The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-12-26
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

There are produced annually in
this country about 100000 lambs.
If you wish to produce glue that
will resist water, boil one pound of glue
in two quarts Of skinned milk.-EG.
change.
For sore eyes, dissolve fifteen grains
of acetate of zinc in half a pint of soft
water (rose water is the best) and apply
it to the eyes several times day.-TO-
LedO Blade.
"A New Jersey lady took the late
clippings from her lawn, pressed them
into a tight box, covered and weighted
the same, making a miniature silo.
The silage is for her hens this winter,
when they will be hankerlng after green
food.
1t win be profitable to keep a sup
ply of fine, flexible wire, Irvine, tacks,
brads, different sized nails, screws, ETC.,
for the purpose of making immediate
repairs The lack of five cents worth
of material has often caused a dollars
expense.-N Y. Times.
"A Colorado paper says that ''the
COW may be queen, the horse king,
and the sheep away up in royal honOrs,
but it is an indisputable fact that the
hog, under the impetus of alfalfa and
pea food, is approaching dangerously
near the throne"
"A New Hampshire man keeps five
hundred fowls, all healthy and good
layers. He scatters them over his farm,
which is four hundred acres in extent,
in ilocks of twenty-five to fifty, provid-
ing for each a cheap house 9x1S feet.
Their broad range is the secret OF his
success.
There are 2S5, 100000 acres of i'm
proved land in the United States, $780,
100000 of forest, and 100000 acres
of unimprOved and waste untimbered
land Forests are disappearing at the
rate of Is, 5000 acres each year. The
forest product during the last cen
sus year was 18,000,000,000 feet board
measure; year ago it was 2S,OOO,OOO,-
600 feet
To Trap Rats: Set steel trap in
the place where the rodents most do
congregate and spread over it piece Of
thin white muslin about two feet square;
over the muslin spread cake and cheese
crumbs. Having no fear of evil from a
white cloth, in eating the crumbs the
rats are sure to get into the trap, and
the cloth does not prevent the the trap
from holding them. Rural NeaO Yorker.
An agricultural college which has
been experimenting with poultry, says:
In seeking to improve the common
barn-yard fowls of the country by cross
ing with the pure races, great mistake
was made, the crosses or grades proving
inferior to either parent. Common
fowls may be vastly improved by care
full selection in breeding, and the pure
races can be kept up to the standard by
avoiding in-and-in breeding, but the at
tempt to improve by crossing has never
been satisfactory. Chicago Tribune.
Cracker Pudding: Three eggs, one
half cracker crumbs, .one-half cup Of
sugar, one tablespoonful butter, one cur
of milk, one-half of lemon Juice and
grated peel, three tablespoonful o.
Jam. Heat milk and crumbs together
until scalding. Turn out to cool, while
you rub butter and sugar to a cream
adding the lemon. Stir in beaten yolks
soaked cracker and milk, at last the
whites. Butter bake dish, put jam a
the bottom, FIJI up with the mixture anC
bake, covered, one-half hour, ther
brown. Eat cold with sifted sugar OF
top, or, if you like, put meringue ovel
it before taking from oven.-The House
hold
The Seckel pear originated nea
Philadelphia before the Revolution. 4
noted sportsman known as "Dutcl
jacob" used to bring home every fal
some small but delicious pears, declin
ing to tell anybody where he procureC
them. About that period the Londol
Land Company, which owned som
land below the city, made sale, ant
Clutch Jacob purchased the lot upol
which his pear tree stood. 1t aftcrwar
became the property of Mr. Seckel, and
as he permitted nurserymen to tax
gratis and buds from the trees, the
gave the fruit his name. -PhtlGdelpht
Press.