Iron County register., 1889-02-07
HOME AND FARM.

What are called "health Slices
are toast soaked in beef blood and
then fried.
"A brilliant black varnish for iron
stoves and fire-places is made by stir
ring ivory black in ordinary shellac
varnish.
Some cows are better for milk and
cheese than for butter. while others
give less quantity, but it is richer and
better-adapted for butter.
When papering room small
apartment can be made to appear large
by being covered with paper of SUBJ
dued color without any particular de-
sign.
AS rule, those crops pay best
that require the most care and atten-
ton. The brains and the labor are
what sell in the markets in the shape
of the crop.
If the bedstead creaks at each
movement of the sleeper, remove the
Stats and wrap the ends of each in old
newspapers. This will prove a COM
plete silencer.
Use thermometer in the stable,
cellar and wherever you wish to know
the temperature, and you will save
many crops that are stored, and also
avoid cases of sickness among the ami
mails.
The possessor of grass plat can
whiten her choice linen by simply
rinsing in soap suds and laying it on
the grass for two or three days. Rinse
in clear water and dry upon the line,
and it will be sweet and fresh and
white.
Oyster Omelet: Stew half a dozen
large. plump oysters over a clear fire
in their own liquor; take them off at
the first boil; drain them. cut them in
halves and spread over the omelet be-
fore turning. If large and solid. the
half-dozen will suffice for two small
omelets.
The drains should be put down be-
fore the ground freezes. A single tile
drain will sometimes carry Off the
surplus water from large field, but
enough drain should be used to render
the field dry in early spring and be in
proper condition for plowing. The use
of tile drain will add hundreds of dol
lars to an early crop.
-Scalloped Mushrooms: Put fresh,
peeled mushrooms in a sauce-pan; to
each pint allow half teacup of butter
and cream each; season with salt and
pepper, thicken with a little corn
starch and boil down. Put them in
baking-dish with the gravy, cover the
top with grated cracker and butter.
Bake in a very hot oven.-Farm and
Fireside.
"A cheap filter can be made by put
ting a piece of sponge at the bottom of
large fower-pot and filling the pot
three-quarters full with clean, sharp
sand and small pieces of charcoal
mixed in equal parts. Lay upon this
mixture a piece of linen Or woolen
cloth, so as to hang over the side. The
water poured through this will come
out at the bottom clean and pure. The
cloth must be kept clean, and the sand
and charcoal, as we'll as the sponge,
washed and occasionally changed.
One frequently hears farmers COM
plain of having bad luck" with poul-
try. If conditions were reversed and
the men were subjects of the fowls, in
stead of masters, how would they like
the same kind of treatment? Suppose
the men, on approach of winter, were
occasionally thrown a handful of food,
deprived of water to drink, compelled
to lodge wherever they could find rude
shelter and knocked about generally.
Wouldn't they deem their feathered
lords foolish in complaining that ''they
have bad luck raising those confound-
ed n?"-American Poultry journal