The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-07
Hints and Help.

A good wash for the hair and scalp is
borax dissolved in water; it is also good
for the skin, removing tan and PIN
pies.
Many persons think that corn is the
best food for poultry. 1t is if you do
not wish eggs. For eggs, feed soft
food, bran and meal, with a little salt
in the morning, and little cayenne
pepper added every other morning;
corn, wheat or oats in the e7ening. A
sole diet of corn produced too much fat.
A wash for the complexion is made
by mixing well one ounce sweet almond
oil, one ounce glycerine, and juice OF
three lemons. Apply at night, and
wash off in the morning with very warm
water.
An experienced horticulturist thus de-
scribes his mode of planting irult trees:
he makes holes eighteen inches deep
and three feet in diameter, fills IN four
inches of strong, short manure, then two
or three inches of street dirt, sets the
trees and fills in with earth.
Professor Cook says the following
mixture will not only vanquish the ap
| pie tree bark louise, but keep OH the
| borers as we'll. 1t is to heat to the boii-
lug point one quart of soft soap IN tw"
gallons of water, and while still hot.
thoroughly stir into the mixture one
pint OF crude carbolic acid. tie thinks
The best way TO apply it is to rub IL Oh
thoroughly with heavy Cloth, usIng
the hands also during the operation.
APPLE SAUCE.-Soak good dried ap
| pies a few hours, then stew carefully
until soft, with a handful of raisins, or
few slices of lemon; keep it covered
closely, and do not stir. Turn carefully
out into a dish, keeping the slices un
| broken, and serve when cool with pow
dered sugar, or sweeten while cooking.
How TO PRODUCE EGGr.-The follow
| ing foods contain all the elements thai
exist in eggs: Oats, wheat, barley, corn,
| bran, hnseed, hemp seed, rape seed.
crushed fresh bones, mustard seed, green
cabbage and clover, and a reasonable
mixture of all these varied more or less,
with crushed limestone and gypsum,
would afford every element called for u
produce a constant yield of eggs. A
large quantity of broken fresh bones l.
one of the most important aids, and
| With WHedI, DdIlcy, btOhCh lAhoOOu VI
cake, and mustard seed and plenty OF
green vegetables and water will provide
every thing that is required.
| WHAT A GOOD Cook Is.-Mr. Ruskin
says: To be a good cook means th,
knowledge of all fruits, herbs, balms
and spices, aid of all that is healing
and sweet in fields and groves, savory i'll
meats. 1t means carefulness, inventive
ness, watchfulness, willingness and read
mess of appliances. 1t means the econo
my of our great grandmothers and the
science of modern chemists: it mean,
much tasting and no wasting; it means
English thoroughness. French art, and
Arabian hospitality; it means, in fine
that you are to see that everybody has
something nice to eat.
The London Gazette gives good
recipe for making cream cheese, namely
Take quart of cream, or, if not desired
very rich, add thereto one pint of ne"
milk; warm it in hot water till about IS
degrees; add tablespoonful of rennet;
let it stand till thick, then break il
slightly with spoon, and place it in a
frame in which you have previously put
fine cloth; press it slightly with d
weight, let it stand few hours, then
put finer cloth in the frame; little
powdered salt may be put over the
cloth 1t will be fit for use in a day OF
| two.