Year: 1874

HUME AND FAHM- fs.ie. 81


1t is little curious that nobody is able to
tell satisfactorily how a tree grows. Most
people firmly believe that the trunk is grad
ually Heightened, carrying the branches up
higher from year to year. But Prof. Gray
pronounces this popular fallacy.


Why is cabbage rendered more wholesome
and nutritious by being boiled In two
waters? Because according to DIR. Paris)
cabbages contain an essential oil which is apt
TO produce bad effects; and he recommends
that they should be boiled in two successive
waters, TILL they are soft and digestible.


Now is the time to put few bulbs in the
yard and along the borders, to make the
spring bright with beautiful flowers. Every
body admires bed of hyacinths. 1t will
stop the passers-by by its attractiveness
Yet very few people, comparatively, make
preparation for such pleasures in the tall. Is
it a lack of forethought?


Pray, Miss Cook, don't put your baked
squash on the table just as it comes from
the oven, with the shell on. Baked or
boiled, IL should be cooled "on the shell. -
But prepare it for the table, scrape the pulp
from the shell, mash well, add salt and but
ter, put neatly into dish, smooth the sur
face, and sprinkle with pepper.


To MAKE APPLE BUTTER.-The best apple
butter is made by peeling, coring and s.icing
selected sweet apples and stewing them in
sweet cider. Very little of this sort of apple
butter, however, comes to market. The
bulk of that sold is made from second-rate
apples peeled, sliced and stewed, and sweet
ened with brown sugar. large quantity
of such butter is made and sold for ships
stores for use by the sailors.


PIcKLED PEARs.-Twenty pounds pealed
fruit, pounds sugar, one quart vinegar.
Boil the sugar and vinegar together, stick a
couple of cloves into each pear. and put them
into the sugar and vinegar with water
enough to nearly cover them. When cooked
enough remove pears to stone jar, and after
boiling the pickle for 10 minutes longer,
pour it over them. Examine in a week and
If the pickle is not sufficiently concentrated
remove and boil down again.


The Pen and Plow has an admonition for
the young folks. 1t comes very near the
truth: The line of conduct chosen during
the five years from fifteen to twenty, will
in almost every instance, determine his
character for life. As be is then careful or
careless, prudent or improvident, indus
trious or indolent, truthful or dissimulat-
ing. intelligent or ignorant, temperate Oh
dissolute, so will be be in after years, and II
needs no prophet to cast his horoscope OF
calculate his chances in life.


Go SLow.-London Society gives timely
hint which is specially applicable to Ameri-
cans: One great secret of success and nappi.
ness in life is never to be in a hurry. We
often hear people complain that they have
very little time to do this or that in. 1t will
generally be found on examination that
these people have no idea of how properly
to economic their time, and they usually
are insanely desirous of doing several things
at once. The consequence Is that they sell
dom or never do anything well.


GREEN TOMATO PIcKLEs.-One gallon
sliced tomatoes, four sliced onions; sal,
them in layers alternately. Let them stand
twelve hours; drain them we'll from the
brine and wash in cold water Take one
| teaspoonful of black pepper, one of alspice
two of cloves, three of mustard, all ground
fine; one-half pint OF mustard seed, a hand.
ful of grated horseradish, six green peppers
cut fine; mix them well with the tomatoes
in jar; pour over them three pints OF boil.
ing vinegar. Cover close, and in three days
they will be ready for use. ..s-.
To Pass THROUGH SMoKE.-In the course
of an inquest in London, Mr.. Wakely, the
coroner, stated that il would be well to &C
quaint the public with the fact that if per
sons in house on fire had the presence O
mind to apply a damp cloth or handkerchie
| to their mouth and nostrils they could effeci
passage through the densest smoke: buI
the best way would be to envelope the heaC
and face completely in damp cloth. An
other way to escape is to drop down anG
crawl on the floor as The smoke is always
much less dense near the floor.


THE POULTRY HoUsE.-The poultry house





the good weather lasts. A good warm place
for the poultry in winter Is quite as import
ant as good feed. Take advantage of the first
slack time, and if your hen house Is not 8
desirable one, make it so. Patching it vi
will do, if the building is situated in the
right place; But If by any bad management
! 1t Is located In an exposed position, tear il
down and build one where it has some pro-
lection against the cold blast of winter
| Close up every crevice, so that the winds
cannot possibly get in. This will not only
save your chickens, but thsy will require
less food to get them through the winter.


HELPS FOR THE CooK.-Says a sensible
person in Moore's Rural: Let me suggest te
your readers few ways of varying the des
sert at dinner-changes from the inevitable
pie. They may not be new, yet never SCI
them at any table save our own:


\
spread with currants, cherries any kind
OF berries. Roll it up like jelly cake and
steam it till done. To be eaten with sweet
ened cream.


| Another is: To one pint of sour milk ado
one teaspoonful of soda, flour to make a bat
ter, and handful of dried cherries or cur.
rants. Pour into basin and steam until
done. To be eaten with sweetened cream.
Instead of sweetened cream for the above
pudding. a sauce made of half a pint of wine
half cup of sugar, one tablespoonful of but
ter boiled and thickened with little flour
might be used. Cider is very good substi-
tute for the wire. Or, instead of the sauce,
a sirup of sugar and water boiled is good
with either of the puddings.


To keep dried beet and hams away from
flies, pack them in dry salt. This is bet.
ter than ashes, oats, sawdust, or anything
of the kind.