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in bone. The breast does well for kitch- 

 en dinnel- nicely stufl'ed, and is much 

 cheaper than the other joints. 



Sirloins and ribs of beef are very ex- 

 travagant joints from the weight of bone. 

 The roasting side of the round part of 

 the buttock, and the part called the "top 

 side," are the most i^rciitable for family 

 eating. The mouse buttock is used fcr 

 stewing; shin is used for soup or stew- 

 ing. 



Washing Woolen Blankets. — A lady 

 writing for the Household gives her j3ro- 

 cess for washing woolen blankets: For 

 two or three blankets take one pint of 

 soft soap, two tablespooufuls of powdered 

 borax and dissolve in boiling water. Add 

 the solution to a tub half filled with cold 

 water, and large enough to contain the 

 blankets; let them stand entirely covered 

 by the solution from twelve to twenty- 

 four hours, then squeeze and rub tho- 

 roughly, but do not wring them; jjut in a 

 basket over a tub and let them drain. 

 Kinse in clear cold water and drain twice, 

 then rinse in blue water, drain and hang 

 up to dry. Be sure to use cold water 

 and not wring during the process, 

 then the blankets will not shrink, but 

 will dry white and smooth. 



Favorite Bread Pudding. — One pint 

 of breadcrumbs; one quart of rich sweet 

 milk; beaten yolks of four eggs; stir all 

 together and bake in a moderately hot 

 oven till done. Add one heaping tea- 

 spoonful of white sugar to the whites of 

 the eggs ; beat to a froth ; turn it over the 

 pudding and return to the oven to brown 

 slightly. To be eaten with cream and 

 sugar, or pudding sauce, if desired. If 

 wished very nice, a little currant or other 

 jelly may be placed on the top of each 

 dish as it is served at table. 



To ruin oil-cloths, clean them with hot 

 water or soap-suds, and leave them half 

 wiped, and they will look very bright 

 while wet, and very dingy and dirty 

 when dry, and soon crack and peel off. 

 But if you wish to preserve them, and 

 have them to look new and nice, wash 

 them with soft flannel and luke-warm 

 water, and wipe thoroughly dry. If you 

 want them to look extra nice after they 

 ara dry, drop a few tablespooufuls of 

 milk over them, and ruli them with a 

 small cloth. — Hural Home. 



Spectacle Wipers. — These are easy 

 presents, and nice ones. You must cut 

 out of soft chamois leather, two perfectly 

 round pieces an inch and a half across, 

 and bind the edges neatly with narrow 

 ribbon of auj' color you like. Fasten 

 the circles together at the side with a 

 small bow. This is all, but you will find 

 that grandpapa will like it very much. 

 It takes almost no room in his pocket, 

 and is always at hand when he wishes to 

 wipe his glasses, which he is sure to do 

 several times a day. 



A little fellow, who was at a neigh- 

 bor's house about noon the other day, 

 watched the preparations for dinner 

 with great interest, but when asked to 

 stay and eat something he promptly re- 

 fused. "Why yes .lohnny, you had bet- 

 ter stay," said the lady; "why can't 

 you?" "Well 'cause," said the little 

 fellow, "ma said I mustn't unless you 

 ask me three times." They invited him 

 twice more right off. 



The shortest way the best — Mamma 

 (to Ethel, on their waw to the latter's 

 first part3') " Now, mind, darling, if 

 J you see any nice things on the table that 

 you'd like to eat, you mustn't ask for 

 hem." Ethel — "O, no, mamma! — I'll 

 ake them." — Punch 



box. I like it fully as well as bath-brick. 



We have been papering the house, and 

 have found what we consider an improve- 

 ment on the old plan of dipping the 

 strips of cloth into the paste. We put 

 the paste, with a brush, on the boards, 

 then put the strip on dry and run the 

 paste-brush over it once or twice, and it 

 lays down smooth with no trouble of 

 unrolUng the edges. AVe put on news- 

 papers between the wall-paper and the 

 boards in the same maimer. 



Looking over an old number of the 

 AaKicuLTURisT, I saw an article in which 

 the writer advocated grafting or budding 

 lemon trees with orange cions, giving as 

 a reason that the trees will bear two or 

 three years sooner than without grafting. 

 We would like to hear from those who 

 have tried this method of bringing their 

 tr^es into earlier bearing. Which is the 

 safer, to graft or bud — and when? How 

 old should the lemon trees be from the 

 seed? 



PLAIN CAKE. 



One cup of sugar, two eggs, one and a 

 half cups of flour, two tablespooufuls of 

 butter, gi-ated rind and juice of one 

 lemon, one teaspoonful of soda, two of 

 cream of tartar, four tablespoonfuls of 

 sweet milk. 



CREAM CAKE. 



One cup of sour cream, two cups of 

 flour, one cup of sugar, one teaspoonful 

 soda, one egg. Flavor with vanilla. 



Will some of my sister house-keepers 

 give me a receipt for lemon pies? 



NOTESFROm CORRESPONDENTS 



Editor Ageicultuelst : I noticed in 

 your January number "A Devoted Sub- 

 scriber" inquiring how to wash colored 

 flannels so as to have them soft and 

 bright. I never have any trouble, and 

 this is how I do mine: I use suds that 

 is almost cold, rubbing them immedi- 

 ately upon putting in the water, and 

 rinsing in perfectly cold water, hanging 

 them wrong side out in a good, airy 

 Ijlace to dry quickly. If the sun is not 

 very hot I hang them in it, but in Sum- 

 mer I prefer the shade. Some put a few 

 drops of sulphuric acid in the suds, but 

 I do not, fearing it would rot them. 

 Yours, L. p. 



Me. Editoe: Can any of your lady 

 readers tell me how to make mushroom 

 catsup? I am verj' anxious to know how, 

 as it is very nice. An Inqctiree. 



Dear Editor AftEicULTUEisT : Will not 

 some of your young lady readers tell me 

 how to make those pretty, coral fancy 

 ornaments out of grape-vine branches 

 and egg shells? I saw one the other 

 day, and would so like to make some. 



.-\-LICE. 



Selected Recipes, Etc. 



Hints About Meat. — Pepper is a pi-e- 

 ventive of decay in a degree ; it is well, 

 therefore, to pepper hung joints. 



Powdered charcoal is still more re- 

 markable iu its effect. It will not only 

 keep the meat over which it is sprinkled 

 good, but will remove the taint from al- 

 ready decaj'ed flesh. 



A. piece of charcoal boiled in the water 

 with " high" meat or fowls, will render 

 it or them quite sweet. A piece of char- 

 coal or powdered charcoal should be kept 

 in every larder. Hams, after being 

 smoked, may be kept for any length of 

 time packed in powdered charcoal. 



The leg of mutton is the most profita- 

 ble joint, containing most solid meat. 

 The neck is the most extravagant joint, 

 half the weight consisting of bone and 

 fat. The shoulder has also much waste 



health. These, going hand in hand, 



each promotes, or should promote, the 

 other. But what is the best health iu 

 all these departments, without compan- 

 ionship? This may be most observable 

 in childhood. A child suddenly comes 

 on some new object of interest — a flower, 

 a new one it greatly admires. Is that 

 child content to admire it alone? No ; it 

 is plucked to carry to her companion — 

 her mother, perhaps, whose mutual ad- 

 miration doubles her own joy. If that 

 mother turns from the flower in disgust, 

 it disappoints and dampens the ardor of 

 thai child's joy. So, in the intellectual, 

 moral and spiritual, we may have lone- 

 some joy; but how is it enhanced by 

 congenial, suitable, sympathizing com- 

 panionshii)! 



Such, dear .^.unt Mary, is Inglewood's 

 reply to a portion of your letter. Will 

 it elicit a reponse from any member of 

 your family circla? Very truly, 



Inglewood. 



Men as Lovers. — In the first place, it 

 is an imposition on any well-bred girl to 

 keep her up later than half-past ten 

 o'clock, when you have the opportunity 

 of seeing her often. If you alw.ays leave 

 her with the wish in her heart that you 

 had stayed longer, you gain so much. 

 Never run the risk of wearying her with 

 your presence. Be just as earnest and 

 straightforward as in your honorable 

 dealing with men. Impress your friends 

 with the worthiness and seriousness of 

 your love, so that vulgar and senseless 

 bantering will appear to them as such. 

 Love is religion — the supremest happi- 

 ness, wear it manfully and proudly, but 

 holily. Woo a woman bravely. If there 

 is anything humiliating to a woman, it 

 is to have a lover, whom she wishes to 

 honor, weak and vapid, ever yielding and 

 half afraid of her. She longs to tell him 

 to "act like a man." The man who con- 

 ceals or denies his love for fear of being 

 laughed at, is a coward. X love that has 

 no element of divinity in it is not love, 

 but passion, which, of itself, has nothing 

 enobling. That was a beautiful inscrip- 

 tion on an engagement ring, "Each for 

 the other, and both for God." — Miss Ah- 

 hie Terry. 



Jlomcotic 



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FAMILIAR TALKS— No. 6. 



BY SNIP. 



■Y deaf " Busy Bee," do not think 

 |i me ungrateful for the advice about 

 my chickens. Owing to the late 

 receipt of the Ageicultdrist, a 

 .4„^ portion of my letter for .Tanuary 

 was written before I had the pleasure of 

 reading your letter. So far as I have 

 put "Busy Bee's" suggestions into 

 practice, the result is satisfactory. 



I had my attention called, the other 

 day, to a rather novel article used for 

 scouring knives. The materials required 

 are a piece of board about four or five 

 inches wide and about as long as a knife 

 blade, and a piece of heavy carpet as 

 wide as the board and twice as long. One 

 half the carpet, lengthwise, is nailed to 

 the board, the other half being left loose. 

 The brick-dust is placed on the carpet, 

 the knife is placed on it, the other piece 

 laid on the knife and held with the hand 

 while the knife is drawn in and out. 

 Apparentlv, the work is done easier and 

 quicker tliau by the old method of using 

 a rag and brick-dust. For some time 

 past I have been using the sand that 

 falls from the grind-stone into the water- 



with the pen than viva voce. More apt I 

 ' are we to make slips of the tongue which > 



cannot be recalled, than we are of the 

 I pen; so I cheerfullj' accede to your sug- 

 gestion as to what are my views of that 

 I ulterior object I may have in view — mat- 

 I rimony; also, as to those sterling mascu- 

 I line ([ualities, equally essential as the 

 feminine ones on the other side. 



More than a quarter of a century ago 

 I remember to have heard man, and wo- 

 I man too, in a single state, compared to 

 j the separate halves of a pair of scissors. 

 ' True, they can exist and not wear out 

 any quicker in this separate condition; 

 1 but these halves, when brought together 

 I iu a perfect match and fit — how nicely 

 ' they do their work! what useful instru- ' 

 ! ments they are! Though this is a very 

 poor analog}', it seems to show the in- 

 completeness of man alone; that there 

 I is something more wanting; a yearning 

 I for companionship iu all th':- departments 

 I of our nature, from the physical up to 

 the very highest — the spiritual. As in 

 the scissors comparison there must be 

 adaptability, a fitness of parts, just so iu 

 the other case —in the physical condi- 

 tions and circumstances; in the intellec- 

 tual, tastes and sentiments; in the moral, 

 right and WTong; in the spiritual, hopes, 

 expectations and aspirations; and what 

 are all these, wandering tnrough life's 

 dreary path alone, as compared with 

 what they are in congenial, suitable com- 

 panionship, by one's own fireside? 



Such, dear Aunt Mary, is the compan- 

 ionship I am hunting for; and for life's 

 results in this direction I assure you I 

 feel no little responsibility, extending 

 even into the next world. Under one or 

 other of these departments of our na- 

 ture are to be found those sterling mas- 

 culine qualities of our nature (and femi- 

 nine quaUties, also), that iu conjunc- 

 tion are so promotive of happiness. To 

 reply to your inquiries with equal can- 

 dor and frankness with your own good 

 letter, I begin with the physical condi- 

 tions and circumstances. Here it is for 

 you to judge how my choice coincides 

 with my principles. 5Iy principle is, 

 that man being the chooser, having the 

 wide world before him, being the more 

 positive agent, on him must rest by far 

 the greater responsibiUty; and that it is 

 only by promoting the happiness of her 

 whom he takes to his bosom that he 

 promotes his own. Therefore, I have 

 to ask myself how far and to what ex- 

 tent are the darling Angle's condition 

 and circumstances to be altered by the 

 changes in homes I propose for her. .\ 

 country life, as she has been accustomed 

 to, and the interior department consigned 

 wholly to her care, I may hope in time 

 that "it may conform wholly to her 

 wishes. She will have to trust to my 

 love, my honor and efforts for tny en- 

 deavors to make it so; but mainly to the 

 first of these, for if that abounds the 

 others flow forth spontaneously. Of 

 Angle's sterling feminine qualities I am 

 well convinced, fori have been a close ob- 

 server, and it now remains for Aunt 

 ilary, dear JIa and the beloved Angle 

 herself to scrutinize the quahties of In- 

 glewood on the other side and from the 

 same standpoint; and I may hope to be 

 allowed they should have the opportu- 

 nity to do so. I claim for him to be 

 free from a love of club-room pleasures, 

 and all those of a more sensual nature, 

 that lead men from the love of and 

 study of the welfare of their families to 

 mere selfish gratification. I know, too, 

 how he appreciates physical health as of 

 the very utmost importance ; that neither 

 man nor woman should enter the sacred 

 precincts of matrimony without it; and 

 how it is best promoted by being joined 

 with intellectual, moral and spiritual 



