Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1880-11-04
HONE. FARM ANn GARpEN.

IHE TOO common practice OF cover
ing lawns with manure in the autumn.
making them look like barn-yartts In
most eases, does more harm thangood.
To SOFTEN the skin II rough, rub
clarified honey vigorously Into the
parts affected, each time after washing,
and allow IL 70 remain for at least an
hour. Thon rub OF with cold cream.
INDIAN PuDDlNG. Stir five spoon
iuls OF Indian meal into three pints Of
boiling milk, add little salt, four we'll
beateu eggs, one cup sugar, teaspoon
ful Of ginger, bake three hours; one
hyur before taking out add one pint of
milk without stirring.
To MAKE nice biscuit, sift two tea
| spoonfuls Of cream tartar and one OF
saleratus through the sieve with tho
| flour (twice il you use a coarse sioye),
then add one small tablespoonful white
sugar. mustard spoonful salt. and mix
thoroughly and quick with one pint of
thin cream; mold rather stiff, and cut
out and bake quick.
To CLARITY FAT Cut into small
pieces fat OF either beef or mutton. Put
| into IA saucepan and cover the pieces
with cold water Stir until the water
hoils, skim carefully and allow to boil
/ uillit bilt WNAtI htts tiA lttii
in vapor--the fat will then be Of the
color OF salad oil--strain, and It will
keep any length OF time.
CAKE TO Be EATEN WARM FOR TEA.
- Mix two teaspoonfuls OF baking pow
der in one pound of line flour Rub in
quarter of pound OF butter, lard,
or clarified dripping, niix In a quarter
Of n ponnd graduated sugar, n tea
! spoonful ofground Caraway seed, grated
lemon peel, or any other llavoring.
| When ready To bake, stir in as quickly
rs possible two well-beaten eggs mixed
with a gill and half of milk, or, II
| convenient, cream. Put into we'll
buttered tin, and bake in n hot oven.
| SHoEING HORSES. The London Lice
| Stock Gdzette says; II the farriers or
blacksmithsare anxiousto do something
useful ut small expense, let them
! publish an illustrated broadside fit for
hanging in blacksmith shops, telling
smiths and their masters what not 20 do.
"Don't carve the frog; don't open the
heels; don't rasp the outside of the
hoof; don't cut the hoof TO Nc the shoe,
bur, after shortening the toe, If needed,
fit the shoe TO the foot, and so on, as
common sense dictates.
To MAKE NINEGArG---l. Boil either
corn, wheat, barley or rye, about one
pint Of the grain 10 "a gallon of water,
strain aud 10 the liquor thus obtained
add sirup or sugar until pleasantly
sweet Let stand in a warm place, and
you will soon have good vinegar. The
stronger and sweeter the liquor the
stronger win be the vinegar and the
longer in making. 2, Pack in n jar the
skins and cores Of apples made in pre-
pairing pies and sauce, md cover with
boiling water. When another lot is
made, add them and more hotwater till
the lar is full. In warm weather set
the Jar in the sun, carefully covered
with u CLOTH IN cool weather in q warm
place in the house. The apples do not
rot at all. In six or eight weeks the
water Is turned into excellent vinegar
and OF an amber color. No yeast, nor
spirits, nor acids, nor sugar nor mo-
lasses are needed nothing whatever
but the skins and cores aud Yator
GATHER THE LEAVES. Forest leaves
are excellent 10 supply the stable-yards,
and whore straw Is scarce also the cow
stables and hog-pens They can be
most conveniently gathered just after
falling, when there Is some weight in
them, or after the first snow and before
the wintry blasts have scattered them.
They then lay compactly, and being
moist or heavy can be handled with
greater facility. cart with few
standards stuck In the sides will hold u
considerable quantity; and tho best
thing to gather them OF load them with
is wooden mandrake; a wooden four
tined straw-fork is also very handy
when the leaves are moist Leaves alb
sorb large quantities of the liquid ma
nure and are an excellent fertilizer In
the spring 1'hoy can be gathered too
when other labor about the farm Is
slack, - Geymd'stoCn Telegraph,
KEEPING ONIONS. a-- A Minnesota
writer says, In tho New York san, that
ho makes as deep a pit as he can with
the plow for onions and cabbages in n
dry, sheltered place near the house,
scrapiug out all the loose dirt with a
hoe and putting in some chat or straw
from the straw stack, and tramping
down we'll Then he hauls the onions
from where they grew aud piles them
in carefully on this, and puts more
chaff on top and covers up with foot
OF dirt from each side, and packs IL
/ smooth with the spade, where thoy can
remain part or all OF the winter, or
until wanted. They we're quoted at
ST. .25 last winter and spring In Minno-
apolis. II they freeze Il vii make no
differences; they win come out all right
when the frost leaves the ground Cab
bages may be pulled up on q dry day
and packed In the other end OF the pit,
roots up. and also covered with straw
and dirt, when thoy or the onions can
be taken out rs wanted. The cellar "
one of the worst places 10 keen onions