The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-08-29
Useful md suggcnii,c.

The Michigan Farmer comes to lh,
conclusion that from information from
all quarters, wheat will be lower in price
than it has been known in years.
EGGS A la LAVALLErTE Pour into
fiat tin dish cream 10 the depth OF
a quarter Of an inch bring to a quick
boil and then drop in the eggs and cook
until the whites are hard season to
taste, and u rye in the same fat tin dish.
CHOCOLATE Ice CREAM.-One quart
of cream, n pint OF new milk, one
pound Of sugar, two we'll beaten cQgs,
five teaspooniuls grated chocolate, rub.
bed smooth in a little milk, Flavor to
taste. Heat the milk almost TO boiling,
pour it by decgresi in with the beaten egg
and sugar, and freeze.
/ you want to keep your hogs, horses,
cattle and sheep healthy, give them salt
regularly, There il no better vermiluge
than salt. Much of the so.called hog
cholera is due to intestinal worms.
Plenty Of salt would prevent the accu.
mutation Of these worms. All animals
desire salt, showing that is a want of
their nature, and %und0ubted for wise
purposes.
INsrEADot bringing the horse in when
coated with mud, and sluicing him with
cold or even tepid water, the mud should
be wiped or scraped off 50 far AZ practi-
cable, and then the legs wrapped round
till dry. An English veterinary surgeon
declares that "hundreds and thousands
of cases of mud fever Scratches or grcase)
might be prevented if this plan were
used, instead of excessive washing"
In his circular ofthe " HOosier poultry
yards" Mr.. j. Barker gives these pre-.
ventives Of hen lice: "A good way to
keep hens free from lice while sitting is
to put two or three tobacco leaves in
their nests, the fumes Ct which will
speedily drive out the vcrmin if they are
infested with them. This is the best and
only use ! have for the weed. Another
good plan is to sprinkle sulphur literally
through their feathers"
MILK SOUp.--.Materials: Four large
potatoes, two ounces of butter, three
tabIespooniuls Of crushed tapioca, one
pint similk. Put the potatoes and leeks,
cut IN four, into n saucepan, with two
quarts OF boiling water and the two
ounces o. butter, a teasroOnful of salt
aud pepper to taste. Boil an hour, run
through a colander and return it to the
saucepan; add the milk, spriLk'e in the
tapioca, and let it boil fifteen minutes.
BLACKBERRY POPPING. -. Make a
crust by wetting two cups Of wheat-meal
and n cup Of fine Indian corn meal
with boiled rice enough to make a paste
that can be rolled out one third of an
inch thick. Then mix about aGuart Of
blackberries with one halt cup of wheat
meal, pour them into the rolied.out crust,
draw the latter over them aud pinch to-
then sew up in a cloth and steam
one hour and a half Let il cool a few
minutes, then dish with a spoon and
trim with sugar. Serve warm.
SPRUCE BEER..-Take one gallon of
water, one quart good moIasses, one
quarter ounce whole cloves, o~ne,quarter
ounce white ginger root, one>hali ounce
whole allspice, 0ue-hali Ounce sassafras.
Boil all well. Boil three hours. After
it off the fire, pour it into a clean
tub and add N and a halt gallons of
water. Let this stand till milk warm,
hen add two tablespoons of bakers or
brewers yeast; then stand away in the
or some cool place during the night,
it. The next day IL will be fit
or bottling. One or two %raisins, with a
ew holes punched in them with a FORK,
'laced in each bottle, add greatly to its
lavor. Put it in strong bottles, cork
and tie down with Irvine. Set
n a cold cellar and in three or four DAYS
l will be rina