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ice water-for tea or coffee. On retr-
ing, apply cold cream or beef fat to the
complexion. Take the oils externally
instead of internally.
A REMEDY FOB CATARRH.-A farmers
daughter says Dry and powder mullen
leaves as fine as you would powder sage ;
then smoke as you would tobacco, let
ting the smoke escape through the nos
trils instead Of the mouth. This is one
of the best of remedies for catarrh in
the head. It has entirely cured a case
of over twenty years standing, when
every other remedy heard Of has failed
to do 80. It may require a little prac-
tice to let the smoke escape through the
nostrils. Mullen will be stronger gath
cred before the frost INJURIES it, but will
answer even if dug from under the snow.
1t will also be found an excellent reme-
dy for cold in the head.
Flowing and NIanuring.
A correspondent Of the american
Farmer says: The above constitutes
two first essentials in the production of
good crops, and should receive special
attention at the hands of every one who
would cultivate and produce good
crop, let it be corn, tobacco, cotton or
potatoes, etc.
Thorough pIowing I consider the more
important of the two, for unless the
ground is well plowed, the best manur-
ing will have comparatively little effect,
whereas landwe and thoroughlyplowed
with light fertilizing will produce fairly,
but with better manuring will produce
at O. profit; still there is limit beyond
which profit ceases, and just where this
limit is the cultivator must be the Judge,
after experiment; but generally there is
little danger of exceeding it.
Flowing, to be thorough, should be so
performed that the soil shall be broken
and made as fine as possible; you cannot
pulverize too much.
Plow deep is relative term, and may
mean very differently on different soils,
for while four inches may be deep for
one soil, ten or twelve may be less 80 on
others, so that here we must be governed
by the nature of the soil plowed. Sub
soil ploughing is distinctive difference
from the common acceptation of the
term plowing, yet is often used with the
same meaning. Sub-soiling on most
soils, in connection with good plowing,
is one of the essentials of certainty Of
good product; the deeper and more
thoroughly the sub-soil is broken the
better, as no crop will be likely to suffer
the effects of drought or wet where the
ground is sub-soled, as where only sur
face plowed. =.
In plowing under manure it should
not be turned down to the bottom OF the
turned soil, if we wish the benefit Of
any portion of it in the present crop.
The nearer the surface, and have it
covered in the sol, we keep manure, the
greater benefit the crop will receive from
It, Herein lies one benefit of plowing
under the manure shallow, and again
plowing the same ground trifle deeper;
which, while it mixes the manure with
the soil, still keeps the greatest portion
near the surface, Just where the roots OF
the young plant will be benefited by it;
and as the water of rains dissolve and
wash down the portions of the salts,
ETC.. the later roots of the same plants
find and appropriate what they most re.
uuire, and thus the manure is equalized
through the soil.
Southern men have informed me that
it would not answer to plow deep, as
with their sudden powerful showers the
land would go seaward, from washing, l
suppose; however that may be I am un-
able to say, as I have no experience
there; but from what read of the ex-
perience of the most successful South
ern planters, I think I should venture a
trial and see the result. know here at
the North the more shallow plowed
ground washes worse than that which is
deeply worked, and also crops grown on
shallow worked soil are less certain and
more subject to the vicissitudes OF the
season, wet or drought, than where the
ground is deeply worked.
Household Hint.
!. BAKEpMAoARoN1.-Use about half a
pound of macaroni, break up in pieces
but it in boiling water ind stew gently
for twenty minutes; salt it q little; drain
well: have ready O l,uttered pudding
dish; place alayer of the macaroni in
the bottom, then cover with grated
cheese and few Jumps OF butter; then
another layer of macaroni and more
cheese and butter until all is used up;
add wineglass of cream or milk; bake
covered for half al hour /; then re-
move the cover and brown nicely; serve
! it in the bake-dish.
To BOIL TURKEY.-A delicate hen
turkey should always be selected for
boiling. Pick and draw it, taking great
care not to break the gall-bladder; when
it issinged, cut through the skin round
the first Joint of the legs, and draw
them out by fastening the feet to q
strong hook and then pulling the bird
away from it; take of the head and
neck. wash it clean, and wipe it dry; fill
the breast with veal stuhing; in trussing
It draw the legs with the body, break
the preastbone, and give the turkey as
plump m appearance as you can; put
| + into plenty of hot water and boil it
very gently for about two hours; served
either with celery sauce or a good white
sauce.
DRIED APPLE CAKE.-Soak three cup
fuls dried apples over night, then draw
off the water through q sieve; chop the
apples slightly, then simmer them IN
three cupfuls OF molasses for two hours;
after that add two eggs, one cupful
suear, one cupful sweet milk or water,
three.onarters cupful butter or lard, one
teaspoonful baking powder, -four enough
to make pretty stiff batter; add CHINA
mon. cloves to taste.
GRAHAM Bread Three pints OF gra-
ham -four, one and half pints OF white
-four, one-half pint of molasses, a little
salt, one cupful yeast; mix rather wet
with spoon.
Indications of Good Butter Cow.
II is said that the color of the inside
of the cows ear affords an infallible
o11ide to the selection of good butter
COW. If the skin on the inside of the
ear is of rich yellow or orange color
and the lining of the ear is covered with
an oily secretion, the COW will be sure to
give good quality of milk, rich in
butter. =,
Cows that produce high-colored but
ter have q large amount of the secretion,
she inside of the ear being of On orange
tint. On the other hand, ight-colored
butter makers present scanty, thin,
pale yellow secretion, in some cases
| found only at the bottom of the ear,
| while the inside lining is Of CORE