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Show HOME AND FARM. - Mustard for the table should be mixed with water that has been previously boiled and become nearly cold. So says the London Caterer. -Probably the largest cow in the world is owned by Martin S. States, of Grayville, White County, Ill. She is seven years old and weighs 3,000 pounds, is seventeen and a half hands high, ten feet six inches long from the nose to the end of the tail, eight feet nine inches around the girth, twenty-six inches around the forearm and thirty-one inches across the hips. -Do you want an evergreen that holds its deep green color better than almost any other; that never grows to a large size; that is, therefore, well suited to both large and small lawns; that grows compactly and possesses an individuality most marked? It is the broad-leaved hemlock-Abler Canadensis macrophylla. Try it-Rural New Yorker. -Sometimes after beating the yolks of the eggs as usual the cook is annoyed to find that they are not smooth and light yellow, but are "stringy," and have little lumps; if for custard they spoil its good looks, but by straining through a very fine wire sieve this trouble will be obviated, and only a very little of the egg be wasted-not so much, in fact, as if she tries to take it out with a fork or spoon.-N. Y. Post. -To purify muddy water, dilute each quart of water with an ounce of phosphate of lime and allow it to settle, and it will be found that most of the impurities are carried to the bottom. The ?? water is now filtered without any trouble through absorbent cotton. Ordinary cotton will answer as well, if previously moistened with alcohol and then washed with water. Of course, either of them must be pressed tightly into the neck of the funnel. Clear water can be obtained in about five minutes.-Denver Tribune. -If the plentiful use of bells will not protect sheep from dogs, herding or yarding should be resorted to. The expense of erecting a rough fence, say seven feet high, and, of course, impenetrable to dogs, from 100 to 150 feet square, is nothing to compare to the loss of sheep. A fence solidly built of rails, poles, etc. would last the best part of a score of years, and there would be no trouble of gathering the sheep into it when once accustomed to it.-Germantown Telegraph. |