The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-12-08
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HOME, FARM AND CARDeN.

DO not use coAt oil lamps in bed.
rooms, with wick turned dpwn low. it
produces asthma. heart disease. throat
disease. etc. : Louisville Oatlook
Above all things else. IL you would
be q successful poultry raiser. keep
things clean about the hen houses and
runs; it pays handsomely to give them
propOrtionately IS much attention aS
you do other live stock.
Manure on grass land. meadow or
pasture, has best eject when it is APP
piled late, even if It be- after snow COW
ers the land. Do not leave it in heaps.
Spread it ut once. where t will serve
the double purpose to protect the roots
of grass and to enrich the land.
Western R,Wd.
Biscuit: Sift together three times
one quart Of -four, one tablespoonful
corn starch ana one t,aspoonful good
baking powder. Add one tablespoon
full of lard, pinch o salt and cupful
of cold water; mix and bake IN quick
oven. This will make eight or nine
good-sized biscuits. 49, Bost2n Globe.
Milk Mush: Three cups of hot
milk, one cup of boiling water, one
scant cup of white Indian meal. one
| even teaspooniul OF silt. Scald the
sailed meal with the boiling water.
and stir into the hot milk; boil in "A
farina-kettc for twenty minutes, stir
ring all the tine; beat hard ~ the last.
and serve In an uncovered dish. Eat
with sugar and cream. The Caterer.
--GarIens where clay prcdominates
may be improved greatly by coal
ashes spread to the depth of three or
four inches, to be worked in next
spring. This treatment repeated until
the clay has something of the character
of light loan, will at last make the sit
uation rs good AS it can be. provided
there is also enough stable manure
used to enrich the soil. -Sdn Francisco
Chronicle.
There is good deal of refuse and
rubbish in every garden that can with
profit be di posed of by fee ling II to
the cows Beet tops, turnip tops. cab
bage leaves. etc, can lie fed to advan-
tage and without perceptible injury to
the flavor of the milk. j! they are eaten
just after milking and in moderate
quantities. But it viii not do to let
cows eat such stuif to exoass or in
large quantit es. - Chicago Standard.
Water Pound Cake: One pound
of butter, one pound of powdered SUI
gar, four eggs, one cupfnl of boiling
water, one pound of prepared flour.
flavor with lemon. Beat butter, sugar
and the yelks of the eggs to cream,
then adj the boiling water, and stir
gently till cold. then the pound Of
flour with the VIII $ of tho eggs which
have been bta'en to q still froth, the
lemon last; bake one hour. This
cake can not b tod from real pound
cake, and it will keep two wooks.-
| The Household.
Tom Toumb Omelcttas: Eight
eggs. half cup of rich milk. salt and
pepper, tablespoonful of cheese; beat
the eggs light, season, stir in the milk.
the grated ch csc Half I'LL eight patty
pans, buttercd, and set in a dripping
pan with half an inch If boiling waite,
in it; shut up in quick oven. and us
soon as they are ''set' AIrn out on a
hot dish. You may vary the dish by
substituting minced pars ev and thyme
for the grated cheese, snd when diahed
pour drawn butter over the Omelettes,
They make a pr 'tty show when gar
nishcd with curlcd parsley, o tiny
sprig being stuck in The middle of each
mould. 1niet0 Blade. st