The Arizona sentinel., 1888-08-11
HOME AND FARM.


 Wash fat-irons in soapsuds and dry thoroughly, if they at all give trouble by dropping black specks
 To entirely remove paint from wood, apply thick coat of two parts freshly slaked lime and one part sal soda, mix thick. After twenty-four hours wash of.
 It is recommended, sometimes, to change the garden spot, in order to get rid of weeds. If so, it will benefit it greatly to SOW it with clover, if only to Tighten up the subsoil, and this the clover roots will do.
 Old leather contains considerable percentage of ammonia compounds, which are very slowly soluble. A good way to dispose of old boots, therefore, is to bury them at the foot of an apple tree.
 -Currant Sherbet: One pint of cur rant juice, one pint of sugar. the juice of lemon and quart of water Boil the water and sugar together for twenty minutes, then add the currant and lemon juice, Cool and freeze in an ice-cream freezer.
 Apple Meringue: Line a pie-plate with crust, and fill with stewed apples, sweetened and favored. Bake until the crust is done, then cover with meringue made of whites of egg and powdered sugar.
 A pretty rug may be made from old hose of bright colors, by cutting strips lengthwise and travelling them into fringe, leaving enough unraveled for heading by which to sew the fringe on canvas. Sew the rows so closely as to overlap each other.
 --Go over the orchard at least once month and search for the borers, or they will bore in too far to be reached. Remove the earth from each tree and examine the trunk carefully. The borer may be known by the exudations of the tree where it enterg, and also by the "chips" it throws out.
 Do not plant asparagus roots too close together. If given plenty of room the roots will soon fill up the vacant spaces, have greater feeding capacity and produce larger stalks. A liberal application of manure should be used both in fall and early spring on the beds.
 Fig Pudding: Soak pint of dried bread crumbs in pint of milk in which you have dissolved pinch of soda. Add three well-beaten eggs, one-half a cupful of finely-chopped suet, and five tablespoonfuls of sugar. Mix thoroughly and then add six figs which have been washed, dried and chopped very fine. Boil In a tin pud- ding boiler for three hours. Eat with hard sauce.-Good Housekeeping.
 Dried Apple Cake: Soak three cups of dried apples over night in warm water, in the morning drain off the water and chop fine; simmer two hours in three cups of molasses; cool and add one and one-half cups shortening, one cup of sugar, three eggs, one teaspoon full cinnamon, one-half teaspoonful each of cloves and nutmegs, one cup of sour milk, two teaspoonfuls of soda dis solved in hot water, five cups of flour; add raisins and entrants if desired, four them and stir in just before put ting in the oven; bake in moderate oven. This is enough for three large cakes.
 A Nebraska farmer, who claims to have had much experience in growing cottonwood trees from cuttings, states that those taken from the tree in early spring and put immediately in the ground do best. He plants them where he wants them to grow, using a spade to make an opening in which to insert them. He leaves only one or two buds above ground, and presses the earth firmly against the cutting. Planted in this way not one in hundred will fail to grow if the season is favorable. If the cuttings have been taken from the tree some time they should be soaked in water for week before they are planted.