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sponge cake the lighter the cake will
be-
Sugar Cookies. One and one-half
cups sugar, one cup butter, one cup
sour cream, one egg, one teaspoon
soda, one teaspoon bakiug-powder;
mix soft. Boston Budget.
Before going into fruit culture find
out what varieties your land is best
adapted to produce, and give those
varieties the preference. Situation as
we'll as soil adaptation should be con-
,idered. Troy Times.
Ducks usually begin to lay in Feb
ruary, and until that time they may be
kept at but little expense. Cooked
turnips, with small amount of corn
meal, make good food for them. After
they begin to lay they should have a
proportion of animal food. -Iisdianap-
2ls Journal
Uncle Smeon's Brown Bread
Two quarts Indian meal, one quart
rye, half cupful molasses, two tea
spoonfuls salt, one teaspoonful sal
aratus, one cupful yeast. Make as stiff
as can be stirred with spoon, with
warm water. Let rise over night.
Bake five or six hours. -I0ledo Blade.
Every additional pound of flesh
that can be added to the carcass
proportionally lessons the cost of the
whole, with the same amount OF food.
The more comfortable the animal is
kept the more rapidly it will increase.
Shelter and warmth represent food, as
they save that to create which food is
required. St Louis Republican.
Field mice will work very badly
in orchards when there is a great
depth of snow The snow sh|ld be
trodden down about the trees the first
time it is damp enough to do so. espe-
cially in runs where it drifts, as trees
six or eight inches in diameter at the
collar are often completely girdled in
such situations. Home and Farm.
Plum Pudding. - One pint of
chopped suet, one pint of tart apples,
one pint of raisins, one pint OF cur
rants, one-half pint of sugar, one-half
pint of sweet milk, one cup of citron;
beat eight eggs and mix with the
above, and add sufficient flour to make
it stick together; boil three hours in
cloth bag and serve with sauce
Detroit Free Press.
Loaf Cake. One pound of butter
beaten to cream, two pounds of
sugar rolled fine, three pounds OF
sifted flour, six well-beaten eggs, three
teaspoonfuls of soda dissolved in lit
tie hot water, one tablespoonful of
ground cinnamon, half nutmeg
grated, add one pound of currants well
washed and dried. one pound of raisins
stoned and cut in two, divided in three
loaves and bake one hour in moderate
oven.- Christian Union.
Wheat shorts or middlings is one
of the cheapest foods for swine. A
ration of two-thirds shorts and one
third corn-meal is one of the best
things for finishing off mature hogs.
1t should be fed dry. providing water
in separate trough. In this way the
hogs will masticate their food most
thoroughly and digest more of it than
they would if it was fed wet. Shorts
and sweet skim milk until the pigs arc
: four or five months old is excellent
feed, one-third corn-meal being added
} later to put on flesh and fat HOME
and Farm.
The garden needs more manure
This fact should always be kept in
mind, and every bit of waste that is
likely to have any value, mechanical
or otherwise, as manure, should bC
added to the heap. 1t is wonderful
what a lot of manure may be got to
gether by those who keep this always
before them. Every body, of course
should keep pigs to eat up the waste
vegetables, and with the manure from
the pig-stye should be blended all tn,
other waste matters of the garden ant
house. N. \. observer.
-Whit-Pot. - From one quart o
milk save out teacupful, heat the re
: mainder to the boiling point; into tn
cold milk stir two heaped Tablespoons
! fuls of Indian meal and two heapeC
tablespoonfuls of sifted -four; stir this
after being evenly mixed in the coli
milk, into the boiling milk, have read,
to add at the same time two eggs wei
beaten and two-thrds of cup o
: molasses (or "sweeten to taste"), boi
II ten minutes and add teaspoonful o
salt and serve hot, and you will no
wondor that "thc boys" always reiishe,
mothers glib 60 down. y Goo
II Cheer.