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mixed with stove polish IL will not take
much rubbing TO make the stove bright.
and the blacking is not likely to fly oil
in fine dust.
The best grass fer wet land is red
top; 70 this may be added meadow
spear grass, fowl meadow-grass and
perennial rye-grass. OF these about
six pounds each may be used 70 the
acre.
| cup OF molasses, two-thirVis Of Dup oi
butter, one cup of buttermiIk, two and
half cups of -four, one cup Of chopped
raisins, three eggs, one teaspoonful OF
soda, one teaspoonful ground CHINA
mon, one half teaspoonlul OF cloves,
one-half teaspoonful grated nutmeg.
--Cucumbers for pickles are grown
/ best on light sandy or gravely soils,
/ planted in hills six feet apart, and well
manured in the hill with rotten ma
nure The Green Prolific is usually
grown for pickles. The cucumbers are
gathered when from two to three inches
long, and by picking them in this con
dition a very large number are pro-
duced on each vine Four plants are
left in each hill and the ends of the
vines should be pinched in to encourage
side shoots, which bear most fruit
Dolly Warden Cake.--Three eggs,
two cups of white sugar, two-thirds of
cup OF butter, threeqeups of Hour, one
cup OF sweet milk, oAe teaspoonful of
cream of tartar, half a teaspoonful OF
soda. take half the mixture, flavor ii
with lemon and bake in two tins, as for
Jelly cake; to other half add one table,
spoonful of molasses, one cup of
chopped raisins, one teaspoonful each
of cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg. Bake
in two tins. Put the cake together
with Jelly, hght-colored layer at the
bottom, the light one being less likely
to crumble.
Lice on cows, calves, dogs and
poultry should be attacked by means OF
some oily or greasy substance. This
kills them Sulphur is also fatal TO
them Persian insect powder is the
best of all remedies. This is to be had
edS ed / Is applied Should be Be rubbed into
the hair and onto the skin. so as to
reach the vermin. Linseed-oil and
sulphur well mixed together is an Aifec-
tive remedy when it is thoroughly well
applied. But it is useless to klll the
: lice all over the back of an animal and
leave colony alive on the brisket OF
under the thighs, where they Usually
! abound. as in this case they soon spread
all over the animal again.-M Y.
: Times.
I. Creamed Mackerel. Wash a salt
P mackerel, and soak it all night in cold
, water To prepare it for breakfast,
! wipe it well to get off the salt crystals
q that may be lodged in the creases, put
INTO broad pan of boiling water, and
cook steadily half an hour. Drain
Q when done, and transfer TO hot dish,
Y Pour over it sauce made by stirring
: into q cunful of boiling water heap
S ing teaspoonful of corn-starch, two
II teaspooniuls OF butter, one of vinegar
It and little pepper. Instead OF the
/. vinegar you can put in teaspoonful ol
r; green pickle minced fine. Stir ovel
the ire until smooth and as thick n
: custard, when add minced parsley, I
: convenient. Pour upon the fish; cover
i and let it stand five minutes in warn
|. place before it goes to table.
IS Light Brown Bread. Mix togethe
IS three cupfuls of rye meal, not rye flour
IS two Of Indian meal, one OF molasses
l. one teaspooniul of salt, and foue cup
a the addition OF two level teaspoonful
N of soda dissolved in it, and il make
= better bread than sweet milk Bea
n these ingredients TO smooth batter
nj pour il into a buttered covered mold o
q lin pail, set il ia pot containing
4 enough boiling water TO reach half wa
- up the side Of the mold, and steam
r for at least two hours; then uncove
~, the mold, and bake ID for half or three
: quarters Of an hour in moderate oven
the bread is done when the top an
Us sides are light brown.
1u 1T is not always true that a pile {
no manure steaming with heat and smell
~ ing strongly is losing ammonia. An
ill monia is a very volatile and punger
Il. Gas. and might be known by its pect
liar scent, which is freely given of b
~ close ill-ventilated horse stables, or b
- y the coat OF ill-eleaned horses. But II
~ not often that this peculiar scent el
2" capes from manure heaps; on the cor
trary it is more disagreeable odol
W. similar TO that Of rotten eggs. This
"a, sulphuretted hydrogen, and not an
monia, and occasions no loss to th
manure except the sulphur. II
making manure pile some plaster
mixed in the heap ali the ammonia wi
ed be caught and held by it, aud the wat.
contained ia the manure will also hol
te, large quantity goo times its bulky (
it, and will not give it of at a heat thi
49, can be raised in manure pile. II Il
~ manure is left TO heat and get dry an
:" lire fang or slowly burn to whit
dry light stuff, then the ammonia Is 10
and the manure seriously injured.