The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-01-03
Home md Farm H%reSlties.

COARSE bones are by many considered
the very best manure for grape vines.
French tobacco contains seven to
eight per &c /. of nicotine Virginia
tobacco, six to seven; Maryland and
Havana about ten per cent.
The Chinese ambassador to England
attributes the famine IN India TO 10 much
land being devoted to the cultivation OF
the poppy. IL il estimated that l,033,OOO
acres OF the best land in India is devoted
to the growth Of the poppy.
THE United States utilities in agricul-
turc ten percent, of %itsarea; Great Britain,
i~ity.cight per cent. France and Bel:
GUM, eighty.thrte; Austro-liungary,
eighty eight; and Holland, seventy.
This shows conclusiyeIy whence the
agricultural growth must spring.
Mock CHICKEN SALAD.--TO every
quart of iinely-chopped cabbage, allow
one pound OF roasted pork tcnderloins
and the white Of four hard-boiled eggs
chopped fine TO the yelks rubbed smooth
in a tablespoonful of melted butter, add
one half cup OF vinegar salt and pepper
to the taste,
CABBAGE SALAD.--One quartet finely.
chopped cabbage salt and pepper to the
taste the yclks ol'thrca hard boiled eggs
rubbed smooth with a tablespoonful OF
melted butter; one-half cupo of vinegar
not too strong, and three tablespoon
fuls OF Cltsup chop the whites of the
eggs either with the cabbage, or slice and
garnish the salad with them.
CALI SAUCE-This excellent sauce is
preferred by many 10 catsup. II should
be billed until thIck-sO thick that it
cannot be poured from a small-mouthed
bottle. Skin seventy two good,sized ripe
tomatoes, and chop fine with sixteen
green peppers and four onions; add four
teacups OF sugar ten teacups OF vinegar;
eight t~ablespooniuls of salt; four tea
spoonfuls each OF ground cinnamon, pep.
per, allspice and cloves. Bottle and seal
~ for catsup.
CHICKENS for shipping to market
should he dry.picked, and care taken to
remove all the pin feathers and avoid
tearing the skin. For packing, Use clean,
hand-thrcshcd rye straw. II this cannot
be obtained without some trouble, clean
oat straw will answer. Place a layer Of
straw at the bottom Of the box, then one
Of poultry, packing snugly, backs up.
ward, filling all vacancies with straw, no
that the cover will draw down snugly on
the c%ontents.-- kOwn State Register.
A BEAUTIFUL vine can be grown by fol
lowing these directions; An open
mouthed vase or bottle of good size
should be filled with water, which must
be changed every four days. In this
place a sweet potato or carrot 20 that it
is nearly covered with water. About
one.half an inch from the potatoes top
place small splinters the size of matches,
sticking them krmly in; let the wood
rest on the edge of the bottle or globe.
Set it away in a cool, dark place until it
sprouts soon il will become n vine and
run over the vessel in which the vege-
table ~ placed.
ENGLAND tends to become less and
less a land of wheat growers, and more
and more Il fruit hearing country. IL is
noticed by Mr.. Gihen, in his report to
the board Of trade, that in one year the
orchards of Great Britain have increased
to the extent of six thousand acres,
whereas the wheat grown in 1877 was,
though more than last year, still much
below the ordinary average. The decline
is about eight per cent. The stock of
hOrses in the country il increasing, while
horned cattle are decreasing, thanks
to cattle plague, foot, and-mouth disease,
and scarcity of fodder, which make
grazing nm exceedingly risky business
and threaten to make it II very unpopular
one.
THERE is class of farmers who are
constantly on the lookout for a better
place to go 10. Their farms IRE always
d" for sale" and they dream of luxuriant
lands in some other part of the country,
which can be bought "for a song"
where they imagine they would be more
prosperous and enjoy life better than
where they now reside. Many of these
men v mortgagcd farms; and for such
men to desire to move where tn Y can
own a tree farm, though it be far, far
away, is but u natural manifestation to
better ones condition which the mind
cannot resist. But where can these men
20, after selling their farms, and be con-
tented? This is n serious question,
which no man can answer of his own
knowledge Colonial Farmer.
The extra price received for a superior
article is nearly all profit. And this is
especially the case with the farm. IL
costs no more 10 raise a good horse than
a poor scrub. No more feed, care or
time is required, And if the plug horse
can he raised 40 as To pay expenses, there
Is a fine profit in raising iirst-class horses.
The same is the case with neat cattle. In
fact it cost more per pound to raise such
a steer as would sell tor three cents per
pound than one which sells for six cents
per pound. In this case there are nearly
double the number of pounds, and double
the price per pound, and yet the choice
takes no more food or care than the
other. In this ease not only the extra
the profit, but the extra weight
ilso.-iowo State Register.