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FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD
Recipes.

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GREEN Corn PuDD1Na.-Twelve ears
CT corn grated, two quarts OF milk,
four weu-beaten eggs, one teacup and
half of sugar; mix and bake in butter
ed dish; bake three hours. Sweet corn
should be used.
TOMATO SA1AD.-Wipe and slice about
half dozen tomatoes, lay them in
salad boil on bed of green salad; pour
over them the following: Salad dressing
Put in the bottom of pint bowl the
yolk of raw egg and quarter Of salt
spoonful of salt; stir up, drop by drop,
three tablespoonfuls of olive oil, one of
vinegar or lemon juice and half salt
spoonful Of dry mustard, stirring until
smooth.
SoFT GNaERBREAD.-Put one cup of
dark molasses, one-half cup Of brown
sugar and one half cup of butter (or part
butter and part lard) into a pan and set
it where it will just come to boil.
Cool, and add one teaspoonful OF ginger,
one-half of salt and one egg. Stir in
one-half cup of sour milk and two and
half cups of -four; beat well, and last of
all add two even teaspoonfuls of soda
dissolved in one-third cupful of hot
water. Bake in moderate oven until
well done.
A CUCUMBER D1sH.-Peel cucumbers,
cut them lengthwise in half, scrape out
the seeds if preferred, boil them in
water well salted until tender, which
takes usually about half an hour; toast
nicely few slices of light stale bread;
lay the cucumbers upon them, and pour
over the whole sauce such as is used
for asparagus, which should, of course,
be prepared while the cucumbers are
cooking.
PEACH CoBB1ER.-Make rich biscuit
crust; put it, rolled thick, around the
dish; put in q layer of peaches, then
butter and sugar, and very little flour,
then peaches, and so on till the dish is
full; cover with thick crust, cut slit
in the center, and pour in boiling water
till full; bake in moderate oven.
A NICE WAY TO Cook New PoTAToEs.
Pare and slice thin; let stand in cold
water half an hour; then drain and put
in half pint of milk, tablespoonful Of
butter and a little pepper and salt. and
bake in the oven one hour.
GROUND RICE PUDDNe.-Mix three
large spoonfuls of ground rice in little
cold milk; let it boil about fifteen min
utes, stirring all the while. When cold
add four eggs, little lemon; sugar to
the taste, and bake it one hour. Line
the dish with paste, or not.
stump Sucking in Horses.
A correspondent asks: Is the habit
commonly termed "stump sucking" the
manifestation of some disease? If so,
please give remedy. Ihave never read
anything on the subject, but I know that
there ale quite number of horses which
have this disease, if disease it is.
Wind sucking, stump sucking and
crib biting are all one and the same
habit, and, in some instances, are the
manifestation of disease; in others, the
habit may have been acquired from old
and confirmed crib biters. Some veteri-
narians attribute it to distortion ci the
teeth, which have become worn e'~ay on
their interior edge so as to show more OF
less of the yellow inside instead of the
enamel. Prof. Law says: These worn
teeth are associated with the serious vice
of wind sucking (swallowing) and eructi-
cation, which leads to tympany, diges-
tive disorder, and rapid loss of condition.
The horse seizes the manger or other
solid object with his teeth, arches and
shortens the neck, and makes grunting
noise. The wind sucking may exist
without crib biting. It may be learned
by standing idle near crib liter, and
always goes on to disease and loss of con.
dition. The same authority prescribes
the following treatment: Smear the front
of the manger with aloes or other bitters
cover all exposed woodwork with sheet
iron; muzzles may also be put on after
the horse has done feeding. Other
ec..ally good authorities recommend nut
ting lump of salt and one of white
chalk or magnesia in a box before the
horse, and keeping these constantly
within reach. AS we have said, the
habit may be learned, but, in most in.
stances, it may be considered as kind
of dyspepsia, and the burning acidity oi
the stomach prompts the horse to get re.
lief by sucking in cool air. The salt and
magnesia or chalk affords q similar. mo.
mentary relief, and frequently leads to O
permanent cure.
Good Word for the Crow.
A letter to the Chautauqua On. Y,
Farmer says Let me speak for the
crow. Last year as I was narrowing
corn with a vibrating harrow having
teeth (you know it is o noisy thing), il
uncovered a great number of white
grubs, which you could see all about the
ground. They are very destructive tc
vegetation of all kinds. They ate OF
destroyed thousands of hills of corn that
year. You could see the track of the
grubs as they travelled to get something
to eat, for they travel when in search oi
food. You could see the surface of the
ground little elevated, and checked
when the surface is hard and dry. Well,
you see, when I was narrowing, as soon
as the crows heard the harrow at work,
theJ would come and light on the ground
that was being narrowed, and the ireshel
the better they liked it; when going one
way they would light after had passed
elong; when 7 returned, and came within
or eight reds of them. they would
rise gently md circle around in the real
again. I have counted as many as
seventeen grubs that one crow had picked
up at one lighting. They take any and
everything, large and small-that is,
worms, grubs and beetles. Crows cant
pull corn when planted with machine
we have no fear of them from that
source. Finally, wherever civilization
! is, there are rocks and crows.
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