Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-09-17
HOME AND FARM.


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The great "truth," of the good old
Duke of Sully, is: "Agriculture and
pasture are the two great breasts Of ma
ture from which nations derive their
nourishment.
TO Prepare SCOT for Roses.-Get
some SCOT from chimney or stove
where wood is used for fuel, put it in All
old pitcher and pour hot water upon It.
When cool use it to water your plants
every few days. When it is all used fill
up the pitcher again with hot water.
The effect upon roses that have almost
hopelessly deteriorated is wonderful, in
producing rapid growth of thirty
shoots, with large thick leaves and
great number of richly-tinted roses.
To Make Bran Coffee. Take good
wheat bran, mix with molasses until
just lightly wet by thorough stirring,
put in a hot oven on shallow tins and let
brown like coffee, stirring often; when
brown it is ready for use. Put hand
full or two or three, according to your
family and your temperance, pour on
boiling water, let steep; you can flavor
with teaspoonful of ground coffee;
use milk or cream, 1t is nourishing, OF
much more healthful than real coffee
or tea.
--Piccalilli.-One peck of green to-
matoes; if the flavor of onions is de-
sired, take eight, but it is very well
without any; four green peppers; slice
all and put in layers; sprinkle on one
cup of salt, and let them remain over
night; in the morning press dry through
sieve, put it in a porcelain Kettle and
cover with vinegar; add one cup of
sugar, a tablespoonful of each kind of
spice; put into muslin bag; stew slow
ly about an hour, or until the tomatoes
are as soft as desired.
Chopped Pickle.-One gallon green
tomatoes, four large onions, three red
peppers and three green ones, leaving
in few of the seeds. Chop all fine (;
throw in big handful of salt; mix well
together, and let it stand over night. In
the morning drain dry and add one
pound of brown sugar, one tablespoon
full each of black pepper, ground cloves
and allspice; half pint of white mus.
tard seed and one-quarter of an ounce OF
celery seed. Pour over three pints of
cider vinegar, boiling hot. This is eX-
cellent. Put into jars or wide-mouthed
bottles, and cork tightly.
When it gets too dry to pillow, as is
often the case in early fall, farmers
are sometimes at a loss as to what they
had better put the hands and teams to
doing. This is the time to attend to
little things which are likely to be ne
elected. In the permanent pasture
there are often washes starting, and if in
addition there are some loose stones,
here are two things that ought to be
put together. Make brush dam oeca-
sionally; put a little straw above it-ilaX
straw is the best, and it will pay you to
90 ten miles for a load of it-and then
put your stones on the straw and you
have Il barrier that will catch the wash
and stop the gully.
Preserved Peaches.-Peachos, Loaf
sugar. Pare the peaches, cut them in
halves, and remove the stones. To ev.
cry pound, allow a pound of sugar
Crack one-quarter of the stones, and
take out the kernels. Scald and re-
move the skin, and pound them to pow.
der in a mortar. Place the peaches and
sugar in layers in q porcelain-lined ket
tie, strewing each layer with the kernel
powder. Add the water in which the
kernels were scalded, and simmer very
slowly half an hour. Skim the siru[
while boiling. Take out the fruit with
u broad skinner, and put pieces on {
large, flat dish to cool. Boil the sirup
skimming it, till thick and clear. Fill
jars with the fruit, pressing the pieces
together. Fill up each jar with the sirup
Cover very tightly.
The arguments all seem TO be il
favor of horses of great size, but there
are many facts the other way. Large
horses are more liable to stumble ant
be lame than those of the middle size
They are clumsy and can not fill them
selves so quickly. There is nothing
more surprising to Western man thai
to visit Montreal and see the small
Canadian horse hauling large two-seat
ed carriages full of people with apparen
ease. A horse weighing 900 pounds il
Canada or Vermont takes chaise o.
Concord buggy with two men in it anC
will make fifty or sixty miles day owe
hills that might have terrified Hannibal
But their weight is where it ough
to be. 1t is compact and lot ly
ing around loose. 1t is muscle, not pulp
that we want in orse.-E'rchangc.