Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-07-02
HOME AND FARM.


in thinning apples while small we
have experimental long enough to know
that it is very profitable. Prof. Beat. /
Fodder corn is best cut when the
ears are partly formed-that is, if any
ears appear upon it; if not, it should be
cut when the blossom is fully developed.
1t is then in its best condition for feeding
purposes.
Batter Bread.-Whte Indian meal
two quarts; cold boiled rice, one cup;
eggs, three (well beaten) melted butter,
one tablespoonful; sweet milk, two and
a half cups; salt, one teaspoonful; soda,
half teaspoonful. Stir the eggs into
the milk; then the meal, salt, butter,
and last of all, the rice. Beat all three
minutes and bake in shallow pans in
quick oven.
"A correspondent of the Rural Neu
Yorker says the best way of relieving
choking cattle is to pour from half a
gill to gill of oil-sweet oil, castor oil
or linseed oil-down the throat of the
afflicted animal, having first turned it:
head up to facilitate the operation. As
soon as it reaches the obstruction, relief
is instantaneous, as the apple, potato OF
whatever it may be, c%n be easily swal
lowed or elected.
Tomato Catsup.-Cut one peck o.
ripe tomatoes in halves, boil them in a
lined saucepan until the pulp is all dis,
solved, then strain them well through a
hair sieve, and set the liquor on to boil,
adding one ounce salt, one ounce mace,
one tablespoonful of black pepper, one
teaspoonful of red pepper, one table.
spoonful of ground cloves, five of ground
,lauStord i; let unem all b0ii -toSotho-,- for
five or six hours, and stir them most Of
the time. Let the mixture stand eight
or ten hours, in cool place; add one
pint of vinegar, and then bottle it; seal
the corks, and keep in a cool, dark
place.
Butter ls.-Butter, one table.
spoonful; unsifted flour, one quart;
baking powder, three large teaspoon.
fuls; sweet milk Sift the baking pow
der thoroughly with the flour and add
the butter. With sweet milk, form q
dough, knead and roll it half an inch
thick and cut: fold each one over tc
form half round, wetting little be
tween the folds to make them stick
place on buttered pans, wash over the
top with milk to give a gloss, bake il
quick oven twenty minutes, and lie
stand half an hour before using.
old black straw hats that look rusty
and dirty may be made to look almos
as nice as new, providing they are no
battered up so as to be out of shape
The operation is very simple and con
sists in nothing more or less than black
ing them with ladies' shoe polish. |
makes a wonderful difference in tn
looks and no one can tell that they hav
been BACKED. One | saw that had beel
done this way was sure was a new hat
, and l could scarcely believe it when tn
, lady told me it was the hat 1 had see
her wearing every day for long time
| -Catarrh, or nasal gleet, is c)ntagi
t Gus, and may be communicated from
one horse to another. 1t consists O
Q purulent inflammation of the nasa
9 membranes, and may degenerate int
l CHAMBERS through poisoning of the bloc,
: by absorption of the purulent discharge
5 No horse should be permitted to renal
I subject to this disease for months o
s years without an attempt to cure il
y The treatment proper for this disease
n to spray carbolic acid, diluted with fort
1 times its bulk in water, into the nostril,
s and to give an ounce of hyposulphate {
= soda daily for some weeks. The nos
: should be sponged with clean water an