substituted for pound" So, when YOU
ask for four penny nails, now a-days, you
want those q thousand Of which will weigh
four pounds; Cbut in these degenerate times,
wa question whether you will get as many
thousand in tina, weight. When a thousand
nails weigh less than pound they are
called tacks, brads, etc, and are reckoned BY
I,o tt,o III y n q 90
o., or 10 o., 16 OF etc., on papers of tacks.
To CLEANSE TIE Woodwork AROUND
DooRs Take pail of hot water; throwin
two tablespoonful Of pulverized borax use
q good coarse house cloth-an old coarse towel
does splendidly-and wash the painting do
not brush when washing places that
are extra yellow or stained, soap the cloth
then sprinkle it with the dry powdered borax,
and rub the places we'll, using plenty of rims
ing water by washing the woodwork in this
way you will not remove the paint, and the
borax will soften aud make the hands white
"A fact we'll worth knowing. The uses Of
borax in domestic economy numerous
and one of the most valuable is its employ
ment to. aid the detergent properties of soap.
SPRUCE BEER.-Add to Is gallons of boil
ing water, II pounds OF mOlasses, and II
ounces Of spruce. Let the mixture cool, and,
when lukewarm, add one pint Of yeast, and
set aside to ferment; in warm weather less
yeast will suffice. While the Fermentation is
going on remove the yeast by skimming, and
when the fermentation becomes languid,
which usually happens in two days, put the
beer into stone bottles, and tie the corks down
with pack thread. White spruce beer is
made in the same way, except that white or
brown sugar is used instead of moasses, and
1t has q very superior favor. Spruce beer
will counteract any tendency to the scurvy.
Rich COFFEE CAKE.-Two cupsful of but
ter, three of sugar, of molasscs, one of
very strong coffee, ono Of cream or rich milk,
and yolks of eight eggs, one pound each of
raisins and currarts. one hslfspound of ci,ron,
she same of figs, and Eve cupsful of Drowned
-four after it is sifted. Put tho flour in the
even, and watch it we'll to keep from burn
ing until it is nice brown. When cold,
slit with it three teaspoousful of baking pow.
der and little salt /; cut the figs in as long
strips as you can; dredge all the fruit with
-four; beat the cake we'll. and bake in a mod,
crate oven from four to five hours.
ITALIAN CREAM.-Set quart of milk,
sweetened with white sugar, on the fire to
boil break the whites of six eggs into one
poHi huo tHe JOIhs lbbo auOlncTj peat up the
whites to high troth. and as soon as the
milk boils take with fsh>knife large fakes
and lay them lightly the boiling milk
After letting them boil few minutes repeat
the operation with tho remainder of the
whites, and pile it high in the centre of
glass dish. Make a custard of the yolks and
milk, and pour around the whites. Touch
the top fakes with cochineal essence.
TO Boil PoTAToEs.-Let the potatoes be
of size do not put them in the pot unit
the water boils when done, pour off the
water and remove the cover until all the steam
is gone then scatter in half teaspoonful of
salt and cover the pot with towel. BY
adopting this plan watery potatoes will be
mealy.
CURE FOR SPRAIN.-Take one tablespoon.
full of honey, and same of salt. and the white
of one egg bea. all we'll together for a. least
one hour-or two would be better. Let it
stand an hour. Then annoint the sprained
place freely keep we'll rolled up with coed
bandage.
IODINE AND BoILs AS soon as boil be-
comes hard and infamed paint it with iodine.
The poison will not be scattered, but absorbed
by it. Another authority says: "Do nothing
for boils but battle them in tepid water"
CoUGH SYRup.-Take small handful Of
hops and some old field balsam and some hoar-
hound, and make a strong tea boil down to
about one-half. To be taken before eating