Year: 1877

toes boiled and mashed fine, and salt
and -four enough to roll. Handle as
little as possible.


PRESERVED OUNCES. s.-Pare and core
ounces: take the cores and skins and
boil them an hour, then strain the juice
through coarse cloth; boil the ounces
in the Juice till tender; take them out,
add the weight of the ounces in sugar
to this syrup; boil and skim till clear,
then put in the ounces and boil three
hours.


APPLE OMEIEr.-Pare, core and stew
six large tart apples. Beat them very
smooth while hot, adding one spoonful
of butter, six of sugar, and little nut
meg. When perfectly cold add three
eggs, yolks and whites beaten light
separately. Pour this into hot, deep,
buttered baking dish, and bake till OF a
delicate brown.


Corn BREAd.-Mi1 two cupfuls of
sifted cornmeal with two cupfuls of sour
milk; add one tablespoonful of sugar,
one-half teaspoonful of salt, one table
spoonful of melted butter or shortening,
and one egg. Beat well, and lastly add
one-half teaspoonful of soda dissolved in
one tablespoonful of boiling water. Bake
in quick oven.


BREAD PUDDNa.-Take pound OF
stale bread; boil a quart of milk, pour it
on the bread, and let it soak one or two
hours; then rub it quite fine with the
hands. Beat up four or five eggs, and add
them to it; also tablespoonful of Gin
namon, or any other kind of spice; two
cupfuls of sugar and little chopped
suet, or quarter of pound OF butter.
Bake or boil it two hours.


PoT-oHEEsE.-Scald sour milk .until
the whey rises to the top; pore it off OF
skim out the curd and place it in a cot
ton cloth or bag, hang it up to drain ;
len it drain five or six hours do not
squeeze it; after the whey had all drip
ped out put the curd in bowl, salt to
taste, and work in well with your hands
butter and little cream; mold into balls
or pats; keep in cool place.


Mo1AssEs CANDY.-One quart Of good
molasses, one tablespoonful OF vinegar,
half cupful of sugar, tablespoonful OF
butter; boil; stir most of the time; drop
teaspoonful in cold water-if it hardens
it is finished; at the last stir in tea
spoonful of saleratus, first dissolved in a
little hot water; one tablespoonful es-
sence of lemon; pour into buttered tins.
When cool enough "pull it white. :"
Flour your fingers occasionally.


To MAKE SALT GOLDFISH BALLS. One
third of salt Goldfish and six potatoes;
the Goldfish to be the best of its kind
isles OF Shoals fish preferably, and the
potatoes ripe and mealy. Put the fish
in gallon of water and let it come to
the boiling point. Boil and peel the
potatoes. Chop the fish fine and mix
with it the potato mashed in half pound
of butter, half teacupful of milk, and two
eggs. Make with the hand into oblong
balls, roll in fine bread crumb, and fry
in boiling lard. Remove each cake care
fully with a skinner, and serve at once
while hot.


TOMATO CATsUP.-Cut one peck OF
ripe tomatoes in halves, boil them in a
pocelain kettle until the pulp is all dis
solved, then strain them well through q
hair sieve and Set the liquor on to boil,
adding one ounce of salt, one of mace,
one tablespoonful Of black pepper, one
teaspoonful of red pepper, one table.
spoonful of ground cloves, five of ground
mustard; lot them all boil together fol-
five or six hours, and stir them most OF
the time. Let the mixture stand eight
or ten hours in cool place, add one pint
of vinegar, and then bottle it; seal the
corks and keep in a cool, dark place.


What the Birds Accomplish.
The swallow, swift and nighthawk are
the guardians of the atmosphere they
check the increase of insects that would
otherwise overload it. Woodpeckers,
troopers and chickadees, etc., are the
guardians of the trunks of trees. Warb'
lers and fycatchers protect the foliage.
Blackbirds, thrushes, crows and larks
protect the surface of the soil; snipe and
woodcock, the soil under the surface.
Each tribe has its respective duties to
perform in the economy of nature and
It is an undoubted fact that, if the birds
we're all swept from the earth, man
could not live upon it, vegetation would
wither and die, insects would become SO
numerous that no living thing could
withstand the attacks. The wholesale
destruction occasioned by the grass.
hoppers which have lately devastated
the West, is undoubtedly caused by the
thinning out of the birds, such as grouse,
prairie-hens, etc., which feed upon them.
The great and inestimable good done to
the farmer. gardener and florist by birds
is only becoming known by sad expert
ence. Spare the birds and save your
fruit. The little corn and fruit taken
by them is more than compensated by
the vast quantities of noxious insects
DESTROYED. The long-persecuted crow
has been found by actual experiment
to do far more good by the vast quantity
of prubs and insects he devours than
the little harm he does in few grains of
corn he pulls up. He is one OF the
farmers best friends.-Fdrmer's Aduo
cate.


ARRANGEMENTS for n Barn.


NJ, Cortland, N. Y, writes: 60 an
about to build horse barn. Will 1t be
injurious to the horses to keep hogs un.
derneath them in the basement? Coulo
it not be ventilated to carry off the odor
and in what way? What is the best plar
for supporting the middle cross-beams
to prevent sagging, without posts?"


Reply.-There would be no objection
to hogs in the basement if the barn fioo1
is tight and there are ample spaces fol
ventilation at the top of the basement