The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-01
HOME AND FARM.

REMEDY FOR FELoN.-Make weak
lye and battle the affected parts. Then
take soft soap and table salt and spirits
OF turpentine, and work them together
with knife till you have poultice.
Now bind bon the affected part.
JELLY CAKE Three well beaten
eggs, two-thirds cup of sugar, butter
one-half the size of an egg, two table
spoonfuls of cold water, one cup OF
Hour, one small teaspoonful of soda,
and two teaspoonfuls of cream-tartar.
This will make three layers.
COTTAGE PUDDING.-Two cups flour,
one scant cup of sweet milk, one egg,
one tablespoonful of melted butter, one
tablespoonful of white sugar Gone cup
OF raisins makes it better), one tea
spoonful of cream-tartar, one-half tea
spoonful of soda. Steam one hour.
Cream sauce.
To CURE A HORSE FROM INTERFER-
ING.-Pare the outside of the foot much /;
inside little. Make cork of heel outside
short and sharp, so as to go into the
ground easy; inner heel-cork big, so as
to hold up that side of foot. This will
puts it out of the way of the toe of the
other foot that does the striking. Try it..
1t is perfect. Both feet are to be shod
this way. Take off all the inner side of
toe you dare.
How TO RAISE CABBAGE-PLANTs.-
Make bed the same as for onions, and
mark it off in rows wide enough for a
hoe to work easily between the rows.
Then sow the seed and put hen manure
along between the rows, being careful
not to let it touch the seed row, for if it
does tho seed will not grow, and it will
also kill the plants if it touches them.
But it will keep off all insects, and the
plants will grow very thriftily. If you
hoe them, put some more on. The hen
manure should be loose and fine.
LEMON PIE.-Cut the pulp of one
lemon into one-half pint of cold water,
and let it stand. Crate just a little of
the yellow rind into plate first, and
put a little nutmeg to it. In another
dish take two eggs, saving out the white
of one for frosting, one cup of white
sugar, two-thirds Tor the pie, one-third
for the frosting, one heaping teaspoon
full of flour; strain the pulp and water
through cloth into plate, then add
all together, bake carefully, frost the
top, brown in the oven if liked, or white
if liked so best. Follow the directions
and it is nice.
How TO GET RID OF LARGE STONES.
Large powders may be buried out of
sight by digging at one side of them
deep enough, and topping them into
the holes and covering them. If the
stone is valuable for building, drill holes
with steel drill an inch in diameter, one
foot or eighteen inches deep, put in two
to three inches of blasting powder, and
fuse enough to project twelve inches
from the hole, lamp with sand and fire
the fuse. Judgment should be used to
use powder in proportion to the size of
the stone, the object sought being to
break the rock into three or four frag-
ments, that may afterward be reduced
to useful proportions with sledge-ham-
mer.
ORANGE PIE.-Take one orange and
scrape off with sharp knife the dark
yellow of the peel all you can, put into
saucer, then peel, chop all the pulp
very fine, put into the saucer with the
scraped rind. cover with water, and let
it stand while you make the crust, Have
scalding hot one pint of rich sweet milk
or cream, the well beaten yelks of two
eggs, two-thirds cup of white sugar, a
pinch of salt; put this with the orange
water and all, adding the very hot milk
last; put into the oven quickly and bake
with care if it is not allowed to cool it
will not whey. When done frost with
the whites of two eggs and one-third
cup of sugar. do not try to brown
this kind of pie, the only trouble is we
must work spry, and it is extra.
To KILL LICE.-Col. Curtis writes
the N. Y. Tribune as follows: awe
have tried all sorts of mixtures to kill
lice on animals and at last have hit on
what we think is BEST Melt hog's lard,
or any hot grease, and in it dissolve salt
one-third of the bulk of the grease; take
as much grease as will be required to
smear the animal all over and into the
mixture pour kerosene oil and stir it up.
Two gills of the kerosene would be suf-
ficient for COW of ordinary size. One
application completely cured the most
stubborn case of lice on an old hog. 1t
leaves the skin smooth and clean, re-
moving the scurf and healing the irrita-
ton caused by the parasites. 1t is also
excellent for gals and Sores"
MANURIAL VALUE OF BURNED
STRAw.-Speaking to friend about
burning straw on land for manurial
purposes, writes New York Times cor
respondent, he told me this: Four
years ago he hauled out lot of wheat
straw, and spread it of uniform depth
of some fifteen inches over some five
acres. He then set it afire, and imme-
diately on its being consumed turned
the surface under with the pillow. To
the very border of this space he drew
and spread his stable and barnyard
manure. The benefit to the following
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