Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-11-19
HOME AND FARM.

anything baby has to wear.
"A New York doctor declares that
horses ought to be treated to fruit and
sugar now and then, and he agrees with
Rev. MIR. Sturgeon that above all, one
days rest in seven is important for
them.
Sweet potatoes require a tempera-
ture of at least sixty deg. for their pres
ervation or they will decay very quickly.
The place of storage should also be dry.
When Il large quantity is to be kept over,
a room in the house, or an clubhouse
specially prepared, or an upper loft in
some building may be provided with
lath bins, and furnished with q stove so
as TO keep the temperature regular and
sufficiently warm.
Snow Craem. Beat the whites of
five eggs to a stiff froth, add two large
spoOnfuls of fine white sugar, a large
spoonful of rose water, or pine apple.
Beat the whole well together and add
pint of thick cream, This is very nice
to use over grated cocOanut. Heap the
cocoanut in the center of q handsome
dish. Pour over this several spoonfuls
OF the snow cream, and call it dish of
snow.
-Pumpkin-ple,- Stew the pumpkin
very dry, indeed; take pint of rich
cream, or if this is not obtainable, half
pint of warm milk, with one-quarter of
a pound of butter stirred well into it
beat eight eggs very light, and stir them
into the other ingredients, together with
sugar enough to make it sweet; add to
this a grated nutmeg, largo teaspoon
full of powdered mace and cinnamon
mixed, wine-glass of rose-water mixed
together, and a tiny pinch of salt; beat
all together very hard, and bake in q
rich paste.
Cellars must have ventilation in the
coolest weather, and this should be
provided for by making a double air.
iluefrom outside having two outlets-one
near the ground into the bottom of the
cellar, and one some feet abovD from
the upper part of the cellar. ( double
window should then be provid,d which
may be opened if necessary. Clean
straw may be placed against the wall
outside for protection, and held by
boards or rails, and covered with
boards and some earth, but cellar
should always be built tight enough to
need no such outside protection.
Picked Purple Cabbage.-Quarter
the cabbage, lay in a wooden tray,
sprinkle thickly with salt, and set in the
cellar until the next day; drain off the
brine, wipe dry, lay in the sun for two
hours, and cover with cold vinegar for
twelve hours; prepare the pickle by
seasoning enough vinegar to cover the
cabbage, with equal quantities of mace,
cloves, whole white peppers, q cup of
sugar to every gallon of vinegar, and
teaSpoonful of celery seed for every
pint; pack the cabbage in stone Jar
boil the vinegar and spices five minutes
and pour on hot; cover and set away in
a cool, dry place. This will be ripe in
six weeks.
1t has been generally supposed that
Indian corn was so much of a tropical
plant that Northern varieties, especially
those large ones of the Mississippi Val
ley, would stand any reasonable amount
of heat and drought both in the upper
and lower cotton belts. But the expert
ence of this year has corrected this no.
ton, for it is found that in Louisiana the
Creole Chat is the native corn) has pro-
duced fair crops under conditions of
heat and drought where corn the
product of Northern seed has wholly
failed. This admits of the reasonable
ness of the idea that there are varieties
in existence capable of withstanding an
unusual amount of drought and that at
the same time will attain maturity I'M
der a comparatively low summer tenn
perature, while there are others, which,
having acquired the tendency to make
strong and large root growth, will yield
good crops on comparatively poor soils.
--RTa! NeU Yorker.