Huntsville gazette., 1881-10-22
HOME AND FARM.
Improvements of the right kind do
,of cost anv more than those of q wrong

improvements of the right kind do
not cost any more than those OF wrong
kind.
To remove the odor from clothes
that have been put away for the sum-
mer, or for a long time, place little
powdered charcoal in the folds of them,
and all unpleasantness will soon be re-
moved.
The easiest and best way to prepare
tomatoes for catsup is: First wipe them
with clean towel; then place in drip
ping-pan and bake them until they are
tender. Then you will have no difficulty
in rubbing them through sieve, and
will save time by not being obliged to
cut them in slices and cook for several
hours.
The. Dublin Farmer claims that a
full feed of hay to horses. to follow con-
centrated food, is wasteful, and crowds
the latter out of the stomach before
proper digestion occurs. This authority
claims that the hay should be fed first to
avoid the above mentioned trouble. A
heavy drink of water upon full
stomach also operates to push its con-
tents into the intestines before there is
proper digestion.
Warts may be removed by touching
them with nitric acid by means of a
glass rod dipped into it. This should
be done once day and the corroded
part removed by rubbing off before acid
is again applied. When the base of the
wart is reached the acid may be still ap-
piled until superficial wound is made
to the flesh and the skin is wholly re-
moved. The sore may then be dressed
with a solution of copperas until it heals.
N. Y. Times.
-Delmonico Pudding-A quart of
new milk, three even tablespoonfuls of
corn starch dissolved in little cold
milk, the yelks of four eggs, six table
spoonfuls of sugar. Heat the milk, add
the sugar, then the starch, and last the
beaten yelks. Flavor, pour into pud-
ding dish and bake in slow oven (the
top must not brown) 30 minutes. Have
the whites beaten stiff, sweeten, flavor
and spread over the pudding. Return
to the oven and let it just brown.
Summer is the best season for clear
ing land, although seldom the most con-
venient, because the ordinary farm work
must also be done; and this is just why
and the only reason for any one ever
recommending winter as the best sea-
son for clearing land. 1t is very easy
to get up an excuse for not doing work
at the proper time, when it is more con-
venient to do it at some other. BY cut
ting down brush and trees when in full
leaf, the vitality of the roots receive q
severe check; besides, the dry brush
containing the leaves burn more readily
than when denuded of foliage.
The use of sawdust in mortar is rec
commended as superior even to hair for
the prevention of cracking and subse-
quent pealing off of rough casing under
the action of storms and frost. A house,
exposed to prolonged storms on the sea-
coast, had pieces of mortar to be re-
newed each spring; and after trying
without effect a number of substances
to prevent it, the owner found sawdust
perfectly satisfactorily. 1t was first
thoroughly dried and sifted through an
ordinary grain sieve to remove the
larger particles. The mortar was made
by mixing one part cement, two of lime,
two of sawdust and five of sharp sand,
the sawdust being at first well-mixed
dry with the cement and sand.-Gcr-
naa1totcn Telegraph.
One of the most ruinous of all the
economies of the farm is overstocking of
the pastures, and by the denuding of the
grass roots, dry and burn them out, so
that in few years, weeds and the like
useless forage, come to take the place
of the more desirable grass. The plan
often pursued to have the stock eat as
fast as the grass grows, gives the grass
no time to gain upon the demand, and
when the dry weather of summer does
come, bare pastures and poor cattle re-
suit. Surplus feed never comes amiss,
and its presence in pasture has two
elements of gain in it, the one of self
protection to the grass, and the other
surplus feed in time of want
Horse Paints