The Arizona sentinel., 1888-03-31
HOME AND FARM.

Vinegar is not only excellent for keeping fish, but improves its flavor. When the plate is sent up Tor more meat, send your knife and fork with it. It looks awkward to sit hold ing them.
 Nice table-cloths and napkins should not be allowed to become much soiled, so that they will require vlgor- ous rubbing with soap or in hot water It is claimed that if carrots be made regular diet as part ot the ration for milch cows there will be no necessity to use butter color.
 -rhe best food for early-hatched chicks is granul ated oatmeal, which should be placed in little troughs. so that the chicks can get all they wish, and at any time-
 The soil. like any other lender likes its loan returneI with interest and in proportion as this is done with q liberal hand. so will it be better pre- pared to make new and larger ad- vances.
 No less than sixty-eight standard breeds of fowls are recognized, and this does not include tho common barnyard fowl. There are ten breeds of ducks, and seven breeds of geese and six breeds of turkeys
 Cranberry Pudding: One pint ot cran berries, one pint of flour, two eggs, one teaspoon of soda, one tea spoon cream tartar; mix with sweet milk; pour into tin and steam one hour and half. It requires sweet sauce.
 Sheep here do not pay as great profits as those in England. Every thing depends on the mode of man. agement Our farmers compel sheep to forage. while in England they are treated as carefully as are cattle.
 -Ome leite of Cheese: Crate some fine cheese and beat it up in a dish with some eggs and cup of thick cream or sweet milk. season it wiiE pepper and sal, according to the salt ness of the cheese; have ready q fry ing-pan of hot butter into which pour the above mixture and fry as an ome- lette.
 A heifer has no rings on herhOrns until she is two years of age. and one is added each year thereafter You can. therefore, tell the age of COW with tOlcrable accuracy by counting the rings on her horns and adding two to the nu nber. The bull has no rings, as a rule, until he is five years old, so to tell his age. after that period, add five 10 the number of rings.
 Apples with R e: Peel and core as many apples as is required. Put them in a baking dish with little lemon peel and a sirup of sugar and water; cover the d sh, and let the ap' pies bake very slowly until done, but they must not be tho least broken. Place the apples on dish, fill the m d. dle of each with boiled rice, and on tho top put dried cherry or little pre- serves. Put boiled rice around the apples. and pour over them the sirul in which they were cooked.
 Educate yourself and your chil dren; acquire business habits that vii enable you to market your own pro duce; practice economy; avoid debt a' you would sin; be industrious and dili gent in business; diversity your crops give greater attention to smaller in dustries; be farmers, not planters give your personal attention to you business; work out your industria freedom by perfect organization an' persistent. individual effort; and you would keep up with the progress i've ispirit of the az. subscribe fo and read the best agricultural jour nals of the county.-C. B. Butler, { South CaroiinG fdrnlerS.