The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-10-09
FOR THE FARMERS HOUSEHOLD.
Household Hints.

baking powder. Beat starch and milk
together.
Corn AND TOMATOES. If corn is boil.
ed on the cob, and then cut off and
canned with tomatoes, in the usual man.
ner Of canning tomatoes, it will keep well
and be an excellent dish. Have twice as
much tomatoes as corn.
TAPIooA PUDDNa.-Half cup of tapi-
oca soaked in one quart Of milk two
hours before baking; little salt, Sugar
and extract lemon to suit the taste, and
r%aisins; bake slowly till the custard is
done, you have q nice dish.
PIoKLBD Conn Boil the corn on the
cob; when cool cut it from the cob;
place on the bottom of a jar layer Of
salt and a layer Of corn until the jar is
full; cover with a cloth, board and
weight: when wanted for use soak in
water until fresh; then cook and it is
hike fresh corn.
CHOCOLATE CARAMELs. One pint of
sugar (seven %cents), dissolved in as little
water as possible; one.half cup of butter
(six cents); n tablespoonful of vine
gar, one cup of chocolate thine cents).
Boil until quite thick, put into buttered
tins and cut into squares when partly
. cooled. Cost twenty-five cents for one
pound.
Beef flake one pound of the
best beef; cut it into thin slices and
scrape the meat fine; put it along with
two.thirds of a tablespoonful of salt into
one pint of cold water contained in an
earthen bowl, and let the mixture stand
two or three hours, stirring it frequent
ly; place it in the same vessel covered
on the back part of the range, and lett
come very gradually to a blood heat and
no more, for any higher temperature
would iDiure the nutriment; then strain
it through a fine sieve or muslin bag,
and it is ready for use. The making Of
beef.tea is not a cooking process.
DAHLIAs.-Do not permit dahlias to
become dry at the roots. Should it be
necessary, give a good soaking Of water
once or twice every week, as much as
will penetrate the soil deeper than the
roots go, and it will be Of great benefit
to add a little. liquid manure every
alternate watering, dahlias being gross
feeders; in neat-kept flower gardens they
ere usually tied up to stakes, but we
find they produce more and finer 1ow-
ers when trained without stakes, so as
to cover the surface of the ground, where
by the roots are shaded. and the leaves
are not 80 liable to be attacked by that
plague Of gGrdens-the red spider.
The question with many is, shall we
raise or purchase celery plantsP Many
small gardeners prefer purchasing to
raising them, but the most advisable
plan is to raise them, as to start properly
is half the battle. The seed should be
sown in shallow boxes in q warm, sunny
window or hot.bed, and whep the plants
are two or three inches high transplant
in a cold frame, where they can be
slightly shaded and watered. Celery
plants not transplanted, or to speak
technically pricked off, are vastly in.
ferior. When performing the latter
operation pinch away the tip Of the tap
root, aud trim back the leaves. Use the
Boston Market variety; it is hard to
excel.
Borrowing Among Farmers.
To lend unto the needy and give unto
him that asketh is both charitable and
~neighborly, and, when the practice is
properly conducted, a great convenience
all round, but when it is all on one side
it becomes another thing entirely. A
farmer may supply himself with an out
fit Of such tools and implements as are
necessary to carry on his farm and gar.
den, but to keep them in his possession
and in good order is not so easy. One
comes to borrow a hoe, rake, or spade,
for use in his garden; another wants to
borrow q saddle to ride a few miles,
another a log chain, swingletree, mat
took, etc., until half the things on the
place are lent out, and when wanted for
use must either be sent for (much the
most probable) or the owner do without
until it suits the convenience of the Dor
rover to return them. But the evil does
not stop here. Not unfrequently the
borrowed article comes home broken,
and, If of iron or steel, always rusty or
dull, even if, after having kept it so
long, the borrower does not actually
claim il as his own. That neighbors
can accommodate each other, and with
mutual advan tage, there is no doubt,
provided the practice is properly con-
ducted-there then being, as old Grim
shaw would say, reciprocity in the bust.
ness but withthe advantage all on one
side it is a sort Of reciprocity not so
agreeable on the other, The farmer
should first provide himself with the
necessary tools to carry on his farm, and
il by accident be is compelled to borrow
he should at least take good care OF and
return anything that is lent him the
moment he is done with il.