The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1885-11-07
HOME AND FARM.
Land that is underdrained may be
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Land that is underdrained may be
plowed deeper than any other.
To brighten the luster OF coffee or
teapot. fill with water, add a small
piece of soap and let it boil about forty
five minutes.
The hog is useful on the farm as
scavenger-to eat the house refuse and
the imperfect fruit, and to drink the
slops and extra milk. For this reason
the hog can not we'll be spared from any
farm.-7roy Times.
Lamb Chops: Trim carefully; lay
in a little warm butter for an hour,
turning several times; then broil on a
creased gridiron, taking care they do
not drip; butter, pepper aud salt each,
lay iii circle on plate and serve.-THe
Household.
Plush goods, and all articles dyed
with aniline colorS, faded from exposure
to light, will look bright as ever after
being sponged with chloroform. The
commercial chloroform will answer the
purpose very well, and is much less ex-
pens;ve than the purified. - Chicago
Times.
Corn Mullins: Two heaping cupfu S
OF Indian meal and one of flour; sift
into the flour one teaspoonful of sodA
and two of cream of tartar. Add one
tablespoonful of lard. melted, three cup
fuls of milk, one teaspoonful of salt and
the whites and yolks of three egg, beat
en- separately. Beat all thoroughly, and
bake in patty pans or rings, in quick
oven, and serve hot.-BOSt0n Budget.
A Philadelphia Professor has inves
tigated the subject of weeds, and says
as soon as new county is cleared, for.
eign weeds come with foreign seed and
take possession. Native plants are
crowded out. because the plants that
have long been cleared are accustomed
to living in the open sun, while our
country has been comparatively recently
cleared. The ox-eyed daisy and Canada
thistle are foreign plant immigrants.
Prof. S. W. johnson says that if we
mix lime intimately with manures con-
tanning ammonia salts the ammonia is
set free as gas and escapes in the air.
If we mix lime with fertilizer contain
ing phosphoric acid, or phosphates sol
uble in water, there is formed reverted
phosphoric acid, phosphate. of lime
which is insoluble in water from which
it may be inferred that lime should not
be mixed with fertilizers containing
either ammonia salts or soluble phos
phoric acid. N Y. Post.
Layer Cake: One cup of sugar,
half a cup of butter, one and half
cups of Hour, half a cup of wine, one
cup of raisins, four eggs, sugar for
frosting, one teaspoonful of baking
powder. Mix the butter and sugar to-
gether, add two eggs well beaten,
wine, flour, baking powder and
raisinS, beat well and bake In three
layers. put frosting between and on the
layer that is made with the whites of the
two remaining eggs, we'll beaten with
powdered sugar -Godey's Lqdy's Boot.
"A horse can not kick if his head is
kept up, and hence a kicking brace"
will sometimes prove correction OF
the habit. This brace is made of half
inch iron, with q fork at one end and
ring in each end of the fork, each ring
being furnished with snap, or with a
strap and buckle. by which it may he
attached to the bit, the opposite end OF
the brace being made to fit upon the
front of the lower part of the collar by
a similar fork fitted with a strap. The
length of the brace must be adjusted to
the ,ine of the horse, the point being to
keep the head well up Chicago Trib'
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