The Newtown bee., 1880-07-28
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Household Matters.

Household Matters. VEGETABLE STAINs.-Rubbing the hands with slice of raw potato will remove vegetable stains.
 WEDDING CAKE.-Three pounds | raisins, five pounds entrants. one pound citron, one pound sugar, one pound but | taste, twelve eggs. This will make
 four loaves, or two small pan loaves. LEMON PIE.-The juice and grated | rind of one lemon, one cup of water, one ! tablespoon corn starch. one cup sugar, | small egg. Boil the water, wet the corn starch with little cold water and stir it in; when it boils up pour it on the sugar and butter; after it cools add the egg and lemon. Bake with an upper and under crust.
 THE HAIR.-Boih badness and gray | ness depend on defective powers of the scalp skin, and are to be treated alike What is needed is moderate stimulation without any irritation. The following | is good: Rub into the bare places daily, or even twice @ day, liniment of cam phor, ammonia, chloroform and aconite. equal parts of each. The friction should be very gentle.
 Protect the Potatoes from Beetles. The potato beetles are in greater force this year than ever before, and demand immediate attention, unless the potatoes are so near maturity as to be past dam age. We find but one effectual remedy for the beetles; this is paris green. Kerosene will kill them, but it kills the vines also. Fresh air-slacked lime they do not like, but they contrive to find leaves enough unsprinkled on which they can live till the lime is blown or washed of. But paris green kills at first sight, without damaging the crop all sufficient. A pound to the acre, mixed with a hundred pounds of fine plaster or fifty pounds of second quality rye flour, and sprinkled on with duster while the dew retains it, is just as effectual as a larger dose. The ration may be needed a second time, and in case of late potatoes third time, as the eggs are constantly matching out all through the summer.
 ToDestroy the Cabbage Worm.
 The complaint still continues of the ravageS of the cabbage worm and a de- mand of remedy for it. In an agri- cultural journal. 8 few weeks ago, q correspondent told of his troubles last year and that they were already begin ming this season, and asked for some way to dislodge the worm. Several knowing persons responded, and in looking over their remedies we did not regard one of them as furnishing what | was needed. But we can tell the in- quirer and all others what is q remedy for the cabbage-worm, which is within every ones reach, if it is properly ap- piled. It is simply to sprinkle over the parts of the cabbage plant, where the worm usually operates, pinch of cayenne or red pepper. Nothing more or less. Keep few ounces on hand and use it wben needed, but use it care fully so as to reach the insect, and it will promptly dislodge it, GerDaantoUn Telegraph.
 Protecting Vines from Bugs.
 An exchange says that sure proven tive to the depredations of bugs that in fest cucumber, melon, squash and other vines as soon as they appear above the ground, is to place over each plant a oiled paper. Sprinkling soot. or ashes and plaster mixed, on the plants when the dew is on, cheeks the ravages, but is not so safe unless closely watched. An other good remedy is to sprinkle the plant iberally with tar water. A tablespoonful of saltpeter dissolved in vial of water, pint or more to be put around each hill, shaping the earth so that it will not spread much, has been tried with success.
 Setting MILK for Cream.
 The question of which way milk should be set to raise the most cream in the most economical manner has never been settled among creamery managers any more than it has with dairy men generally, so that it is rare to find the creameries of Northern Illinois and Iowa get the highest market quotations, and, as rule, they set in very cold water, often using ice, thus following what is termed the Swedish plan. The old style of shallow setting is probably in use ill double the number that any other is. All, however, seem to be working toward setting the milk cold and churning the cream sweet. Grow More Grapes. Every farmers family should have all the grapes they can eat from September to January. It is not necessary to have large vineyard for this. A few vines, each of the best sorts and properly treated, will give great amount of fruit. There are hundreds of out-of-thc way places where a vine may be set, such as along a fence, or it may be by the side of shed or barn. With good soil and | care in pruning satisfa ctory returns may be expected.