Huntsville gazette., 1881-09-10
HOME AND FARM.

HOME AND FAkM.
Never cut fowls wing to prevent
its flying. Pull out the fight feathers
of one wing.
Common whiting, wet with am
monia, rubbed on piece of flannel,
viii clean silverware beautifully.
Old table-cIoths can be used for
making napkins, soft towels for infants,
and the oldest and most worn pieces do
nicely for wash rags.
Egg Sauce.-Take yelks of two
eggs boiled hard; mash them with
tablespoonful of mustard, little pepper
and salt, three tablespoonfuls of vine
gar and three of salad oil. A table
spoonful of catsup improves this for
some.
Animals when confined and sup
piled with fattening food always in
crease largely in weight during the first
few weeks, after which the rate of in
crease diminishes to a considerable ex-
tent.
1t is an old adage to give the ami
mails all they will eat. 1t would be bet
ter to say give them all they can digest.
There are great many animals which
eat more than they can digest. AS a
general thing horses which stand in the
stall idle eat much more than those
which work all the time.
Tomato Catsup.-One-half peck
ripe tomatoes, six large onions, four red
peppers; add two cups sugar, four cups
vinegar, a tablespoonful each of salt and
,.d fvun foh lie
cinnamon, allspice, ginger, nutmeg and
cloves; boil three hours strain and bot
tie for use; leave out sugar if you pre-
fer; this will keep for years.
Peach Shortcake.-Make dough
as for soda biscuits, only shorter; roll
to one-fourth of an inch thick, and place
on baking tin; spread this with butter,
and place another layer of dough on
top. Bake in a quick oven. While hot,
separate the two layers, and spread
mashed fresh peaches with plenty of su-
gar between, also over the top, and
serve with cream.
Manure should be forked over oc-
casionally to make it fine. If it is heat
ing, muck or loan should be mixed with
it to absorb the ammonia which is
formed during the process of decompo-
sition. Sprinkling the heap with ground
plaster is also advisable. The plaster
will absorb any ammonia which escapes
from the pile and save it for the use of
growing plants. Ammonia is too valu-
able an element of plant food to allow it
to be wasted.
To make Bavarian cream with
peaches, allow eighteen fine peaches to
half pound of sugar, cut them in small
pieces and boil. When reduced to a
marmalade, squeeze them through a
sieve or colander. Add half package
of dissolved gelatine and a glassful of
good cream. Stir it well to make it
smooth. When it is about to set add a
pint of whipped cream, and mold it. 1t
makes still prettier dish to serve
halves or quarters of fresh peaches, half
frozen, around the cream.
-Chow-Chow.-Two quarts of toma-
toes, two white onions, half-dozen green
peppers, one dozen cucumbers, two
heads of cabbage, all chopped fine; let
this stand over night; sprinkle teacup
of salt in it. In the morning drain off
the brine and season with one table
spoonful of celery seed, one ounce of
tumeric, Tablespoonful of cayenne
pepper, one cup of brown sugar, one
ounce of allspice, one ounce Of black
pepper, one-quarter ouncce of cloves,
vinegar enough to cover, and boil two
hours.
Seed wheat is prepared for sowing,
as preventive of rust and smut, in sew
eral ways, such as by STEPPING in a
strong brine of salt and water and then
drying in air-slacked lime; by sleeping
| in solution of four ounces of sulphate
of copper in one gallon of water, or in a
solution of four ounces of glauber salts
| (sulphate of soda) in gallon of water,
and then while wet mixing with air
Stacked quick-lime. The sleeping is
continued for twelve hours, and is done
Immediately before sowing. The effect
of these preparations is to destroy any
germs of the smut fungus or seed spores
of which the smut consists by their cars-
tic action. AS the process is certainly
effective to some extent, it should be
generally practiced, for if this were
done the diffusion of the spores of smut
far and wide from the smut in the crops
would be materially reduced more and
more every year.