South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-06-09
Farmer and House Keeper.

Rhubarb Jam.-This jam gives a
flavor to the plain bread and butter
OF the tea table. Cut the plant in
pieces about an inch long; to one
pound OF rhubarb-pn, enc pound vel
low sugar cut j, up The afternoon
before 1t 10 to be cooked, scatter tho
sugar over it aud Let il stand all night.
IN the morning drain Off the syrup
which has formed, boil it until il thick.
ems, then add the rhubarb, and twic.
OF green ginger sliced fine. boil il un.
I'll II Ia perfectly tender. Serve ia a
glass dish.
Icing. Whites of three eggs. three
cupiuls of sugar, one teaspoonful OF
vanilla, three teaspoonsfal of lemon
Juice. Pour half pint of boiling wa.
ter on the sugar and let il boil until
clear and almost canded. Beat the
eggs to stiff froth, and Stir them ia,
10 the boiling syrup; remove 'front.' the
IRE and beat thoroughly until IL be.
comes stiff froih; add the lemon
juice, and when perfectly cold adj the
vanilla. Spread il between the Law.
ers and on tho top and sides of the
cake.
Spice Cakes.--Spice cakes to serve
with coffee arc made of one pound of
sugar, four eggs, one toaspoonful each
OF cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, and a
pinch OF pepper. Stir in flour e,
uongh to make dough which can he
rolled ont; cut out with a plain cook.
ey cutter; let them stand for from
ten to twelve hours, then bake.
Ginger ponnd Cake. Ginger pound
cake, If made with care. is excellent
with coffee for breakfast. Take one
cup and half of sugar, one cup OF
New Orleans molasses, three cups of
Hour, four eggs, one tablespoonful
each OF ginger aud OF cinnamon, one
teaspooniul Of soda dissolved in q lit
lie not water. Bake in shallow pans
in moderate oven for half IN lIonr.
Cold Feet and SlcepIesste ss.-Thc
association between cold feet AMI
sleeplessness is much closer than is
commonly imagined. Persons with
cold feet rarely sleep well, especially
women; Yet the number of persons
troubled is very considerable. This
ia the plan 10 adopt with cold feet
They should be dipped in cold water
a briefperiod. Often just to immerse
them is sufficient aud then they
ehould be rubbed with n pair of hair
flesh gloves. or q rough Turkish towel
I'll they glow. Immediately after get,
ting IN bed. After this, hot water
bottle viii be successful in maintain.
ing the temperature Of the feet, though
without this preliminary j, is impo.
tent to attempt to do so. Disagreable
as the plan at first may appear, it is
eiiicleut, and those who have once
fairly tried it, continue it, and find
that they have put an end 10 bad
nights and cold feet. Pills, potions.
lozenges, 'night-caps,' and all mar
cotics fail to enable the sufferers
to WOO sleep SUCCESSFULLY; get rid of
the cold and the sleep will come of
Itself.
Salt rs a Fertilizer. The Massa.
chusetts Agricultural Society has mr..
rived at the following conclusions in
regard TO the mauurial value of salt.
That salt has the property OF fastening
the maturing OF all grain crops that
wheat on sailed land will ripen six to
ten days earlier than on unsalted land.
all other conditions being equal that
IT increases the yield from TWENTY-FIVE
to fifty per cent; that il stiffens the
straw aud prevents rust and smut
that it checks if it does not entirely
prevent, the ravages Of the chinch
bug, and that there is no danger OF n
man'sp pocket permitting him TO put too
much salt upon bis land, as two bar.
rels per acre will iDjurc no grain crop.
The best time 70 SOW salt ia in the
spring and il ought 70 be the frat thing
done before either fall or spring plo'v.
ing, "a all after stirring Of the land
asslstsiR lie equal distribution through
the soil. The best and easiest method
OF sowing salt, ard in the snsence Of
a machine for that purpose, is TO COW
II rom out the rear end Of q wagon,
the sower using both hands while the
team Is moving at slow walk. In
this way thirty to forty acres can be
so~ed in one day The quantity rs.
Ell may be from one hundred and
fifty 10 three hundred pounds per acre,
but the larger quantity is the better.
Exchange.
A New jersey farmer reports that q
dressing Of eight bushels Der acre of
salt 10 land badly infested with white
grubs enabled him 70 raise goof crops
Of corn for ihTce years past, which
was impossible previous to this appli.
cation.
Aecustom your young horses that
arc raised for draft purposes to walk
rapidly ADD TO this end If there ia anv
walk IA them, never allow them 10
strike q trot II is astonishing hgw
rapid q gait can be developed with
proper training.