Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1889-09-21
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

Pit the Young cucumbers in brine
"a fast as gathered until a sulhcieh'
nrwbcr have been secured for picking
with vinegar.
Iii is not the number OF tho acres
that n man skins over that makes MN
either a large or a successful farmer,
II is what he makes net, above cost OF
production, for his W toll n inter-
est on the capital invested, -Hoards
Dairyman. =,
-Cupped Potatoes. Boil, mash and
season the potatoes as for the table
Wet a teacup and press some OF TINS IN
the cup. Turn out on a tin as many
ne Won wish for dinner. Beat an egg
and rub each cake with it; then set
the cakes in the oven until nicely
Drowned.
To make a fruit sauce that is nice
for many buildings, reduce one cup
full of berries to a pulp by pressing
them through a fine sieve; add to them
one cupful of sugar beaten to a cream
with one cupful OF butter; add the
fruit Juice, and lastly the beaten White
OF an egg. This auc should be served
directly it is made,
After the grain is harvested 1t is a
number one plan to clean up the stack
ward. Before beginning stacking, draw
out all the manure, and II any old
straw is left that can be used for
bedding put that in as little space as
possible, mend up the fences and have
a place ready for stackmaking by the
time the grain is dry enough to draw
in.
If eggs are to be preserved for use
late in fall or early winter, care should
be taken to select those that are fresh,
to store them in a cool place and en-
tirely to close the pores of the she'll
If this is carefully done, they a be
kept with little loss. 1t is not to be
expected that they will be fully equal
to fresh eggs, but for many purposes
they will answer as well.
TO make delicious peach jam or
marmalade, allow half II pound OF
sugar to every pound of peaches, Put
water enough in the preserying-kcttle
to cover the bottom; heat all to the
boiling point, then mash the peaches
fine, and boil and stir for fifteen min
utes. Set back on the fire and sim
mor twenty minutes longer, stirring
occasionally, that it may not scorch,
Put up in stone jars .-Dcmorest.
This is the road that most OF our
young take to destruction: "On a
small income he must have three or
four fifty dollar suits per year; must
be shaved by II fashionable barber;
must carry an expensive cane and a
fine silk umbrella; must board at a
fashionable house; must take his dull
cinea to the thcater at a total cost
Of seven dollars, including tickets,
carriage and supper, and so on"
Repeated experiments show that
the cost Of producing a pound Of poul-
try does not exceed five cents, pro-
vided the bird is sold as soon as it
reaches maturity. When it reaches a
certain stage Of growth the increase
Of weight is slow, and the expense will
be higher. During warm weather the
cost is lessencd. as but little food is
required to repair waste of tissue, the
bird being then able to pick up a por-
tion Of its food, but the cost of fowls il
conincd.is somewhat larger.
Apple Pudding very nice pud'
ding is made from stale cake and
stewed apples, either fresh or dried,
Crumble the cake and put a thick
layer in u butterod pudding dish, ado
IA layer Of stewed apples and add an.
other of cake crumbs. For a quart
dish Of this mixture, beat the yclks Of
two eggs and the white of one with &
pint of milk and three tablespoonful
of sugar; pour over the cake and ap-
pies and bake thirty minutes. Draw
to the oven door and cover with a
meringue made from the white of the
egg beaten with sugar.