The Arizona sentinel., 1886-10-02
HOME AND FARM.

Few persons understand by rainfall in inches what this really means, but an inch of rain means gallon for every two square feet, or 100 tons per acre. Farm and Field.
 An exchange says: lice two inches thick will support man." We have noticed this, and if he is president of the company it will not only support him and his family, but he will grow rich on it.-Boston Post.
 Cheap Tea Cake: One cup of sugar, one cup of milk, three cups of flour and one-half cup of butter, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one teaspoonful of caraway seeds and two tablespoonfuls of entrants. Boston Budget.
 Ivy, or any vine that runs perpen. dicularly up tree does not injure it, unless branches from the vine extend along the branches, and by it's mass of leaves smother the leaves of the tree. Vines like wistaria, that coil around a trunk, do injure trees. Troy Times.
 An experienced raiser advises poul- terers to reduce the stock of fowls as soon as the years hatch is we'll pro- vided for, but hold on to old turkeys and old geese; they get used to the ways of the farm, and are worth much more as breeders than young ones. A turkey is in her prime at five, a goose at twenty years Chicago Journal.
 Milk Toast: Wet the pan to be used with cold water, which prevents burning. Melt an ounce of floured butter; wbisk into it pint of hot milk: add a.Aittlef falt; simmer. Prepare four slices of tsssst, put them in deep dish one at a time, pour little of the milk over each, and over the last one pour the remainder of the milk.-BostOn | Globe.
 Farmers who have pear trees that nave been in bearing some years and begin to show signs of degeneration, are advised by an Orange County farmer to supply the soil about them with potash in one form or another. A | half bushel of wood ashes sprinkled about each tree as far as the roots eX- tend will do the trees world of good, says the same farmer.-N F. World.
 Potato Yeast: Eight potatoes grated, one cup sugar, one cup salt, small hand full hops boiled alone, two quarts boil Ing water turned unto these; when cold, dissolve one yeast-cake; add to this after it has worked, set away in a jar, covered over; this will keep good two ol three weeks, and cup of this will make to rise another pot. One cup to foul quarts of flour.-N Y. Witness. I n ually are sometimes injured. The bes method is to blow under the grass, limt the land, give an application of well routed manure and reseed. Some or chards do best when in grass, if the soil i' rich, but the peach and plum are excep tions. The grass should, however, b' plowed under occasionally. CleUetanc LeGder.
 Raspberry Vinegar: To four pounds of crushed raspberries add half a pint O pure wineyinegar and let them stand for twenty-four hours. Press then through a cloth and let them stand fOl another twenty-four hours. At the enc of this time hour off the clear juice ant put it on the fire with two pounds o sugar When it boils remove the scun and let the syrup stand over night Next morning put it in bottles and sea well. -EGchGnge.
 -Currant Cake: Cream three ounce of butter with two ounces of powdere' sugar and three eggs, one at time using one ounce of flour with each egg and beat well until quite smooth. Ad one ounce of citron, finely minced, ant pour the mixture into buttered cups o moulds. Have an ounce and half c entrants nicely cleaned, and sprinkl them over the tops of the cakes. Bak in moderate oven until light brown. = The Cdterer.