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-Pampered animals require more st
tontion than others.
Mint Sauce--Mix one tablespoon
full of white sugar 20 half teacup of
good vinegar; add the mint aud lot IL
infuse for half an hour before sending
TO the table Serve with roast lamb or
mutton.
"A New York farmer, who is also
practical sheep grower, gives the fol-
lowing rs sure cure for grub in sheep:
Turn into each nostril OF the animal
affected half tcaspoonful OF kerosene
oil.
tS-NDry sulpimr Is giyon as aromcty
for lice on cattle by one who SAYS he
kaO,US it is effective. II should bG
sprinkled all over the body and worked
into the hair.
The remnants of any pudding left
from one dinner may be served for the
next by arranging IT into a compact
mass and covering it with a meringue
of whipped whites Of eggs and little
powdered sugar. Set into hot oven
just long enough to brown.
To prevent choking, break an egg
into cup and give 1t to the person
choking, TO swallow. The white of the
egg seems TO catch around the obstacle
and remove it. If one egg does not
answer the purpose, try another. The
white is ell that is necessary.
To ascertain if water is hard or soft
procure small quantity of soap dis
solved in alcohol, and let few drops
of it fall into a glass of water 10 be
tt.sa ho mil 4.
hard, but if little or no milkiness results
the water may be said to besoft.
To make ielly-cake fritters >ut some
stale sponge or other cake into rounds
with cake cutter. Fry these a nice
brown in hot lard dip each quickly
into bowl of boiling milk and lay upon
q hot plate, spread thicl1ly with jam or
preserves Serve hot, with cream to
pour over them.
Quail Pie. Quail, butter, pepper
and salt. Cut the quail in pieces and
stew them about ten minutes, or till
tender Line your baking-d dish with
nice paste; put in the birds; little of
| the water in which they were stewed,
thickened with a little flour; shake in
pepper and salt and bits of butter;
cover with nice crust and bake deli
cate brown.
Tomato Jelly. Tear in pieces some
ripe tomatoes and stem them until
thoroughly cooked, with only sufficient
water TO keep them from burning; put
the pulp into jelly-bag, and when the
juice has trickled through, put pound
of sugar TO each pr5 OF juice and boil
rapidly until 1t jellies, If the color is
not bright red, few drops of cochineal
win improve it. This jelly may be eat
en- with roast meat.
A timely suggestion, on its travels
without credit, Is to the effect that be.
fore removing threshing machine TO
another farm it should be run empty
from five to ten minutes ut u high rate
of speed in order TO throw outany seeds
of cheat, cookie, etc. and to discharge
particles of smut that may have adj
hered TO il In this way the germs of
weeds or fungi will be left where raised
and not introduced by this medium as
pest to other fields.
Tho Onion Maggot. "A writer says.
in Pick'S Magazine, that neighbor and
he each secured an ounce of Danvers
Yellow Onion, and prepared the ground
ner, with one exception 1.-The neighbor
covered the bed with q good supply Of
coal ashes. The crop In both cases
came up aud looked well until the
plants were about six inches high, when
the onions without ashes became in
tested with the onion maggot, and in
short time wholly disappeared. The
neighbor never lost an onion, The
gardens were adjoining, the beds being
less than 100 feet apart
The reason why rain causes spots
on the varnish of carriage is chat
certain quantity OF moisture is absorbed
by the varnish, and this causes the
texture of tho varnish TO change, A
sort of granulation is effected by which
the reflection of the light is altered,
and this causes the color to change. If
water is applied to the varnish of car
riage and Is permitted 10 dry on. it will
always have this effect, and so viii
mud. A carriage that has been out in
the rain or mud should be washed and
wiped dry and polished with fine,
soft leather. The quality of the var
nish also has something to do with it.
-Four medium heads of cabbage,
twelve good. sized cucumbers, one peck
of green tomatoes, three ounces of
white mustard seed, ounce Of turmeric,
six tablespoonfuls of made mustard,
three pounds of brown sugar, vinegar to
mix we'll. Let the cucumbers stand In
brine three or four days, chop onions,
tomatoes and cabbage the day before
making and sprinkle with salt When
ready to make take cncumbers out OF
brine, peel and cut into thin slices.
Drain the other vegetables, put all into
a kettle with sugar, mustard, turemric,
seed, and cideT vinegar TO cover Sim