The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-15
HOME AND FARM.

GROUND once well plowed is better
than three times poorly.
GRAPE VINES require careful cultiva-
ton the first three years after planting.
THE rotted manure from the bottoms
of hot beds is admirable for bringing
forward peas and early beans.
GRATING on the California wild
grapes to prevent phylloXera has been
tried, and prospects of success are good.
BOUNTIFUL crops are more profitable
than poor ones. Make the soil rich,
pulverize it well and keep it clean, and
it will generally be profitable.
EVERY mother, whether rich or poor,
high or low, should consider it her duty
to see that her daughter is instructed in
and taught the rudiments of housekeep-
ing.
To REMOVE greese from silk, take
lump of magnesia and rub it well over
the spot; let it dry, then brush the pow
der off, and the spot will disappear.
CoCoANUT PIE.-One grated cocoa
nut, one quart of milk, five eggs beaten
separately, one tablespoonful of fine
bread-crumbs; sugar and favoring to
the taste. The above makes two pies.
No top crust.
CREAM-TARTAR CAKE.-One teacup
of butter, two and a half cups of sugar,
two of milk, three teaspoonfuls of cream
tartar, two of soda, one egg,. nutmeg,
fruit if Won please. This makes two
Ioaves and is extremely good.
ONLY manure in soluble condition
should be used on rapidly growing
4 plants like tobacco and early vogGs;s4...oles.
Even grass and all sowed crops will
grow much faster when the manure is
well rotted. Fertilizers are never ben
efcial to any crop until they are decom-
posed.
SALAD DREsSING.-Four eggs well
beaten, one-half cup vinegar, stirred
over the fire until as thick as custard
When cool add one-half teacup of sweet
oil, one teaspoonful of mixed mustard,
one teaspoonful of sugar Gf liked), the
juice of one lemon and cayenne pepper
to the taste. This is enough for chicken
salad for ten persons.
BAKED BEANs.-One quart of beans
soaked over night; in the morning set
them on the stove, and let them parboil
e about half an hour; drain off the water,
put the beans into crock, put in a
piece of pork, and a piece of soda as
large as q bean, and two tablespoonful
of sugar; fill the crock with boiling
water, cover tight, and set in the oven
keep covered with water all the time /;
have a slow oven in the afternoon.
BROWN BREAD.-Two cupfuls of vel
low corn-meal, one cupful of wheat
flour, two and one-quarter cupfuls of
sour milk, one-half cupful of molasses,
one and one-half teaspoonfuls of soda,
one teaspoonful of salt. Butter round
tin, in which pour the above. Set the
pan in a steamer over q pot of boiling
water (must boil all of the time), cover
the steamer with a cloth, then tin
cover. After it has steamed sufficiently
place in the oven for about twenty min
utes. Serve hot or cold as you wish.
Steam it all day if you wish it extra
nice.
CREAM PUFFs.-Melt one-half cup
& butter in one cup of hot water, and,
y while boiling, beat in one cup of flour,
then Lake from the fire and cool. When
quite cold stir in three eggs, one at a
time, without beating them. Drop on
tins in small spoonfuls, and bake in a
moderate oven. Custard for filling the
above-One and one-half cups of milk,
two eggs, four tablespoonful of flour,
sugar to the taste, flavor with vanilla,
and boil the same as custard. When
cold open the puffs and fill with the
cream. Bake the puffs thirty-five min
ut3S.
WHEELBARRow AND SLoP-BARREL.
"A writer gives the following plan of a
one-wheel slop or garden-barrow: The
frame is the same as for good-sized
wheelbarrow, with two good legs and
two cross Stats; tighten the Stats in the
mortises, to fit the barrel, and get the
blacksmith to make q strong hoop with
a gudgeon on each side to put on the
lower half of the barrel and to hang
loose on the frame. The barrel must be
in proportion to the wheel in front.
The felloes of the wheel ought to be
4 wide for garden work. This barrow can
4 be made very useful for other work by
removing the barrel and having a box
on the frame.
ABOUT CHURNING.-There is ALWAYS
q some loss in churning milk in dash
churns, which is occasioned by the adj
heSion of some of the cream to the
cover of the churn. The churn should
q be opened occasionally and this cream
scraped down into it. This trouble is
avoided in the dashless churn, which
consists of rectangular box hung upon
gudgeons fixed to two opposite corners.
s When this is revolved the cream is
dashed from side to side and from cor
ner to corner in wild and violent man.
ner, so as to become churned in a very
short time, comparatively. The butter
made in dash churn need not be in
jured in quality by any unchurned cream
left in the churn, as this will be all re-
moved if the butter is properly washed
but it is lost, as o matter of course, by