The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-08
Farm AND HOUSEHOLD,

-Buttermilk is said to have healing
qualities. 1t is certainly softening and
soothing to the flesh.
Changing the position of window
plants by turning the opposite side to
the window, is injurious and should be
avoided.
1t is not enough to know that the
corn grows, but every boy educated for
the farm ought to know how it grows,
and be able to give the chemical proper
ties of stalk, blade and ear. And yet
our common schools seldom teach it
LoDd State Register.
There is danger, as many people
have found to their sorrow, of a gossamer
waterproof cracking when stiffened by
cold; so before putting it on, in severe
weather, warm it before the fire, both
outside and in, and this danger is
averted.-C Chicago Journal.
"A breakfast-dish which is welcome
on many tables is made by shaving very
thin a piece of frozen beef; heat a little
butter in a ~frying-pan, and when hot put
the beef in; it will cook in five minutes;
season with salt and pepper, and serve
when hot. To vary it you may add n
or two beaten eggs to it a minute or two
before taking It from the fire.-M 7.
Post.
Here is a suggestion which should
be borne in mind: When you have the
woodwork in a room painted, it is a good
plan to have about two inches of the
floor painted also; have the paint the
same color as that of the Dashboard; then
if, when changing carpets, the carpet will
not come close to the wall, the little
space left will not be unsightly.-Er-
change.
Tea Cake: One cup of sugar, one
half cup of butter. two eggs, one cup of
milk, one teaspoonful of cream of tartar,
-four. To one-half of this quantity add
n cup of currants and one-half tea
spoonful of different spices, which gives
you light and dark, mix this by dropping
in the tin a spoonful of each alternative
ly.-The Household.
Two mammoth cheese were shipped
from New York to England lately. An
English journal says of them: One of
them is 2,400 pounds weight. and the
other two 200 pounds each. They
measured five feet in diameter by two
feet two inches deep, the total circum-
ference being sixteen feet. They are
said to be of splendid quality, and are
the product of. six days milk of a herd
of eight hundred cows"
An exchange says that "wet lands
should not be plowed deep until they
have been thoroughly drained. Alluvial
soils and deep clay loans, where the sur
face and subsoils do not materially differ,
can scarcely be titled too deep. Thin
soils, however, should not be plowed be-
low the available plant food. 1t takes
twice as much manure to f~ertilize land
when it is plowed to a depth of ten inches
as when it is plowed five inches; yet,
ON the other hand, by blowing only five
inches deep the soil will be exhausted
much quicker than when the blowing is
ten inches"
"A movement is on foot in Texas TO
accomplish what far-seeing men have
long urged as an agricultural necessity OF
the future. 1t is to, put an end to the
absorption of small farms into large ones
Smaller farms within the working ability
of the average farmer and more of them,
Is the reform desired. The farmers OF
Harrison County, Texas, propose tc
divide their large plantations into small
farms and to offer them to actual settlers
on the installment plan, believing such
action will soon convert idle lands into
profitable farms and fill up the country
with thrifty taxpayers.-N. Y. Sun.