The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-12-03
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

--Gladiolus bulbs may be kept
through the winter in sand in the cell
lar, or wherever they will not freeze.
. -Apple-butter is made by boiling
sliced apples, fist pared and cored, in
sweet cider. The cider is boiled down
to about one-half its bulk before the APP
pies are stewed in it. The butter is
packed in kegs, jars or bottles, and will
keep long time. A large quantity is
made for use on sea-going vessels. ANY
kind of tlavoring spice may be used, but
no sugar is required.
Vinegar Candy. Three cupfuls of
white sugar, and a cupful and half of
clear vinegar; stir the sugar into the
vinegar until thoroughly dissolved; heat
to gentle boil, and stew uncovered UNI
til it ropes from the tip of the spoon.
Turn out upon broad, well-buttered
dishes, and cool; and. as soon as it can
be handled, pull. 1t can be pulled
beautifully white and porous.
Pancakes. Beat up three eggs
and quart of milk; make it up into a
batter with flour, little salt, spoon
full of ground ginger, and a little grated
lemon peel; let it be of fine thickness
and perfectly smooth. Clean your fry
ing pan thoroughly, and put into it a
good lump of dripping or butter; when
1t is hot pour in cupful of batter, and
let it run all over of an equal thickness;
shake the pan frequently that the bat
ter may not stick, and when you think
it is done on one side. toss il over; if
you cannot, turn it with slice, and
when both are OF q nice light brown,
lay it on a dish before the fire; strew
sugar over it, and so do the rest. They
should be eaten directly, or they will
become heavy.
F. ID. Curtiss says, in an exchange,
| in regard to the use of buckwheat:
Four bushels of buokwheat will make
100 pounds of flour, leaving the remain
der of the four bushels (2OO) pounds in
bran, which is excellent feed for milch
COWS and young animals. A hundred
weight of -four will average in price 50,
and buckwheat bran is estimated in
value to be half that of corn meal.
Buckwheat is variable in Weld, and
ranges from ten to fifty bushels per
acre. If the straw is carefully stacked
it can be made valuable in the winter
for bedding, and also for feeding once a
day. 1t is good absorbent. do not
believe in the notion that it poisons the
ground, but the straw should never be
used for bedding pigs, as it causes an
! irritation of their skin, but it never
affects other animals. The grain, how
ever, is excellent for pigs.
The London Farmer, speaking OF
the destructive habits of weevils, states
that about $4,000 species have been
described, and it is thought that there
are fully as many more yet to be added
to the list. The weevils, principally in
their lower stage, feed upon every part
of vegetable tissues and on all forms oil
plant life, from the ferns aud MOSES
up to the largest forest tree. Buds,
bark, wood pith, and even the roots are
equally their prey. The adult beetles
are not in themselves, as a rule, in juri.
Gus, but the larvae in many cases are
very destructive, not only to forest,
and orchards, but to seeds and cereals
stored in warehouses. They are foot
less, cylindrical grubs, somewhat mar
rowed and curved behind. Some few
species are leaf-runners and have
straight bodies, and the larvH of the
Calandra group. SO destructive tC
grain, and to sugar and palm-tree plan
tations in the tropics, differ in being
heXuous, instead of being simply curveC
toward the tail.