Nebraska advertiser., 1881-09-22
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.


proper diet, too much grease. particu-
larly pork and lard, or too much sugar
and salt, or too much pastry, and the
like; and perhaps too little outdoor ex-
ercise.
Picked Red Cabbage. Slice the
cabbage, cover it with salt and let it
stand two days. Then drain and put it
in pan; cover with vinegar and spice
to your taste. Give it q scald and when
cold put in jars and tie up close.
Here is a recipe fora good and SIM
pie pudding One pint OF flour, half
cup of sugar, three-quarters of cup of
sweet milk, one tablespoonful of butter.
two teaspoonfuls of baking powder
Bake for twenty minutes serve with
any good pudding sauce.
Mr.. Holister says three times
year is often enough to go to the mill.
The flour, if packed in paper sacks, will
grow better every day, and better flour
is made from large grists. Old flour is
the best because the water has evap-
Grated and the flour has become dryer
and stronger. -- Ctncjl'1Gtt Commercial.
--Scalloped Tomatoes. Peel and cut
the tomatoes in slices quarter of an
crumbs, pepper, salt, butter and little
white sugar; put this in pudding-dish
with alternate layers of tomatoes, hav-
ing the tomatoes for the top layer; put
bit of butter upon each slice and dust
with salt, pepper and Il little sugar;
stew with dry breadcrumbs and bake,
covered, half an hour, remove the lid
and bake brown.
Mustard owes its pungency to n
volatile acid oil which it contains. This
oil is bitter, and the bitterness of fresh
ly mixed mustard is very apparent un-
less a certain quantity of salt is added
to it. This removes the bitter flavor.
TO every ounce or tablespoonful of dry
mustard add a teaspoonful of salt, and
mix with cold water, adding vinegar in
which taragon, dill, or other desirable
tIavoring herbs have been stepped The
French and German mustards are thus
prepared.
Picked Onions. Peel the onions
and let them lie in strong salt and wa
ter nine days, changing the water each
day; then put them into jars and pour
fresh salt and water on them, this time
boiling hot; when it is cold take them
out and put them on a hair sieve to
drain, after which put them in wide
mouthed bottles and pour over them
vinegar prepared in the following man
ner: Take white wine vinegar and boil
ii with blade of mace, some salt and
ginger in it; when cool pour over the
onions.
- DUst-Bath for Fowls. Make O box
three or four feet square, one foot high,
and fill two thirds full OF dry road dust
with half pound of sulphur mixed in.
Keep barrel or so of the dry dust on
hand TO replenish the box with. Pour
pan of silted coal ashes. or wood ash
es without sitting, into the box occa-
sitnally. When the roads are dry, and
other work is not pressing, procure Il
supply of dust and store it under cover
for use next winter. Where fowls have
access to one of these dust boxes they
are seldom troubled with lice. e. if
you keep the fowl house reasonably
clean.
CONTRACTED hoof is the result of a
disease of the inner part of the foot and
absorption or wasting of the internal
tissues. 1t can not be cured 10y outward
applications to the horn, and only by
removal of the inward trouble. The
usual treatment is to remove the shoes,
pare the edges of the crust of the hoof,
and to cause the feet to stand in wet
clay puddle, or turn the horse into a
wet pasture for three or four weeks.
Use hoot dressing of glycerine and
water freely, and finally put on flat,
thin shoe without any bevel and with
an even bearing over sole of sole
leather which presses upon the frog.
The frog should not be pared, but left
to bear upon the ground. N Y Times.
Years ago some one asserted that
oil of pennyroyal rubbed on the hair OF
horses or other animals would repel the
attacks of all kinds of flies, but upon
trial we found it had no such effect; in
fact, the flies seemed to be attracted by
the fragrance Of the humble herb. Re-
Gently we noticed that a certain Dr.
Ridge, of London, Eng, recommended
carbolic acid and oil for the same pur-
pose, but upon trial during the past
week we could not discover that the
flies were in the least disturbed by this
mixture. Carbolic acid and water as
strong as it was safe TO apply to the
skin of q horse was tried, the hail
being well soaked with it; but the flies
returned in less than half minute, and,
if anything, in increased numbers. A
safe wash for keeping flies from ami
mails is still wanted. Who will discover
it?-N J. Sun.
An old Scotch gentleman had, ia
the course of a long life, gained great
reputation for bravery. The shortest