Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-03-05
HOME AND FARM.


WooD prepared for the stove is worth
much more if Immediately placed under
shelter to season than ii left outdoors
till next spring or summer.
BEE culture is becoming profitable
industry in Texas, especially in the
Brazos and Colorado Valleys, where
quite number of enterprising men have
found that it pays vastly more than cot.
ton raising.
REMNANTS of boiled or roast meat
may be utilized by chopping them with
twice their quantity of bread, seasoning
with salt, pepper and herbs, moistening
with eggs and a little melted butter
beaten together, and either cooking in
loaf or in small cakes on griddle.
VINEGAR PIE.-Two tablespoons of
corn-starch, one and half cups of boil
ing water, one cup of sugar, the yelks
of two eggs, three tablespoons of good
vinegar, two spoonfuls of butter; flavor
with lemon. Use the whites to frost the
tops, and bake with one crust. | have
used flour instead of corn-starch.
FLOATING IsLAND.-Beat the yelks of
four eggs with two tablespoonful of
sugar; teaspoonful OF flour; then stir
into quart of milk, and bring it to
boil, stirring it all the time; have the
whites beat nicely, and slip it on the top
of the milk, dipping little of it on to
cook the egg, then CRATE nutmeg over
the top; let it cool, and it is ready for
the table.
BEEF LoAF.-Chop two pounds of
beef and three large slices of salt pork
fine; add four well-beaten eggs, half
cupful of butter, and The inside of me-
diminished loaf of bread, and season
with salt, pepper and spices if you like.
Form into loaf, cover with cracker
crumbs, and bake an hour and half.
If it does not stay in good shape, add
rolled cracker crumbs until it will.
THE old adage, "stuff cold and
starve fever" has been thoroughly
exploded by science and experience.
Often the best thing to do for a cold is
to starve it, to the extent, at least, Of
giving the patient very light and SIM
pie diet till the cold is broken. Modera-
ton in diet, or even touch of actual
fasting by the sacrifice of a meal or two,
will often prove better than medicine in
subduing the cold.
In France, when nice dress is packed
the skirt is covered with tissue.paper, so
that the folds of the material never come
in contact, and rolls and balls Of paper
are placed here and there to keep a
sleeve in shape, to support trimming
or to prevent a facing from becoming
crushed. In consequence of this care,
when the dress is lifted from case or
trunk, no matter hoy long it has lain
there, it is free from crease or mark.
A DELICIOUS lemon-jelly cake which
will keep we |, and which is in fact bet,
ter after having been kept for week, is
an easily obtained luxury. Take two
cups of sugar, half cup of butter, one
cup of milk, three eggs, two and one
half teaSpoonfuls of baking-powder, and
three cups of -four. This makes five
layers. For the jelly use the grated rind
of two large lemons and the juice also
one cup of sugar, one egg, half cup o.
wafer, one teaspoonful of butter, one
tablespoonful of flour mixed with little
water; boil until it thickens and ther
place between the layers Of cake.
The roots of'shrubs and trees dug W
from the woods or fields should b.
carefully covered to shield them from
the sun and wind while they are being
carried home, and, indeed, until plant
ed. They should also be severely cut
back. The only reason why nursery
trees are more safely transplanted thar
} those from the fields and forests is thai
more abundant root growth has beer
secured by transplanting. The old
long, woody roots are cut away and {
more compact growth of fibrous roots i:
induced. A tree in the woods is sup
ported by long tap or surface roots, ex
tending far away from the stem. These
in transplanting, must be sacrificed
The inequality, then, between what re
mains and the stem and branches is
great. The latter must be cut back tt
create new equilibrium. Unless sc
treated, most forest trees will fail after
removal. -RMaL New Yorker.
BreakinO Colts