The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-03-20
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

Pear blight in several instances
has been arrested in affecting trees by
swinging them with weak solution OF
potash, and it has proven preventive
when applied to the healthy trees.
| Cement for Mending Stoves. Mix
finely pulverized iron with liquid water
| glass into a thick paste and fill the
cracks with it. Then make hot fire
in the stove. Any first-class drugstore
will furnish the iron and water-glass.
An excellent grating wax is COM
posed of beeswax, resin and tallow. The
proportions are-four parts of resin,
one part of beeswax, and one part OF
beef tallow. Melt them together in a
skillet or tin cup and stir well. 1t
should remain in the vessel and use as
needed.
DO not remove the coverings from
plants that have been protected during
the winter when the first warm days
come. The most dangerous time is
during the alternate freezing and thaw-
ing of early spring. Let the coverings
remain on until all danger from cold
nights is past.
-Neatness is the first virtue in the
kitchen. The dishes of careless cook
have all mixed flavor. as if cooked in
one pot. The general rule is to cook
long and slowly, with an even heat SO
as to reach every part. Frying ought
to be the last method for cooking meats.
Broil, boil, roast, stew or bake in pref
erence.
Black Thread Lace.-To renovate
black thread lace, wash it carefully in
alcohol, or pure spirit. which is diluted
alcohol. Lay towel on board or
table, and smooth out the veil, carefully
stretching it, and pinning it to the
board round the edge of the lace with
pins. When dry, it will look like new,
if carefully done.
The German or golden milletis per-
haps in greatest favor as an annual hay
crop, though it requires a longer sea-
son than Hungarian millet. 1t yields
well, makes coarse, harsh hay which
is greedily eaten by all kinds of stock.
Sow in the spring as soon as the ground
is warm, one bushel of seed per acre.
Cut for hay when the seed is in milky
state.
Poultry of all sorts will fatten read
lily upon sunfower seeds. The same
may be said of sheep, pigs and cattle.
-Four to five pounds are required to the
acre. They are drilled in rows about
eighteen inches apart, the plants to be
thinned out to twenty-five or thirty
inches from plant to plant. The plants
require sufficient space between them
for exposure to the sun. They should
be kept free from weeds.
Potatoes a la Duchesse. Take
eight large potatoes, boiled and mashed
fine, one tablespoonful of butter, the
yelks of two raw eggs, little salt;
stir all together over the fire, then set
it away to cool. When quite cold roll
it on board with flour to keep it from
sticking. Make it in cake or any form
you wish. Take the whole of the egg,
beat with little water, dip in the po-
tato and roll in bread or cracker
crumbs. Fry in hot lard.
French Gingerbread. pounds
of rich clear brown treacle; pour into a
large pan; add pound of sweet butter
(softened by heat, not melted,) two
ounces of ground ginger, quarter of
a pound of caraway seeds, half a pound
of candied peel chopped very small,
some angelica, half dozen beaten up
eggs, and just as little flour as will
make stiff paste; make into round
cakes, or cut into oblong brown bricks
and stick with half almonds, then bake.
These will keep forever if locked up,
but if not rapidly disappear in large
family.