The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-03-06
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

-Saturating ashes with kerosene and
applying handful in hill, will keep
the striped bugs from cucumbers. 1t
is not the bugs that recommend the rec
ipe, but the people who have tried it.
To Clean Jewelry. in soap
suds; rinse in diluted alcohol, and lay
in box of dry sawdust to dry. AS
simple as this seems, it is the very
incest way possible to clean gold chains
or ornaments of any kind.
Cream Puffs.-Melt one-half cup of
butter in cup of hot water, and while
boiling beat in one cup of flour. Take
it from the fire, and when cool stir in
three eggs, one at time, without beat
ing them. Drop the mixture on tins in
small spoonfuls and bake in moder-
ate oven.
Milk Biscuit. Two pounds flour,
one-fourth pound of lard or butter, one
teacup of yeast, one teaspoonful of salt,
one pint of milk; make soft dough and
set at ten o'clock; stir at three and mold
into biscuits, adding more flour if nee
essary. Let them rise until nearly tie a
time and bake twenty minutes.
"A few hours and sometimes days
might, at this season of the year, be
probably spent in looking over the
tools and machines, and putting them
in repair. A bolt will be found want
ing in one place, and nut in another.
These can be attended to now, saving
much trouble when work presses.
There is much refuse fat from the
Ii hot Loo 20
count by feeding to the hens. Of course
where soap is made it will all be used
in that way, but it is question whether
it is not much easier and more profit
able to buy the soap and make the hens
lay by feeding them the fat. Every
thing that is not wanted for dripping,
for cooking purposes, should be boiled
up with the vegetables for the fowls.
Washing Fluid.-Dissolve in a gal
lon of hot water one pound of concsn-
trated lye, one half ounce salts tartar,
one-half ounce liquid ammonia; when
cool, bottle for use. Soak the clothes
over night; wiring out and add cup of
the fluid to boiler of water; put in the
clothes and boil one hour; rub them as
much as is necessary, and rinse well in
two waters, with a little bluing in the
last. But little rubbing is necessary,
and this method will certainly save
clothes, time and labor. Lace curtains
may be washed in the same way.
Starch them and press out all that is
possible in towel; pin sheets on the
carpet; spread out the curtains care
fully, shaping every scallop on the
sheets; pin them in place and leave
them until dry.
To Cure Bacon.-In cutting up
pork for bacon it is usual to have some
lean meat in the strips, and if these
were sailed as thoroughly as is clear fat
pork this lean meat would become in
tolerably hard and stringy. Bacon is,
therefore, better if dry sailed, as it is
called-that is, not put into brine, but
rubbed with fine salt and sugar or mo-
lasses mixed together. If the rubbing
is thoroughly done, using six pounds
of salt and pound of sugar or pint
of molasses to 100 pounds of pork, suf-
ficient salt will be absorbed to keep
these strips of bacon sweet for an in
definite time. If, however, the strips
are unusually thick the rubbing must
be repeated after ten days or fort
night. american CatItGUdtor.
Wash for the Hair.-In a pint bot
tie put a spoonful of olive oil and add
two ounces of best spirits of ammonia
or hartshorn; shake; then mix with
three ounces of alcohol, and when thor
oughly mixed fill the bottle with soft
water. Remember to put IN the order
named or you will have "stuff," and
no chemical union at all. To apply,
take spoonful or two of this,
with q little warm water; dip
a sponge or rag in and wet the
scalp thoroughly; now rinse off in
plenty of warm water, and you will
be surprised at the amount of dirt,
though you may have thought your
head perfectly clean. For the heads of
young infants it is just the thing, as it
instantly removes the dirty scurf with
out pain or trouble. 1t should be rath-
er weaker for babe than for an adult.