Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-04-30
HOME AND FARM.

-Waffles-One pint cold boiled rice,
thin it with cold milk, add one eggs beat
all together well; add small piece of
butter, and stir in -four enough to make
batter stiff enough to bake. W
Rare-cooked fresh meats are far
more easily digested, and furnish much
more real nutriment than those "well
done" Habit will make one enjoy the
rare cooked steak as more juicy and
palatable, and it is certainly better as
food. rtga-f ~ y -
"A correspondent of the Country
Gentleman says: "We have been pes
tered with little red ants for alyear or
two, in winter as we'll as summer, and
had tried everything without doing any
good. Raw onions were recommended,
which | think have succeeded in Danish
ing them from closets, etc. We are par
ticular that the china shall be perfectly
dried, as the least moisture seems to at
tract them" Ia
I.9e-4-Towels with handsome, bright bor-
ders should never be boiled, or allowed
to lie in very hot water; they should not
be used till they are so much sOiled that
they need vigorous rubbing to make
them clean. 1t is better economy to use
more towels than to wear out few in
short time. A gentle rubbing in two
suds and then conscientious rinsing in
warm water and then in cold ought to be
all that is required.
/ Float or French Custard. Beat the
| yelks of five eggs with ten tablespoon
| fuls of sugar, stir in quart of new
milk; place over the fire and stir until
it creams don't cook too longl. Pour
in dish you can cover. Spread care
fully over the top the whites of the eggs,
which must have been beaten to stiff
froth; cover and leave till cool. Crate
nutmeg over the top before serving.
This is nice for tea.
Chopped Onions and Potatoes. -
This makes nice breakfast relish
Take boiled potatoes that are little
under-done, and chop them fine; add a
boiled onion well minced. Put large
coffeecupful of milk into saucepan or
spider; let it boil up and add piece Of
butter as large as an egg; let it melt and
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them cook until they look creamy
perhaps twelve or fifteen minutes. Serve
very hot Omit the onion if not to your
taste.
Grease Heels.-Attend to cleanli-
ness. Apply during two days poultices
of equal parts of bran, fiaxseed meal,
and powdered charcoal. Thereafter ap.
ply twice or thrice daily a portion of
oxide of zinc ointment, previously re-
moving all secretions of matter as well
as dry scabs and crusts. If, after a
week or ten days, the case does not inn
prove satisfactorily, apply instead of the
ointment twice or thrice daily portion
of mixture of one ounce Goulard' S
extract and half an ounce of 'carbolic
acid to half a pint of water. Give loos-
ening food, among which may be mixed
two drachms of nitrate of potash, morn.
ing and evening, during one week.
National Lire Stock Journal.
For land infested with wire-worms
there seems to be but one entirely salts
factory remedy-the starvation of the
worms through summer following And
in order that this remedy prove effectu
al, it is necessary that the fallow be
thorough, so that the weeds and gras,
be kept down during the entire year
The sowing of buckwheat for one yeal
in the infested ground has often been adj
vised; and doubtless this plan woult
result in some benefit, as the roots o
The buckwheat are distasteful to tn,
worms. But this method is not so sur,
rs that of summer following for in mos
, cases there will be weeds and gras,
growing among the buckwheat upor
, which the insects can feed. Manurins
well, and using every possible means t.
, promote rapid and vigorous growth o
any crop put upon the infested land
would without doubt do a great deal to
ward securing good harvest. Tn,
q sowing of salt has been tried man,
times; but experience proves tina
enough salt to effectually eradicate thu
: worms will also destroy vegetation. Ii
case it is desired to rid a small piece o
land of these pests, as flower or veg
y etable garden, it may be done by trap
q ping them with slices of potato place.
q under boards; the potatoes to be exam
i ined each day and the worms collected
and destroyed.-Prof j. Henry Com
9 stock, in N. Y. Witness.