Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1882-12-09
FARM aNH HOUSEHOLD.

CELERY SoUr.-To make 4 nice celery
soup boil small cup of rice in three pints
OF milk, ana strain it through sieve, and
then add three heads of celery grated fine,
and quart of strong veal stock: let it
boil until the celery is tender, anC season
with salt and cayenne pepper.
SOMETHING NIcE.-DeliciOas chocolate
maccaroons are made by melting slowly,
and with care, three ounces of plain chloe
olatc. \ good way 20 melt it Is to put II
in a tin dish and set it within another
containing no: water. Make thick paste
by stirring in gradually one pound OF
powdered sugar and the well-bcaten
whites of three eggs, then spread or roll
it rs smooth as possible to sheet about
quarter OF an inch thick. Gait Ii in small
round and famcy-shapcd pieces; butter
YOUR Tins and scatter little Hour and ST.
gar over the bottom (uSe equal quantities
of e2ch) and lay the macc;Uoons on. Bake
in n hot oven, but avoid having it hot
enough 10 scorch them.
Loss IN CoRN.-Coyn is generally ac-
cepted rs understandable The lst of January,
aud is often sold earlier in the season, but
it continues to shrink and lose both III
weight and measure from the time 1t II
husscd from the field or shock in the fall
until April or May. This fact is one that
ought to be always taken into considera-
ton where the corn crop oil part of 1t Is
10 be sold. The loss from shrinking has
been yariously estimated according to the
condition OF the corn when harvested. Ia
a general way it may be said that corn
loses ut least one-fifth by drying. Hence
thirty five 10 forty cents per bushel lie 1t
comes from the field means to the farmer
quite as much money as forty-iive to fifty
cents in the spring. The weight OF corn
coh'varies ffom one ounce to two ounces,
and it has been estimated that the cob
loses in shrinkage from thirteen to four
teen per cent. In a test made and re-
ported by Professor Scovell, the average
percentage of cob in specimen cars of
fourteen varieties OF Dent corn was Il frac-
tion,over fourteen. -Nev York World.
THE POULTRY H0UsE.-A person about
to build should, if possible, observe and
Investigate some fowl house already built
that gives its owner satisfaction. few
general hints, however, may be given.
For aspect, the glazed front should face
the east and south. This affords you the
suns rays from the earliest morning to
late afternoon, rs 4 rule, and il is the early
hours of sunlight and warmth that fowls
mostly covet in winter and chilly spring
time. The glazing should be entire upon
one or two sides of the house, whatever
may be its size or length. If the sashcs
arc tightly placed, it is amply protective
as wall upon these two warm sides,
while the cost is no more than ceiling or
battens and clapboarding. The birds will
enjoy both the light and the warmth thus
afforded them: and if the other two walls
are banked up, or are made imperrious to
wind and weather by a double boarding
-four inches between the, inner and outer
wallis, packed to the .eayeshwith straw
danbed with ecoal-tar to keep OF vermin,
YOU thus have aieheap, comfortable
hoasc Il at your early spring chickens VIII
thrive In, and ,your adult birds will appre-
ciate from December to April.-A"'eTrec''
Poultry Yard