The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-06-29
ITEMS FOR FIELD AND HOUSE.
NICE Holsters make very good eating,
When fixed UP with salad and oils;
But 10 say that they're healthy is cheating,
For they're always afflicted with bois,

For they're always afflicted with b0tLs,
The clip of Angora goat wool last
year, sod at prices ranging from thirty
seven and eighty-seven cents per pound,
an average of sixty-one cents per pound.
These goats are worthy of propagation by
our farmers.
PASSING the early radishes at the ho-
tel table, an amiable guest empties them
all into his plate. Hi, there, you"
cries another guest; some of us like
radishes, too" "Not half so much as
do" philosophically replied the first
guest.
RICH New England cookies: One
teacup of butter, two of sugar, two eggs,
a teaspoonful of saieratus dissolved in a
cup of milk, half grated nutmeg, or
two tablespoonfuls of caraway seeds, and
sufficient -four to roll them out easily.
Mix and bake the same as plain cookies.
The Journal Of Health gives the fol-
lowing remedy for earache: There is
scarcely any ache to which children are
subject so hard to bear and difficult to
cure as the earache. But there is a
remedy never known to fail. Take a
bit of cotton batting, put upon it pinch
OF black pepper, gather it up and tie it,
dip in sweet oil, and insert into the ear.
Put flannel bandage over the head to
keep it warm. 1t will give immediate
relief.
GRAHAM bread: For two loaves of
Graham bread, take two quarts of -four,
small cupful Of good yeast, two table
spoonfuls of molasses, one teaspoonful
of salt; wet up with warm water or
milk; have it about the consistency of
brown bread. Let rise over night. In
the morning have your pans we'll but
tered, and pour in without stirring at all.
Let it rise again till it comes up light
then bake in moderate oven one and a
half hours.
TIE total number of hogs packed in
this country during the past winter was
6,505, 446, or an increase of 1,404, b. 1873
head over the previous winter, and at
the average weight of 1867, equal to
an increase of l, 709, III head. The larg-
est number packed in any previous win
ter was in 1S74-5, when the aggregate
reached $685. For the year ending
March the whole number packed was
9,048, 566 head, or 1883, 1892 more than
the previous year.
A GREAT change has taken place in
the taste of consumers with regard to
the age at which cheese is ready for use.
Formerly it was preferred somewhat
old, and many farmers kept their cheese
and sold it only two or three times a
year. Cheese is now preferred, es-
pecially for export, new, perfectly sound,
rich and mild in flavor. When it is kept
warm, at a temperature from sixty de-
grees to seventy degrees, it is ready for
market at from four to six weeks after
it is made; and it is the present custom
of cheese producers to sell the cheese
each month, as fast as it is ready.
TAKE three pounds of breastor neck of
mutton, cut in pieces, put in a stew-pan
with just enough water to cover, adding
pinch of salt; let it stew gently for
one hour, skim off all the fat; peel and
slice six potatoes and four onions, then
sprinkle and put all the ingredients in
to another stew-pan in layer of vege-
tables, then one of meat, and sprinkle
seasoning of pepper and salt and savory
between each layer; cover closely, and
let the whole stew very slowly for one
hour, shaking it frequently to prevent
its burning. This is good dish for a
family dinner, and is easily made. .