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.-Pirnples on the face denote an i'm.
proper diet, too much grease, particu-
larry pork aud lard, or too much sugar
and salt. or too much pastry, ahl tho
like; and perhaps too little outdoor cx-
ercise.
Picked Red Cabbage. Slice the
cabbage. cover il with salt and let i
stand two days. Then drain and put it
in pans cover with vinegar and splco
to your taste. Give IL scald aud when
cold put in jars and tie up close.
Here is recipe fora good and sim
pie pudding: One pint of flour, half a
cup of sugar, throe-quarters of a cup Of
sweet milk, one tablespoonful of butter,
two teaspoontuls of baking powder.
Bake for twenty minutes; serve with
any good pudding sauce.
Mr.. Hollster says three times Il
year is often enough to 90 to the mill.
The -four, if packed in paper sacks, will
grow better every day, aud better flour
is made from large grists. Old flour is
the best because the water has evap-
GRATED and the flour has become dryer
and stronger. - Cincinnati Commercial.
-Scalloped Tomatoes. Peel and cut
the tomatoes in slices a quarter of an
inch thick; make afor2o-meat of bread
crumbs, pepper, salt, butter and little
white sugar; put this in pudding-dish
with alternate lay of tomatoes, hav-
ing the tomatoes for the top layer; put
bit of butter upon each slice and dust
with salt, pepper and u little sugar;
stew with dry breadcrnmbs and bake.
covered, half an hour, remove the lid
and bake brown.
Mustard owes its pungency TO
volatile acid oil which it contains. This
oil is bitter, and the bitterness of fresh
| ly mixed mustard is very apparent un-
less a certain quantity Of salt is added
| to it. This removes the bitter flavor.
| To every ounce or tablespoonful of dry
mustard add teaspoonful Of salt, and
mix with cold water, adding vinegar in
! which taragon, dill, or other desirable
flavoring herbs have been stepped. The
French and German mustards are thus
/ prepared.
Picked Onions. Peel the onions
and let them lie in strong salt and wa
ter nine days, changing the water each
day; then put item into Jars and pCgsss
fresh salt and water on them, this time
boiling hot; when IL is cold take them
drain after which put them in wide
mouthed bottles and pour over thom
vinegar prepared in the following man
ner: Take white wine vinegar and boil
II with blade of mace. some salt and
ginger in II; when cool pour over the
onions.
--Dust-Bath for Fowls. Make box
three or four feet square. one foot high,
and fill two thirds full OF dry road dust
with half pound of sulphur mixed i'll.
Keep barrel or so of the dry dust OH
hand to replenish the box with. Pour
pan of sifted coal ashes, or wood ash
es without sitting. into the box occa-
sionally. When the roads are dry, and
other work is not pressing, procure a
supply OF dust and store it under cover
for use next winter Where fowls have
access TO one of these dust boxes they
are seldom troubled with lice--i. c. Ii
you keep the fowl house reasonably
clean.
CONTRACTED hoof is the result OF
disease of the inner part Of the foot and
absorption or wasting OF the internal
tissues. IL can not be cured by outward
applications TO the horn, and only by
removal of the inward trouble. Tho
usual treatment Is to remove the shoes,
pare the edges of the crust OF the hoof,
and to cause the feet 10 stand i'm wet
clay puddle, or turn the horse into q
wet pasture for three or four weeks
Use hoof dressing of glycerine and
water freely, and finally put on a hat,
thin shoe without any bevel and with
an even bearing over a sole of sole
leather which presses upon tho frog.
The frog should not be pared, but left
to bear upon the ground. y Times.
Years ago some one asserted that
oil of pennyroyal rubbed on the hair OF
horses or other animals would repel the
attacks of all kinds Of flies, but upon
trial we found it had no such effect; In
fact, the fiies seemed to be attracted by
the fragrance of the humble herb. Re
Gently we noticed that certain DR..
Ridge, of London, Eng, recommended
carbolic acid and oil for the same pur-
pose, but upon trial during the past
week we could not discover that the
flies were in the least disturbed by This
mixture. CarbOlic acid aud water rs
strong as 1t was safe 10 apply to the
skin Of q horse was tried, the hair
being well soaked with IL; but the flies
returned in less than half minute, and,
II anything, iu increased numbers. a
safe wash for keeping fies from ami
mails Is still wanted. Whowill discover
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Bob Humphreys. of st. Louis. is
nAnlIliar rona manufacturers He makes