South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-04-28
Farmer and House-Kceper.

coffee cups loosely with Strawberries.
and pour over tariua of consistency
thin enough to fill the interstices be.
tween the berries, and yet thick e.
nou2h TO be firm when cool-three
tablespoonful to quart of milk ia
the quantity o. farina | use. Turn
out on fat dish, or arrange in a glass
dish. Eat with cream aud sugar ia
vored as liked. This makes a pretty
as well rs beautiful dish.
Corn Bread,--Mix we'll with two
quarts of fresh ground corn meal.
three pints warm water, one table
spoonful sugar, one teaspoonful salt.
and u large tablespoonful of hop or
brewers yeast. Set in warm place
about five hours, until it rises well.
ihen add about three quarters of II
pint Of wheat flour. aud half n
pint of warm water, and let stand 10
rise again about mn hour anl half.
Pour into pan we'll CREASED with lard
or butter; let it stand TO rise few
minutes, and bake in a moderately hot
oven nearly an hour and a half. 1t
is good hot or cold, but beat while
hot. Corn bread made essentially
after this recipe carried off tho prize
among q hundred exhibitors on the
score OF quality aud economy.
Baked Ham. Make thick paste
OF flour mot hoiled,, and cover the
ham with IT. bone and all +: pat in u
pan on Il spider or two muffin rings,
or anything that will keep it an inch
from the bottom, aud bake in n hot
oven. If n small ham, fifteen min
utes for each pound if large, twenty
minutes. The oven should be hot
when put in. The paste forms hard
crust around the ham. and the skin
comes off with it, Try this, and you
will never cook n ham any other way.
Pruning Currants. Some writers
have recommended pruning currants
IN summer, when in active growth
AT that time the pruning would Of
course check the vigor of the bushes,
which Is not often needed, rs it is rare
that currant bushes grow too fast -
They more usually need pushing into
more rapid growth. Prune them ear
ly i'll the spring; cultivate and man-
urc the ground and cut ont old, crook
ed and stunted wood. Old and fee.
BILE bushes may be thus made to bear
larger and finer fruit.
] have found that guilt frames can
be renovated. Take sufficient -four
OF sulphur 10 give golden tinge to
about pint and half Of water, and
III this boil four or five bruised on
ions strain off the liquid, aud with
1T, when cold, wash with a stiff brush.
a method OF preparing corn for
hogs Is to soak It, The soaking eau
ses the corn TO undergo more or less
fermentation, and it acquires pecul-
lar sweetness from the conversion Of 70
portion OF the starch into glucose
Soaked corn is better assimllated
then when fed in dry state.
Linseed oil, well applied with
WhItcwash brush, has been recommeu-
ded by Kentucky fruit grover az II
reliable remedy for pear blight He
claims TO have eifectually checked the
progress OF this disease with its use.
Soft coal ashes are used to prevent
the ravages Of the cufrant worm -
They are scattered thickly around the
cErrant and goosebcrry bushes. care
being taken to keep the bushes well
supplied with them as long as there is
danger
The best remedy for horses clicking
or striking their hind shoes against
the forward ones is to put on high
toc-calks and low heels on the hAd
shoes
Examine the farm implements now.
Where grease has become hardened
with dust, il may be removed with
Kerosene.
How to Go 10 Sleep venture 10
suggest new but simple remedy for
want of sleep. Opiatos in any form,
even the liquor Opt sedat and chloro-
form Will leave traces OF their inhu
emce the next morning. ! therefore
prescribe for myself-and have fire.
qucutly done so for others onions:
simply common onions, raw but
Spanish onions, stcwcd. will do. Eve
rybOdy knOwns the taste Of onions.
this is due TO peculiar essential oil
contained in this most valuable and
healthy root. This oil has, lam sure.
highly soporific powers. Ia my own
case they never fail. fl am much
pressed with WORK aud feel shall not
sleep. | eat two or three small onions.
and the ELECTS magical Onions are
also excellent things 70 eat when
much exposed to intense cold Fin
ally, if person cannot sleep. it is be-
cause the blood is in the brain. not i'm
the stomach. The remedy. therefore,
IS obvious. Call the blood down from