The Arizona sentinel., 1886-02-13
HOME AND FARM.

To increase the laying, every other day give one teaspoonfuT of cayenne pepper pulverized, to one dozen fowls with their common food. Keep them free from lice. Western Rural.
 Tea is best made in an earthenware tea pot, which should be kept dry, for if allowed to remain damp after use it becomes musty. The water should always boil when the tea Is added. Tea is not wholesome taken on empty stomach. -E1change.
 -Thimbles lined with india rubber are now employed and are said, not to fall off so easily as the ordinary unlined thimble. They are also warmer to the skin, and free from the metallic ''rust," which sometimes takes the form of ver- digris, a substance of poisonous nature. N E. Farmer.
 Fried Cakes: One beaten egg, three heaping tablespoonfuls of sugar, three tablespoonfuls of melted shortening, six tablespoonfuls of sour milk or butter milk, one teaspoonful of salt and one small teaspoonful of soda. Flavor with nutmeg. Flour to make as stiff as bis- cuit.-The Caterer.
 -Fritters: One pint sweet milk, the yolks of three eggs, stirred in thick batter with flour, pinch of salt and three tablespoonfuls of baking powder; lastly, add the whites of the eggs, well beaten. Drop into hot lard and cook until done in about teaspoonful of dough for cake.-The Household.
 There is much good feed in the pumpkin, but for the hog it should be cooked and either meal or grain mixed with it. In this way supply of pump kins can be made to greatly lessen the cost of fattening pork. During the last month of feeding the hogs should be given grain exclusively to harden the pork and make it shrink less.-M F. Herald
 In sections of the country where exen are used for draft purposes, it is found that the labor of breaking" is greatly facilitated and lessened by early training; and an early begin ming to accustom the young steers to the yoke, as well as the halter, economies much time, and makes better ox-teams. "Just as the twig is bent, the tree is inclined. "- Toronto MaiI
 Speak of punishing a horse, always be careful about using a whip on horse you don't know; see how differently horses take whipping; just like young sters-some will tremble and lose their spirit, others will become stubborn and balk; a spunky one will jump right out of your hands, and you might not get him back in time enough to save broken wagon or head.-CAicago Trib- W1se.
 -Spiced Grapes: Eight quarts of grapes (the wild grapes are useD, seven pounds of brown sugar, two table spoonfuls each of ground cloves and allspice. Take off the skins, boil the pubs till tender, then strain through sieve. Boil the skins in one pint of vinegar with the spices two hours. using judgment as to when it is cooked enough; add the pubs and boil slowly little as for jelly; when like jelly, put up hot in glasses Boston Budget.
 It will not pay farmers to attempt growing evergreens from seed. While very small the plants are tender and need protection alike from sun and cold. Nurserymen manage it by stretching covers of some sort over the plants in the rows. These covers remain during the season. Even with this precaution many trees are lost. Young evergreens in the forest get this protection natural ly from the shade of trees, and through a large proportion of all that start fail, enough are left to reach maturity.-M r. Tunes.