The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-09-14

on the stove, and to a gallon of vinegar
put quarter of pound of celery seed
and quarter of pound of white
mustard seed; boil half an hour, and
pour over the pickles; put weight on
them.
HONEY cake: One and half pounds
of dried and sifted -four, three-quarters
OF pounds of honey, half q pound of
finely pounded loaf sugar, a quarter of
pound of citron, half an ounce of
orange peel cut small, and three-quar-
tiers of an ounce of pounded ginger and
cinnamon. Melt the sugar with the
honey, and mix in the other ingredi-
ents; roll out the paste, and cut it into
small cakes of any form.
CREAM cake: Sift some double-re-
fined sugar, beat the whites of seven or
eight eggs, shake in as many spoonfuls
of sugar, CRATE in the rind of large
lemon, drop the froth on paper laid on
tin in Jumps at distance, sift good
deal of sugar over them, and set them
in moderate oven; the froth will rise
just color them; you may put raspberry
jam, and stick two bottoms together;
put them in cool oven to dry.
THE most profit from sheep is to
raise lamb that will sell for more than
the mother is worth. This can be easily
done by caring we'll for the earliest
lambs. A lamb, ninety years old and
fattened, will often sell for ten dollars
in the cities, and half that in country
villages. A half-bread Cotsworth lamb,
fed with a little mixed oatmeal and
bran, and sucked by native eve, will
make an excellent market lamb Lambs
now being fed, should be protected
from cold storms, and the ewes should
have some extra feed.
THE annual yield of potatoes in the
United States, according to the returns
of the last census, was nearly $50, 000,-
600 bushels In view of the increasing
attention lately given to this crop it
will doubtless show at the close of the
present decade large increase in the
amount of the yield, as well as in the
number and improvement of varieties.
In fact, it may be safely assumed that,
in spite of the fears of many in regard
to the ravages of the beetle, this crop
will still show yield at the next census
of over 200, 900, 900 bushels.
SUPERIOR sponge cake: Take the
weight of ten eggs in powdered loaf
sugar, beat it to froth with the yelks
of twelve eggs, put in the grated rind of
fresh lemon, leaving out the white
part; add half the juice. Beat the
whites of twelve eggs to a stiff froth,
and mix them with sugar and butter.
Stir the whole without any cessation for
fifteen minutes, then stir in gradually
the weight of six eggs in sifted -four.
As soon as the -four is well mixed in,
turn the cake into pans lined with but
tered paper; bake it Immediately in
quick but not furiously hot oven. 1t
will bake in the course of twenty min
utes. If it bakes too fast, cover it with
thick paper.
MAKE arrangements to save every
particle of manure from the hog pens,
liquid and solid. 1t is too valuable to
lose. Every hundred pounds of such
manure liquid and solid mixed-is
estimated to equal in value about one
hundred and sixty pounds of common
barnyard manure. 1t is good on all
crops, and especially suited to fruit
trees. Nothing is better to preserve its
virtue than swamp muck ON dry earth.
Use it freely, covering the floor of the
pen at night, and cleaning out in the
morning, after which the floor should be
sprinkled again. 1t is not only good for
the manure, but for the swine. The
hog-pen is generally the most offensive
spot on the farm during the fattening
season. A little dry earth judiciously
used every day would dispose of all I'M
pleasant odors