The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-11-17
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.


TO Remove Black-heads from the
Skin.-Black-heads may be got rid of,
and prevented from returning, by wash
ing in tepid water, by proper friction
with towel, and by applying little
cold cream.
Sponge Cake.-Mix one cupful of
flour with one heaping teaspoonful of
baking powder, one cupful of sugar,
three eggs, one tablespoonful of sweet
milk stir briskly; bake at once.
Artificial Coral-To two drains of
vermilion add one ounce of rosin; melt
them together. Have ready the branches
or twigs peeled and dried, paint them
over with this mixture while hot. The
twigs being covered hold them over
gentle fire, turning them round until they
are perfectly covered and smooth.
-Tapioca Pudding two-thirds
of cupful of tapioca over night in one
quart of milk; then add three beaten
eggs, five tablespoonfuls of sugar, but
ter the size Of an egg, one whole lemon,
grated; bake three-quarters of an hour;
serve with milk or cream.
"A lazy gardener, of whom lady
asked why the grounds were overrun with
weeds, replied: THE soil is the mother
of weeds, but only the stepmother of the
flowers" "Then, replied the lady, "had
not you better assist the stepmother a
little more? am sure she needs it."
"A Recipe for Making the Complexion
Soft and Fine.-Make linen bag large
enough to hold quart of bran; put it
in vessel and pour tive quarts of boil
ing water on it; let it stand all day, and
at night on going to bed take the bag out
and wash with the bran water. In very
short time it will make coarse skin feel
like velvet. ... ...
Pastry for Mince-Pies. One cupful
lard, two cupfuls flour, one-half cupful
ice-water, pinch Of salt; use a knife to
cut the lard through the flour until fine;
then add the water and mix with the
knife until no -four remains in the bowl.
Roll in a sheet and place bits of butter
over; dust well, fold up, and repeat the
process twice, using half cupful of but
ter. Roll the crust thin; have d quick
oven; it will rise in fakes.
-Eecles Cake.-Make rich and deli
cate puff paste; roll it out thin, cut it
round, using q bowl for that purpose;
sprinkle each round with nicely-washed
currants, little sugar, chopped lemon
(only a small quantity of lemon, and nut
meg; wet the edges well, then place an
other round of paste on the top, pressing
the edges neatly together; put in hot
oven and bake quickly.
Marking sheep is best done with
Venetian red, cheap paint, only few
cents pound, and o8e pound will mark
a thousand Take a pinch of the dry
powder and draw the inclosing thumb
and fingers through the wool at the spot
you wish to mark, loosening the powder
as you do so, and it will combine with
the oil in the wool and make bright rec
mark that the rains will never wash out
and which, without injuring the wool
will endure from one shearing to an
other, while it can be readily cleanseC
out by the manufactured Farmers
Home Journal.
Prof. Samuel W. johnson thus ex
plains the theory of mixed foods: "Tt
throw cured maize fodder out in the cat
tie yard, or to feed it in the stall as hay
is fed. is highly wasteful. 1t cannot bt
fed alone or as an adjunct to hay; to use
it protitably it must be finely cut anC
well mixed or alternated with maize o.
cotton-seed meal, bran, or some similar
material. Maize meal and similar ar
ticles contain too much albuminoids, fat
and starch for healthy and economical
cattle food; maize fodder contains toe
little of these and too much coarse fiber
the two should be mixed"
The writer of this has produced the
best results in the feeding of plants by
the use of composted muck and barn,
yard manure we'll rotted, and it is made
in this wise: A layer of muck is put OF
the side of the compost heap, and upor
this layer of barnyard manure; upor
this another layer of muck, and so on,
alternating muck and manure, until the
heap is four or five feet high. The ma
nure is used in about the proportion OF
one to three of the muck. The whole
pile gradually heats and rots together
so that without further stirring over, il
the heap is made in early autumn, it will
be in the best of shape to use in the fol
lowing spring .-Detroit Free Press.