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WHEN anything is accidentally made
too salt it can he -counteracted BY add
ding teaspoDnfnl Of vinegarand tea
spoonful Of sugar. -
STARCH P0TIsH.--Take one ounce OF
spermaceti and one ounce of white wax,
melt and run intop thin cake on . plate
A piece the SIZE OF q quarter dollar add
ed to quart of prepared starch gives
beautiful luster to the clothes and pre-
vents the iron from Sticking
FARINA jelly. Boil one quart OF
new milk; whilst boiling, sprinkle In
slowly quarter Of a pound Of farina.
Continue the boiling from half an hour
TO whole hour Season with five
ounces of sugar and q teaspoonful of
vanilla. When done, turn into a mold,
and place it on ice to stiffen. Serve il
with whipped cream. M 4
AN extensive apple grower, OF York
County, Pa, states that he oultivates
his orchards six or eight years after
planting, and fertilizes with bonedust
and wood-ashes. Then the soil is sown
to grass and annually enriched with
good stable manure as top-dressing or
mulch. Strong lye is used as wash for
the bodies of the trees, and the pruning
is done in late autumn and early winter.
RusKs. One quart of light bread
sponge, two cups of sugar, one-hah cup
OF shortening and beaten egg. Make
into soft dough. When very light,
roll out an inch thick and cut into
rounds Let rise again aud bake in a
moderate oven "a heat that viii not
form hard crust at top or bottom.
! These are very nice with coffee or tea.
When stale, split them, toast slightly,
! butter and eat at once.
A HEN's-NEsT PUpDNG. Pare and
core twelve applesS, fill them with
1 sugar, white or browns stick q Glove in
! each apple. or scatter over them the
thinly shredded peel of one lemon.
1 Make rich custard Of two quarts Of
new milk, eight yelks of eggs, and ten
i ounces of white sugar; flavor the GUS
tard delicately with vanilla. unless the
lemon already with the apples will suf-
'itceein yolif estimatieh. The tastes OF
4 different families diverge so widely that
margin must always be left in the
most exact recipe for sach notifications
as shall render it more or less palata-
BILE, according to circumstances. This
pudding needs careful baking. Let the
fire be slow. but kept up TO the same
heat with which it is started. More
puddings are spoiled IN the baking than
any other way.
To CURE A FELoS.--Dr. Il. G. Bran
non in the Therapeutic Gazette. pre-
scribes the following treatment for this
painful malady: Take of soft lye' soap
and iiax-seed meal sufficient quantity,
stirring. the meal in slowly with spatula
or case knife. manipulating thoroughly,
so ~ to form salve or pOultice. Corn
meal is good substitute for the flax
seed EnYslop the finger in this, ap-
plying snugly, and occasionally press
ing it to bring 1t in closer contact. Re-
new the poultice every twelveto twenty
four hours. Don't try every prescrip-
tion you may hear OF. Depend on this.
II will, if applied in time, abort the dis
case; il adopted later. it will bring it to
a small head Gf too far advanced to
be scattered ~. when 1t may be
picked almost painlessly. a9y
FODDER corn is corn grown only for
feeding. and not for grain. 1t Is planted
in drills, with the seed dropped close
together. two OF three inches apart,
| With drills three feet apart and plants
three inches apart, there will be $4,000
plants per acre. II each stalk weighs
1 two pounds, the crop will weigh fifty
eight tons green and fourteen tons
cured, This is very possible crop on
good soil, as the stalks viii grow nine
TO twelve feet high planted in this way.
The crop cut when in tassel may be
cured as other corn is and left In the
field. put up in shocks Of eight to ten
stocks, aud tied closely at the top to
keep out the rain. until il is required
for use. BY the new practice Of ensi-
lage. the crop can be cured green and
used for winter feeding in moist con-
dition.
RAISING DUCKS. s.--Ducks are as easily
kept and as proftably raised for market
as fowls, when there Is a good run for
them. The eggs are best hatohed by
hens, as then the ducks continue to lay
4 until eighty or moro eggs are produced
by each. The young ducks need no
] brooding. If dry, and warm nest is
made in box, they may be taken from
the hen when q week old. A pen
made OF four boards, twelve inches
wide, set upon the grass or sand. will
coniine them until they arc fully feath-
cred, when they may hage the run Of a
brook and a marsh or meadow. The
food should be at FIRST bread-orumbs
and corn-meal given in shallow pan Of
water. and some fine gravel should be
\ supplied BY liberal feeding with oat-
meal and corn.meal mush they may be
fattened for market at three or four
months. and viii weigh six pounds.
The Rouen Is the best variety; the Pc.
kin is d monstrous eater and not very
profitable; the Aylesbury, q white
duck. Is an excellent variety.