Year: 1877




MUFFINs.-One cup of s. set milk,
three eggs, lump of buttol large as
an egg, one tablespoonful oi sugar, 3
little salt, two teaspoonfuls of bsklng
powder. Use -four or meal cd tbitum.


4 Massachusetts, man writes the
Plogg imua that nj Of twenty-one
Write Leghorn p, t'i- between Janu-
sry / and October 1876, laid $3.50
eggs, daily average of over thirteen
eggs in the nine months. The fowls
were not allowed to run at large.


IRoNING.-To iron smoothly. pur-
chase few cents worth of beeswax,
aud rub it over the leaves of thin
pamphlet, which have been heated
through with the fiat iron. Keep it
with the ironlng-sheet aud blanket,
aud when the fistirons are to be used
rub them over the wax surface; then
wipe gently on a soft cloth. Shirt
bosoms can he easily ironed in this
manner.-Ddisy EyeIright.


Here is tried and true plan of pre-
pairing whitewssh that will not rub off :;
Slake lime in the usual way; mix one
gill of flour with cold water, taking
care to beat out all the humps, then
pour on boiling water, enough to
thicken to the consistency of common
starch; pour it while hot into bucket
of slaked lime and add one pound of
whitening; stir all well together. A
little indigo in the wash improves it.


FARM WIsDoM.-That horse who
lays back his ears and looks lightning
when any one approaches him is vicious.
Don't buy him. That scrimping the
feed of fattening hogs is q waste of
grain. The best time to kill hog is
when it is fat, tie weather cool, and
the pork needed for home use or for
market. The best time to plant or sow
is when the ground is warm and in the
best condition to receive the seed. The
best time to kill weeds is as soon as
they appear, and the best time to har-
vest crop is when 1t is ripe for the
harvest. Finally, the best time to
study the influences of the moon upon
vegetation is when all other subjects
have been completely exhausted.-Ns,c
England Farmer.


4 REMEDY FOR WoUNDs.-A cores
pondent of the Country Gentleman gives
the following remedy for painful
wounds: Take pan or shovel, with
burning Goals, and sprinkle upon them
common brown sugar, and hold the
wounded part in the smoke. In my
own case rusty nail had made bad
wound in the bottom OF my foot. The
pain and nervous irritation was severe.
This was all removed by holding it in
the smoke for fifteen minutes, and l
was able to resume my reading in COM
fort. We have often recommended it
to others, with like results. Last week
one of my men had fingernail torn
out by pair of ice tongs.- 1t became
very painful, as was to have been eX-
pected. Held in sugar smoke of twenty
minutes, the pain ceased, and it pro-
misses speedy recovery. e..


AN EXCELLENT PLAN FOR GRowING
CUCUMBERs. s.-Take a large barrel, or
hogshead saw 1t in two in the middle,
and bury each half in the ground, even
with the top. Then take a small keg
and bore small hole in the bottom;
place the keg in the center of the bar
rel, the top even with the ground, and
fill in the barrel around the keg with
rich earth suitable for the growth of
cucumbers. Plant your seed midway
between the edges of the barrel and
keg, and make kind of arbor foot
or two high for the vines to run on.
When the ground becomes dry, pour
water in the keg in the evenirE; it will
pass on at the bottom of tLr kcg into
the barrel and rise up to the roots of
the vines, and keep them moist and
green. Cucumbers cultivated this way
will grow to great size, as they are
made independent both OF drought and
wet weather. In We Weather the bar
rel can be covered, and in dry, the
ground can be kept moist by pouring
water in the kcg. Then feed them to
the hogs. Southern Farmer.


PROPER TINE FOR SLAUGHTERING.-
1t has been discovered by a French
chemist that the flesh of animals which
are killed in the latter part of the night
will keep much longer without sailing
than it will when they are killed in the
day time. This proves that the flesh
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blood are taken from the animal as the
temperature is the lowest and respira-
ton is the least active. Hence the
reason that the flesh from animals that
have been highly heated or hard driven
will scarcely keep at all.


The reason why the above facts are
so is this: Exercise draws the blood
to the extremities, and distributes it
through all the veins. After rest it
gradually returns to the yitals, and cir
culates more sluggishly. OF course, if
an animal is then killed, the arteries
and large veins being cut, the blood is
at once emptied. But if he is killed
while that blood is at the surface, dis
tributed through the small veins, it
will not be discharged. AS blood cor
rupts sooner than flesh, the meat spoils.
-Irairie Farmer.