Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1882-11-25

To PREVENT SMOKE FROM LAMP.-
Soak the wick in strong vinegar, and dry
it thoroughly before you use it. IL will
then burn both sweet and pleasant, and
will give great deal of pleasure for the
triiling work of preparing,
ANIcE CAKE.-This recipe makes very
light cake; it is nice baked in layers, with
any filling you choose. One cup ana
half of sugar, half cup Of butter, two
thirds of cup OF sweet milk, two and
half cups of -four, two eggs, and two tea
spoonfuls of baking-powdsr. The flavor
must depend upon the filling.
SOFT GINGERBREAD.-Two cups Of mo-
lasses, one cup of sugar, one cup boiling
water, one cup drippings, one tablespoon
ful of ginger, one teaspoonful of cloves,
ditto cinnamon, one teaspoonful Of soda,
beaten up in molasses, one Of baking pow
der. Stir in last of all flour to made a stiff
batter. Pour into shallow pan and bake.
BROAD TIREs.-A writer says that 4
years experience with broad wagon
wheels is conclusive as to their value. A
four-nch tire will carry two tons over soft
ground with greater ease to the team than
a two-and-a-half tire will carry one ton.
The wheels are not so much strained by
stones and rough tracks on the road, and
the road is not cut up, but, on the con-
trary, is packed down and keeps smooth.
LEMON PIE.-Beat the yOlks of two eggs;
stir into cupful of sugar mixed with
three tablespoonsful Of flour; add the
grated rind and juice of one lemon; pour
in cupful of boiling water; stir all to-
gethcr and cook till it thickens. Pour
into q crust made as for custard pie; bake,
and as soon rs done pour oyer the whites
of the eggs beaten with two spoonsful of
sugar; return TO the oven to brown, and
YOU have nice cake.
LIME.-Lime is dissolved more rapidly
in cold water than in warm. 1t is, there
fore, better applied in the winter than in
the spring or summer. Lime is usually
applied in the fall upon ground prepared
for wheat, being spread after blowing and
narrowed in with the seed. 1t should be
kept near the surface and never plowed
in. For grass it may be applied now or
during the winter, which is better than
spreading it in the spring.
The Lire Stock Record says that collie in
horses is often brought on by feeding hay
passed through cornstslk cutters, mixed
with meal, middlings or bran, then wet
up. The horse cats this food thus pre-
pared so rapidly that it is not properly
maSticated, and consequently becomes so
clodded in the stomach rs to cause indi-
gestion, followed by collie, more especially
if directly after eating he is allowed to
drink heartily of water, and the colder
this is so much more liable is it to bring
on collie.
TAFFY.-Take one breakfast Cupful OF
rich cream (if slightly sour it will be just
as good, or better, one breakfast cupful
of pounded white sugar; pour the above
into a very clean copper saucepan, and
boil slowly over Il clear but not too hot
fire. The mixture will first become quite
livid, and will afterward gradually thick
en-; when almost done pour in one dessert
Of 4, a.,f
whiskey. When the mixture becomes
very frothy, and leaves the sides of the
pan clean, pour it out as quickly as posi-
bic on 20 flat buttcred dish. 1t should set
at once.
FACTS ABOUT MILK.-Cream cannot rise
through Il great depth of milk. If milk
is, therefore, desired to retain cream for a
time, it should be put into deep, narrow
dish; and if it be desired to free it most
completely of cream, it should be poured
into Il broad, fiat dish, not much exceeding
one inch in depth. The evolution of cream
is facilitated by a rise, and retarded by
depression of temperature. In wet and
cold weather the milk is less rich than in
dry and warm: and on that account more
cheese is obtained in cold than in warm,
though not in thundery weather. The
season has its effects. The milk in the
spriIg is supposed TO be best for calves;
in summer it is best suited for cheese, the
autumn-made butter keeping better than
that of summer. Cows less frequently
MIXED than others give rich milk, and
consequently much butter. The morn
ing's milk is richer than the evenings.
The last drawn milk of each milking, at
all times and seasons, is richer than the
first drawn, which is the poorest.
RoTATIoN.-SucceSsivc crops of the same
character exhaust lands Of the particular
food they require with great rapidity.
The aid which nature so freely renders,
where crops rotate, is withheld in such a
system of cultivation, because the farmer
is violating her laws. TO fight against
nature is to war mt fearful odds, and it is
not difficult to forecast the result. To
work in harmony with her insures COM
paratively easy victory. One of the most
beautiful of her provisions is, that while
one crop exhausts the soil of that element
which enters most largely into its compo-
sition, by the operating of some mysteri-
Gus law it prepares that same soil for some
other crop of a different character. AS an
illustration of this principle, we know
that clover does not successfully follow
itself, although it leaves the ground in The
best possible condition for corn or wheat.
One crop, therefore, restores in measure