Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-06-18
HOME AND FARM.
Some farmers do not know that
-aaaa0ntd fra.urnnd- niEas more heatthan

seasoned Greenwood gives more heat
green wood. But that is the fact.
q --fi::Nv W. Hal & CO., Decatur, H., re-
port 100,000,000 of Hills triangular
hog rings sold since 1872, using 550,500 !
pounds of wire measuring 8, 40S miles.
-Alsike clover gives smaller crops
than red clover, but of better quality.
1t is especially recommended for soils
liable to heaving by frost, and affords
excellent ground for bees.
1.-The red.louse or spider, if once they
get good foothold in the hennery, are
more tenacious and troublesome to hens
than are the common body lice. The
ordinary methods employed to dispatch
these insidious pests fail to dislodge the
red louise. Kerosene oil rubbed through
the feathers to the flesh a good rem
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Cake or Fruit Sandwiches.-Four
eggs, their weight in -four, sugar and
butter; warm the butter and beat it to a
cream, then stir the flour and sugar into
it gradually, beat up the eggs and stir
them in. Beat the cake well for about
half an hour and bake in a rather quick
oven, If for sandwiches slice the cake
in half and put preserves between.
Teachings from the manure pile
were poured eight or nine times during
the season into small holes made with a
sharp stick four or, five inches from
young rose plants set in clay soil, and
the surface stirred with a hoe the follow
ing day, and the result, according to the
Rural NeO Yorker, was "wonderfuln
show of bloom, continuing through the
summer into October. aa
-Float.-One pint of sweet milk, six
eggs; separate the whites from the
yelks. Beat the yelks;wi:h two table,
spoonfuls of sugar. sPeurdthe yelks and
sugar into the milk and boil it till thick.
Flavor to taste. Beat the whites to a
ftoth. Put few spoonfuls of the whites
in dish and pour the boiled custard in
it and then put the remainder of the
whites on top of the dish.
Stomach staggers is the common
name for congested or apoplectic con
dition of the brain consequent upon in
digestion. The stomach, being overload
ed with food, acts upon the circulation
in such way as to gorge the brain with
blood and produce excessive pressure.
The result is temporary loss of sight,
giddness and inability to stand;, the
horse falls and struggles for a few min
utes, and then gets up, but remains dull
and stupid for some time. The remedy
in bad cases is to bleed at once from the
neck, and then to give quart of lin
seed-oil to relieve the bowels. In mod
crate cases it is better to give a pint of
oil and repeat it the third day for three
times. Then feed lightly and give a
dram of ginger and as much sulphate of
iron in the feed twice day.-N. Y.
Times.
Strawberry Tartlets.-Make some
short paste with two OF. of sugar, two
OF. of butter, the yelks of four eggs, a
! little water, pinchof saltand flour. just
4 enough; work it lightly and roll ont TO
the thickness of one-eighth of an inch.
Line some pattypans with it, fill them
with uncooked rice to keep their shape,
and bake them in a moderate oven till
done. When brown remove the rice
from each tartlet and fill it with straw
berries which have been previously
heated through in an oven in covered
dish, with sugar, but no water. To be
served cold.
-Manuring of grapes should be regu-
lated by the nature of the soil. If it be
lamp-in most cases bad condition for
grape-growing-stable manure in great
quantities means diseased vines. In dry
hac o;a off Non
persons of small places have grapes in
damp ground, or can have none. They
must take care to keep the roots near
the surface; never crop the ground
about them to destroy the small fbres,
if it can be avoided, and even good may
often follow, when the vines seem fail
ing, to carefully follow up the roots lief
near the surface, and encourage, a,
: much as possible, those remaining there
Wood ashes, bone dust, and such like
= fertilizers are best for grape vines in low
: ground.
j. In preparing salads for the tabl,
: great care should be exercised in clean
ing them. Vermin. of various sorts ma,
be inadvertently taken into the mouth
This is particularly the case in regard t
= those boiled, such as spinach, turnip
y tops, beet leaves, corn salad, or aspara
= gus. They should be boiled in cleal
= water with little salt thrown, in ant
|, drained quite dry. I They look nice
e chopped fine, pressed still drier, am
!, formed into shape in the dish, seasone'
u with little butter before shaping, an
e slices of hard-boiled eggs placed aroun
: the pile. In selecting the menu for
l. dinner, two sorts of vegetables are SCI
10 dom too much, and this dish will occa
+ sionally form one for perfectly plai
,, dinner. ~liIuslliA@ 4 EllIJU