The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-10-08
FARM AND PRESIDE.

MIR. H. j. Dunlap, of the Chicago
Tribune, maintains that cooking feed
for farm stock don't pay, and he quotes
SO high an authority as Professor Cald-
well in confirmation of this view.
Steers weighing from 1900 to 1, 700
pounds best suit the British butchers,
as they can cut up the carcasses of such
most economically for their customers,
and the sizes of the pieces are more ac-
ceptable to them.
Vinegar Pie.-One cup sugar. one
half cup vinegar, one tablespoonful but
ter, one egg. one quarter cup rolled
crackers. Boil the sugar and vinegar
together few moments; add the but
ter, cool, and add the egg and crackers.
Bake with two crusts.
An excellent remedy when the
finger or part of the flesh is burned, is
to wrap it in raw cotton. The effect
is severe for short time, but is effect
ual. Sweet oil is often used with the
cotton, but the latter is all that is nee
essary TO remove the fire.
Honey Pudding. One pound
honey, six ounces butter, one-fourth
ounce bread crumbs, eight eggs. Beat
the honey and butter to cream, and
add the bread crumbs; beat all together
for ten minutes with the yelks of the
eggs. Put into mold and boil for an
hour and a half Serve with any nice
pudding sauce.
To make the colors stand in wash
ing Isle thread and delicate cotton hose:
Turn the stockings right side out and
Ct, Iaf - I,,Ir
white CASTLE soap; then wash the
wrong side. If very much soiled two
waters will be required. Rinse in luke
warm and then in cold water; dry as
soon as possible by heat, not by sun. 1t
is better not to iron them, but when
nearly dry, smooth and pull them into
shape by hand.
"A very important but seldom moot
ed point in agricultural practice is
treated upon by the Burlington Free
PreSS-that of wedding the grass fields.
In England-where the meadows are
permanent, centuries old, and the num-
Der of sheep and cattle raised and fat
tened while still quite young, is some
thing enormous-farmers. on their
tours of inspection, often walk with a
chisel-like spud as a staff, using it to
cut out any plant found that is not le-
ultimate component of the sod
-Leguminous crops have a special
power of accommodating nitrogen in the
surface soil, and are hence of the great
est value in rotation. Red clover is
the most striking instance of this ac-
ton. Its roots extend further perhaps
than those of any other farm crop, and
being biennial it has long period for
growth. The accumulation of nitrogen
at the surface in the form of roots,
stubble and decayed vegetable matter,
is, in the case of a good crop of clover,
so considerable that the whole of the
above-ground growth may be removed
as hay, and the land yet remain greatly
enriched with nitrogen, and in an ex-
cellent condition for producing crop
of wheat
Grape Leaves for Pickles.-I won
der if housewives generally use fresh,
green grape leaves to put on top of their
pickles, to keep them sharp and free
from mold. [ used to cover them with
2 flannel cloth, and rinse it out every
other day. Two years ago friend told
me that grape leaves were much nicer,
oO eiiOu oHCll, duu SudIl never UrV
cloth again. Grape leaves keep pickles
the best of anything have ever found.
| change them once a week, and the
vinegar keeps sharp and clear, and it
mparts nice flavor to the pickles. l
rinse the leaves in pure water and let
them drain quite dry, then lay them
over every place in the jar. They ex-
clude the air perfectly and are better
and cause less work than anything else.
Cor. Country Gentleman.
The results of experiment and the
DRY make the feeding quality of fifty
seven pounds of corn equal to that of
one hundred pounds of hay, or 1,140
pounds of corn equal to ton of hay.
But the feeder should bear this in mind,
that hay is not what is termed perfect
feed unless it consists of large COM
bination of different grasses, while on
the other hand corn fed alone is a
more imperfect food than almost any
hay or grasses. Some hay and grasses
contain much larger percentage of
heterogeneous matter than others, and
there is wide difference between the
relative feeding qualities of some corn
and hay in the amount, not only of the
heterogeneous matter they contain, but
also in the fat, starch and sugar. 1t
is an exceedingly difficult matter to OBJ
tain a definite chemical comparison of
the. feeding qualities of corn and hay,
so that they shall be at the command
OF the feeder Boston Traveller.