Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-01-02
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Wet boots can be dried out by hll'
~ rttb ,ats nvNr uirht.

Wet boots can be dried ont 10y NIL
inc them with oats over night.
When your coal fire is getting low,
4 tablespoonful Of salt thrown over 1t
viii help it to come up,-Erchnge,
Iron rust on delicate garments on
which YOU are afraid to try oNatie acid
may be removed by 4 squeeze OF lemon
uice and a little salt; then hold over
The steaming spout Of the teakettle'-
Boston Baigot.
The best stock water is that of lv-
inc springs; the next, that OF running
streams. Fully equal to these, save IN
the exception of hardness, Is the water
If wells. free from surface drainage,
The worst water is that of slack streams
and especially stagnant pondS'-1F0E
Times.
Eggs for luncheon: Boil five eggs
COR twenty minutes. While they cooi
melt two tab~leSpoonfulS of buttss III 8
| saucepan, add the ANS quantity OF
flour and one pin! of boiling milk.
Season we'll, slice the eggs into tins
sauce and serve hot with parsley
T1e caterer.
Dipping fish in scalding water viii
cause the scales to come off very easily,
but if the fish are to be salted down
they must on no account be scalded,
You may then pour over them vinegar
with the same effect. Salt fish will
soak fresh much quicker in sour milk
| than in water.-The Cook.
An excellent way to thrash buck
wheat, where there IS no thrashlng-
machine, is to make a floor of rails,
raised a foot above the ground, and
make the bed upon this. As the gram
is thrashed out it falls through between
the rails. which at the end are moved
away and the grain is cleaned up with
out difficulty. ~ lbaHy JowHdi.
-Herodotus pudding (very good
Hall a pound each Of bread crumbs and
chopped figs, six ounces each OF fresh
suet and brown sugar. Mince nicely
together the figs and Suet, add a halt
t%easpoonful of salt and three eggs well
beaten, also half a nutmeg. Boil in Il
buttered pudding mould for four hours
Serve with some nice sweet sauce
Harper'S Bayar.
Variety conduces to health; An
animal is no more fitted for subSiSting
on a single article OF food than man
When kept upon one kind only II soon
begins to reject it, eating only wher
compelled by hunger. Digestion Is
best effected when all the demands fol
food are complied with. The greater
the variety the more rapid the progress
of the animal.-RHrai Home.
Corn biscuit: Scald two cups o
corr meal in one pint Of sweet milk
Then stir together ~three-quarters OF
cup of butter. two cups of sugar and
little salt, and add 10 it. Then add
three eggs well beaten, a little tloul
and half a cup OF hop yeast. Let ii riS'
the second time; then roll out and Ie
rise the third time. Bake and send t,
the table hot. This amount make
about twenty-five biscuits.-lb House
k0ld,
Bushes along the fences rus th'
cattle to reach oven the fences ant
break them down, After awhile the,
crawl over, and when they get oy.
once the second offence comes easier
Breachy cattle are made in this way
and damage often done which wouI'
pay for cutting the brush and weed
for years. Foul seeds are grown an'
spread from these sources, Clean KEEP
fences do the eyes good. How ar
y0urs?-Rarm NcU Yorker.