The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-24
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

eggs on horses. Carefully scrape them
off with a knife.
To destroy bugs on squash or cucum-
Der vines, dust them with wood ashes,
lime or plaster Paris; or sprinkle them
with water off of coal tar.
1t is found that 1850 pounds of
potatoes are required, in cattle feeding,
to form the same quantity of flesh that
100 pounds of beans would do.
-Currant Ice.-Boil down three pints
of water and pound and a half of
sugar to one quart, skim, and add two
cups of currant juice, and when partly
frozen, add the whites of five eggs.
Nutmeg Cake.-One cup of cream
and buttermilk, half of each, one cup
of sugar, one teaspoonful of soda, a
pinch of salt, half a nutmeg grated in,
flour enough to make as stiff as cup
cake; bake in sheet.
Soft Gingerbread cup of
boiling water, one cup ofmolasses, one
teaspoonful of ginger, one of soda, two
tablespoonful of lard and a pinch of
salt, or three tablespoonful of butter
and no salt. Make very soft and bake
in sheet in quick oven.
Picked Blackberries. three
quarts of blackberries, one quart of
vinegar, one quart of sugar. No spice
is required; put all together at the
same time into your kettle and boil ten
or fifteen minutes. After standing
few weeks they are very nice.
Ladies who can speak four Ian
guages and are well versed in all the
sciences, but cannot cook pudding,
are likely to be drug in the market
until times change and young men can
earn salary enough to pay an extra
cook for what their wives ought to
I know
Beef Soup.-Take four pounds of
fresh beef, or, what is better and more
economical, nice beef shank or soup
bone;n put it into four or five quarts of
water; salt it and let it boil slowly five
or six hours; skim well; half an hour
before you wish to take it up put in
cup partly full of rice, small quantity
of potatoes, carrots, onions and celery,
cut in small pieces.
Butter Crackers. Rub three table
spoonfuls of flour, add one saltspoonful
of salt, two cups of sweet milk, and
one-half teaspoonful soda, dissolved
in hot water; knead well for half an
hour, then roll into an even sheet, q
quarter of an inch thick or less; cut
with a wine glass, prick with fork,
! and bake hard in moderate oven;
hang them up in a muslin bag in the
kitchen two or three days to dry.
Celery Tops.-Most housekeepers
throw away the leaves and green tops
of celery. There is a better way than
this. Dry them thoroughly in the
oven, then pulverize to a fine powder,
and they make very delicious season.
ing for soup, the aroma and strength
of the celery being remarkably well
preserved. After being pulverized,
the powder should be kept in a jar or
closed bottle to preserve the strength.
Young chickens and ducklings
will get a large part of their living
from insects, if they have the oppor
tunity. 1t is a good plan to give up
the fruit yard or part of the orchard
to poultry. Chickens and ducks want
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better for it during the summer.
They are always on the watch for
worms and millers, and greedily de-
your every insect that falls from the
trees. They are fond of fruit, and
| consume the windfalls, which harbor
the insects that are so destructive to
fruit. A brood of chickens left under
an apple tree, affected with canker-
worms or caterpillars, will reduce the
stock, and finally eXterminate them.
One of the most successful fruit-grow-
ers we are acquainted with, keeps
poultry constantly under his trees
The apples and pears are fair, and he
has paying crops every year.
To Cure Clover.-The best way to
cure clover is to let it lie as long after
moving as possible and not have the
leaves crumble from being too dry, for
then it wastes; put in small cocks, tax
ing each fork-full separate, putting one
on top of the other; never roll up the
windrows; it makes the cock too COM
pact The idea is to let the air circu-
late as much as possible. Let it stand
until ready to haul. If the bottoms of
the cocks are damp turn bottom side up
and the sun and air will soon dry them
out. Some farmers have an idea that
it requires great amount of labor to
cure clover. To be sure it takes more
time, but not much more labor than to
cure timothy. | would always manage
to haul hay out of the cock if possible;
it pitches better, loads better, crumbles
less. When clover has been cooked and
then spread to the sun the leaves soon
crumble and waste, while the stalks
are not sufficiently cured. The best
time to seed to timothy is fall; clover in
spring.
Fall Flowing.