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Agricultural And Domestic

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Day
21
Month
December
Year
1877
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Public Domain
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Dit. Wakd detailed a case of extraordiniiry reoovery írom epilepsy, ti) o patiënt beiug placed upon a celery diet. - Ilcport British Vegetarían Á'ociety. The only safe way, if improvement is the object, is to breed from full-blood males. Al way s utse &uch , and the pure blood will rapidly gain the ascendency. - Utica Ilepublican. It pays well to keep pig-pens clean, and with a warm sleeping apartment, with plenty of straw. Hogs will latten much faster in a comi'ortable pen than in one that affords but little protection against cold winds and storms. - Exehanffe. To a farm liko mine, not favored with any living brook or spring, I consider a good wind ill a most important and valuable piece of machinery. Mine not only saves the labor of pumping, but furnishes an abundant supply of water at all times for house use as well as for all stock on the farm. - Detroit Tribune. At one of the county fairs, two farmers, one of whom was the exhibitorof a simple bushei of wheat, held this little dialogue: Exhibitor- " I raiscd niuety-two bushels of wheat like that on four and one-half aeres of land." His neighbor - "Well, if I had read that in a paper I wouldn't have believed it, but. if you say it is so, it is so, of course, and I'm an infernal fooi to be buying my flour, as I have done for ten years and must do this winter, for my land is just m good for wheat as yours." There is a whole agricultural sermón in that little dialogue, and it is one which has been preached a hundred times and made hundreds of converts this fall. Scores of farmers, who last spring couldn't be made to believe that wheat could be profitably raised in New Hampshire, believe it now. - Mirror and Farmer. Fokest leaves are excellent to mix with hot-bed material, and, where practicable, should be saved for this purpose. They do not heat so rapdly as stable manure, and in this have an advantage as tempering its violence, making it lastlouger, and maintaining a more regular heat. They are excellent ïraterial to put round cold frames to pretect half-hardy planta. A board is put up the height of the frame-boards, and about a foot or more from them, and the leaves filled in between. If the plante are somewhat tender, the bottom of the frames may be filled in a few feet with the leaves. Much heat is thrown off during the decomposition of the leavcs, which, though not enough to keep out a severe frost, yet modifies somewhat the temperature. These leaves, after they have been two or three years decaying, make admirable stuff for potting and for flowers in general. - Gardencr's Monthly. Cabe of stock, so far as their proper bedding, feeding and ventilation are concerned, is too important a matter for the thrifty farmer to neglect attending to himself. However trustworthy his assistants, judging by our own experience, it will pay him well at the close of the season to see, each evening, that his cattie, horses, sheep and hogs are well bedded, fed and watered. Scarcely less important is the proper ventilation of the buildings in which his stook are wintered. Wliile the entrance of draughts and cold is to be carefully prevented, it should be borne in mind tüat domesticated animáis, like man himself, need fresh, wholesome air, and, if compelled by ignorance or carelessness to breathe a foul, tainted atmosphere, it is at a serious risk of health and consequent profit. A visit to the barn, stable and pigpen early in the morning will at once wam the observant farmer of defective ventilation.- Moore's Rural. iTissurprisingtoseethe quanfity of potatoes that can be grown from one pound of seed. Last season parties that did their "level best," in competition for some tempting prizes, succeeded in producing from one pouud of the Alpha potato, from 1,280 to 1,982 pounds ! In these experimenta each eye was cut from the seed, and planted in separate hills ; and the land was covered with an immense coat of stable-dung, and plowed or forked in. Then ashes, bone-dust, lime and other fertilizers were applied without stint, at the rate of $500 worth to the acre ; and, when the clouds failed to supply suflïcient moisture, water was supplied from other sources. This is "high farming" in reality- no half -way work ; and it was shown that one can not easily apply too much manure to potato land. Potatoes require a good deal of potash, and farmers can not make a mistake in applying to the land on which LIJ.CV LIC fLJYV LL ClL-LAt-I. (lOllLO Jí. L.UUI I nv.j.ciid fertilizers that contain a large percentage of potash. It comes cheapest in muríate of potash, being fifty per cent of actual potash, and selling at $2.50 per 100 lbs. - Rural New Yorker. Afcout the House. Eat Graliam pudding and milk for breakfast. Mbnd coal-scuttles with fiour paste and Canton-flannel. A cement of ashes and salt will stop cracks in a stove. Wicks must be changed irequently to insure a good liglit. Aoidity op the Stomach. - This can be corrected by using alkalies. Borax is good, if used properly; take a small pincb several times a day ; too mnch might causo nausea. Bmsad-Making. - We use a 2-cent cako of yeast dissolved in ihrec pints oí' luke-warm water. Tliis makes Üiree loaves of bread and one pan of rolls. Our bread is excellent. Fon Di'SPEi'siA. - Burn alum un til tlie moisture in it is evaporated ; tlien take as mucli as you can put on adime, about half an hour before eating. Three or four days probably will answer ; but take it until cured. Dakk Steamed Pudding. - To be steamecl two and a half or three hours. One cupful molasses, one cupful of sweet milk, two cupfuls of butter, fon r cupfuls of flour, ono teaspoonful soda, three-quarters cupful of fruit; spice to suit the taste; to be eaten with sour sauce. Boston Tea Cakes. - One well-beaten egg, two table-spoonfuls of sugar, ono cup'ful sweet milk, one teaspoonful soda dissolved in the milk, twoteaspoonfuls of cream of tartar sifted in the dry llour, two heapiug cupfuls of sifted flour, one table-spooníul of butter, melted; bake in small tiiis. Celeby.- Celery can be kept for a, week or longer by flrst rolling it up in brown paper, then pin it up in a towel and keep it in a dark place, and keep as cool as possible. Before preparing it for the table place it in a pan of cold water, and l?t it remain for an hour. It will make it crisp and cold. Coeninq Beef.- For 100 pounds of beef take seven pounds salt, two pounds sugar, two ounces saltpetre, two ounces pepper, two ounces soda ; dissolve in ' two and a half gallons of water ; boil, . skim, and let cool ; when a scum rises ! after a few weeks soald the brme over, [ and by so doiug and keeping nieat en tirely covered with brine, it wiil keep a , year and more. Jelly Cake Eolls.- Four eggs, beat ; whitt-s and yi-lks separately; oneteacup ful white sugar, one teacupful sifted I llour, one teaspoouíul cream-tartav, ' one-half teaspoonful soda diesolved in a very littie hot water; flavor with the - juice of one lemon; beat all well to1 gether; spread qnarter of an inch thick t in a square tin ; bake quickly; theatarn 1 bottom side up, spread -with jeily, ind r roll up while liot; tbia recipe maeg tbree rolip,

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