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HoNF, FARM AND GARDEN.

teaspoonful each of ground cloves and
! cinnamon with o dash of cayenne pep
7 per. Boil until q thick sirup, then bot
tie and seal,
Stewed Onions Peel tho onions
and boil them in sailed water with q
little milk, until they are perfectly
tender. then drain and put them into a
white sauce TO simmer for ten minutes
before serving. .ae
To prepare mustard, let a pint OF
good vinegar come 10 a boil, stir In a
| duarterDfa pound Of mustard, two table,
s%poonfuls OF n tablespoonful OF
salt aud a small spoonful Of white pep
| per, Let the mixture boil five minutes.
To Preserve Plums. Look them
over and pick out all that are imperfect
or msound. Make a strip Of clean.
brown sugar and clarity it, When
perfectly clear and boiling hot, pour it
over tho phlms. Let them remain in
the strip two days, then drain it oil,
| make IL boiling hot, skim 1t and pour IL
over again. Let IL remain another day
or two, then put over the lire and sim
mer gently till the strip is thiok and
rich. Use one pound of sugar to each
pound of fruit.
The american AgricultlriSt utters
a timely warning against the use Of
iced water, or even Of large quantities
of cold water from a we'll, when one Is
o~verheated. 1t is better to drink mod
eratelv Of cool water frequently than TO
wait until one is excessively thirsty, and
then drink very cold water. The best
way to Keep water cool in q jug in the
open air is to wrap several thioknesses
Of carpet aboutsthn vessel and Keep it
constantly moist. II there is q free cir
culation OF air about il. the rapid evap-
Grafton will keep the water as cool as it
ought TO be for safe drinking.
--Canteloupes. When the fruit be-
comes the size of a fist, place under
each II \ piece OF slate, TO DO obtained
where a building is slated. or at the
yard of the slater, or a piece of shingle
viii answer. This keeps the melon
from contact with the ground and will
prevents the ground from extracting the.
flavor from any portion OF it, rs is gen
orally the case with watermelons and
ca~nteloupes which we buy in the mar
kets, ms we all know. For private do
nestle use, the little trouble which this
protection gives is repaid " hundred
fold in the excellence OF the flavor of
the fruit, and we think causes them TO
mature earlier. - G%crD,aat0lOR Iets-
graph.
-Stewod Cucumbers. Cut the Gu
cumbers fully half an inch thick right
through; put them in a saucepan, inst
covering them with hot water, and let
them boil slowly for a quarter of an
hour, or until tender, but not so as TO
break them; then drain them; You
want now "A pint of good cream. and
put your cream with q teasponhful OF
butter in Il saucepan, aud when il is
warm pop in the eueumbers; season
with a little salt and white pepper.
cook live minutes, shaking the sauce
pan all the time, and serve hot. 1t is
just as delicate us asparagus, and a very
nice dish indeed.
Portable Lemonade. Press your
hand on the lemon aud roll IL back and
forth briskly on the table to make il
squeeze more easily, then press the
Juice into a bowl or tumbler -nevcruse
tin strain out all the seeds, rs they
give a bud taste. Remove all the pulp
from the peels and boil in water, a pint
for a dozen pulps, to remove the acid
A few minutes boiling is enough; then
strain the water with the Juice of tse
lemons; put a pound Of white sugar toa
pint of the Juice; boil ten minutes: bot
tic it, and your lemonade is ready. Put
in Il teaspoonful or two OF this sirupinto
a glass OF water and you have q cooling
and healthiul drink.
Blind Staggers.-Tho stomach of
the horse and the brain are directly
united 10 each other in the ties OF SYM
pathetic relationship through the great
sympathetic nerve, and, whenever de.
leterious food Is fed or where the
stomach is overburdened with nutri-
tious diet, it then becomes incapable Of
performing its normal function aud The
Intelligence oil. disturbance Is suddenly.
communicated to the brain and the
brain becomes secondarily affected and.
staggers are developed. The stomach
when in o normal condition will to a
great extent overcome the evil effects
produced by either ihdigestible, fer.
mented or decayed articles Of food on
the nerves or mucous membranes Of
the stomach. AS soon as any disturb
ance takes place in the stomach
whether produced by corn meal grown
on old or new ground (both Of which
when fed clear and in meal fern and
without mixing with other kinds Of
eerealgrain are wholly indigestible) or
any other character of unsoumd, as
musty and decayed grain, or provender
food-an attack of gastritis, inhamma-
ton OF the stomach, or staggers or dys-
pepsia will be the result sooner or later.
Almost every species OF constitutional
disease with which domesticated AMI
mails are afflicted is caused by neglect
or oversight in their sanitary or dietary
care or in their general management,
N. Y. World,
There Is living on Staten Island.