Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1883-03-24
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

TO KEEP on CLoTH.-Oil cloth may be
kept bright when almost worn out, after
washing if you take flannel cloth and
dip corner of it in kerosene, and rub the
oil cloth with it. Of course. very little
oil goes a great way, and care must be
taken not to use too much.
SPONGE CAKE.-Beat the whites of ten
eggs TO stiff froth, mix with them tam-
blerful and half of powdered sugar,
then tumblerful of flour with tea
spoonful of cream tartar sifted III II;
lastly a little lemon extract and half
teaspoonful of soda dissolved in very
little water: bake in slow oven in
sheet half an hour, lay towel over pill
low and turn it bottom upward on 1t to
rest till it will drop from the pan.
LEMON PIE WITH FROsTING.-Take one
cup Of sugar, the yolks of three eggs, one
cup of milk, two teaspoonfuls of corn
starch, the juice and grated peel of one
lemon. Beat the yolks very light, add the
sugar, rub the corn starch in with the
milk, and add that, and then the CHINA
mon, and beat we'll together; they will
make one pie. Line Il pie-dish with rich
paste, and then fill with the custard and
bake. When done, take the white OF three
eggs and beat them with Il tablespoonful
of sugar to stiff froth, which spread over
the top, and brown in the oven.
THE CARE OF FARM MACHINERY.-The
advantage of keeping farm machinery
from unnecessary exposure to the weather
is coSently insisted upon by the Ohio
Farmer, which says:
We have noticed that plows last, on an
average, about three years; wagons, eight
to ten years; reapers, five to eight; drills,
eight TO ten. We think these figures are
fully as large us the truth warrants. We
know of many implements that have not
lasted so long, and of many which have
lasted much longer. We to-day can point
to wagons that have been in constant and
hard use for twenty years, reapers that
have stood the wear and tear of liberal
use for more than fifteen years, drills that
have been in use as long, and other agri-
cultural implements that have stood the
wear of fully twice the average age OF
such implements. These implements were
not made of unusually good materials, nor
were they suffered to lie idle. They were
put to constant use. What, then, is the
secret of their greater endurance? 1t is
simply this-they were taken care OF.
When not in use they were put away, and
put away properly.
These implements not only lasted much
longer, but while they were in use they
very rarely failed. They were always
ready for work. The reapers did not
break down in the middle of harvest and
compel all hands to lie idle while some
one went to the railway station to get re-
pairs; the drills did not fail just when the
wheat ought to be sown; the wagons
were not always breaking down and oc-
casioning delays and veXations. Another
thing may be said in their favor, and that
is that they always did good work. The
reapers cut smooth stubble and put the
grain Gown in good condition; the plows
did not refuse TO scOur; the drills put the
wheat in just rs a iirst-class drill would;
and these implements did good work not
only while they were new, but till the
last year they were used.