Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1879-08-28
FOR THE FARMERS HOUSEHOLD.
Domestic Notes.

Domestic Notes.
RAW CUsTARD. For diseases OF the
stomach when very delicate food is re-
quired, this eustard is excellent. Beat
up an egg with sugar to taste; add cup
of milk and whatever fiavoTing liked.
OUNCE AND APPLE JELLY. Take
equal quantities of ounces and apples,
stew them separately till tender (the
ounces viii take the loDgest), strain the
Juice, mix it, and to every pound Of
lruce allow three-quarters pound OF
pounded sugar; proceed as for ounce
Jelly. g.
WAEERs One pound -four, two
tablespoons butter, a little salt; mix
with sweet milk into stiff dough; roll
out very thini cut into round cakes, and
again roll these as thin as they can be
handled; lift carefully; lay in a pan;
bake quickly; -four the baking pan in.
stead of greasing. Nice for invalids.
INDIAN LoAF.-Take one pint of sour
milk, one tescupful of molasses, one
half teacupfttt Of butter, two touapoon-
fuls of saieratus, one large teaspoonful
OF salt. threo eggs, ono pint of wheat
-four, one quart of yellow Indian meal;
bake in deep tin basin III an oven OF
same heat as for cake, for one-and-a half
hours
Coon Soar. -Four pounds strained
fat, twelve quarts water, ono box Bah
bits potash, simmer ten hours, stir fire.
quantly. This makes twenty four pounds
tine white soap, but after being cut in
cakes aud allowed to dry three or four
weeks, it shrinbs TO about one-third or
iginal size and weight, and assumes all
sorts of irregular shapes. Add to the
hot soap paste strong hot solution of
salt, say one and a-half gallons.
A CONVENIENT PLASTER. Take one
ounce of white resin, one ounce of NUT
ton tallow and enc ounce of granulated
sugar; simmer well together. Have
ready half a yard of fine bleached cot
ton, aud with case knife spread the
ealve while hot over the surface of the
cloth spread it on evenly and quite
thin. When cold lay a thickness
of.tissue paper lightly over the surface.
This will prove constant comfort in
little wounds, such as scratches, cuts or
burns. A bit cut off and stuck over the
place IS a quick cure, as it excludes the
Js
finger rags always are.
set Your Houses on High Ground.
The house should be preferably loca-
ted on spot whore the ground falls
away in every direction, in order to &C.
cure good surface drainage; but it is
even more important that the subsoil
should be dry or even sandy. If not dry
naturally, then it should by all means
be susceptible of the most thorough ar
tificial drainage, with an outflow that
will always keep the pipes clear. Almost
any sacrifice should be made to secure
tins important point; in fact, we would
not advise any man to build q house on
a spot whore it cannot be secured, no
matter what the other advantages may
be. We have beard surface drainage
spoken of with indifference; and we have
seen.oostly country houses where the
water has been from one to three feet deep
for many weeks during the winter, the
result of bad drainage. The lower part
of such houses is always da~np the
walls, furniture and clothing suffer from
dampness, and the family from rheuma.
tism in some Of it's direst forms. The
cellar floor and walls should be dry; a
wet or damp cellar is not consistent
with good health, and its usefulness is
greatly impaired.
Where Clover seed is Grown.
The Michigan Farmer has looked up
the.elover statistics of this country, and
gives them as follows: Glover seed is
grown IN nearly all of the States, but
the largest producers are PENNSYLVANIA,
200, go bushels; Ohio, 102 355; New
York, 9S S37; Indiana 81 CTS; Michigan,
49, 91S; Maryland. 35 Gao; New jersey,
26, 306; Virginia. H. 367; Illinois, 10, 46S;
Tennessee s. 564 South Carolina, $50:
Maine, 5 255; West Virginia, 3 $50; Wis
consin, 2 904, and the others in still less
quantities. The chief exports are to
England, Germany aud Scotland: half
the entire shipments going to the former
1t is used abroad for raising the grass to
becat green for feeding. to be cured
and cut with eats for feeding draft
horses, and to be plowed in for manure.
Success in Hog Raising.
A prominent stock journal says that
cause Of Fatality among swine is the
neglect 70 protect them from the burn
ing rays OF q summers sun. They are
frequently turned into an inolosure so
hard and dry that they cannot root TO
get fresh earth to lie in, with neither
tree nor shed for shelter, nor fresh
water to cool them. These are cruelties
perpetrsted every season by men who
pretend TO know how to raise hogs, and
IL view of these facts, is there any rea-