The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-08-29
Home and Farm B~reyities.

THOUSANDS of bushels of grain are
ruined every year by bad stacking.
There is only one remedy-keep the mid
die of the stack full enough.
APPLE shortcake: Season apple sauce
with butter, sugar, and nutmeg; make a
nice shortcake; open, butter, and spread
with apple sauee. Serve with sweetened
cream.
MUFFINs for breakfast: One pint
milk, one egg, a piece of butter as large
as a hens egg, n ~teaspoonful of salt,
half a teacupful of yeast. and flour to
make a stiff batter. Pise over night,
and bake in rings.
LINNEUs states the COW to eat ZIG
449, and declines 1876; the sheep takes
1897, and reject al; the horse likes 262,
and avoids 212, but the hog; more nice
in its provisions than any of the former,
eats but u plants and rejects III.
AN acre of soil one foot deep contains
1000, 900 pounds. An average acre of
American soil, six inches deep, is esti-
mated to contain.17 1893 pounds potash,
2,5eO pounds lime, 10000 pounds mag
nesia, 5000 pounds soda, 2,730 pounds
sulphuric acid, 1000 pounds phosphoric
acid, and 500 pounds chlorine.
WELSH rarebit: Cut some rich cheese
(poor cheese will not answer so well
into thin shavings, and put the latter,
with a bit of butter, into a cheese
toaster or a pan. Place it before the
fire until the cheese dissolves, stirring
it occasionally. Serve with slices of
toasted bread, the crust pared off.
FREQUENTLY we see grape t~rellises
made wholly of wood bars, which the
vine tendrils cannot clasp or climb on.
Vertical wires, eight inches apart, are
kneatest, andcarry the-weight of shoots
loaded with fruit without yielding, but
light rods or neat twiggy brush answer
we'll for the vine to climb by, and such
support is essential for free and perfect
growth.
SOME sensible writer truthfully says
that "most diseases of cattle are pro-
duced by wrong treatment-too much
feed at one time, too little at another
too rich at one time, too poorat another,
etc. If all horses and cattle were fed
and watered and used properly there
would be little disease. and all ailments
could be cured by simple remedies
which every mar has or may have al
hand"
To show how useful the beautiful and
harmless partridge is, it is stated that 6
flock of them was seen running alongtht
rows of corn just sprouting, and seeing
them engaged at something which We.
believed to be pulling up the young
plants, one of them was killed and it
acrop" examined, which was founc
to contain one cut worm, twenty-on'
stripped bugs, and over hundred
chinch bugs.
TAKE one barrel of lime and ONT
bushel of salt; dissolve the salt in a
little water as will dissolve the whole
slack the lime with the water, putting
on more water than will slack it, so tina
it will form a very thick paste; this vii
not take all the water; put on, therefore
a little of the remainder daily until tn
lime has taken the whole. The result vii
, be a powerful deodorizer, as good for al
outdoor purposes as the article bough
under that name at the apothecary's
and costing not one-twentieth part a
> much.
FAvoRITE meat-pie: Take cold roas
beef, or roast meat of any kind, slice
> thin, cut it rather small, and lay i
wet with gravy and sufficiently peppere
, and sailed, in a meat-pie dish. If likec
: a small onion may be chopped fine an
y s%prinkled over it. Over the meat pou
+ a couple of stewed tomatoes, a littl
more pepper, and a thick layer {
. mashed potatoes. Bake slowly in
moderate oven till the top is a ligl
brown. This makes a very good disl
and is a very great favorite with partit
y who. do not usually like meat-pies.
PIES are eaten and enjoyed by a gres
It many people, Notwithstanding the
deleterious effect upon health an
+ digestion. 1t will be hard to persuad
old housekeepers to do away with pi
they are joined to their idols; but "
can at least make the effort. In summt
time, pies are an unnecessary extrav;
pance. When fruit can be had for tt
It picking, or at very low prices, when yo
q can sugar down for dessert, golden {
red or black raspberries, or blackberrie
: when you can pile up a beautiful, arti
is tic pyramid Of pears, peaches an
grapes, fer a eenter-piece to your tabl
and can flank it by plates of slice
melons and rosy apples, what mo-