Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-10-19
Agricultural and Household.

About 10000 head Of young cattle
have been driven north from Kansas
during the past season.
In Michigan out Of seventeen table
syrups analysed, fifteen were found to
be made of glucose. A single gallon
was found to contain 14l grains of oil
of vitriol.
Feed tie stalks of sweet corn to
mich COWS after the ears have allibeen
pulled. Cat them and sprinkle with
meal and bran. An Iowa farmer says
they are worth the cost of growing the
crops.
When washing Isle thread gloves
do not use soap; instead Of that put
teaspoonful of amonia ia one quart of
water. If washed in this way there
is no danger of there being spots and
streaks in the gloves as there would
almost certainly be if washed in the
usual way.
Corn starch makes the best paste
for scrap books. Dissolve small
quantity in cold water, then cook
thoroughly. Be careful not to get it
too thick. When cold it should be
thin enough to Apply with brush. 1t
will not mold or stain the paper.
Last year 100000 pounds of
"oleomargarine butter" was manufac-
tured in this country, and a vast
amount of "oleomargarine cheese"
These articles cannot be detected in
the market. In them has been found
horse fat, fat from bones, and fat usual
ly used to make candles.
Great forest fires are raging in
Annapolis county, Nova Scotia. In
every direction large tracts of valuable
timber land are being destroyed. In
some sections men have had to turn
cut to protect schoolhouscs and pri-
vate buildings. Annapolis is full of
smoke, and crops are suffering for want
of moisture.
Along some of the highways in
Kenosha, Racine, Walworth and Rock
counties, large patches of sweet clover
appear; in has been sewn for bee-feed,
and is certainly less obnoxious than
many Of the nOxious weeds, and while
in bloom it is very fragrant. An api-
arian near Spring Prairie James Nipe)
has taken !, 100 pounds of honey from
his hives this season.
"A delicate pudding is made of
three tablespoonful of corn starch dis
solved ia little cold water. Have one
pint Of water boiling on the stove; in
this stir the corn starch and the we'll
beaten whites of three eggs; let it boil
up once; pour it into an earthen pud-
ding dish which will hold three pints;
steam the pudding for ten minutes.
For the sauce use the yolk of the three
eggs, one cupful of sweet milk, and a
small piece Of butter; boil for few
minutes; when cool, flavor with lemon
or vanilla. The pudding also is to be
eaten cold.
Il have suffered much from rheu-
IN atism and from functional weakness
of the heart, and derived great benefit
from the use of stewed celery. l grow
it largely, have it early and late, and,
it is served for dinner four or five times
q week while in season. Very little
water is put with the celery, which is
broken into small pieces. The liquor
is served with it, being powerful anti
rheumatic. All l can say to persons
similarly afflicted is, try il-try dieting
before drugs.
-Beets are familiar enough boiled
end sliced, either served hot with but
teo, pepper and salt, or picked; but
novelty is a beet pudding, made by
mixing pint Of cooked sugar-beets,
chopped, with four eggs, a quart of
of milk, little salt and pepper, table
spoonful of butter, and baking them
about half On hour; cold boiled beets
sliced and fried with butter are palata-
BILE; to cook them so that none of their
color shall be lost. carefully wash them
without b. eaking the skin or cutting
off the stalks or roots, and boil them
until tender, about an hour, in boiling
sailed water.
Thirty eight persons have been
poisoned at London, Ont, from eating
headcheese manufactured by the local
butchers. Physicians attribute the
trouble to bristlcs chopped up with the
skin OF the pork, causing irritation of
the stomach's inner coating and pro-
ducing spasms and vomiting. Some
of the sufferers are very low, but it is
supposed all will recover.
On the 10th of April, 1879 I bought
five guinea hens and one male, and fed
them on cracked corn until the 9th of
May, when they commenced laying
eggs to lie amount of three hundred,
and then Matched and brought out
fifty young ones. They cost nothing
tn raise until SNOW coVars tho 0roupN
as they live on insects and seeds from
weeds. l think, with my experience.
fifty guinea hens on hundred. acre
farm would keep the farmers insect
enemies away; besides, with proper
care, he would secure over three thous-
and eggs. He could allow few to
breed 80 as to keep up the supply.-B.
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