Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-09-26
FARM AND PRESIDE.

but they are all bad in the meadow.
The shivering animal can make no flesh
| or milk.
He who ministers cruelty to his family
! or animals may expect to ''be paid in his
| own coin'' some day.
1t is better to be a tenant free from debt
than to own mortgaged farm.
The most dreadful thing to put On
farm is a mortgage.
| Plenty of light and sun are az essential
to all domesticated animals as food.
Pure air is the most valuable, for its
cost, of all our necessities.
Mixed husbandry is the most profitable,
provided one knows just how to mix it,
but unless there is judgment, experience
and skill in the mixture it will not COM
bine to profit; but, as chemists say, 1t will
s'precipitate. Then, ''stand from under"
The best time to kill weeds is every day
in the year, and the stage Of thAirl gr6Hth
at which they are most easily killed is 'as
soon as they can be SEEM ~ a.
Plant few fruit trees Of every variety
every year. and your orchard will never
be all old. I ana e.
Variety in farming is safer than speci-
atty.
II water must be- supplied arti6cially,
cisterns are better and more reliable than
wells. m
The farmer who fails to keep correct
account with each lot and crop is very
apt to cheat himself.
The farmhouse should be susceptible
throughout Of being made pure, warm and
cool, light and dark, and unfit for vermin.
The sitting room should be the most
pleasant in the house. '' w. : :
The air Of the chamber should be spure
as that is out of doors.
A BAD CODA bad cold, like measles
or mumps, or other similar ailments, viii
run it's course of about ten days in spite Of
what may be done for 1t, unless remedial
measures are employed within forty-eight
hours Of its inception. Many useful life
may be spared to be increasingly useful by
cutting a cold short off in the following
safe, simple manner:
On the first day Of taking cold there is
very unpleasant sensation Of chilliness.
The moment you observe this, 60 to your
room and stay there; keep it at such a
temperature as to entirely prevent this
chilly feeling. even if it requires hundred
degrees of Fahrenheit. In addition, put
your feet in water, half leg deep. as hot as
you can bear it, adding hotter water from
time to time for quarter of an hour, so
that the water be hotter when you take
your feet out than when you put them in:
then dry them thoroughly and put on
warm, thick wooden stockings. even if it
be summer, for summer colds are the most,
dangerous; and for twenty four hours eat
not an atom of food, but drink as largely
as you desire of any kind of warm teas.
and at the end of that time, if not sooner,
the cold will be effectually broken, with
out any medicine whatever. Halls Jour-
nal of Health.
CORN MEAL GEMs.-Two cups of sweet
milk, one cup Of wheat flour and about
two cups Of corn meal, two tablespoonful
of melted butter, one tablespoonful of SUI
gar, and last add two teaspoonsful baking
powder. This, when mixed, should be q
rather thick batter, and drop easily from
the spoon. Have your gem irons well but
tered, and hot upon the top Of your stove,
drop in the batter and place directly in
the oven. These will be found nice,
wholesome dish for your breakfast. and
quickly and easily made. Their bright ap-
pearance adds q lively color to the table.
BREAKFAST RoLLs.-Mix half an
ounce of white sugar in two pounds of the
finest white flour; make hole in the CEN
ter, and put in about two tablespoonful
fresh yeast, mixed with little water; let
it stand all night. In the morning add
the yolks of two eggs, piece of butter
about the size Of walnut. and sufficient
warm milk to make it Of right consis-
tency; divide into rolls, (about twelve or
fourteenl bake half an hour In brick
oven.
~ Snoh VI AhOUBLE.--Il0
Waite Of an egg Is said to be specific for
Ism bones sticking in the throat. It is to
% swallowed raw and will carry bone
Town easily and certainly. There is an
,ther fact touching eggs which it viii be
we'll to remember When as sometimes by
'ccident, corrosive sublimate is swallow
ID, the white of one or two eggs taken
viii neutralize the poison, and change the
fleet to that of dose Of colonel.
CHILDREN's APPLE BREAD.-To one
luart OF meal put one pint of ripe chopped
'pples, one egg, small piece of butter, a
title salt, and fresh water enough to form
stiff dough. The apples should Of course.
70 peeled and minced very fine. Some per-
ons like little sugar on the dough, but
is generally preferred without. This
) favorite with children.
PAsTRY.-Fruit and custard pies are
lmost invariably spoiled by having soy
y undsrcrust. This may be remedied by
oating the top of the lower crust of the
les with the white of an egg; this will abb
'rb no moisture from the fruit or GUS
'rd, and will come out of the oven cr,sn
nd will remain so.
Soup WITHOUT MEAT.-In not that
lids gallon put all vegetables that arc
season in equal portions, cut up and lay
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