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POTATO GROWING IN NEW
ENGLAND.
T a meeting of the Boston
Market Gardeners' Associa
tion, the following experi
ences were produced :
L. Maxwell, who read the essay,
said he had never grown potatoes
very largely, but had been a close
observer of the methods of culture
for fifty year,. In the early years
of his boyhood there were few varie
ties grown, th6 Long Red, Blue
Nose and White Chenanga being
the favorites. They were then
planted by hand with a hoe, manur
ing in the hill with about 4 cords of
stable manure per acre. Ten to
twelve bushels of seed per acre were
used and only one or two hoeings
given, and it was no unusual thing
to harvest a crop of 250 to 300
bushels per acre.
But about 1846 or 1847 the blight
and rot began to appear, and since
then it has been far more difficult to
be sure of a crop, 100 to 150 bush
els being considered a fair crop. The
Early Rose when it first appeared
was a great gain, and it holds its
own, even today, as ore of the very
best in the market, although we
have hundreds of new varieties,
some of them so closely resemble
Rose that many consider them
identical.
Why is it that we do not grow as
good crops as our grandfathers ?
There are two reasons : first, our
soil is exhausted of its virgin fertil
ity; and second, the blight and the
potato bug are obstacles that our
grandfathers did not have to en
counter.
The first obstacle may be over
come by restoring the fertility of the
the land by the application of fertil
izers, as is amply shown by recent
trials of the competitors for the
prizes offered by theAmeric n Agri
culturist and Rural "New Yorker,
some of whom grew crops at the
rate of oue ti;ousaud bushels per
acre or more on small lots of one
fortieth of an acre, and one of 738
bushels on a little less than an acre.
These immense crops were growD on
laud of great natural fertility, or
with ample applications of fertilizers,
in some cases a ton to the acre.
The details of these experiments
were given by the essayist, the
points of importance illustrated be
ing that heavy seeding, together
with heavy manuring or rich soil,
were the important considerations.
A good strong soil is wanted for the
best results; a soil that does not
Euffer from drought.
On most of our New England soils
plenty of manure of some kind must
be used to insure a good crop. He
thought hog manure and chip dirt
had made his potatoes scabby, and
Delieved that in general potatoes
grown on fertilizers were smoother
jhan where largo applications of
stable manure are used.
He would advise using a good deal
more fertilizers than the manufactur
ers recommend; would apply at least
1,000 pounds per acre, and let it con
tain ten per cent, of potash at least,
for most of our New England soils.
He advised the use of new seed
from the north if easily obtained, but
had noticed no very large gain from
its use He had use! small seed
planted whole with good results.
He had had little difficulty in kill
ing the bugs by the application of
Paris green; but the best remedy
against the rot he thought to be
early planting, so that the crop
might be well grown before the
blight attacks them.
In digging he thought it very im
portant to pick up the potatoes with
in an hour or two of the time they
are dug, and keep them in a dark
place. One great cause of the infe
rior quality of potatoes sold in our
market, is carelessness in exposing
them to the air and light.
In answer to a question, the es
sayist said that he considered 200
bushels per acre a fair crop now.
Mr. Sullivan, of Revere, said 1889
had been a very bad year for pota
toes in that vicinity. Many acres
never being dug,others were plowed
out, and picked up only to be carted
to the manure heap. His experience
had been against the use of small
Beed, which resulted in growing four
times as many small potatoes as were
grown from good seed. He would
buy Jthe best northern grown seed
he could find. He regarded pota
toes as a good crc p to begin with,
and to end a five years' course of ro-.
tation in vegetables before f eeding
down to grass, which was the plan
he usually followed.
One reason why Aroostook coun
ty potatoes are so good, is that they
are usually grown on land freshly
broken from sod.
Mr. Derby, of Revere, said that
the potato crop would not pay on a
poor or light soil. He .had been in
the habit of growing seven or eight
acres; he was in the habit of sprout
ing a portion under glass, so as to
get them early. Planted the setB
three feet by seven inches. He us
ually succeeded in growing one
hundred barrels per acre, sometimes
one hundred and twenty. They are
an easy crop to grow, and pay
fairly well if marketed only when
they are worth $2.50 to $3.00 per
bbl. Be was in the habit of cutting
seed to single ejes, or nearly so.
Mr. Hartwell said he only grew
potatoes to break up sod land. He
planted the Sunrise, Clark's No. 1,
and Hebron; he thought small seed
did as well as large; other crops pay
better near Boston; he had found an
application of fertilizer rich in pisi
ash useful.
Mr. Teele said he was in the hab
it of growing three to five acres of
potatoes. He had found ho advan
tage from buying Houltou seed; pre
ferred his own; he had grown crops
of 350 to 500 bushels per acre. The
second year from sod was best for
them. In selecting seed he liked to
have them not quite ripe, he planted
late to grow for seed, mature seed is
not so good. He selects large seed,
a d likes to have them turn green
by exposure to the air and sun be
fore planting, so as to start the eyes
with a short sprout. He likes to
plant deeply; if planted six inches
they will not rot much, even when
the tops blight. Manure should be
applied the year before for potatoes.
Mr. Hall, of Revere, referred to
Mr. Hersey's experiment at Hing
ham, iu growing potatoes for several
consecutive years from small seed,
and the seed end of the potato.
Mr. Philbrick, of Newton Centre,
spoke of having raised 300 bushels
per acre on a freshly broken drained
peat meadow with au application of
1,000 pounds of tockbridge ma
nure. He had used small seed and
could see little difference.
Mr. Sullivan said he believd in
early planting, using large seed, cut
to one or two eyes, and using spent
manure, or manure in the fall. He
had grown great crops on tankage
and wood ashes.
FERTILIZING WITH CLOVER.
Western Farmer.
TTF, RF, are nmnv thrmsnnri nf
jjJjj acres in Wisconsin that if prop
erlv cultivated would be among
the moat profitable farming lauds in
the state. WTe know of many farm3
that a few years ago were conidere .
worthless, which are now very pro
ductive, having been made so by ju
dicious cultivation.
A system of rotaion and plowing
like the following will, in a few
years, work wonders on any soil :
When a crop of small grain is sown
in the spring, sow a liberal amount
of medium clover, and the next year
after cutting the hay early, let the
second crop go to seed and plow
under when well matured.
The next year plant a crop, and
when harvested plow fully as deep as
before, which brings the clover seed
to the surface for a most liberal
stocking. The clover seed contains
so much oil, that it will not rot
while in the ground, and still being
covered so deeply will not germinate
while there. There being such an
amount of seed, if some does get
kill plenty more will not. Then sow
a crop and the ground is well seeded
again with clover, and another crop
of hay cut as before. And so on for
a series of years, harvesting a crop
of grain the first year, corn or pota
toes the second year, grain the third
year, and clover hay the fourth year-
By this process the soil will im
prove in fertility wonderfully every
year, and no expense for clover seed
after the firet season. Of course the
above is a good system to adopt on
any land but as sandy soil is often
considered of but little value, I sug
gest this way of renovating it.
In a recent conversation with an
old farmer from New York, he told
me that, by the process above given,
farms in his vicinity that a few years
ago could be bought for a song, are
now worth $100 an acre.
There are many points of excel
lence in sandy soil. The ground can
be worked earlier in the spring than
clayey soil. The crops mature earli
er. It is easier cultivated. It can
be worked sooner,after a heavy rain.
The potato and all other roots are
far superior in quality. If the cul
tivated crops are tilled as often as
they should be in a dry season, they
will stand the drouth nearly if not
quite as well as on clay soil.
But this article is already longer
than I intended, and, in conclusion
I woul3 like to hear the views of
those who own sandy farms.
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GRASSES.
American Farmer.
HE Agricultural Department
has rendered a timely and es
sential service to the farmers
by publishing in one compact volume
the "grasses'" of the country, illus
trated by one hundred and fourteen
plates, with botanical descriptions
of them by Prof. George Vasey,
with an analysis of the food values
of many of them by Clifford Rich
ardson, formerly assistant chemist,
the whole interspersed with numer
ous extracts from the letters of those
familiar with them, and the kind of
soil-on which they grew.
Prof. Vasey rightly remarks that
we are jet in "our infancy in the
study of grasses," and of their kinds
and values. Look at tne pansies of
to day, as developed under florists'
hands, and compare them with the
heartsease of forty years ago, and a
wise man would scarce recognize
them as the same flower.
Who can tell what cultivation and
cross fertilization might do with our
grasses ? The field is wide, it is in
viting, it is fast becoming a necessi
ty. In many sections dairying is
taking the place of grain growing as
the more profitable. In others, fruit
growing and trucking haye become
the leading pursuits. Every year
sees new and better fruits, better va
rieties of potatoes, both round and
sweet, more promising melons and
grapes, why not grasses Under
the influence of climate, the Bermu
da grass, Millo maize and Japan clo
ver, now seed Each year sees them
reach further north, and now South
ern grasses, formerly indigenous to
the Gulf States, are doing the same.
They were once thought to be out
of our chances for good and nutri
tious grasses. Yet Bermuda grass
grows on Lookout Mountain, 2,200
feet above sea level, and as far north
as St. Louis, Missouri. Japan clo
ver, from the far south south, has
reached Virginia and Northern
Kentucky.
These facts are encouraging. If
the Bermuda will not furnish hey
here, it may be valuable for dairy
pasturage, and for sod on light
blowy sauds. The same of the Ja
pan clover.
Two grasses from Texas are worth
trial here. The Texas blue grass and
Texas millet, the last valuable for
hay. A tougher, hardier gras3 is the
blue stem, or blue joint, grow
iug from Colorado to Montana, and
much esteemed in those sections.
Whether the gritta grass, flourish
ing on the arid lands of Texas, and
nearly allied to the game grasses of
that secton, would do well here is
not known.
A variety of the broom sedges,
Andropogon halitii, growing in Kan
pas and northward, is supposed by
Prof. Vasey to be "adapted to light
sandy soils."
Johnson grass, mentioned by Mr.
Massey . in a late number of the
Farmer, will stand our winters, and
is liked by stock if cut early. Prof.
Vasey thinks hogs will relish the
roots. Although growing with us,
where hogs have access to it, there
has been no such indication.
It is evident to all Maryland
farmers, truckers, gardeners, even to
residents of villages, towns and cities
that provender, whether fodder or
hay, is yearly becoming scarcer and
more costly. Every argument leads
farmers to keep their money in their
neighborhoods, and not send it out
to buy hay or other provender.
Everyone could spare a few yards,
a quarter, or half an acre, 10 test
some of the newer, and it may be
better grasses, as set forth by Dr.
Vasey.
INOCULATING AGAINST SWINE
PLAGUE.
ON. C. H. GERE, President of
the Board of Regents of the
State University of Nebraska,
says in an issue of his paper, the
State Journal, for November 17,
1889 : "In this issue of the Journal
will be found the statement of the
superintendent of the university sta
tion farm, of the swine plague. Last
fall Dr. Billings inoculated thirty
thoroughbreds, giving them less
than the dose that he thought re
quired, at the request of the super
intendent. Afterwads fifteen of the
graded hogs were inoculated in the
usual way. There were left on the
farm this summer twenty-four grad
ed pigs uninoculated. The farm, out
side the quarters kept disinfected,
has been subject for years to the
plague. The disease made its ap
pearance among the young uninocu
lated pigs in September last. Every
one of them died, but the regularly
inoculated grades escaped the dis
ease, and of the thirty very lightly
inoculated thoroughbreds, only two
died. The swine were herded to
gether. This will close the experi
ment so far as putting inoculated
ana uninoculated hogs together on
the place, to stand their chances.
It is not considered necessary to go
on. Hereafter all the pigs at the
farm will be inoculated and the
ground given a chance to become
disinfected. It usually takes about
thre years of exemption from sick
swi?:e to make a farm safe. So far
as the experiment station is concern
ed,' the theory of immunity by inoc
ulation is consideied proved by Dr.
Billings Of course it will take the
public some time to be convinced,
but as thousands of hogs have been
inoculated in the state already this
year fad thousands more will be
next i )ring, and as a still greater
num.i- of swine in Illinois have
been put to the same test, the time
is not far distant when no farmer in
the West, whose farm has been in
fected. will permit a litter of pigs to
be weaned "before they have been
inoculated."
A OROPTHAT ALvvAYS EAYS.
Progressive Farmer.
TIP ..fvna v. r
.'(Jjj only for three or four months.
They ere constantly liable to
failure or disaster. But the man
who holds a mortgage on the farm
er's crops or land has a crop that
grows steadily on and on, through
all the days and nights and months
and years. It is a crop that begins
to yield him an income from the
very day it is planted Devastating
flood or withering drougnt may
come, but mortgage crop grows on.
Does the farmer's crop suffer and
dwarf through his neglect or lazi
ness or sickness ? The mortgage
crop still flourishes. And nowhere,
on all the earth, does it seem to
crow and flourish more vigorously
than in our Southern clime. Brother
farmer, have you. allowed any one to
plant his mortgage crop on your
farm? Your crop and his will not
grow well together. His crop will
have the advantage all the time. If
you allow him the opportunity he
will plant bis crop largely 'in Janu
ary. You cannot plant ycurs before
March or April. His will grow
through ali kinds of weather grow
and strengthen and gain every hour
from the beginning to the end of
the year. Have you a faithful and
loving wife to care for and dear chil
dren to feed and clothe and educate ?
Then you have no right to allow any
man to plant his mortgage in your
farm, for you are thus robbing these
dear ones of their just rights. If
you would prosper and be independ
ent and happy, dear brother, keep
the mortgage off your farm.
SOME GOOD SUGGESTIONS TO
THE FARMERS
Southern Cultivator.
FTER the pork has lain
in
salt three or four weeks, ae
33 cording to the general tem
perature that has prevailed since the
killing, it is ready to "hang." Some
farmers think it is important that it
should be a cold spell when it is
hung up to dry, but we think it not
essential, but only desirable. Shake
or sweep off with a stiff broom or
brush, all the adhering salt. Hang
up the hams and shoulders with the
hock end down and see that they do
not touch each other Let the meat
drip and dry for three or four days
without smoke. Then keep a con
tinuous smoke during the daytime
for five or six days. Hickory chips
or corn cobs make the best smoke.
Be careful that the meat is not too
much h'eated. During every warm
spell the smoke should be renewed
sufficiently to keep the flies away,
and repeated for a day or two before
packing away. We have always had
good success in preserving hams
during summer by the following
plan : After the meat is well smok
ed and is thoroughly dry, and on a
cool, sunny day in February, take
down from the sticks, dip each ham
for a half a minute in a pot of boiN
ing water ; rub and scrape clean and
dry with a coarse cloth; expose to
tha sun until thoroughly dry. Then
wrap each ham closely in coarse,
strong paper ; tie a stout twine
around the hock, forming a loop ;
slip the ham into a bag made of cot
ton cloth, and tie the mouth of bag
above the hock and around the loop ;
hang in a cool, airy, dark place.
The shoulders may be packed away
in large boxes, thoroughly wrapping
each piece in clean, dry hay, or cut
shucks, end oovering the whole with
same material. Packing in ashes is
a wasteful and dirty practice, and
we could not abide it after one or
two trials.
Hood's Sarsaparilla is peculiar to
itself and superior to all other pre
paiations in strength, economy, and
medical merit
THE FIRST PIGS IN SCOTLAND.
(lIGS were little known in Scot
land until the eighteenth cen
vC3 tury, and amusing stories are
told of the wonder and fright of the
people at the appearance of the fat
domestic animals now so common on
every farm. About 1720, a gantle
man living in Dumfriesshire, who
was called the "Gudeman o' the
Brow," received a present of a fine
young porker from some distant
place, which seems to have been the
first ever seen in that part of the
country. This little pig was of a
roving disposition, and one dav
wjLnJcicd across the Lochar into the
adjoining parish. Here a peasant
woman who was herding her cattle
near the seashore, was terribly
alarmed at sight of the strange
creature, which, she thought, came
grunting up out of the water, and
away she fled, screaming with terror,
into the village of Blackshaw.
Naturally a crowd soon gathered
around her, to whom she declared
that a de'il (devil) came out of the
sea, with two horns on his head, and
chased her, roaring and gaping all
me way at ner neeis, ana sne was
sure he was not afar off! At this
the rustics were sadly dismajed, but
an old schoolmaster said bravely
that he would "conjure the de'il,"
and proceeded at once to bring out
a Bible and an antique sword ; but
when suddenly the little swine start
ed up, grunting, at his back, the
courageous pedagogue was so fright
enea mat ms nair iairiy stood on
end, and they bore him half dead
from the field. The whole crowd
then took to their heels, hiding
themselves in barns, and even climb
ing up on the house-tops ; and the
panic continued until one who had
6een the foreign gift called out, from
his perch on a roof, that it was only
"the gudeman o the Brow's grum-
phy."
Next day the pig was conveyed
across the Lochar, and his head
turned in the direction of the
"Brow but, on the way, he trotfd
up, in the dusk, to two men gather
isg thistles, who, as startled as the
woman, mounted their horses, and
would have lidden home, but, the
strange animal getting in their toad,
they were driven into the Lochar
moss, where one of the horses was
drowned, and they remained all
nifrht-, not daring to speak above a
whisper, for fear the monster should
discover and devour them. When,
finally, morning broke, and they suc
ceeded in making their way, by
another road, home to their anxious
families, they had a remarkable tale
to tell of having seen "a creature
about the size of a dog, with horns
on its head, and cloven feet, roaring
out like a lion," and, it they had not
galloped away, it would have torn
them to pieces ; and they must have
been somewhat crestfallen when one
of the wives cried : "Hoot, man ! it
has been the gudeman of the brow's
gumphy ! It frightened them a' at
the Blackshaw yesterday, and poor
Meggie Anderson maist lost her
wits, and is aye out o' a'e fit into
another sin syne." Meanwhile,
Master Grumphy spent his night in
the corn, and the next day proceed
ed on his journey homeward. But
he a third time sent a canny Scotch
man nearly "daft" by snorting about
the feet of a colt he encountered, on
which was riding Gabriel Gunson,
with a load of white-fish, slung on
a pair of creels. The young horse,
started out of his equanimity, ran
away, throwing his master in the
road, and when Gabriel, on picking
himself np, spied the pig not far off,
he took to the woods, and remained
hidden there for twenty-four hours,
and until he was completely exanst
ed, while terror excited his imagina
tion to such an extent that he after
ward described the innocent little
porker as "big as a calf, having long
horns, eyes like trenchers, and a
back like a hedge-hog." Poor
Gabil ! It was a sad encounter for
him, for he lost his fi3h, his colt was
ruined, and he himself fell into a
consumption and died in a little
more than a year. Truly, Mr Grum
phy had a good deal to answer for.
- It was shortly after this that a
vessel came into port, a little below
Dumfries, with several swine on
board ; and one, getting loose, the
country people took it for a badger,
and turned out with clubs and
swords, to capture it. One man,
named Robs Geordy, was courageous
enough to run the strange bea&t
through with a pitchfork, and, for
this beed of valor, he was known as
"stout-hearted Geordy" all the rest
of his life.
When nature falters and requires
help, recruit her enfeebled energies
with Dr. J. H. McLean's Strength
ening Cordial and blood Purifier
$1. per bottle
OMPLAINT comes from the
Jjy Ohio river bottoms and the
low lands of tributaries that
corn is heating and sprouting in the
pens There is danger too of its be-
g caught in the present threatened
flood along the lower Ohio, Wabash
and Green rivers.
CAUSES FOR DEPRESSION IN
THE CATTLE MARKET.
R. ARMOUR, the Chicago
jl packer, has appeared before
the Vest Committee and
given some figures and made some
statements that will be of interest to
the stock raisers of the country. In
the course of his testimony Mr.
Armour said :
The depression in prices and the
present state of the market ara
owing to the over-production, and
enforced competition of farmers
raising cattle on the high priced and
highly improved farms of Illinois,
Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska, with
the ranches of the West and South
west, who herd thousands of this
character of inferior cattle upon
public lands of little value. The
gradual absorption of the ranches by
actual settlers, and over productions
of range cattle have greatly over
crowded the remaining range coun
try, and haye consequently lessened
the quantity of grass and impaired
its nutritive quality. As a natural
result grass fed range cattle have
deteriorated in weight and value,
and the Southwestern Eteers, now
coming in weigh from 10 to 20 per
cent, less than the steers of a similar
character did six years ago. Grass
fed Southwestern range steers are
not as good today as they were then,
and cannot be expected to command
the same prices. A few years ago
large fortunes were lealized in the
herding of cattle in all sections west
of the Missouri river, and capital
from New England, Middle States,
England, Scotland, and the Conti
nent, was recklessly invested in this
new enterprise. Men without expe
rience bought whole herds by brand
and book account, supposing they
were receiving what they actually
paid for. and it is generally conced
ed that in few instances would the
actual count of the animals exceed
seventy-five per cent, of the num
ber shown by book account. Be
cause of the great demand for ranch
es, and consequent inflation of cat
tle values, investors ofteu paid for
such cattle greatly above their actual
value. With the truth came distrust
in the business, bankers called loans
and refused accommodations and a
rush ensued on the part of many in
vestors, to market their cattle and
quit the business. Many other
causes have since transpired to de
press this branch of the cattle busi
ness and to cause the over-marketing
of cattle, among which may be
mentioned the thinning out oi large
ranches as th government lands
have been taken up by actual set
tleis; the over crowding of other
ranchers; droughts and short past
ures; severe winters and a necessity
upon the part of cattle co-operations
and owners for the realization of
quick profits to meet the payment
of guaranteed dividends or of inter
est and mortgages.
MAKING PORK TOO FAT.
VIL of over fattening pork is
less common than it used to be.
Two reasons have combined to
make lean meat more popular. The
doctors taught that it was more
healthful and nutritious than the fat,
and about the same time the use of
other oils decreased the price of lard
so that excessive fat pork was neith
er profitable nor needed. The
hange in ways of feeding has also
had something to do with making
pork more wholesome. Corn is no
longer the exclusive food even for
fattening. The best practice now is
to feed the rations that will make
hogs grow and keep thrifty from the
time it is born until it is killed.There
may be exceptions to this in animals
kept for breeders; but all others
should be fat enough for use from
the time they are the right tize for
roasting. By the liberal use of milk,
oatmeal and peas growth is promot
ed, along with at all times enough
fat to make delicious pork, far bet
ter than that made by starving the
animal while young, and over feed
ing with corn as they become older.
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Are active, effective and pure. For
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ICatUfS' Column.
WHY SHE IS A REBEL.
Philadelphia Times.
I am and always haTe been a rebel,
with a big R.
What do I rebel against ? Insin
cere friends and malicious gossip.
Thick cups and overbig soup
spoons. Grass green gowns and
shiny dress suits.
Tight shoes and tight stays.
Lack of loyalty to one's own peo
ple. Early dinners and late teas.
A great many diamonds and no
manner.
Impertinent children and insolei c
women.
Bad actors and worse plays.
The man who has a scheme on
hand and the woman who takes you
to a dressmaker so she may get a
percentage off.
Politicians who are not politic
enough to have their subordinates
work well-So-called
christians who remem
ber your trespasses and forget their
own
Yes, Fm a rebel, and shall be until
the gentleman with the scythe ap -proaches
me, and even then I shall
rebel against his cutting down like
grass her who is known as Bab.
HO USEIIOLB IIIXTS.
To soften shoes Rub with castor
oil.
To Remove Mildew Kub the
spots with green tomato juice and
salt.
To Cure Earache Roast a small
onion until soft dip in sweet oil and
put in the ear.
For a Burn Make an ointment of
sulphur and lard, and cover, or wet
cloth and apply.
To Keep Moths Out of Carpet
Wash the floor with very hot water
with a little turpentine mixed in it.
To Check Vomiting Give a tabl-
spoonful of whole, black musta t
seed. Apply a spice plaster to the
stomach.
To Take Out Fruit Stains Pour
boiling water over them, or rub soda
and coal oil on the spots, and dry in
the hot sun.
To Prevent Delicate Colors Fad
ing Dissolve a nickle's worth of su
gar of lead in a pail of water, in
which soak the clothes.
To Clean Greasy Kitchen Uten
sils Soak five minutes in warm wa
ter, to which has been added a tea
spoonful of ammonia; rinse and wipe
dry.
Puff Cake. Three cups of flour,
three eggs, two cups of white sugar,
one cup of milk, four onces of but
ter, two teaspoonfuls of cream of
tartar, and one teaspoonful of soda.
Mahogany Cake. One cup of
sweet milk, one large egg, one cup
of flour; mix well, and bake in cops
for half an lour in quick oven. This
is an excellent breakfast cake. The
recipe makes six cups three tea
spoonfuls to a cup.
Silver Oake Take half a cup of
butter, one and a half cups of white
sugar, naif a cup of sweet milk, one
teaspoonful of cream of tartar dis
solved in milk, the whites of six eggs
beaten to a stiff froth, one and a
half cups of sifted flour mixed with
half s cup of corn starch, and half a
teaspoonful dissolyed in warm wa
ter the last thing before putting in
the pans. Bake twenty minutes.
Velvet Ckeam. Put three-fourths
of a package of Cox's gelatine in a
a bowl, and pour over it a teacup
and a half of wine; add the rind and
juice of one lemon; let it stand an
hour, then place it in a tin cup over
the fire for a few minutes till the
gelatine is dissolved, and pour it in
to a quart of cream sweetened to the
tast with loaf sugar, beating it hard
all the while. WTien about the
thickness of soft custard pour it into
the mould.