The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-12-04
HOME AND FARM.

A FARMER who intrusts his business
to others to manage, soon has no bust
ness to manage.
A NERVOUS, excitable steer is not as
profitable to feed as a Emphatic one
with broad, deep chest, for this last is
seldom disturbed much by anything-he
feeds well, sleeps well, and fats well.
A VETERINARY surgeon in Rochester
declares it custom not uncommon
among horsemen who want to sell an
inferior animal to mix antimony, arse
mic, and various forms of mercury with
their feed. These cause them to make
fat rapidly, and become sleek and
glossy, but often result I'M terrible blood
poisoning, producing slow and agoniz-
ing death.
WINDOW PLANTS.-The necessity of
gradual change must be emphasized
in removing plants from the open air to
the dwelling rooms. 1t is best to place
the plants in room where there is no
fire, and one that can be opened during
the day. After while the plants may
be taken to the close living room, in
which there is fire.
A BUNIoN REMEDY.-Use pulverized
saltpeter and sweet oil; obtain at the
druggists five or six cents worth of
saltpeter, put into bottle with sufficient
olive oil to dissolve it; shake up well
and rub the infiamed joints night and
morning and more frequently if painful.
This is sure remedy. Or take small
onion, split and rub the joint with a
fresh half each night and morning. To
paint with the tincture of iodine is also
good.
FIREPRooF -Fireproof
shingles can be prepared as follows:
Make quantity of whitewash in large
trough, of one bushel of lime, one-half
bushel of salt, and five or six pounds of
potash. The bundles of shingles are to
be saturated with this preparation for
about two hours. Quite dry shingles
will absorb the wash best, and with the
punches opened.
SPICED APPLE PUDDINa.-Three tea
cupfuls of bread-crumbs, a pint of new
milk, three teacupfuls of apples chop
ped fine, a teacupful of sugar, two well
beaten eggs, a tablespoonful of ground
cinnamon, teaspoonful of mace, half a
teaspoonful of ground cloves. Put the
milk into tin pudding-dish, let come to
boil, stir in the bread and let soak be-
fore adding the other ingredients. Add
the whipped whites the last thing. Bake
forty-tive minutes. Eat with sauce.
FLOUR of sulphur is simple and eff.
fective remedy against worms in pigs,
and the animals readily partake of it,
when mixed in cruel or other sloppy
food. For pigs under three months old,
teaspoonful is dose, and for Older
ones small tablespoonful. 1t may be
given four days in succession, morning
and evening, and repeated every Other
week. Give plenty of sour milk, green
food, celery tops, acorns and sliced raw
onions. Avoid stagnant and putrid
water. Give access to charcoal and
ashes.-W Western Rural.
MISS CoRsON gives the following re-
cipe for dish of sweet rice as they pre-
pare it in Portugal: A cupful of rice is
washed and boiled in pint and half
of milk, with four tablespoonfuls of sug-
ar and a laurel or bay leaf; when the
rice is soft the bay leaf is removed,
gill of cream and the yelks of four eggs
added, and the rice is dished and cooled.
When it is quite cold the surface is dust
ed with powdered sugar and cinnamon,
or with burnt almond-dust. The aim
ond dust is prepared by browning peel
ed or blanched almonds in the oven, and
then pounding them to fine powder.
SAUER-KRAUT.-Theb best we ever ate
we made ourselves for many years,
and for a considerable time with our
own hands, and always from Savoy cab
bage. 1t was manufactured in this WISE
In the first place let your ''stand," hold
ing from half barrel to a barrel, be
thoroughly scalded out; the cutter, the
tub and the stamper also well scalded.
Take off all the outer leaves of the cab
bage, halve them, remove the heart and
proceed with the cutting. Lay some
clean leaves at the bottom of the stand,
sprinkle with a handfulof salt, fill in half
a bushel of cut cabbage, stamp gently
until the juice just makes its appear
ance, then add another handful of salt
and so on until the stand is full. Cover
over with cabbage leaves, place on top
a clean board fitting the space pretty
well, and on top of that stone weigh
ing twelve OF fifteen pounds. Stand
away in cool place, and when hard
freezing comes on remove to the cellar.
1t will be ready for use in from four to
six weeks. The cabbage should be but
tolerably coarse. The Savoy variety
makes the best article, but it is only
half as productive as the Drumhead
and Flat Dutch Gernadntoaop Iele-
graph.