The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-11-11
FARM AND PRESIDE.

However valuable commercial fer
tilizers are, still barnyard manure is
king.
1t is calculated that one gallon of
white paint will cover about forty-four
yards of surface.
To Clean Gold.-Powder some
whiting and make it into a moist paste
with some sal volatile. Cover over the
gold ornaments and surface with a soft
brush, let it dry and then brush it off
with a moderately hard brush.
When good earth is used for pot
ting, plants seldom need any special
manure. The best soil for plants is
found in old meadows, and the corner
of fences where sod has grown long
time.
-Corn-coffee is excellent to settle the
stomach when it refuses to retain ev-
erything else. l have given it twice
during the past week, each time with
good results. In one case the patient
had had the most violent retchings ev-
cry few minutes for several hours, but
it needed only cupful of corn-coffee
to effect cure. l make it by burning
an ear of corn quite black, and steep
ing.-Cor. Country Gentleman.
-Dried-apple Cake.-Two cups of
dried apples soaked over night in just
water enough to cover them. Chop
fine and boil in two cups of molasses
twenty minutes; let cool; add one cup
sugar, one cup and half of butter, two
eggs, one heaping teaspoonful of saler-
atus, one teaspoonful cinnamon, one
teaspoonful cloves, half nutmeg and
flour enough to make a stiff batter.
This recipe makes two loaves.
-Outbuildings and fences, when not
painted, ought to be whitewashed once
or twice yearly, with a good coat OF
lime wash. 1t prevents decay of the
wood and adds greatly to the appear
ance of neatness and healthfulness. The
addition of a pound of salt and two
pounds of sulphate of zinc to the pail
will cause the wash to harden we'll and
will prevent it cracking or rubbing of.
-Crimped Hair.-To make the hair
stay in crimp, take two pennyworth Of
gumarabic and add to it just enough boil
ing water to dissolve it. When dissolved,
add enough alcohol to make rather thin.
Let this stand all night and then bottle
it to prevent the alcohol from evapora-
ting. This put on the hair at night
after it is done up in paper or pins will
make it stay in crimp the hottest day
and is perfectly harmless.
Apple and Rice Pudding.-One
cupful and half of uncooked rice anC
two dozen apples. Wash the rice well
and soak it for two hours IN cold water.
Pare and quarter the apples. Wet the
pudding cloth, spread in a deep dish
and cover with two-thirds of the
rice. Lay in the apples, hav-
ing them packed as closely as
possible, and sprinkle the remainder
of the rice over them. Tie as tightly as
possible, and plunge into boiling water.
Boil one hour. Serve with molasses
sauce. The sauce is made as follows:
One cupful of molasses, half a cupful of
water, one tablespoonful of butter,
little cinnamon or nutmeg-about half
a spoonful-one-fourth of teaspoon
full of salt, three teaspoonfuls of vinegar.
Boil all together for twenty minutes.
The juice of one lemon can be used in
stead of the vinegar.
"A Cheap Well.--Dig down to a
depth of five or six feet hole four feet
in diameter; brick it up-using water
lime mortar. Below this dig your well
in diameter little less than the bricked
top, and as you go down plaster the
dirt or sand on the sides with water
lime mortar. A well dug and plastered
in this way costs one-half the price of
an ordinary well of the same depth and
diameter, and is proof against all kinds
of vermin, nor can any dirt wash down
from the sides. 1 have well made i'll
this way, that has done excellent serv-
ice for eleven years, and in that time it
has been cleaned out only once. There
is no need of cleaning such well, as
there is no accumulation of filth in it.
The bricking at the top is done to avoid
injury from frost, as the plaster peels
off where the ground behind it has
frozen.-C0r Rural NeW Yorker.