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--Cut-worms are very poor climbers.
and much of the damage they do 10
tomato plants may be avoided bv maxi
ing compact mound about the plants
as large as an inverted tea cup.
Snow Cake. Two cups OF white
sugar, one cup OF butter. one cup of
sweet milk, four cups Of nour, three
ieaspoonftlls OF baking powder and
whites oteight eggs; flavor with lemon.
Tho Great advantage of.,4n the inn
pr Sed Dreeds u i've aoee over laa
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eonNeFta iatge1 ptSs bfs l-i5
they consume into anlElei p-oducts and
these usually Of better qnadCy.
DR. Harlan reports that sonle years
ago he "raised 500 bushels of potatoes
to the acre by planting the sets on
plowed and mellow ground, foot
apart, and covering them with straw
from twelve to eighteen inches deep"
Somebody may not know that IL
she makes more pie.crust than she
cares to use it will keep for day or
two. Sprinkle little flour over il and
set it in a cool place; 1t will bo faky
and crisp without being rich; or YOU
may make tarts of it, to be filled with
jelly, jam or lemon custard.
1t is not uncommon error TO
imagine that animals that eat but little
are the most profitable; so long as an aui-
NAL is capable of digesting and assimi-
lating it, the greater the amount OF
food it consumes the more profitable
are the returns; for the proportion of
the food that goes to supply the waste
of tissue and run the animal machinery
isless when large than when small
amount is eaten.
Cream and Egg Toast. Cheese
crumbs; half pint OF milk; two eggs;
salt and pepper; butter; toasted bread,
Put cupful OF cheese crumbs in the
milk, and boil till melted; add the
eggs, we.l-beaten, with butter aud
seasoning TO taste; stir rapidly a few
minutes, take from the iire--have ready
the bread well toasted. and the slices
cut in quarters; pour the cheese on,
and serve at once very hot This is
nice relish for tea or lunch.
To keep fresh eggs in good order
through the summer, dip them in
melted parafline and place them on the
small end in ordinary moist sand in q
tight barrel. When the barrel is
nearly full, fill up with sand and tie
sheet OF paeking-paper over the head OF
the barrel. and keep it in cool place;
or the eggs may be packed in semi
liquid lime-wash. The paratiine is
odorless and tasteiess, and can be re-
moved by dipping the eggs in warm
water, and is by far the neatest and
cleanest method,
TI'bo ,,ro6fa of a small Hool- ~
sheep are usually very large, and prob
ably no investment the farmer can
make paws so large dividends. IL may
cent can be annually made, and excep-
tional instances are recorded of the
wool and lambs at the end of the year
paying the first cost. Sheep are the
greatest success upon cheap lands, rs
II would be difficult TO have an acre OF
500 land afford subsistence for sheep
enough to make it pay, an argument
tffSt would apply as well to other stock,
though no other stock pays so complete
double dividend as does sheep with
her fleece and lamb.
Cream sauce for pudding. To
make bowlful of cream sauce take
piece of butter the size OF small egg
aud beat it up with powdered sHgar
until it is n light cream. Then set il
aside. Then into small tin saucepan
put oolieecupful of water aud add TO
Il ;saspoonful of -four mixed in a
little cold water Cook this thoroughly
until IL is Ike thin starch. Then take
up the butter and sugar mixture, and
while yea are boating IL energeticaliy
let some one pour into it slowly and