The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-11-27
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.


Agricultural clubs are being formed
in all parts of South Carolina.
Egg shells will settle coffee as surely
as eggs, but they do not impart the rich
ness and flavor.
The idea among the English has
been that the best mutton is obtained
from three and four-year-old wethers.
An Orange County On. Y. farmer
carried to market six barrels of apples,
none of which weighed less than a
pound apiece
The bug doctors estimate that the
losses caused by insects injurious to
agriculture in the United States reach
the enormous annual amount of $780,
000, 600.
How many children are spoiled by
Encouragement? Parents grumble
and chide the livelong day, and never
praise. Nothing will so etiectually
crush child's ambition to be good and
noble. --AdLer'S Lectures.
Molasses Fruit Cake: One cup lard
and butter, one pint Bridgeport mo-
lasses, one-hSAGup of sugar, two small
teaspoons soda,t one cup water to dis
solve soda, one tablespoon ginger and
ditto cinnamon, six cups flour, fruit
Our Country Home.
Oyster toast Select fifteen plump
oysters; chop them fine and add salt,
pepper and suspicion of nutmeg. Beat
up the yolks of two eggs with gill of
cream; whsk this into the simmerng
oysters When set pour the whole over
slices of buttered toast,-BOStOa1 Budget.
The Chinese are ahead of the world
in the preparation OF roast pork for the
table. After it has come out of the
oven, it is hung in the smoke of various
aromatic herbs, which gives it a de-
lcious flavor and robs it of the porky
taste which is offensive to some palates.
Boston Transcript.
The Net0 Hampshire Mirror says
that there is habit of retiring the old
hens and using pullets under the sup
position that the former are useless
after the second year. This is mis-
take. The hen is in her prime in her
fourth year, and her eggs will hatch
eggs from pullets.
No kind of stubble, except of clo-
yer, of which the root forms the princi-
pal part, is worth any thing as manure.
Of grain crops, especially, neither the
stubble above ground nor the root be-
low is worth regarding as a fertilizer.
If the straw of grain stubble can be
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posal of it.-Troy Times.
"A remedy for an incipient cold in
the head may be obtained by breathing
the fresh fumes of flour of sulphur. The
powder should be sprinkled upon a hot
metal surface, a little at a time, the
person inhaling to stand as near as pos
sible. The odor is not nearly as disa-
greeab}e as when the smoke is inhaled
after it has been some time diflused in
the air. Only a short time is required
before "cure" is affected. Even lit
tie children find no difficulty in breathing
the fumes. N. y. Times.
-Turnips cooked in this way are not
to be despised Put three tablespoonfuls
of butter in saucepan on the stove
and as soon as it is melted put in one
small onion, minced fine, and one quart
of turnips, cut in dice; stir until they
are brown, then add one heaping tea
spoonful of sugar, one tablespoonful of
flour, and half saltspoonful of pep
per, stirring for two minutes. At
the end of this time add a cupful of
milk or beef gravy and simmer for
twenty minutes, keeping the saucepan
covered. Serve Immediately. -The