Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-03-20
rApM AND HOUSEHOLD,

The National Stockp,dH advises
farmers TO desert all blacksmiths who
burp horses feet in order TO make shoes
lit.
A slight busting of salt sown on
huckwheat is said 10 largely increase
the productivencSs of its grain, making
it fiji well even in dry weather
HOES do well and fatten readily on
Ground oats. wheat screenings and bar
lev With corn-fodder in the summer
and root, in the fall. They are healthy
and their pork is firm and sweet.-Ifoy
Times.
An excellent recipe for removing
paint or grease spots from garments Is
i, mix tour teaspoonfuls of alcohol
with a tablespoonful of salt. Shake
the whole we'll together, and apply with
a brush or spongc,-Erchonge,
-Vinaigrette sauce is made by put
ting salt and pepper in a shallow dis1
and pouring vinegar over them a littie
at a time, beating constantly. While
beating, add. olive oil also, little hy
little, and then chopped parsley. If
| this sauce is used with cold meat, add
mustard to the pepper and salt he
Caterer.
A much heavier sod and larger
Growth of either pasture or hay IS OBJ
tanned by sowing different kinds OF
Grass seed on the same field, Each will
find the kind of soil and plant food
| best adapted 10 its vigorous growth,
and thus prevent vacant spaces, which
are only filled as nature occupies them
| with noNious weeds. Western Rurai.
A correspondent of the Amcrtcdn
Calipator sends in the following recipe
for breaking up the sitting habit OF
hens; Shut up the hen in a close coop
feed as much Indian meal at a time as
can be rubbed into a quantity OF hog 5
lard the size of an egg. Continue
this regimen for three or four days, and
the most inveterate sitter will be cured
Bread griddle-cakes are excellent,
and may be made of stale bread. SOAK
q small bowl of bread over night IN
milk. In the morning mix half a cup
full of flour, into which is put II ana
one-half tcaspoonfuls of baking pow
der, with one quart of milk, three
ll.beaten eggs and a little salt. Beat
UP the bread with this batter until 1t Is
very light, and fry a delicate brown
The batter should be thick, Boston
BRlletiH.
Dusty hay should always be vel
shaken. If this can not be done II
should be dampened For horses moth
inc but clean hay should be used, on
the result will be heaves, a disease
which is seldom cured, The straw
NAV be economically mixed with hay /
the mixture is passed through q cutter
The best method of feeding grount
grain is to mix it with cut feed. Dam
AGED hay may be best utilized as bed
ding. as it should not be fed at all
Albaay Journal.
1t is sometimes a difficult matte
) to ventilate bedrooms properly. Open
ING a window often causes a draft tina
may be more injurious than air les
+ pure. A very simple ventilator, whlc
' allows a free current of air withou
producing a draught, may be made b
, any me. Have a piece of inch board
four inches or more in width, cut to #
the window casing. 1t should be lon
enough to preclude any draught entcl
! inc on either side. Raise the windo'
e and rest it on the top of the board :
e that no air may pass between the sas
G and the board, A free current of a
will thcn.pass between the upper ar
$ lower sash to comfortably ventilate ii
a room $780, Cbic11O HernlH