The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-07-20
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

White GLADSTONE cup butter, two
cups sugar, one cup sweet milk, whites
of five eggs, three cups flour, two tea
spoons cream tartar, one teaspoon soda.
The English feed for fattening
sheep consists of cotton seed and tur-
nips. They claim that it will put on
the most fat, is the safest feed, makes
the best mutton at a less cost, and pro-
duces the best and strongest manure.
strawberry Cream. the ca
lyXes from two quarts of strawberries
and crush them in an earthen dish with
one-half pound of sugar; put through
sieve and mix with pint of whipped
cream, adding one ounce and a half of
dissolved isinglass; pour into mold
and when firm turn out and serve.
To improve worn soil, pillow it
eight or ten inches deep, any time be-
fore the LIST of August; sow about three
pecks of buckwheat to the acre, let it
get in full bloom, then put a chain on
the pillow and turn it under nicely. Sow
in wheat, and in the spring SOW to
clover, nearly peck to the acre. Buy
all the manure you can get within five
miles of you, at fifty cents two-horse
load; keep all the stock you can, and
your farm will improve right along
Ohio Farmer.
To Make Good lee-French
cooks are famous for the excellence of
their coffee, which they make so strong
that one part of the liquor requires the
addition of two parts to reduce it to the
proper strength. This addition is made
with hot milk. The large proportion
of hot milk, in the place of so much
warm water, gives the coffee richness
like that made by the addition of cream
in the ordinary way. By this means
any housekceper DESTROYS of making
good coffee can have it without cream.
1t may be better to cut hay for mix
ing with grain when feeding the latter
to cows or other stock, but we doubt
very much whether it will be enough
better to pay for the extra work. Good
clover rowen is about as good food as
it can be without cutting. Our own
practice is to mOisten the meal and
shorts and feed it in tubs or boxes. If
the managers are tight and can be kept
perfectly clean, there should be no OBJ
lection to feeding meal dry. A few men
claim that meal is always better di-
gested if fed with cut hay than when
fed alone; but everyone must have no.
ticed that, however the meal is fed, it
always makes the animals look better.
The main point with them is to get it
how it is given is of minor importance.
-NclO England F0rmer.
Mixture for Skeletonizing Leaves.
-Four ounces common washing soda
dissolved in one quart boiling water;
add two ounces Stacked quick-lime; boil
fifteen minutes; cool solution and pour
off clear liquid into saucepan. Put over
the fire, and, when at boiling point, put
in leaves and boil for an hour; add boil
ing water occasionally to replace the
loss by evaporation. When leaves are
removed, if the cellular tissue does not
rub off in cold water, boil again. When
skeletons are exposed they are not
white. To bleach them, put them in a
weak solution of chloride of lime-one
large tablespoonful of chloride of lime
to one quart water, and few drops of
vinegar; let leaves remain in bleaching
fifteen minutes; if leaves remain in the
bleaching mixture too long they become
brittle. A soft toothbrush is better to
clear skeletons with rather than the
finger Gather specimens of matured
leaves in July to September, never in
damp weather. Dry specimens in white
blotting paper, under gentle pressure,