Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1888-10-13
EARM ANn HOUSEHOLD.

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in many instances it Is more prof
table to pillow under the second crol
Of clover than to cut i, Tor either ha!
Or seed.
The old advice TO treat a COW as
lady : f~rSt-class advice. II any S'ey
can not DO that. and milk rapidly and
/ thoroughly. better not attempt to mill
at all,
Glover should be grown more
/ sbuntsntly than it is on many farms.
When properly cured it makes very
nutritious hay, containing more muscle
and milk-making material than ordi-
nary hay.
1t Is the custom Of q great many
farmers 10 burn wheat and oat straw.
This should never be done, even with
an abundant supply Of timothy and
clover. Cattle. horses and sheep will
eat straw for a change.
The Spanish peanut is now very
extensively used in Georgia for feed
ing 10 hogs. 1t is stated that the
average crop is one hundred and
twenty-five bushels per acre. The
hogs do all the harvesting, and they
generally eat the vines As well as the
NUS, 1t is estimated that an ucre Of
Spanish peanuts viii furnishfour times
as much food as an acre of corn,
For an apple custard pudding use
one pint of grated bread crumbs, soaked
in a pint Of cold sweet milk; add q
pinch of salt, and nutmeg or cinnamon,
Add four beaten eggs and three OF
four well-aavored apples grated, on
sliced fine, Add sugar to swocten, a
pint Of new milk, and a small piece oil
butter. Bake in a moderate oven in q
deep dish. 1t may be eaten with OF
without sauce.
So much depends upon the woman
that We might almost pronounce the
happiness or unhappiness Of the home
10 be woman's work. No nation car
advance except through the improve
ment OF the nations homes; and they
a only be improved through the in
s~trumentality Of women. They mus
know how to make homes comfortable
and before they can know they mus
have been taught.-Samucl Smiles.
Farmers generally do not yetful1y
appreciate the value of bran as a feed.
ing substance. 1t contains less oil
than corn meal but one-fourth more
fiesh-forming, BODYBUILDING material.
Il is therefore less heating and more
healthful. BY analysis its manurial
value after being fed to animals is
more than double that Of meal.
Bran a usually be bought in the fall
for about one-third less thanin winter.
Valuable discoveries are often
made by accident. For example, an
Arkansas farmer relates that last year.
when coons made great havoc in his
corn-feld, he went to a drug store TO
buy strychnine with which to kill
them. By mistake the druggist gave
him morphine, and the next morning
he found his corn-ield full of sleeping
coons. He advises the use Of NOR
.hine instead Of strychnine for the
Steamed Corn Bread.-Two cups
corn meal, n cup of -four, three
scant cups of sour milk, two table
spoons of sugar, one large tablespoon
of lard, II teaspoon of soda, one tea
spoon salt. Stir the sugar and salt in
mixed flour and meal: add melted lard:
dissolve the soda in a little boiling
water and put into the milk and stir
into the dry materials. Beat very
pour it into a small tiff pail well
creased and with a tight fitting top.
this in a pot of boiling water,
guarding carefully against the water
over the top of the mol1.
Boil three hours, turn out and cat
With a hard pudding sauce.