Year: 1874

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. ?
! A CORRESPONDENT of the Toledo Blade


recommends the following lotion for freckles:
Borax three grains; rose water five drachms;
wash the skin one or twice week. y


SwEETMEAT PUDDING.-Five eggs, the
whites and yolks beaten separately; one cup
of white powdered sugar, one cup of peach
jam or other nice preserve, q halfcpp OF melted
butter, half nutmeg. Butter baking dish
and bake quickly.


| To CURE DRIED BEEF.-Take eight pounds
of coarse salt, four gallons of water, four
pounds of coarse, brown sugar; boil for one
hour; strain, when cold pour over the beef.
Let it remain eight or ten days, then hang up
to drain, and it may be hung up in warm
room for two weeks, then smoke it if desired.


Iron MOLD IN L1NEN-Wash the spots
in a strong solution of cream of tartar and
water. Repeat if necessary. and dry in the
sun. Another method-Rub the spots with a
little powdered Oxalic acid or salts of lemon
and warm water. Let it remain few min
utes, and then rinse we'll in clean water.
BUCKwHEAT CAKEs.-If you want buck
wheat cakes at a moments warning, mix in
large stone or earthern pot. When you take





mix as much in another vessel as you take out,
and pour it into the large pot, stirring it we'll
By observing this rule you will always have
nice light cakes. The large pot must be kept
in the cellar.


Hoes to fatten should have, especially, a
comfortable place to sleep. We recently saw
in respectable farmers pen six stalwart ami
mails of this species, with no place TO rest
mud frnv fvrO fO fnnr
inches deep. At least one-half of what was
fed to them was entirely lost by this utter want
of attention to one of the prime necessities in
this department Of farming.


LAND that has been cleared Eve years ago,
and has produced crops since then. will be very
suitable for an apple orchard It is not desira-
bic to plant trees on newly cleared or broken
SOIL 1t is too rich and causes too luxurious
growth of wood, which is apt to winter-kill.
Good SOIL we'll drained and full Of mineral
plant food, is better for planting fruit trees
than soil in which there is an excess of vegeta-
BILE matter.


CLEANING SILvER.-According to DR.. Est.
ner, water in which potatoes have been boiled
exercises a remarkable cleaning influence up
on silver ware Of all kinds, especially spoons
that have become blackened by eggs Even
delcatey chased and engraved articles can, it
is said, be made bright by this method, even
better than by the use of the ordinary polish
ing powder, which is apt to settle in the de-
pressions, requiring particular care in its re-
mOval.


If sawdust is thoroughly dried, it answers
good purpose as an absorbent, but is of little
value in any other way, mere woody fibre pos
sessing but little enriching quality. If the
sawdust is from green wood, or is filled with
water, it is nearly valueless. On clayey soils,
however, it may operate well for time as
loosner when worked in in we'll, but is much
less valuable as well as less durable than sand.
Applied to the surface, it is useful as mulch.
a portion of lime well mixed with the heap of
sawdust and manure would be useful-and salt
might be. But the best preventive from
sourng is to use dry sawdust and plenty of ma
nure with t-Country Gentleman.


NArLs.-Every farmer who has had occasion
to drive nail into seasoned oak posts knows
it's liability to bend and break. If the points
be moistened in the mouth it will usually drive
more kindly. Oil is still better, but then it is
to dip each nail separately into it.
Another point observed is that boards become
loose eventually from the rusting of the nails,
which, communicating to the wood, cause not
only an enlargement of the nail hole, but the
wearing away of the nail itself. rendering the
fence or the building shaky and insecure This
NAV be prevented by heating any rough grease
until it smokes and then pouring it over the
nails to be used. The grease will penetrate
the pores of the iron, and cause the nails to
last. without rusting. an indefinite period. Be-
sides this no trouble will then be experienced
in driving them into the hardest wood. The
reason is that the coating of grease prevents
contact by air, and consequently oxidation.
Oxygen is the great destroyer of iron, and
moisture is the inducing cause.