The Arizona sentinel., 1888-05-19
HOME AND FARM.

When potatoes are to go into stews
 or chowders they should be first sliced.
 soaked and scalded.
 In using seed corn that which
 shows the slightest degree of injury should be avoided. Smut can easily
 be carried from one year to another by the seed.
 Those who will take the trouble to rip the. buttons off dress each time it is washed will be amply repaid. Fe w metal buttons look well after they have been in hot soap studs.
 The two oldest trees in the world are supposed to be one in Calaveras Cpunty. Cal, which is believed 10 be 2,565 years old. aud the cypress oi Somma, in Lombardy, Italy, which is 1. 911 years old. plante B c. 42.
 Potato Biscuits: One half pound of flour, one-fourth of pound of
 boiled potatoes rubbed through a sieve. a pinch of salt. three teaspoons of baking powder, three-fourths of a cup of butter. four to make dough; roll out and cut into shape.
 Date Pie: One pound of dates. one quart of milk and three eggs Season the same as for squash pie. It needs no sweetening. Put the dates in the milk and heat until they are soft enough to sift. This makes two good sized pies. Use one crust, the same as for squash.
 The real value of root crops in the economy of farm feeding is the change they furnish from the dry feed 10 which stock is subjected through the long winter months. A light feed every few days helps the animal to digest and assimilate the coarse dry food that is his usual ration.
 Indian Suet Pudding: Three quarters pound suet. chopped fine; half pint molasses, one pint milk. an egg, meal 10 make very thin batter, teaspoonful allspice, ditto ground cin- namon, one teaspoonful salt, little nutmeg. a few currents or chopped rasins. Boil or steam three hours. Serve with melted jelly or butter sauce.
 Orange Cake: Two cups of sugar two cups of four, one-half cup of wa ter, pinch of salt. the yelks of five eggs and whites of three, three tea spoonfuls of baking powder. and the grated rind and juice of one orange Beat tho whites and add sugar fol frosting, and the grated rind and ju1ce of one orange. Bake the cake in lay CTS and put frosting between.
 Orange RollY-Poly: Make light pastry as for apple-lumplings, roll in 0 blong sheets and lay the oranges peeled. sliced and seeded thickly on il; sprinkle with white sugar; scatter over all teaspoon or two of grated orange peel. and roll up. folding down the edges closely to prevent the escape of the sirup; steam one and one-half hours. Serve with lemon sauce.
 Pretty fowcr-ho,d are of stout card board, covered with dry. scaly ichens from old trees or with pine scales. sewed and overlapping each other. A glass bowl for the flowers is set within the holder. which needs no bottom. A little basket of lichen scales 10 hold a tum bier of blue and white hepaticas is most spring-like offering. Larger baskets may be of the large pine scales not the cones, filled with fresh moss, wild vines traiI- ing round the edges, and pine tassel tt intervals. the center filled with Tiolets.
 Lemon Short-Cake: Make a rich short cake same as for strawberries or other fruit. Roll in layers and bake in jelly tins quite thin. so. when done. t will not be more than one-half inch Il thickness. Make sauce as follows, preading between layers same as jel- y cake: One cup sugar, one-half cup butter. on egg. one lemon, juice and ,rated rind. two tablespoons flour, nlx wei ana pour polling water over (use one pinD, let it stand on back If the stove.
 For permanent pasture use a -ariety of grasses. The kind best ldapted 10 the location will assert its and in time give a good eward. It is not advisable to turn tock on permanent pasture until he ground shall have been well cov- red Trampling injures the grass, while grazing it too soon injures its -itality. At least three years should 'e allowed for growth before turning m stock. The greater the variety of ,rasses the thicker the growth and the letter the pasture.