The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1882-07-15
HOUSE, FARM AND FIRESIDE.

three eggs, well beaten, salt 10 suit
the taste, one tablespoonful of lard,
two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar,
and use buttermilk and soda.
Those who object to the odors of
many of the disinfectants used at
the present day will find charcoal I'M
Objectionable on this account, and it
is said to absorb gases in a surpris-
ing way; pieces can be laid on plates
and put out of sight in sick room.
Prof. Brewer, of the Sheffield Sci
entifc School, New Haven, says: "On
account of the value of our straw and
of the stalks of our corn for feeding,
it is found that an acre of corn, wheat
or other grain pays as large profit
here as at the west, and that the labor
of each man is as we'll or better paid"
A Fort Plain, n NJ, correspondent
strongly recommends the use of coal
ashes as mulch, especially around
roots and shrubs. Mixed with the
surface soil and occasionally stirred,
he says, they will promote an unin-
terrupted growth during drouth, if
the application is liberal and well
worked in.
According to the Yazoo, Miss,
papers, many planters say they would
not part with the advantage the over
flow will be to their lands for nice
little sum of money. The sediment
deposited by the flood will do the
soil more good than any fertilizer that
could be applied. One planter says
the cotton lands will now be worth
from four to five dollars more per
acre than formerly.
One of the best spring vegetables
is rhubarb or pieplant, whether in
the form of sauce" or in pies and
buildings. A good receipt for the
last named is as follows: Wash and
cut the pie-plant in small pieces, COW
er the bottom of a pudding dish with
it, and then put in a layer of bread
crumbs and plenty of sugar. and so
on until the dish is full; add a little
water, and only little as the pie
plant is very juicy. Make sauce to
eat with this of melted sugar, favored
with cinnamon.
There are few ladies who can resist
the pleasure of using perfumes, and
if they are not used in too great
quantities they are not Objectionable.
1t is better plan to use only one
kind of perfume, such as violet, hell
otrope, rose geranium, etc. Instead
Of saturating the handkerchief, use
them in every part of the bureau and
wardrobe, so that delicate, fresh,
almost nameless perfume pervades
every article of dress from the hat to
the boots. Sachets filled with pow
dered crris root will give sweet,
wholesome odor that never becomes
so strong as to be disagreeable. 1t
is hardly needful to say the use OF
strong extracts of perfumery is not
considered in good taste.
Use OF BIRDs.-Mr. Bradley, an
English writer, records count kept
of pair of birds bringing caterpil-
lars to their nest to feed their young.
The calculations made on the count
showed that one brood consumed no
less than five hundred caterpillars in
day. This would dispose of $4,000
in a month, and if there were a
hundred such nests in a township
the death Of million and half OF
caterpillars would contribute to the
life of some five hundred birds.
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS. - The
profit of the future is to come in
avoidance of wastes of the farm. As
the country grows older. land dearer
and immigration heavier competition
wakes fiercer in all agricultural pro
duction. A ruinous share of the hay
is lost first in cutting when ripened
to woodiness or dried to hardened
stems; then in giving it out to sus
tain life and animal heat rather thar
for fat and flesh. Corn is also thrown
away by insufficient or injudicious
feeding. There is enormous loss ir
keeping poor COW that yields BOZ
gallons of milk per annum instead O
one that produces 800 at about tn,
same cost. One may bring the OWE
er in debt while the other affords h:
handsome profit on expense Of keep
WHERE THE TAX FALLs.-The Far
mer's Journal directs attention to
significant, fact, that seems to hav'
quite escaped public attention, il
connection with the tax on distilled
spirits, viz: that whisky which il
used as a beverage, and is at best blu
luxury, pays but about one hal
the tax per gallon that is paid b,
alcohol, which enters into the art
and manufactures and is chemica
agent of inestimable value. The ex
PLANTATION is that whisky is only abou
one-half the strength or proof of al
cohol.
Many seem to think that a higl
tax tends to lessen the use of spirit
as beverage. This view, however
does not seem to be sustained by tn
facts or the statistics of the Revenu
Department. Before the tax wa
put upon spirits fully 33 per cent. o
all that was made was used in til
arts and in manufacturing. No,
nearly all that is made appears to b
consumed as beverage. Before tn
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