The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-05-07
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HOME AND FARM.

The application of little vinegar
to the nose of bullock will make it get
up Immediately, if lying down from
WEAKNESS or sulks.
Every housekeeper should be sup
piled with large wooden spoon, with
which to stir cakes and sauces. e 5
1t is said that the grated root of
horseradish will afford instantaneous re-
lief in most obstinate cases of hoarse-
ness. The person who will use it freely
just before beginning to speak will not
be troubled with hoarseness.
: Lime slackened with solution of
salt in water, and thinned with SKIM
milk from which all the cream has been
taken, makes a permanent whitewash
for outdoor work, and it is said renders
the wood incombustible. 1t is an ex-
cellent wash for preserving shingles and
for all farm buildings. ...,
To Cook Cabbage.-Cut the cab
bage fine as for coldslaw, put it in a
stew-pan with cold water and a little
salt. Cover it closely and cook till
nearly done. Then pour off the water,
pour on milk or cream, add butter and
pepper and cook till thoroughly done.
This makes delicious dish.
A correspondent of the New Hamp-
shire Patriot preserves his pear trees
from blight by winding rope of straw
around the trunks SO as to completely
cover them from the ground to the
limbs, keeping it on, moderately tight,
through the season. His theory is that
the blight is caused by the rays of the
hot sun coming in contact with the body
of the tree, heating the sap and causing
it to dry up and the bark to grow to the
wood of the tree.
1t is difficult to utilize straw without
q large number of cattle; but yet it may
be ,done without trouble if the right
method is taken. This is to use the
straw for top dressing wheat or pota-
toes; it acts as a mulch to the grain in
the winter, protecting it from the rigor-
Gus weather, and rots down before
harvest, when it may be plowed in with
the stubble with ease. For potatoes it
may be spread over the newly planted
ground quite thickly, the potatoes not
being covered very deeply, and this COW
ering will avoid the necessity for culti-
waiting the ground, as weeds will not
grow. After the potatoes are gathered
the straw can be plowed in.
Brown Stew.-Take three pounds of
good round of beef, cut in small squares,
brown them in a stew pan in two table
spoonfuls of butter; add two tablespoon
fuls of flour, sitting it gradually in and
stirring till the flour is brown !; cut car
rot small, peel half a dozen small onions,
and put with the beef; season with a
half dozen cloves, as many allspice, half
Q salt spoonful of black pepper, pinch
of cayenne, tablespoonful of mixed
herbs, thyme, sage, and marjoram;
cover with boiling water and let it SIM
mer steadily for three hours just before
serving, a gill of tomato -catsup can be
added.
The rice pudding is beyond COM
parison the best ever made, in spite of
the fact that it is the cheapest. The Sc
cret of its perfection is the long cooking
it gets. For a six O'Clock dinner the
rice and milk should he put on the stove
early in the forenoon. The best thing
to cook it in is double kettle. Add to
quart of milk two heaping tablespoon
fuls of rice. Let it simmer on the back
of the stove-it must never boil-until a
couple of hours before dinner. 1t will
then be athick, creamy substance. Then
salt and sweeten it to taste, put it into
pudding dish, and bake in moderate
oven until it is of jelly-like thickness
and the. top is slightly Drowned. 1t can
be eaten either hot or cold II the lat
ter is preferred, the pudding may be
made the day before if that is most con-
venient. If desired, favoring may be
added. This is emphatically the perfect
pudding of its kind.-Erchange.
strawberry Culture. best i'm
plement for cutting strawberry runners
is common hoe kept very sharp. With
this, the runners can be cut while hoeing
with very little extra labor. But if any
one wants a special tool for the work,
the best ever saw was simply piece
of an old saw-blade made into a circle
about ten or twelve inches in diameter.
To the upper side three iron braces are
riveted, which are fastened to a wooden
handle three to four feet long; an old
fork-handle is good. The lower edge is
kept sharp, and by striking down over
hill of Strawberries every runner may be
cut at one blow, and a bed gone over in
very short time. Clean off the straw
berry beds and fork in good supply OF
woods mold mixed with very small
quantity of well-rotted manure. After
the plants have been thinned and hoed,
lay straw between the rows to protect
the fruit from beating rains.