The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-05-03
ITEMS FOE FIELD AND HOUSE.

COLD starch is much improved if made
with a soap-suds of white toilet soap.
KEROSENE will soften leather hard
ened by water.
A TEAsPoONFUL Of tur pentine boiled
in the bleaching process,
MILK which is changed may be sweet
ened and rendered fit for use in cooking,
by stirring in little soda.
MUSTARD: We find that all do not
know that if mustard be mixed with the
white of an egg instead of water or
vinegar when used for plasters, it will
prevent the skin from blistering
For crystallizing wax flowers, use
diamond dust, sprinkled over them; by
slightly warming the flowers the dust
will adhere better. BY placing the dust
in pepper-box and paper under. the
work, you will not lose any, AS it is very
apt to fly.
To cure earache, take one drop of
watchmaker's oil and drop it in the ear
if that is not to be had, pinch Of black
pepper, put on a small piece of cotton
batting and dipped in sweet oil, placed
head, willgive you almost instant relief.
WHILE everybody is looking for some
new and better paying crops, osier will
low is coming to the frontas profitable
crop under certain favorable circum-
stances There are on almost every
farm some low, wet places that could be
planted in willow and produce more per
acre than the corn ground and take but
little labor. 1t sells in many places for
fifteen to twenty dollars ton, green
and unpeeled. The cuttings for plant
ing can be procured of any large nursery.
PRUNE pudding: Take one pound of
good pIunes and let swell in hot water
until soft drain and take out the stones
spread on dish and dredge with -four !;
mix smooth in very little milk eight
tablespoonfals of sifted our; add a
scant quart of milk and SIX we'll beaten
eggs; stir in the prunes by degrees; beat
the whole very hard pour into mold
and boil two hours; serve with wine
sauce.
BREEZE pudding: Dissolve one-half
box of gelatine in pint of boiling
water; add two cupfuls of sugar and the
juice of two lemons; after this has
become cool (not cold), break into it
the whites of tire eggs; beat all to stiff
froth; make soft custard with the
yolks of the eggs, adding three others and
quart of milk; pour the whites into
molds and, when ready for use, turn
them out, pouring the custard over.
PREVIOUS to 1883 there were but few
mules in this country, and those of an
inferior order. 1t is we'll known that
Washington introduced into the United
States a superior. breed of mules. As
soon as 1t became known abroad that
this illustrious statesman and farmer
desired to stock his Mount Vernon
estate with mules, the king of Spain
sent him a jack and two jennies from
the royal stables, and Lafayette sent
jack and jennies from the island of
Malta.
OUR opinion, and also that of the
principal dairymen of the country, is
that the Jersey, commonly called
Alderney, is above all others the best
cow. They are easily kept, very docile
"a point not to be overlooked-and
beautiful give milk of superior richness,
from which is produced finely colored,
solid butter, having an equal texture
and flavor. Butter made from such
milk has been known to keep when
placed in dry, not cold cellar, without
the use of ice, and when taken out was
in hard, firm condition, and was then
sold twelve to eighteen cents per pound
higher than the best ordinary butter
Lire Stock Recorder.