The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-21
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TO remove iron rust take one Guinea
OF Oxslic acid. one quart OF boiling
water; steep the goods, stirring until
It is all out, which will be in short
time.-3oledo Blade.
Fix your fences before the cattle
get into your growing crops. 1t Is
much easier to prevent cattle from be-
coming unruly than it is to cure them
of the habit after it is once formed. =
Troy Times.
Corn Starch: Two cups of sugar,
one cup of butter. one cup Of milk, one
cup of corn starch, mixed we'll with
the -four, Of which take two cups,
whites of six eggs and TWO Teaspoons
fuls of baking powder. Bosso" GLOBE.
Cultivation has so affected the to-
mato that the seeds arc fast disappear
ing and bid fair to pass out of existence
entirely, rs in the case of the banana,
leaving the propagation of the plants
dependent on cuttings. N !. Tee
gram.
Did you ever try wetting strip OF
cloth and laying it along the edge Of
your pies when the crusts separate and
the sirup stews over. And also in tax
ing bread from the oven, stand it on
end without covering till it cooks, un-
less you are going to eat it warm. II
you are, it is better to cover It -Chica-
40 Journal.
Little Holland Bretzels: Mako
q dough of half q pound Of
-four, half . pound of sugar. tho
yelk of two eggs, . ta0le-
spoonful of sour cream and table,
spoonful of coriandcr seed. Break OH
little bits OF the dough, roll them IN
round pieces and form them in little
bretzels or rings.-Boston Budget.
Young Beets: Cut off the tops,
not too near the root, wash without
scraping or pecling, and cook from
forty minutes to an hour in hot, salted
water. Scrapc of the skins. slice and
dish, then cover therein with dress
ing made by heating four tablespoonful
of vinegar with heaping tablespoon
full of butter; salt and pepper TO liking.
Chicago Tribune.
Cream Pies: Bake the crnsts emp
ty; pick them with fork before putt
ting into the oven. If they blister pick
them again. The cream: Put one and
one-half pints sweet milk in a pan to
scald; beat one egg, into this stir four
tablespoonful Of sugar, four table
spoonfuls flour, and one-half pint milk;
turn this into the hot milk and stir
briskly till we'll thickened; add one
teaspoonful lemon essence and put Is
into the crusts. Toledo Blade.
The importance of lime rs a plant
food, to be supplied by its use as fer
tilizer. may be perceived bv the follow
ing figures: In twenty-five bushels Of
oats there are nine pounds of lime; In
thirty-eight bushels Of barley. fifteen
pounds; in two tons of clover hay, thir-
ty-five pounds; in twenty-five tons oi
turnips, one hundred and forty pounds;
in two hundred and fifty bushels of pc.
tatOes. two hundred and seventy pounds
of lime Western Rural.
Weeds are divided into annuals.
biennials and perennials. Annual
weeds are largely confined to cultivst.
ed areas, and should be closely
watched. Biennial weeds. for The
most part. produce no seed the iirS
year, but seed is often produced quite
early in the second season. Perennia
weeds are those the tops of which dis
down on the approach of cold weather
the roots remaining alive, sending uE
new shoots year after year. N. h
Farmer.