Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-10-01
HOME AND FARM.

W HIN hLfhWDcfFy plants are set IN l
rows three feet apart and foot apart !
in the rows, IL requires 1880 for an
acre.
NEVER allow mudhOle to remain
about q we'll II your water IL muddy
and impure throw IN a peck Of lime 10
purify T. II animaiculw appear in the
water throw in a half gallon Of salt tO
make them settle tO the bottom.
TIA, whether black or green, En-
glish- breakfast or Oolong, should never
be allowed TO boil EDglish-breakfast
will bear little longer sleeping, but
any delicately Favored tea, 70 be en-
iOyed in perfection, should be made as
quickly as possible.
LEMON CusTARD.-Take the Juice Of
three lemons, with four ounces Of fine
sugar heat a pint Of cream scalding
hot pour IL through a teapot, holding
the vessel yard high; the lemon-juice
should be put into a soup plate. The
custard Is best made ten or twelve hours
before using.
PICKLED ONtONs.-Select small sill
ver-skinned onions, remove with knife
all the outer skins, so that each onion
VIII bD DBlAbkAiN WAANg hun gAEhus Ut
them i'm brine that will float an egg, for
three days; bring vinegar TO boiling
point, add a little mace and whole red
peppers (or sprinkle with cayenne, ad-
ding bits Of horseradish and cinnamon
bark, with few clOves), and pour It hot
over the onions, well drained from
brine.
EGGPLANT Is prepared for cooking
by first cutting the plant into slices with
out pairing off the skin, then sprinkle
pepper and salt between the slices and
cover with a plate. Let remain an
hour, then dip each slice separately first
into beaten egg, then into fine bread or
cracker crumbs. Cook in a spider OF
saucepan to light brown in Just
enough hot lard or butter to keep from
sticking TO the pan during the process Of
cooking.
How TO CANDY FRUIT.-When finish
ed in the sirup, put layer into a new
sieve, and dip L suddenly into hot water
| 10 take off the sirup that hangs about it ;
| put it into a napkin before the fire to
| drain, and then do some more In sieve 4;
have ready sifted double refined sugar,
| which sift over the fruit on all sides till
white; set it on the shallow end of sieves
in a slightly warmed oven, and turn it
over two or three times; 1t must not
be cold till dry; watch it very carefully.
EVERY gardener or farmer should
raise his own onion, parsnip, cabbage,
turnip, satisfy and beet seed, as well as
save seed from his choicest cucumbers,
squashes, tomatoes and melons. Gather
them in paper bags of a size to suit the
quantity desired, and then at once label
before storing them. The room for seeds
enough to supply the needs Of a large
garden will hardly be missed, and the
culture is not at all troublesome. In this
way an annual outlay of five 10 ten dol
lars is saved, and good, fresh seed made
a certainty.
PEACHES WITH RICE.-Take some
peaches and cut them in halves; sim
mer them in a sirup for half an hour,
then drain, and when cold arrange them
on a dish round a shape of rice made as
follows: Boil three tablespoonfuls of rice,
picked and washed clean, in pint of
milk, with sugar to taste, and piece of
vanilla; when quite done put if into a
basin to get cold. Make a custard with
a gill of milk and the yelks of four eggs
when cold mix it with the rice. Beat
up to froth a gill of cream, with some
sugar and pinch of isinglass dissolved
in little water; mix this very lightly
with the rice and custard; fill a mold
with the mixture and set it on ice.
When moderately iced turn it out on a
dish and serve.
THE NOrthUeStCrn LttinJcrmdn men,
tions an experiment which may have
important results for lumbermen and
grist-millers. Sawdust and bran, COM
pressed at little cost into a space which
will much reduce the cost Of their trans
portation. Into block of compressed
sawdust an eight-penny nail was driven
so firmly that it broke in the attempt TO
draw it. Yet the block was easily fri
able. Three pecks of bran were COM
pressed into a roll six inches long by six
inches in diameter, capable of enduring
much handling, yet easily broken up by
the fingers. The process will probably
bring sawdust largely into use for bed
ding horses, and will reduce the cost OF
bran to consumers distant from the
mills.
The Prairie Farmer gives the follow
ing recipe for removing a film on a
horses eye: Dissolve four grains Of
nitrate of silver in four ounces of dis
titled water, and apply, by means of a
camel's hair pencil, a portion between
the eyelids, morning and evening. If,
however, this so-called film consists of a
well-defned scar after a wound on the
surface OF the eye e-ball, or if the film is
over half years. standing, there can be
hnt email hOnas Of its rampval grad
ual diminution or disappearance, would,
in a durable case, begin between the
second and fifth week after treatment
has begun. The above solution may be
used alternately with the following, SO
that every other week one of the two
remedies is used: Take half a drachm
of sulphate of zinc, one drachm Of
diacetate of lead, and twenty ounces oi
soft water; mix. Open the eyelids gent.
ly, and by means Of piece Of soft