The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-09-23
FARM AND PRESIDE.


Cows should be MIXED at least
twice each day, and at regular hours.
The strippings contain most of the
cream, or butter, and this apoor mixer
rarely obtains.
Corn Cakes.-One cup of sweet
milk, tablespoonful of white sugar, one
egg, one tablespoonful of soda and two
of cream-tartar make as stiff as batter.
They are delicious for breakfast.
If troubled with wakefulness on re-
firing to bed eat three or four small
onions they will act as gentle and
soothing narcotic. Onions are excellent
to eat when one is much exposed to
cold.
Cabbage, containing as it does a
large per cent. of phosphoric acid,
makes one of the most valuable kinds
of food for young pigs, calves and chick
ems. All young animals require boun-
tiful supply of phosphate food to make
bone. Clover is next in value to cab
bage.
"A writer in the Country Gentleman
thinks that bark-bursting or sap-burst-
ing, is the result of Is flow of sap late in
the season, during warm weather. too
late to form layer of wood, and the
frost of winter, finding it in liquid
state, causes ice to form under the bark,
bursting it from the wood.
-Higdum.- peck of green toma-
toes and half-pint of salt; cover with
water and let them stand twenty-four
hours; then drain. Add twelve green
peppers, twelve onions Gf you choose
and one small head of cabbage and
chop the whole; scald in weak vinegar
and drain that off; then add one pint CT
molasses, ground cloves, allspice and
grated horse-radish; mix, put in jar,
cover with vinegar and put one pound
of brown sugar on the top.
Brunswick Stew.-To two quarts of
cold water put one chicken, cut up, and
two or three slices of fat bacon cut into
small pieces. Let it boil gently for four
hours, then add one-half pint Irish pota
toes cut small, one-half pint ripe toma-
toes, peeled and cut fine, one-half pint
butter beans, three ears of tender corn
cut down the center of each grain and
then cut off, or grated, teaspoonful of
pepper, the same of sugar, a lump of
butter as big as a hens egg, and salt to
taste. Let this boil one hour, then take
out all the bones and serve hot. This
is The regular Virginia Brunswick Stew.
Horses sometimes exhibit slight
lameness Immediately after being shod,
though quite sound before. Such cases
may arise. from the. shoe being nailed
on too tight, and may be relieved by
removing the shoe and re-applying it
more gently. This lameneSs most fire.
quent1y occurs in horses with very thin
horn, and is ascertained by the manner
in which it comes on, and the absence
of any. other visible causes. The shoe
may have an improper bearing, press
ing severely on weak spots, or on the
sole or heels or the heels or sole may
have been pared too much, or unevenly.
Farmers who have money at COM
mand can not easily put it in more
profitable investment than judicious
outlay on their land. A careful use of
good manure repays the expenditure,
even during the course of many years,
and draining wet land is estimated to
return from forty to eighty per cent. on
the yearly cost. In the same way good
stock pays far better than poor; good
fencing, well selected fruit trees, care
fully looked-after homesteads, all repay
the money laid out, and, besides all
that, add immensely to the comfort of
the occupier.
Peach Trees on Prairies.-They
should be permitted to branch near the
ground, say from eighteen to thirty
inches, and never more than three feet
above it, and should be caused to grow
in as compact form as possible. En-
deavoring to keep the lower branches
trimmed and trained at an angle of
about thirty or thirty-five degrees,
keeping the top rounded up to flat,
conical shape, observing as much as
can be without marring the shape of
the tree, to cut back most on the north
side in order to balance against the eff
feet of the south wind that blows so
much during the growing season. The
center of the tree should be well pruned
so as to admit free circulation of the
air.