Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1882-12-02
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

FARM AND hOtSEAAOAh'
GRAHAM BIscUIrs.-Graham biscuits ale
made of two cups of Graham flour, one
cup and half (scant measure) OF sweet
milk. one egg; stir all the Jumps out. 10
insure nice brown for the crust, ADD one
teaspoonful OF sugar. Bake for twenty
minutes.
ORANGE JELLy.-Orange jelly which
does not require any boiling Will De new
and popular dish for many housekeepers:
Take four large oranges, srate the fihu OF
two of them. use the juice and pulp OF
the others, and the juice and pulp OF two
lsm,ns also. Soak half Il box OF gelatine
in half a pint of cold water, sweeten to
the taste, put with the juice of the fruit
and then add two-thirds OF 4 pint OF boil
;ng water. Strain into moulds.
ECONOMY. housewives VIII
please take notice. Stale but pertec'iy
sweet homemade bread can be disposeu
of ia this way: Soak it in mix or ""'o'
,;ll soft. then mix it with your spopse'
Squeeze the milk or water from II Oe'o -,
adding to the sponge; its presence
never be perceived in the ne" oie"''
somewhat similar economy can DC P'"'
,,..a IN REGARD TO bnckwheat CAKES; 'aNo
=. are left at breakfast, break them
~ small pieces, and put them III 'h' ''eS"
80. they will soon be completely as
.",na,sd and the cakes will be even bet
,ar for having them in the batter, they
~, Ia Of more decided brown, and have
= smoother surface.
s,-xr1oyER SEED.-A writer In the IA
5;oool Farmer says: A half pint OF sun
tower seed given to borse WIN Ills o''ici
food each morning and night VIII keep
t,;,, :, better health and better spirited
,hor ,,e will be without it, while his hair
will be brighter. When saddle morse
= reouired TO be particularly sprightly he
may be given . pint Of suntiower seed
with his oats at night, and half as much
in the morning; he will be found more
antic aud sprightly through the day. ana
consequently be more pleasure 10 Inc
,ide- I have seen this course pursued
with horses to make them aHtic, that were
to 90 OH parade, OIL occasions OF town anu
county trainings in early times. After
little use, horses become very fond vi eat
ing sunflower seed.
HEALTH ON FARMS.-Farmcrs are wont
"a think that miasma is mostly confined 10
cities and large villages, and that country
air is pure and farm houses necessarily
ncaltbfnl. but whoever has carefully IN
snected the premises of the average farmer
has found abundaut occasion for the 10"
feyers which are the scourge OF the conh-
try as we'll as the city. In tue hrst place.
oil farmers should look we'll to their eel
lara In too many of them will be found
rotten apples, cab5ages, turuips, Onions
sc. In some will be found old brine: WILD
pieces of decayed meat, sending forth IN
ndor when the cover of the barrel is taken
Oft. vile enough to wrench the stomach Oh
mig. La others there will be muSty ciuei
barrels, possibly vinegar casks, IN when
the vinegar has passed 10 the putrciactlfe
st,o. disseminating the spoles Of decay
and death, not only through the upper
mart of the house, but escaping through
The cellar windows and polluting the out
door air.
Decaying wood generates one OF the
most subtle of poisons, because the odor Is
not particularly offensive. Rotten timber
in the cellars and moulGy wood or chips
in the wood house fill the air with spores,
which. breathed by a person in the fnll
yigor of health, may be thrown of with
impunity; but inhaled by one whose oloou
is low it may find rongeniaI seed bed
and generate disease. Under the cider
and vinegar barrels, aud around potato
bins. NAV often be found old timDers ana
boards that are full of dry rot, ready TO
prona gate itself wherever the rotted par
ticles NAV find Judgment. In the well,
also. rotten wood is subtle poison, more
dangerous than a decomposing toad, as
the latter makes his presence known, whle
few tastes are so keen rs TO detect the pres
ence Of decaying wood
Probably the nost prolific source OF dis
ease around our farm houses is the cess
pool into which pass the kitchen aud
chamber Stops. In the cities and large
villages these are carried of in the sewers,
bnt seldom does farm house have any
system of sewerage. The Stops are too
often thrown out of the kitchen door, and
left to generate vile odors Oh the surface
of the ground. To keep the air OF the
cellar and around the house pure and
sweet, we have never found anything
more economical, pleasant and efficac'ous
than 4 free sprinkling, as occasion may
demand, of dry, air-slacled lime Chic
ride of lime is a greater absorbent OF vile
odors but this itself is offensive to most
olfactory nerves, and is also quite eXpen-
siye. Common limo is cheap, and If scat
tered freely in the cellar and wherever
there are Impurities will render the air
sweet and wholesome, even in the most
decomposing dog days.
The richest man in Mexico is declared
ia be an Irishman named PatrlciO Milmo,
whose possessions are valued at the sum
of $40. DOC, 900. He lives on high table