The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-07-01
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.


All plants must have nitrogen sup.
piled to them. 1t is not taken direct
from the atmosphere by any plant. but
is obtained from the nitrates and ammo.
MIA salts in the soil.
To clean a tea or coffee pot that has
become discolored inside, put into it
teaspoonful of saleratus and fill two
thirds full of water, and let it boil two
hours. Wash and rinse well before US
ing.-The Household
Mullins: Mix together two teacup-
fuls OF buttermilk, one teacupful of thick
cream or three even tablespoonfuls of
melted butter; four eggs and half q tea
spoonful of soda. Thicker to the con-
sistency of waffle batter.
"A cement for stoves: II the stove is
cracked, a good cement is made for it
as follows: Wood-ashes and salt in
equal proportions, reduced to a paste
with cold water, and fill ed in the cracks
when the stove is cool. 1t will soon
Tomato sauce to pour over meat is
made thus: Stew half dozen ripe to-
matoes with a little chopped parsley,
salt and pepper to suit taste; strain it, put
it on the stove again. aud when it begins
to boil add a spoonful of flour rubbed
smooth, with teaspoonful of butter,
and let it boil up once Y. Post.
Curing Hay: When it is impossi-
BILE to cure hay sufficiently in the field,
clover can be put in the NOW by placing
it in alternate layers of clean, dry straw
or old hay. Never let clover or other
kinds of grasses cry SO much in the sun
as to have the leaves or heads drop of
when it is being handled or hauled. -
81. Louis Globe.
Moss on single roofs may be re.
moved by the following method: Take
few pals of Stacked lime. according
to the size of the roof, and throw on the
roof just before a gentle rain or Just
after a shower, while the root is wet,
and in few DAYS the moss will all
loo3en and the wind will blow it clean
off the roof, leaving the shingles clean
and white. The moss being of spongy
nature holds the moisture several days,
which causes the shingles to decay, and
also causes the roof to leak. The lime
also acts as a preservative to the shin
gles.-M i. Tribune.
Cream Cake: Two cupfuls OF
pulverized sugar, thirds of cupful
of butter, four eggs, half cupful OF
milk, half a teaspoonful of soda, one
teaspoonful cream of tartar, three cup
fuls of four. Bake in jelly-cake pans
and spread between the layers the fol.
lowing: Cream--Half a pint Of milk,
two fuQ teaspoonfuls of corn starch, one
egg, one teaspoonful of vanilla, half a
cupful of sugar; let the milk come to a
boil and stir in the corn starch made
into smooth paste with a little cold
milk; take out a little OF the boiling
milk and add it gradually to the we'll
beaten egg and sugar; stir this into the
rest of the milk and continue to stir
constantly until it becomes quite thick
and smooth. - Germantown Telegraph.
Regarding the treatment of the
disease termed pink eye." of course
the symptoms vary III different cases,
but | will give some general directions
which will be found serviceable. The
horse should be placed in well-venti-
lated stall, but not where he is exposed
to any draughts. Warmly clothe the
body and bandage the legs loosely with
flannel bandages. Feed only on mill
feed with little cut hay during the
sickness--no grain or long hay. Give
one of the following powders on the
tongue twice day: Nitrate OF potash,
one ounce; pulverized gentian, oue-hali
ounce and thirty drops of the following
medicine in water four times a day;
Tinctore nux vomica, four drachms;
tincture aconite root, one draehm.-
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