Year: 1869

servant girls of dipping their hands in the
milk while milking the cows, is a disgust
ing Irish practice that should not be toll
Grated Cows are just as easily milk ed with
dry hands, and if they are not, the teats
should be softened in tepid water, and
great care taken to allow nothing to drop
from them or the hands into the milk pail.
( while the operation of milking is going ON.
| MAKING SWEET PICKLES. the toma-
| toes through, or, if large, slice in three
pieces; let them stand in weak brine over


night. To q quart of vinegar, add three


pounds of sugar; in this cook the tomatoes


until fork can easily be passed through


them. As fast as they are cooked, take


them out with a fork and lay them down


in a jar-say two or three layers of toma-


toes; sprinkle pulverized cinnamon and


cloves, and thin layer of sugar: then al


ternately tomatoes, spices and sugar, cook
ing all the tomatoes in the same vinegar;
if necessary, add more sugar and vinegar
When the jar is filled, cover the tomatoes
with good cider vinegar cold, throwing
away the vinegar in which the tomatoes
were cooked. Lay some horse-radish root
over the top of the pickles, and put
weight on to keep them covered. This re-
cipe is equally good for ripe cucumbers.
CANNING SWEET CoRN.-hrs. Zena A.
Lindsey writes to the New York Farmers
Club that corn can be canned so that it
will stay canned in the following way: Boil
the corn fifteen minutes on the cob and
then cut 1t off sand dry in the sun. The
corn should then be seasoned to the taste
with SALT and put III the cans with very
little water. The covers must then be
placed ON the cans, leaving only a very
small aperture for the escape of gas, then
place the cans in n kettle of water and boil
slowly three quarters ofan hour, when the
can may be sealed with drop of solder or
even little putty. Corn preserved in this
way will always keep as long as it is nece-
ssary to keep it, and there Is no danger of
bursting the cans


Coax HIM-A correspondent of the n.
b. Farmer, speaking of the difficulty of
swine driving, says it is ''as easy as whist
ling, after you know how" to wit: To the
end of q stout cord tie an ear of corn; drop
it in front of the pig, to within five or six
inches of his nose, and commence walking
slowly away IN the direction you wish him
to prope. If his pigship shows evidence
of blighted hopes, or alteration of mind,
from the singular conduct of the corn, Sc
duce him into the belief that it is all right,
by letting him nibble at it, and then re-
sumo your line of march, In this way the
most obdurate pig may be decoyed any
reasonable distance


POTATO BUGs.-H. Capron, Paris Prov
inceof Ontario, assures the Rural New
Yorker that he succeeds in keeping his
grounds clear of the striped bug, by pull
ing up and burning the vines as soon as
done bearing, with the weeds which grow
among them, burning them up all clean,
believing that he thus destroys the eggs or
germs of the incoming crop of bugs.


FUNERAL OF A HoRsE.-A curious affair
took place in Pontiac, Mich, OH the even
ing of the 7th inst. 1t was That of hold
ing ceremonies over the charred remains
of the favorite Morgan, horse owned by
Mrs. Hodges, which was considered q very
valuable animal. large concorse of
people assembled on the spot, and the
grave being dug, and a solemn chant by
the Pontiac cornet band, the remains of
the favorite Morgan were consigned to
earth.