The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-12-12
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Wheat screenings and damaged
wheat make good food for fowls.-M
VI. Farmer.
The man who has not a natural
liking for horses will never make sue.
cessful horseman. m Y Tribune.
Two much grain is often sown when
seeding and too little grass seed. These
are two common errors.-Iroy Times.
Learn to be neat about the farm
and its attachments, for in this lies one
of the great secrets of successful farm
ing.-PrGirie Farmer. =
Quick pudding for dinner: Two eggs,
one pint of milk, two-thirds of cup of
sugar, little salt, and few pieces of
bread broken up. Bake about twenty
minutes. Caterer.
"A Kansas journal, the Osborn, eoun-
ty NetOS, celebrates the good old COW as
the mother of all our beef, the great
mortgage payer, and she catches the
wolf on her horns and losses him from
the door. Et.f#k Hsa&
DO not try to farm too much land.
1t is much more profitable to thoroughly
till small area, which can be managed
and kept in good condition, than to at
tempt to grow larger crops at the ex-
pense of cultiyating two or three times
as much land as may be necessary un-
der better system. Indianapolis Sen
ti1eL.
-Molasses Cake: One teacup of mo-
lasses, one-half cup of butter, one-half
cup of boiling water, one egg, two cups
of flour, and one teaspoonful of soda.
Bake in three layers, warm a little mo-
lasses with little piece of butter, and
spread the layers with the mixture
Toledo Blade.
Beef fritters are nice for breakfast.
Chop pieces of steak or cold roast beef
very fine. Make batter of -four, milk
and an egg and mix the meat with it.
Put lump Of butter into a saucepan,
let it melt, then drop the batter into it
from large spoon. Fry until brown;
season with pepper and salt and little
parsley. -Tbe Household.
Ground Rice Pudding: Boil large
Tablespoonful of ground rice ,ing pint
of new milk after first fnixingit into a
smoothe paste with little cold water or
milk; add for favoring, half teaspoon
full of cinnamon and little thinly pared
lemon-rind; when cold add a quarter OF
pound of sugar creamed up with the
same quantity Of butter. and two we'll
beaten eggs. Bake, with crust around,
in pie-plates. -Rardl NeaO Yorker,
The peachblow variety of potatoes
is now seldom grown, although it is es-
teemed as the best quality, and q few
years ago was quite abundant in the
market. The reason it went out of ia
vof with the growers was its long sea
son of growing, which made it specially
vulnerable to the potato bug, but as
that pest has been overcome in most
sections, it is now suggested that this
sort might be again proftably grown
from seed Cincinnati TSmes.
1t is little singular that this conn
try can not grow its own eggs. We
bought from the Canadians last year
100000 dozen for which we paid
them $2,000,900t When there is, SO
much complaint of, hard times and o.
lack of light employment for women, il
is wonder that the poultry business
does not get a greater degree of atteH
ton. 1t is business which does NO
sdmitof being carried on in whole
sale way. Large colonies of hens d.
not thrive. They are subjeet.to viStita
tons of disease which carry them off b!
hundreds. But fowls can be made
source Of income to thousands of smal
farmers, paying them better than NOR
costly and laborious investments. Pill
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