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FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.


FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Recipes.
BEEF SoUP.-Boil the soup bone until
the meat in quite tender, pour the broth
in kettle then rub an egg into dry -four
and mix thoroughly until the noodles
are quite fine, then add them to the broth
slowly, stirring until all are in; boil fif.
teen minutes, season to taste.
A PLAIN BOILED PUDDING. up q
loaf of bread in the morning and pour
milk over it. Let it remain 80 until half
an hour before dinner. Then beat up
four eggs very light, and mix them with
the milk and. bread. A teaspoonful Of
yeast-powder is an improvement. To be
served with sweet sauce. Twenty minutes
are sufficient to allow for the boiling.
APPLE DUMp11Nas. .-Quarter and core
one apple for each dumpling; then put
the parts together, with sugar in the
middle; surround each apple with pie
crust; if you wish to bake them, put
them on pan like biscuits, and set them
in the oven. If boiled, tie each in q
separate cloth, and boil for half an hour.
Serve, both baked and boiled, with
liquid sauce.
LEMON P1E.-Grate the rind Of one
lemon, squeeze out the juice; beat the
yolks of three eggs with four tablespoon
fuls of sugar; add one cup of milk; stir
all together and bake with an undercrust;
then beat the whites of your eggs to q
froth, add one very large tablespoonful
of pulverized sugar, pour over the pie
and brown in the oven. This makes one
pie.
To Corn BEEF.-For fifty pounds of
meat allow ten pounds of salt and three
ounces of saltpetre; rub each piece OF
meat with portion of this mixture and
lay it in cold place over night; on the
next day repeat the process and again
lay the meat in a cold place until the
following day; to the balance of the salt
and saltpetre add pound and half OF
brown sugar, half an ounce of potash and
four gallons of water; boil the brine for
fifteen minutes, then skim and set it away
to cool; on the succeeding morning pack
the meat, having first wiped every piece
perfectly dry, pour the brine over it and
put heavy weight on top to keep. it
under; examine often, apd if there is the
least indication of the meat not keeping
we'll turn off the brine, boil and skim it
and add more salt, or else make new
and stronger brine; let it get perfectly
cold before turning over the meat.
Farm Notes.
Loppered skim-milk is good feed for
barn-yard fowls.
According to Lawes' tables, the ma.
nure of one hen fed with the usual
quantity of grain, is worth about forty
seven cents per year.
In 100 pounds Of dressed pork there
are usually fourteen pounds ham, six-
teen pounds shoulders, forty pounds
sides, sixteen pounds lard and fourteen
pounds waste. The hog products are
now lower than they have been since
the war.
No feed produces finer favored milk,
butter, cheese or hams than parsnips,
and no roots are better relished by hogs
or boyines 700 bushels may be grown
per acre.
From chemists view, the roots of
an acre of clover contains 185 pounds OF
nitrogen, 24O pounds of lime, forty-ive
pounds magnesia, seventy.five pounds
potash, ten pounds soda, twenty-four
pounds sulphur and seventy pounds
phosphoric acid.
A farmer of twenty-five years expert
ence finds that it pays well to roll pas
ture as we'll as meadows, wherever the
frost has loosened the grass roots. 1t
may be we'll to scatter a little grass
seed on the bare spots.
He who houses his farm implements
in the corners OF fences, whose fowls
roost in the trees during the winter,
whose manure-pile teaches into road
side ditch and who wipes his nose on his
coatsleeve, makes piteous complaint
"that farming don't pay"
A acre of soil one foot deep contains
1000, 900 pounds. An average acre OF
American soil six inches deep is estl-
mated to contain II, 1888 pounds of pot.
ash, 1850 pounds lime, $4,000
pounds magnesia. 5000 pounds soda,
2,73O pounds sulphuric acid, 4,O0O
pounds phosphoric acid, and 800 pounds
chlorine.
An English grape-grower, whose vines
we're much affected by the mealy bug,
applied, with small brush, mixture
of pint of spirits of wine and four
ounces of petroleum. He describes the
result as "wonderful )" the insects were
destroyed and the plants suffered no
harm.
Hens In the Orchard.
Speaking of keeping hens in orchards,
the Poultry World says: Last fall we
visited an orchard in which fowls were
kept, the owner of which told us that
before the fowls were confined IN 1t the
trees made little or no growth, and
corresponding amount of fruit was OBJ
tanned. But what change was evident
now. The grass was kept down, the
weeds we're killed and the trees present
ed an appearance of thrift, which the
most enthusiastic horticulturist could
not but admire and envy. The growth
of the trees was most vigorous and the
foliage remarkably luxuriant. The fruit
was abundant, OF large size, and free
from worms and other imperfections.
This excellence was accounted for by the
proprietor, who remarked that the "hens
ate all the worms and curculio in their
reach, even the canker worm." He
found less trouble with their roosting in
the trees than he expected, and that
picket fence six feet high kept them
within bounds. His orchard was divided
into three sections, and the fowls were
changed from one to another, as the con-
dition of the fowls or the orchard section
seemed to require.
How Day is Gained and Lost.
Questions are frequently asked as to
how day is lost or gained in going
round the world. Professor Davidson
oave q nonnlar exclamation of the phe-