The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-17
FARM AID PRESIDE.

Plaster scattered over the floors
OF fowl houses is a powerful absorbent,
preventing all bad odors.
"A bit of economy is to save the
peel of oranges; dry it and CRATE it for
havoring mince pies and orange cakes,
and custard also. If it is dried per-
fectly, and is kept in a dry closet, there
is no danger of its becoming musty.-
N. Y. Post.
"A correspondent suggests that ii
corr, before planting, be soaked in
tarred water and then rolled in plaste:
it will pre-ent the crows and blackbirds
from pulling it up, and also prevent il
FROM routing in case a long wet spell
follows its being placed III the ground
Though not new, a repetition of the
suggestion is timely.-Chicago Tribune
The pudding which should invaria-
bly, accompany a boiled dinner to the
table is made in this way: One pint Of
sweet or sou milk, two teacups of corn
meal, sifted; one t~easpoonful of soda,
dissolved in hot water; add two slices
of stale cake, crumbled very fine and
mixed with the meal; boil for three
hours in a bag; serve with a common
sour pudding Chicago Journal
A good way to clean h~airbrushes is
to dampen the brushes and. sprinkle
them with powdered borax; let them lie
half an hour and then wash and rub
thoroughly, rinse in clean water and
stand them IN end to dry. 1t is a good
plan to clean two at one time, as they
clean better by rubbing two together.
If you have no boraX, common baking
soda may be used.-Detroit Post.
The bad effect upon the digestive
organs of the unnatural, if not cruel,
system of clipping horses is thus noted
by the Breeders Gazette: ga newly
clipped horse will everything in
reach, thus overtaxing his stomach,
while the removal of a warm outer 10Y
ering-which over the abdomenis rarely
artiicially eplaced-produce a chilled,
collicky condition that sometimes ends
in a chronic arrangement of the entire
intestinal canal"
"A delicious and inexpensive raisir
cake is made of two eggs, n cup anC
a half of sugar, two-thirds of a cup o
butter, one cup of sweet milk, two cup!
and a half of flour, three teaspoonful
of baking powder or two teaspoonful o
cream tartar, and..one of soda; one cul
| of ~raisins, cloves and cinnamon to sui
your taste, one emp stoned and choppet
raisins. 1t is the experience of mos
cooks that cake made with cream O
tartar and soda will keep moist longe
than that made with baking-powder
but the powder is SO convenient to us
that it has almost superseded the other
Do not frost this cake, but bake unit
the top is a dark brown.-T0ledo Blade
-Artichokes on good land with tn
same culture as corn will produce from
four hundred to one thousand bushel
per acre. A. G. Williams, a prominen
Iowa pig-breeder, says: 1.-The keep o
my hogs, whent the ground snot frozen
is blue grass, clover and artichokes
Forty head of hogs and pigs may b
kept without other food on an acre @
artichokes from the time frost is out @
the ground until they grow again, an
from October l until the ground freeze
again. They produce more hog foo
per acre than any other crop 1 am &C
quainted with, and the hogs will harves
the crop themselves. They also produc
an immense quantity of tops, of whic
cattle, horses and mules are very fond
and which make excellent food whe
properly cured.-M Chicago Times.