The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-10-01
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Common plaster of Paris figures
may be made to look like alabaster b.
simply dipping them into strong solu.
ton o. alum water.
"A goo mixture of grass tor pasture
is six pounds OF timothy, twelve pounds
of orchard grass. twelve pounds of blue
grass, five pounds of yellow oat grass,
five pound of tall fescue. five pounds
OF red top and five pounds OF meadow
fescUe. This gives a succession of feed,
and makes close sod. No one single
grass will make close, dense sod as a
mixture will.
Brazilian Tea Dish Take some
slices OF bread about half an inch thick,
cut OF all crust, steep the bread in a
little milk; when soaked through cover
each piece with beaten yelk of egg, and
fry with butter Il light brown; then
arrange the slices on Il hot pate, and
lay on each piece a to,erably thick Gov
ing OF powdered sugar and cinnamon
well mingled.
A successful Boston florist gives
the following rs his method Of starting
slips of rare and tender plants Tn.
derneaJh the usual layer Of sand in
which the slips are planted, and cover
ING the bottom OF the pot or box, he
places Il lager OF oats, which, when
soaked with mO!stdre, evude a mGc.j-
agenous assistance, acting as stimu.
liant aud lce Ter To the tender roots OF
the slip. BY this method he seldom fails
to root his slips
White Cake. Five cups Of flour,
three cups OF su Ear, one and h }lf cups
Of butter, one cup OF milk, eleven eggs
(WhitCs only), two teaspoonills of
cream tartar, one teaspoon.ul of soda,
half glass of rosewatcr Cream the
butter and sugar; beat the whites of the
eggs to a froth; add little at a time,
beating WE'LL add milk with soda dis
solved in it; then flour with the cream
tartar well mixed in it; then rosewater,
or any other ilayoring you prefer.
--Mangoes. Cut q small piece from
the end OF green musk mMOn, remove
the seeds aud mix them with mustard
seed and shred garlic; stuff the melon
full and replace the cut piece. Bind. it
up with pack thread. Boil vinegar
with pepper, salt, ginger and all the
sweet spices, pour it boiling hot over
the mangoes during four successive
days, and on the last add to it flour of
mustard and scraped horse radish.
Cover the mangOes well with this vine
gar. Large eucumbers may be made
Into mangoes if desired.
Tomato Preserves. Nice tomato
preserves can be made in the following
m inner. Select smooth, ripe tomatoes,
scald and remove the skins and the
hard part near the stem Cut q cash
in each lobe, and with the thumb re
move the seeds. Rinse well in cold
water, which will remove any stray
seeds ami the slime. To every pound
of fruit thus prepared, allow half a
pound of sugar, cook until clear, and
just before taking from the fire add
lemons cut in thin slices, in the proper
ton of about one lemon to every pound
OF fruit Keep in air tight lars the
same as other fruit.
The RuraJ NeW- Yorker expresses
establishment that any one whose bust
ness it is to pillow should not know how
to attach a chain for the purpose of COW
ering weeds. But rs many do not, it
gives the following explanation of the
process: The chain is looped around
the pillow beam at the standard. 1t is
made to trail so that it is just in advance
of the falling furrow and barely escapes
being covered. The other end is fast
ened to the double tree; or it may be
fastened to a bar bolted to the beam
(near the forward end) and braced.
This, it adds, should be known by every
one who handles plow.