| Show house and farm J SAUCE F for each pint of stir over the fire in a thick laau saucepan capan ono one tablespoonful cadi each butter and flow flour until they bubble then add grad gradually bially I pint of f boi boiling ling water ono one ealum of salt a quarter L of a of pepper and a tablespoonful of anchovy paste stir the sauce until it has boi boil cd ed two minutes and is quite smooth and then serve it IN ONE MINUTE croup it ia is eaid said can bo be cured in one minute and the remedy is simply alum aluni and murrar augar tho tile way to accomplish the deed ii is to taka ft a knife or grater and off in small particle about a teaspoonful of alum then mix it with twice its amount of sugar to make it palatable and mi lid minister it as quickly as po possible almost instantaneous relief will follow i A celebrated en english lali physician says a pint li of mil milk equivalent in in nutritive power to an or ordinary mutton chop and as a pint of milk will yield only an ounce of cheese we ye must have in the latter a cheap and highly concentrated food the rho english V eat double the cheese in proportion to the popular tion that is consumed by americans the italians live ii ve to ft a great extent on cheese and indian corn THE tun Curt cumo A correspondent odthe of alie fruit recorder says that cotton soaked in turpentine and hull hung agnoli among the branches of plum trees just as the blossoms are falling and ond frequently renewed until tho the plums are half balf grown will efreb lually protect the fruit from the depredations of the if gum camphor or any odthe of alio essential oil oils so such as peppermint pennyroyal sassafras sassa fias etc are dissolved in the turpentine it produces an odor so strong that it becomes intolerable to all insects THE tiie ox the census shows that the ox ov that patient servant of man from the remotest ages is passing away in the decade between 1870 and 1880 all other domestic animals increased from twenty four to ninety per cent while the ox decreased twenty five per cent it is is only in those places where there was land to plow for the first time and the ruder stages of cultivation practiced that the os ox has increased in in III these days of rapid transit he is voted too slow and he lie must make way for fleeter footed beasts of burden DRIED SWEET POTATOES the boston traveller says georgia contemplates ft it sweet thing in potatoes to wit the production of bushels of sweet potatoes or dulcet murp bies as some sowe writer has named them they arc are of the best and most wholesome offord of food and there ought to be no difficulty in getting them to market they think of drying them which is is a good notion and will enable me men n at a distance from the scene of production to c enjoy U a new hew article of food why sh should ud there not bo be dried dried sweet potatoes as well as dried ried I sweet apples |
