The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-05-19
FARM AND PRESIDE.


Plaster scattered over the floors
of fowl houses is powerful absorbent,
preventing all bad odors.
Nice cookies: One cupful Of but
ter, two eggs, one-half cupful OF sugar,
two tablespoonfuls of sweet milk and
nearly one-fourth teaspoonful of soda
in the milk, little nutmeg. Flour to
roll out nicely. The Household.
"A DIT Of economy is to save the
peel of oranges; dry it and CRATE it fol
havoring mince pies and orange cakes,
and custard also. II it is dried per-
fectly, and is kept in dry closet, there
is no danger of its becoming musty.-
N. Y. Post.
A correspondent suggests that II
corn, before planting, be soaked in
tarred water and then rolled in plaster
it will prevent the crows and blackbirds
from pulling it up, and also prevent il
from rotting in case long wet spell
follows its being placed in the ground
Though not new, repetition OF the
suggestion is timely. - Chicago Tribune.
The pudding which should invara.
bly, accompany boiled dinner to the
table is made in this way: One pint OF
sweet or sour milk, two teacups of corn
meal, sifted; one teaspoonful 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 sauce Chicago Journal.
A good way to clean hairbrushes 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 on 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: "a newly
clipped horse will eat everything in
reach, thus overtaxing his stomach,
while the removal of warm outer cov-
ering-which over the abdomen is rarely
artificially carbohydrates chilled,
collicky condition that sometimes ends
intestinal canal
"A delicious and inexpensive raisin
cake is made of two eggs, one cup and
half of sugar, two-thirds of cup OF
butter, one cup of sweet milk, two cups
and half of flour, three teaspoonfuls
of baking powder or two teaspoonful OF
cream tartar, and one of soda; one CUP
of raisins, cloves and cinnamon to suit
your taste, one emp stoned and chopped
raisins. 1t is the experience of most
cooks that cake made with. cream OF
tartar and soda will keep moist longer
than that made with baking-powder,
but the powder is SO convenient to use
that it has almost superseded the other.
Do not frost this cake, but bake until
the top is dark brown. u Toledo Blade.
--Artichokes on good land with the
same culture as corn will produce from
four hundred to one thousand bushels
per acre A. c. Williams, prominent
Iowa pig-breeder, says: "The keep of
my hogs, when the ground is not frozen,
is blue grass, clover and artichokes.
Forty head of hogs and pigs may be
kept without other food on an acre of
artichokes from the time frost is out OF
the ground until they grow again, and
from October l until the ground freezes
again. They produce more hog food
per acre than any other crop am ac-
quainted with, and the hogs will harvest
the crop themselves. They also produce
an immense quantity of tops, of which
cattle, horses and mules are very fond,
and which make excellent food when
properly cured Chicago Times.