The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-09-25
FOR THE FARMERS HOUSEHOLD.
Domestic Hints.

PeiooH WIZ uaS hleu ~ bhyb Inht 4
handful OF tobacco stems placed in the
box in which the dog sleeps will entirely
rid him Of feas, and that a leaf or two
OF the same weed put in O setting hens
nest keeps vermina respectful distance.
CURRANT lcE. ices of all kinds
are very good, and cheaper than ice
cream. To make currant Zoe boil down
three pints OF water and a pound and a
half OF sugar to n quart; skim; add two
cups OF currsnt juice, and when partly
frozen add the whites Of five eggs.
INDIAS-MEAL HAMMOCK. Heat one
quart OF milk; when it boils pour it over
one good pint of cornmeal, in which one
tablespoonful Of butter has been mixed,
Stir till the batter is quite smooth; then
add four eggs beaten very lightly, the
yelks and whites separately, stirring
them in while the batter is hot, and
bake it at once. Speed ia everything in
making this cake successful. rsl o. y
To Fay Eco PLANTS. - Elephants
should not be chosen too large, as they
are-inclined to be pithy; peel carefully
and cut in slices one-quarter Of an inch
thick; put the slices in lightly sailed
water, and allow it to remain Tor two
hours. Dry perfectly before cooking.
Take two eggs and mix cold in a pint OF
milk. Have dried bread crumbs or pow.
dered crackers. Dip the eggplant in
the milk aud eggs, and then into the
bread or cracker crumbs. Have in your
fryingpan a piece of butter, and when it
is very hot put in your slices and cook
thoroughly. To have fried eggplant
well done, put the slices when cooked in
a piece of paper to absorb the grease.
UsEFuI Hints. Boiling water will
remove tea stains and many fruit stains.
Pour the water through the staia and
thus prevent it from spreading over the
fabric. Ripe tomatoes will remove ink
and other stains from white cloth; also
from the hands. A teaspoonful OF tur-
pentine boiled with white clothes will
aid the whitening process. Boiled
starch is much improved by the add.
ton OF a little spermaceti or a little salt,
or both, or a little gum arabic dissolved.
Beeswax and salt will make h~atirons as
clean and smooth as glass; tie a lump Of
wax in a rag and keep it for that pur-
pose; when the irons are hot rub them
with the wax rag, then scour with q
paper or rag sprinkled with salt. Kero.
sene will soften boots or shoes which
have been hardened by water, and rem
der them as pliable as when new. Kero-
sene will make tin teakettles as bright
as new; saturate a wooden rag and rub
with 1t; ii will also remove stains from
clean vanished furniture.
To be n Successful Farmer. =.
Many years Of experience and obser.
walton have taught us that two things
are absolutely necessary to profitable
farming: the first a sottled policy, and
the second, thorough pulverization and
manuring. What is meant by a settled
policy is that o farmer should ascertain
the crops best suited to his land, as we'll
as to the demands of the market; and
having decided on these, to stick to
them through thick aud thin, whatever
the fluctuations in price. He will find
Ito hit oftener than miss, which is not
the case with those who lamp about
from n thing TO another, with no get,
tied rule to go by. No man should ever
engage in a special business OF any kind
merely because some other individual
has made money by it. II requires long
experience to grow and market success
fully any special crop, such as broom
corn, tobacco, ETC., and we had better
increase our experience with such pro.
ducts as we know than to fly to new
ones, about the handling or cultivation
of which we know but little or nothing.
1t is in the better culture and manuring,
in farming, that the greatest improve
ments are made. The most effectual
way to lessen the cost of production is
to Increase the yield per acre. There are
hundreds Of farmers who for years have
been cultivating forty acres Of corn for
two hundred barrels, and twenty acres
of wheat for two hundred bushels, and
yet find it hard work to get along, To
all such we should say, put half the
and in clover and give such cultivation
and fertilization to the other half as will
enable you to raise as much grain on
the thirty acres as you are now doing on
the whole sixty. And although this
could not be expected to be accom-
plished in a single year, yet there is no
question that time would o bring il
about. II you think the sixty acres are
too much for you to undertake at once,
try it on a few acres, and we will answer
for IT that after you have harvested thirty
bushels Of wheat or seventy,Ave bushels
of corn 10 the acre on thes', you will be
20 Disguised with your old practice of
growing the third OF n That vou will he
very willing TO increase the area of your
heavier producing lands. sw ghesi a
.aG TO Grow Fine wheat. IT'S a
A heavy crop of clover, upon which is
applied in early fall from two to three
hundred pounds Of plaster, and as much
more the following April or May, and
the same summer treated TO eight or ten