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DRY salt sprinkled upon The shelves
will drive away red ants.
ScoTCH snuff put on holes where
criekets come out, win destroy them.
CoLD rain water and soda VIII re-
move machine grease from washable
fabrics.
S1LTED soapsuds that has been al
lowed to stand until sbur, Is recon-
mended as q means TO kill cabbage
worms.
WASHING FLUID. = Sal soda one
pound: stone lime one-half pound;
v ater i've quarts Boil short time,
stirring occasionally; then let il settle
and popr off the clear fluid into a Jug
and cork for use.
STEAMED INDIAN CAKE. Three cups
of buttermilk, three cups of sweet milk.
three cups of meal, two cups of flour,
one teaspoonful OF salt, two teaspoon
fuls Of soda; put in CREASED pan and
steam three hours.
To SwEETEN RANCID BUTTER.
fifteen drops of chloride of lime to a
pint of cold water, and work the butter
in il until every particle has come in
contact with the water; then work it
over in pure cold water.
LEMON PIE.-One lemon; one cup
sugar; the yelks of three eggs; small
piece of butter; three tablespoonfuls
milk; one teaspoonfui corn starch.
Beat well together and bake in rich
crust Beat the whites of the eggs with
three tablespoonfuls of sugar, place on
the pie when done, and brown in the
oven.
COUNTRY CAPTAIN UP chicken
into small pieces, melt some butter in
Il saucepan, and put into it an onion
shred very fine, fry until quite crisp,
sprinkle the fowl well with curry pow
der, add some salt, and fry until thor
oughly cooked, turning the pieces fire.
quently. Serve very hot, with the fried
onions on the top.
GREEN crops for manuring should not
he plowed deeper than four inches; If
they are turned under more that this
they will not receive enough OF solar
heat and atmospheric air TO insure rapid
decay, and when covered too deep their
beneficial effect cannot be realized till
the next blowing, when they are brought
nearer the surface.
RooT CUTTINGS. 1t is not generally
known how easy it is TO propagate most
shrubs by root cuttings, Roots about
the size of a penholder are the best.
Cut these into pieces an inch long, and
plant them an inch deep in cold
frame, and they will be six inches high
and ready to plant by the time the gar
den plant is ready.
A FEW sweet herbs should have a
place in every garden. Every cook and
housckeeper knows the value Of the
little patch of herbs upon which she
makes such daily drafts in summer, and
which furnishes her with nice collec-
/ tion for winter seasoning, without
which the Thanksgiving turkey would
lose all flavor, while strong kinds are
/ excellent as medicine.
! SALTING SFoCK This is very inn
/ portant matter, and one that is too
/ often neglected. Cattle will never eat
enough salt TO injure them if they have
/ free access to it. Place some salt in a
( trough in spot where il will be shell
tered from the rain, and let the animals
be their own judge as TO how much
they need. Keep large lump of rock
salt in the feed box OF each horse.
FARMERS who practice soiIing would
! do well to remember that n field of
( clover furnishes very large amount OF
/ green food, since two to three crops
can be cut during the season. The
scarlet clover is an excellent sort.
Sown in July it does well on almost
any soil moderately fertile The
Bokhara clover affords excellent food
for bees, and is grown quite extensive
( ly by large apiarists.
CHOCOLATE CAKE.--0ne small cup
of butter; two small cups of sugar; one
cup milk; the yelks OF five eggs and
whites of two; three and half cups Of
flour, or enough 10 make of the proper
consistency; two teaspoonluls baking
powder Bake in three layers in deep
ielly-cake tins. Icing; The whites OF
two eggs, one and half cup powdered
sugar; six teaspoonfuls of grated choco-
late German is the best); vanilla to
suit the taste.
To MILK kicking COW, provide
yourself with small rope or strap
that being put together at the ends
forms a circle eight inches in diameter.
Catch your COW, take up the fore-fOot,
slip this strap over the knee, and put
through a stick the size of broom
handle. She must then stand on one
fore foot, and cannot raise either hind
foot to kick. With gentle usage she
will soon learn 10 give up. the fore-foot
and have the strap slipped over the
knee. have done this for ten years
with one wonderfully good milk
er and worth the trouble but after 4
little she would herself give up one
fore-foot at my approach, and without
touching the leg the strap could be put
on, and there was not the least trouble
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