Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-03-21
FARM AND PRESIDE.

So Special notices ~ Genus PEI nno 1or every IN
sertion.
FARM AND PRESIDE.
| CREAM EATING.-Mr. Charles A.
Holmes, says in the "Rural Home,'' that
| though he was born and brought up on
| farm, he never remembers eating cream
| until bis first visit to New FORK city,
where a friend invited him to a lunch
house called ssThe Dairy He ate there
a bowl of cream ESQ called-probably two
thirds milky and brown bread, and was
ever after partial to that diet-in fact, in
nine cases out of ten he takes nothing else
for supper, and is healthier and happier
therefor. Cream IS more palatable and
Sweet cream! how city people would smack
their lips over the thought, yet farmers do
not seem to use it freely as food. Baked
sweet apples and strawberries and
cream-what dish can be more enticing?
Butter eating is a habit that grows on
one like smoking. we eat it in our travels
even if it has bad taste, rather than take
the sweet, fragrant bread alone; then We
eat more and more as the years 60 by, un-
gil We dispose Of a quarter of pound dali
ly without being conscious Of it. Add to
this the fat of meats, and that used by the
good wife as "shortening," and is it a
wonder that the doctor is the moneyed
man of the town? Try the milk and cream
cure. Season it If you will, call it butter
if you will. but try it and see if the hard
times and other disorders do not begin to
disappear.
SAYS the American Agriculturist
The most economical food for mich cows
is mixture ct hay, meal and bran; and
the most economical way of feeding these
IS to cut the hay, moisten it, and sprinkle
the meal and bran over it. This gives
some trouble, but it pays. From our own
practice we believe Is per cent. of the feed
is saved. One bushel-basket of cut hay
and q quarts Of corn meal and bran,
mixed in equal portions, is feed for COW
in good milk. To some cows more of the
meal and bran may be given proftably;
this must be found by testing the differ.
emit COWS. The above feed is for half
day, making five quarts of the meal and
bran daily. In addition to the above feed,
a few pounds of dry hay and some roots
may be given at noon.
CABINET PUDDING.-An excellent pud-
ding, quite as good doubtless as the far
famed Raglish plum pudding. One cup
full each of suet, molasses, and sweet milk,
three cups of -four, one teaspoonful of soda,
grease the pudding mould and boil fully
three hours. Use small tin bucket with
close fitting lid; when ready to serve, if
the bucket is inverted, the pudding will
easily slip out. Sauce to be eaten with it
can be made by mixing together half cup
of butter, one cup of sugar. and one large
teaspoonful flour, when thoroughly mixed
add one quart of boiling water; allow it to
come to boil and simmer awhile; then
add flavoring.
SPICED BEEF Take the large round.
cut out the bone. To one ounce allspice,
put one ounce cloves, one tablespoonful
salt peter, all powdered fine and half pound
SALT Mix the salt and spices and rub well
over the outside and into the hole made
by taking out the bone. Do this each
morning until the spice is used up, keep
ing in a tub which will shape it nicely,
After standing week, bake in an oven
with water enough to keep from burning
for about eight hours. Fill the hole with
fat pork before beginning to roast.
How TO DRIVE AWAY RATs.-Take
pint of common tar, half an ounce of Wit
riol, and a good handful of common salt;
mix them all well together in any old tin
pan. Get some pieces of brown paper,
upon which spread this mixture very thick
stop up the holes with this then fill them
up tight with plaster of Paris. Mortar
would be better, if it could be had.
It this is done thoroughly no rat will ap-
proach tho place as long IS taste and smell
remains in it.
How TO MAKE WHITEwAsH.-For in
side work, to each bucketful of whitewash
mix in one teacupful of soft boiled riees
mix while the lime water is still hot. Into
quart of cold water pour twelve drops of
crude carbolic acid, mix this with the rest
and swab your hen house with it. For
outside work, substitute rock salt, dis
solved, in place Of the rice. and leave out
the carbolic acid. No other preparation
of whitewash is equal to this.
REMEDY FOR HoARsENEss-H.ors e-
radish will afford instantaneous relief in
most obstinate cases Of hoarsenass. The
root, OF course, possesses the most virtue,
though the leaves are good till thew drv,
when they lose their strength. The root
is best when it is green. The person who
will use it freely just before beginning to
speak, will not be troubled with hoarse-
ness.
GOOD WASHING SOAP.-Sal-soda, a half
pound; bar soap, half pound; lime, a
quarter of pound. Dissolve the soda and
lime in two quarts of water; let the sedi-
ment settle at the bottom; pour it off into
wash-boiler; add the soap, cut into slices
ana four gallons of water; boil up once;
then pour out into stone Jar or small
cask for future use.
SULPHUR FOR INsECTs.-I fonna Lass
summer that flour sulphur, busted from a
flour dredger, such as the cook uses in the
kitchen, will Danish and kill almost anv
insect that Is troublesome in the garden
on fall cabbage plants: it isa
very simple remedy.