Huntsville gazette., 1881-06-18
HOME AND FARM.

HOME AND FARM.
IL. w. Hill & Co., Decatur, H., re-
Jhrts 100000, COO. Of HILLS Triangular
: flHse fidgs&old sinte 1877. psing 550,5O0
pound, Of wire measuring 3 ,40S miles.
-Alsike clover gives smaller crops
than red clover, but Of better quality.
1t is especially recommended for soils
liable to heaving by frost, and affords
excellent ground for bees.
The red louse or. spider, if once they
get asgood fopthold in the hehnery, are
more tenacious and troublesome to hens
than are the common body lice. The
ordinary methods employed to dispatch
these insidious pests fail to dislodge the
red 1Ouse. Kerosene oil rubbed through
the feathers to the flesh is good rem
edy. ~lI 1LS1 &4~ss ~ 4Il6
Cake or, Fruit. Sandwiches.-Four
eggs, their weight IN -four, sugar and
butter; warm the butter and beat it to a
cream, then Stir the -four and sugar into
it gradually, beat up the eggs and stir
them in. Beat the cake well for about
half an hour and bake in rather quick
oven. If for sandwiches slice the cake
in half and put preserves between.
81. Teachings from the manure pile
were poured eight or nine times during
the season into small holes made with
sharp stick four or five inches from
young rose plants set in clay soil, and
the surface stirred with hoe the follow
ing day, and the result, according to the
RurdI Nee0 Yorker, was a "wonderful''
show of bloom, continuing through the
summer into October
.+Float. MOne pint Of sweet milk, six
&e; separate the whites from the
Wlks. sBeatthe yelks with two table,
sp6onftils 81 sugar. Pour the yelks and
sugar into the milk and boil it till thick.
Flavor to taste. Beat the whites to
f.oth. Put a few spoonfuls of the whites
in dish and pour the boiled custard in
it and then put the remainder of the
whites on top of the dish.
Stomach staggers is the common
name for congested or apoplectic con-
dition of the brain consequent upon in
digestion. The stomach, being overload
ed with food, acts upon the circulation
in such way as to gorge the brain with
blood and produce excessive pressure.
skiddiness aaa inability to stand the
]. y.horse falls and Struggles for afew min
utes, and then gets up, but remains dull
and stupid for some time. The remedy
in bad cases is to bleed at once from the
neck, and then to give quart of lin
seed-oil to relieve the bowels. In mod
crate cases is better to give a pint of
oil and repeat it the third day for three
times. Then feed lightly and give a
dram of ginger and as much sulphate of
iron in the feed twice day.-N. Y.
Times
Strawberry Tartlets.-Make some
shoftspaste with two OF. Of sugar, two
o. of butter, the yelks Of four eggs, a
little water, pinch of salt and flour just
enough; work it lightly and roll out to
the thickness of one-eighth of an inch.
. Line somea pattypans with it, fill them
with uncooked rice to keep their shape,
and bake them in a moderate oven till
DONE When brown remove the rice
from each tartlet and fill it with straw
berries which have been previously
heated through in an oven in a covered
dish, with sugar, but no water. To be
served Id. gffst
-Manuring of grapes should be regu-
lated by the nature of the soil. Il 1T be
damo-in most cases bad condition for
grape -growing-stable manure in great
quantities lneans diseased vines. In dry
ground, it has beneficial effect. Many
persons of small places have grapes in
damp ground, or can have none. They
must take care to keep the roots near
the surface; never crop the ground
about them to destroy the small fbres,
if it can be avoided, and even good may
often follow. when the vines seem fail
inc, to carefully follow up the roots left
near the surface and encourage, as
much as possible, those remaining there.
Wood ashes bone dust, and such like
fertilizers are best for grape vines in low
ground.
In preparing salads for the table
great care should be exercised in clean
ing them. Vermin of various sorts may
be inadvertently taken into the mouth.
This is particularly the case in regard to
those boiled, such as spinach, turnip-
tops, beet leaves, corn salad, or aspara-
gus. They should be boiled in clean
water with little salt thrown in and
drained quite dry. They look nicer
chopped fine, pressed still drier, and
formed into shape in the dish, seasoned
with a little butter before shaping, and
slices of hard boiled eggs placed around
4@ pneF In selecting the Tnsenas for a
= Hihner, two. sorts Of vegetables are sell
: dom too much, and this dish will occa-
sionally form one for perfectly plain