The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-12-10
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Old Colony Cake Three epps, one
scant cupful of butter, two and one-half
cupfuls of sugar, one cupful of sour
milk, three and two-thirds cupfuls of
flour, teaspoOnful of soda, spice to taste.
Sift powdered sugar over the top of the
cake.
Steel tools should never be heated,
either for forging or tempering. in a
fresh coal fire, unless it be charcoal.
Ii coke is not at hand, the fire should
be allowed to burn until all the gas is
burned out of the coal before the steel
is introduced.
Mashed Turnip. Pare and boil,
adding few potatoes in time to boil
tender with the turnips. Drain, mash,
and, It not entirely free from Jumps,
pass through q colander. Season with
pepper and salt and a generous lump
of butter.
Farmers are often at q loss to know
how to distribute the manure on a field
properly. An example may help them.
For instance, suppose held of five and
one-half acres, on which eighty-two
loads of manure are to be drawn, Di-
viding eightv-two by five and one half
four heaps of each load and placing the
heaps six yards apart, the manure will
be evenly distributed.
Potato Soup. Peel and slice twelve
medium-sized potatoes, cover with boil
ing water, cook ten minutes, drain off
the water, add II quart OF cold water, an
onion minced and little salt, and cook
until the potatoes boil into pieces
Pass all through coandcr into two
quarts of good soup-stock free from
grease. Simmer half an hour. Boil
half n cup OF rice until tender and dry
Pat into the soup, season with pepper,
salt and two tablespOonsfuls of butter.
and serve.
old Time Pork and Beans. Take
two pounds of moderately lean side
pork to two quarts of marrow-fat or
other beans. Put the beans to soak
over night. In the morning after
breakfast scald and scrape the rind OF
the pork and put on to boil an hour be-
fore putting in the beans. Set the
beans to boil in separate pot, in half
warm water If the water used is of
hard limestone use a teaspoonful of
soda to the first water. After boiling
short time, drain through a colander
and put on fresh water and let boil I'M
til quite tender Then add the pork to
the beans and let simmer until nearly
Us still as mashed potatoes. Then put
into baking-dish; score the pork and
place in the center; brown in the oven
one hour. Great care should be taken
not to let the beans scorch when they
are boiling.
At the late meeting in Cincinnati
of persons engaged in utilizing cotton
seed for commercial purposes, there
were developed some interesting state
ments, going to show the importance
to the farmers of cotton seed and the
products obtained from it, Mr.. Baker,
of Selma, Ala. by the use OF cotton
seed meal as Il fertilizer. claims to have
increased the production on poor lands
of Is bales to l45 bales, and Mr.. Ham
ilton, of Shreveport, La, found cotton
seed meal scarcely inferior to guano as
fertilizer, and also exceedingly valu-
able as food for cattle. These state
ments made were deemed CORE It. In
changing meal for seed, one ton of the
former was given for two and one-half
tons OF the latter. The value of this
product as n fertilizer of tobacco lands
was referred to by another member OF
the association, who demonstrated the
fact in his experience in Connecticut,
where the productive capacity of lands
had been tripled in three years there
by. The quantity which should be
distributed varies from 400 to GOO lbs.
per acre.