The Osceola times., 1886-02-13
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Not every man can make extensive
and accurate experiments in farm work,
but all can take a good paper and keep
themselves posted as TO what other peo-
pie are doing Toronto Globe.
-Cobs are good for smoking meat,
as they give good favor. Keeping
small fire a longer time is better than
quick smoking, as too much heat gives
the meat a strong taste, and injuries its
sweetness. - Toledo Bidde.
Snowy Potatoes: Two cups of cold
mashed potatoes and two tablespoon
fuls of butter beaten to cream; add
the whites of two eggs, one cup Of milk
and one teaspoonful of salt; beat all
well together and brown in a hot oven.
The household .......
brooklyn Cake; Two cups of sugar,
two-thirds cup of butter, one and one
half cups of sweet milk, one cup of
raisins, five cups of -four and three tea
spoonfuls of baking powder Bake in
one large pan or two small ones. This
cake keeps well. The Caterer.
Rain water is stored in the moss and
herbage of the woods. to be consumed
by the vegetation during the dry season.
A striking illustration of this fact is given
in forest on the Western coast of the
Caspian Sea, where the vegetation is
very luxuriant, although it never rains
except in the fall and winter Chicago
Tribune.
Crooks of butter placed in the cellar
to keep for months should be at least a
foot from the cellar bottom, on bench
and have thick wooden cloth thrown
over them. Ii the crock touches the
cellar bottom, there will be two degrees
OF temperature within it, and this will
be prejudical to the top portion.-Aibnsy
Journal.
-"Prune in winter for wood and in
summer for fruit" But do not prune
too much. Just enough to let in suf-
fcient light and air TO give the leaves
their fair quota is right A good rule is,
when you see limb interfering with
another out with it, whatever the time
of year. When the sap is in full 1ow
wounds will heal over quickest. - Chicago
Tribune.
Transparent Sauce: A collee-cup
of water, tablespoonful of butter, a
coffce-cupful of white sugar, the whites
of two eggs and flavor Of lemon OF
vanilla. Put the sugar, water and but
ter into double boiler, let il heat ten
minutes, stirring it well; let it cool and
then beat the whites of the eggs into the
cool sauce. e.-BoSton Budget.
Cracks in floors, around the skirt
ing-board or other parts of a room, may
be neatly and permanently filled by
thoroughly soaking newspapers in paste
made OF one pound of -four, three quart,
of water, and a teaspoonfu of alum
thoroughly boiled and mixed. The
mixture will be about as thick as putty,
and may be forced into the cracks with
a case-knfc. IT will harden like papiel
mache, -ErchdHge.
1t is said that farming does not pay.
But whoever hears Of farmer falling.
The Rhode Island farmer lives, as q
rule, in comfort. SAYS the Providence
,,onrRai He is as independent as a
man can be in world where we are
all, TO some extent, mutually dependent.
His industry is represented not in the
increase Of another's wealth, but OF his
own. In some respects farmers life
may be hard, but even in the city there
is no royal road to riches. With brain
or hand man must toll. and few, even
of the very wealthy, are removed above
anxiety as to the morrow.