The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-07-08
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

Handkerchief dresses are to be very
popular this summer.
Bran of middlings mixed with
whey and fed to pigs keeps them in ex-
cellent health, and if mixed with little
barley meal makes the sweetest and best
of pork.
Remedy for Wormsin a Horse
Half cup of pure hardwood ashes
finely sifted and mixed dry with the
mash. If one dose should not be sufi-
cient, repeat it after day or two.
-Ifyou want good starch, mix it with
cold water; add boiling water until it
thickens, then add dessertspoonful of
sugar and a small piece of butter. This
makes a stiff and glossy finish, equal to
the laundry.
Rats and Mice. Rats and mice will
90 into a trap much more readily if
piece of looking glass is put in any part
of the trap where they can see them
selves. They are social little creatures
and where they can see any of their
tribe, there they will 60.
The French Minister of Agriculture
says, " no trace of food of vegetable
growth is found in the stomach of the
mole and that it is continually destroy
ing grubs, Larvae, palmer worms and
other insects injurious to the farmer"
Hence, moles are the farmers co-work-
erS.
A teaspoonful or more of powdered
boraX thrown into the bath tub while
bathing will communicate velvety soft
ness to the water and at the same time
invigorate and rest the bather. Per-
sons troubled with nervousness or wake
full nights will find this kind of bath
a great benefit.
Potatoes Tossed in Butter.-Take
some small new potatoes, lay them in
sailed water, rub off their skin with a
coarse cloth, dry them, put them in
saucepan with plenty of butter; keep
tossing them now and then until they
are quite done, which will be in about
an hour, when add sprinkling of salt
and serve.
Cold Slaw on Said Dressing. -One
egg, two-thirds of Il cup of sweet milk,
one-half teaspOonful of salt, one-fourth
teaspoontul of mustard, sugar to taste;
let this come to a boil and while hot stir
in vinegar to taste; when perfectly cold
pour over the fine chopped cabbage.
This makes enough for seven or eight
persons, more eggs can be added for
those who like more. Excellent.
Cucumber Pickles.-Put 500 cucum-
bers in a tub with four quarts of salt;
cover with boiling water, and let stand
twenty-four hours; take them from the
brine and put them in jars, with three
dozen onions and eight peppers; cover
with boiling vinegar, in which you have
put two tablespoonful of cloves, allspice
and cinnamon. lump of alum the size
of an egg and one pound of brown SUI
gar.
TO Make japanese Cement.-Mix
the best powdered rice with little cold
water; then gradually add boiling water
till a proper consistency is acquired, be-
ing careful to keep it well stirred all the
time; lastly, it must be boiled for one
minute in a clean saucepan. This paste
is beautifully white, almost transparent,
and well adapted for fancy paper work,
or other things requiring strong and
cOlorless cement.
Potato Flour.-Rasp the potatoes
into a tub of cold water and change it
repeatedly until the raspings fall to the
bottom like paste; then dry it in the
air, pound it in a mortar, and pass it
through a hair sieve. 1t is nearly as
nutritive, and much lighter than
wheaton flour 1t is therefore prefera-
BILE for making buildings and pastry for
infants and invalids. A portion of it
also improves the appearance of house
hold bread, and dealers constantly pass
it off as arrowroot. If kept dry it will
remain good for years.
Seeding to grass in the fall with
turnips may be made a valuable re-
source for those who wish to get grass
next year. Just here we might suggest
the value of orchard grass for this pur-
pose. A field well prepared in August
or early in September, and seeded with
two bushels of orchard grass and six
pounds of clover per acre, mixed with
one pound OF white turnips, may be
well covered with grass before winter,
the brown leaves of the turnips shading
the tenderer crop from the warm sun of
the late summer, and protecting it from
the frosts of winter. The turnips killed
by frost melt down and furnish excel
lent food for the grass and clover in the
following spring.
Iced tea Is a nice as well as a fash
ionable drink for summer m eals, but it
is not so generally understood that the
best iced tea is not stepped in hot water.
Just try stepping" it for few hours
in cold water, using a little more tea
than for the hot beverage and having it
strong enough to be weakened with ice
water when it is served. The flavor
and effect are much better than by the
hot-water method. And, by the way,
the same plan is coming to be recog-
nized as the best for the preparation Of
many of the herb teas used for medici-
nal purposes, especially such as thor
oughwort (boneset) and others, which,
STEPPED in hot water, produce an I'M
pleasant and undesirable nausea. This
effect is obviated by sleeping in cold
water, and the tea can be made much
stronger, and used to better advan-
tage.
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